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    Mermaids in Paradise

    Written by Lydia Millet

    Narrated by Cassandra Campbell

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    In this hilarious novel from Pulitzer Prize finalist Lydia Millet, a honeymooning couple makes friends with a marine biologist who discovers genuine mermaids in a coral reef - and who, the next night, apparently drowns in her hotel bathtub. As a resort chain swoops in to corner the market on mermaids, the newlyweds (opinionated, skeptical narrator Deb and handsome online gamer Chip, the world’s friendliest man) join forces with other vacationers - including an ex–Navy SEAL with a love of explosives and a hipster Tokyo VJ - to protect the mermaids from the corporate "Venture of Marvels" that wants to turn their habitat into a theme park.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media Audio
    Release dateNov 3, 2014
    ISBN9781633791930
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    Mermaids in Paradise
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    Lydia Millet

    Lydia Millet is the PEN Award-winning author of eleven works of literary fiction, including Sweet Lamb of Heaven and Magnificence, which have been New York Times Notables and Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalists. She lives in Arizona.

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    Reviews for Mermaids in Paradise

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    • 3/5
      The narrator on the audio book did a fabulous job! She really captured Deb's sense of humor and the personalities of the other characters. I didn't really like Deb as a person, so it made it hard for me to sympathize with anything that happened to her. I didn't really like any of the characters, except maybe the mermaids and they only have cameos. I'm glad I listened to the book on audio because I would not have made it through the paper version.
    • 3/5
      On their Caribbean honeymoon, Chip and Deb go diving - and see mermaids. A scientist vacationing in the same resort organizes an expedition to film them. Things get out of hand when the resort management tries to capture the mermaids for display.
    • 3/5
      I had high hopes for this book when I read its description. Unfortunately it fell flat for me. Deb is a young woman about to get married to Chip. After shooting down one idea after another (she doesn't get to pick) they settle on honeymooning on Virgin Gorda in the British Virgin Islands. Leading up to the wedding, Deb moans and groans and shuts down one wedding tradition after another. I totally understand this as I was one to forego all the frills and whistles and had a simple courtroom marriage followed by a dinner party with close family friends. Somehow, though, Deb sounded much more petulant and whining. Not a good start.Amazingly, the trip to Virgin Gorda received no real comment though I know how much effort it takes. Imagine, party favors deserved pages and pages of derision but apparently security checks, changing planes, taking ferries, etc. were acceptable. Go figure!Even when the real action started when mermaids were sighted and a guest disappeared, it was still all about her. What a shame.
    • 4/5
      Laugh out loud funny. Raucous honeymoon gone absurd. Delightful and enjoyable read. A tropical romp!
    • 3/5
      Fun to read mixture of the realistic and outlandish. The tone is so tongue in cheek it is sometimes hard to distinguish where the narrative is verging into the fantastical. Sends up mega-corporations, media, and the travel industry in what is (most of the time) a pretty hilarious story.
    • 5/5
      I was not expecting this AT ALL. A couple of newlyweds go on their honeymoon to a Caribbean resort, and discover actual mermaids living in the coral reef. The resort wants to turn the mermaids into a commercial attraction, our couple and their friends want to stop them. So.This is one of those books that I wasn't very happy with right out of the gate. It's billed as a humorous book (I think that's a bad sign), and while I get why it's funny, it's relentless in being wry and arch all the time. For probably the entire first half of the book, I was thinking that this style would really work better for short stories, and I was tempted to put it down several times because I was exhausted by how wry and arch everyone was. The characters didn't seem like real people that I could like or dislike, it was like listening to people I didn't know shout one-liners over each other. It was that feeling that the book thought itself very humorous. It's like that thing where sometimes people don't get that a big part of the reason that our friends are funny is because we know our friends already, and then you get stuck listening to a line-by-line account of every allegedly funny thing your coworker's friends said over the weekend, and you don't care at all. Book, I don't know you well enough to care if you are that funny yet.But, thank goodness for Chip, the newlywed husband, because I started to like him, and kept with it. The second half of the book really picked up -- not even in terms of plot, but it simply seemed more engaging. The reading felt much easier. I was thinking, okay, this is a solid three stars.And THEN, then in the last two pages of the book ... I don't think this is really a spoiler, but in the in last two pages of the book, the story got completely reframed and I was all JAW DROPPED. Impressive. If you were watching me, the funniest part of the book was probably my exaggerated WHAT THE WHAT face as I went back to read that part again. Absolutely five stars on the wrap-up.
    • 1/5
      I tried for an hour of this book, but had to stop listening. The narrator is utterly negative and unbearable. Even after her companions discover mermaids (discover mermaids!), she's insufferably small minded and unchanged. I just couldn't bear one more hater paragraph.
    • 4/5
      A cute, light, read - perfect for the summer. Having lived in The Virgin Islands for a couple years and being familiar with the locations they were in, I found the book a lot of fun!
    • 3/5
      Deb and Chip get married, head to a Caribbean resort for their honeymoon, go snorkelling, and find themselves in a ecological murder mystery that places their commitment to each other and the planet on the line. Or something like that. At any rate, Deb narrates and it is her voice that is the real charmer here: her wry comments on cruise ships and the kinds of people who populate them; her instinctual fear of and yet attraction to the “heartland” peoples; her friend Gina’s insistently ironic stance (which is really Deb’s own stance); her periodic personality breakdowns; and the kindness that she and others display even in this time of duress. This is a novel with a sting in the tail, but there’s more than enough in what is mentioned above to warrant giving it a go without spoiling anything.There is a lightness of touch here that masks a deeper seriousness. And sadness. The latter is can come as a shock but if you look back you’ll see that a lot of it was there from the beginning. Nevertheless, I could have stood a bit more at the end.Gently recommended.