The Pisces

OK. OK. OK. I had gotten the impression that this was like, a funny human woman/merman romance novel, and I was ready for that, but it's like way more fucked up than that?

Like...........IDK I abstractly appreciate Lucy's strong voice as an insecure, horny woman but also.........yikes?? And I get, you know, the metaphor of the merman as the ~ultimate unavailable man~. IDK. IDK. IDK. There are a lot of observations that are funny on a line-by-line basis and the narrative voice is great but overall...this book is something for someone but T B H not me. Reading it made me feel really uncomfortable, which I believe was the authorial intent but uhhH I don't like that.

ALSO THE DOG DIES AND I GET THAT IT'S A CONSEQUENCE FOR LUCY'S SELF-INVOVLED BEHAVIOR BUT ALSO I HATE IT