This delightful book transported me to the northwest coast with its atmospheric language and well-drawn characters (including of the octopus!). I loved the sense of time and place that the story invoked, the sense of belonging to that time and place, and the visceral sense of the ongoing journey through that time and place. There is just enough mystery to keep me engaged in wanting to find out what happened in the past to bring the characters to this point, and a deep sense of rooting for the characters that they can figure that mystery out and heal their lives and relationships. That Marcellus can facilitate this solving of the mystery from a tank in the Sowell Bay Aquarium at least as remarkable as the other characters for whom the book is named!
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'Full of heart and humour . . . I loved it.' Ruth Hogan
'Will stay with you for a long time.' Anstey Harris
'I defy you to put it down once you've started' Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night cleaner shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium. Ever since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat over thirty years ago keeping busy has helped her cope. One night she meets Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium who…
I loved the adventure of two people exploring an abandoned world together, trying to solve its mystery, and facing the challenges of its landscape as a team. The sensibilities of a rural mindset in valuing the wilderness, and finding independence and courage in traversing it, are spot on. The romance is well-paced and compelling. I loved the book.
"One of the most intense, thrilling, and achingly beautiful stories I've ever read."--Marie Lu, New York Times best-selling author of the Legend trilogy
The first in the New York Times bestselling author duo Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner's sweeping science fiction trilogy, These Broken Stars is a timeless love story about hope and survival in the face of unthinkable odds.
It's a night like any other on board the Icarus. Then, catastrophe strikes: the massive luxury spaceliner is yanked out of hyperspace and plummets into the nearest planet. Lilac LaRoux and Tarver Merendsen are the only survivors.
An old-fashioned adventure with a young cyborg woman, a deep and compelling mystery of her family past that ties into the movement of dark governmental powers, and zombie-like monsters that threaten our heroes at every turn...what’s not to love? The sense of found family is compelling, and there is just enough hint of romantic potential to make me root for our team. Wonderful story.
“Packed with non-stop action, this SF adventure is sure to keep readers turning the pages!” —Maria V. Snyder, New York Times bestselling author of Navigating the Stars
Aurelia Peri is used to being an outsider. As if being the adopted daughter of the galaxy’s most powerful man weren’t enough, she also has to deal with the stigma of being part machine. Which is why she’s dead-set on proving her worth. But when her first mission as a D.I.S.C. agent ends disastrously, and then her suspect—a man accused of murdering and cannibalizing his own family—proclaims innocence and launches himself off the…
Jen Hewitt, a quiet geology graduate student, doesn't actually believe in time travel. Were it possible, rocks from the age of dinosaurs should already be cluttered with artifacts from future time-tourists. Nevertheless, she proves with fellow geologist Jonathan Renner that a human skeleton encased in Pleistocene rock came from their own time. Their work, coupled with fundamental research by physicist Susan Arasmith, reveals an unexpected character to the universe that carries them from the safe world of science into a struggle with powers and possibilities they hadn't imagined. The three friends, along with Kar-Tur, a frightening mystic from the ancient past, learn that discovery is sometimes as much about faith as knowledge, and that friendship and love are often found where least expected.
