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Title details for The Oyster Thief by Sonia Faruqi - Available

The Oyster Thief

A Novel

by Sonia Faruqi
Lauren Ezzo
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The mermaid's scales were bronze, and they shimmered like hundreds of pennies arranged close together. Her immense blue-green eyes gave a look of fragility to her face, yet he found her eyes unsettling. She was leaning against a thirty-foot-long shark, which emerged from behind her and opened its mouth to reveal a great big cavern lined with hundreds of teeth—a black tunnel ready to swallow him. Coralline is a mermaid who is engaged to the merman of her dreams. But when an oil spill wreaks havoc on her idyllic village life, her little brother falls gravely ill. Desperate to save him, she embarks on a quest to find a legendary elixir made of starlight. Izar, a human man, is on the cusp of an invention that will enable him to mine the depths of the ocean. His discovery will soon make him the richest man on earth—while threatening merpeople with extinction. But then, suddenly, Izar finds himself transformed into a merman and caught in a web of betrayal and intrigue. Meeting Coralline in the ocean, he decides to join her on her quest for the elixir, hoping it will turn him human again. The quest pushes Coralline and Izar together, even though their worlds are at odds. As their pasts threaten to tear them apart, a growing attraction adds to the danger. Ultimately, each of them faces an impossible choice. Should Coralline leave her fiancé for a man who might betray her? And will Izar's dark secret cause him to lose Coralline forever?

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  • Release date

    February 4, 2020

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781666558234
      • File size: 418035 KB
      • Duration: 14:30:54

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      August 27, 2018
      Faruqi, author of the factory farming exposé Project Animal Farm, takes to a fairy tale format to urge human empathy with ocean life, creating an ecologically informed but whimsically imagined underwater culture as the setting for her magical, if rather cynical, mermaid-human love story. Apprentice mermaid apothecary Coralline is uninspired by her immanent, upwardly mobile wedding. After an oil spill makes her little brother ill, she embarks on a quest for an elixir that could heal him. Coralline and her anxious animal friends rescue human Izar, who has been tossed into the ocean by his enemies and transformed into a merman. Izar shares an important clue to aid their search, but keeps secret his identity as heir to the mining corporation Ocean Dominion and inventor of an underwater fire device that’s poised to destroy all mermaid life. Coralline and Izar’s bonding leads them to question their respective commitments. Adult fans of movies such as The Little Mermaid and Finding Nemo will find Coralline’s adventures delightful, and Faruqi’s caricatured villains are satisfyingly hateful, but romance fans will be disappointed that Izar and Coralline’s personal connection lacks fire. This parable is more endearing than enduring.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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