
An outcast girl is stolen from shore and transformed into a flesh-eating mermaid, torn between land and a fierce new found family below.
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An outcast girl is stolen from shore and transformed into a flesh-eating mermaid, torn between land and a fierce new found family below.
In this hauntingly romantic, queer fantasy from Shannon K. English, a young mermaid is forced to choose between her old life above the waves and her new life below them. On land, Eppie will never be anything more than the outcast girl who kissed the grocer's daughter. But beneath the water's surface lies a future and a society she could never have imagined. Stolen from the shore, she is transformed. Eppie is stronger, swifter--and hungrier. Human flesh smells like heaven on earth, and Eppie is r...
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Central sapphic romance with passion and desire; intimacy not highly explicit
Body-horror mermaid transformation; flesh-eating and violent hunter clashes
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Central sapphic romance; lead outcast after kissing a girl; queer themes
Hunters framed by Biblical wrath; religious trauma in the human world
Mermaid transformation and underwater colony lore are central to premise
No real-world occult content present
Themes of otherness, ostracism, and anti-gay prejudice in human society
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Kidnapping and forced transformation; social ostracism and cruelty
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