Name: The Sea Beast Takes a Lover
ISBN: 9781101986615

Michael Andreasen

"The Sea Beast Takes a Lover explores hope, love, and loss across a series of surreal landscapes and wild metamorphoses. Romping through the fantastic with big-hearted ease, these stories cut to the core of what it means to navigate family, faith, and longing"--Provided by publisher.

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The Sea Beast Takes a Lover

Ella Zegarra

A lovesick kraken slowly drags the object of its desire - a ship of sailors - into the sea; a group of cantankerous saints materialise in a well-appointed parlour, and must unravel the mystery of how they got there; ageing fathers are sunk to the bottom of the ocean in pressure-sealed crates in a time-honoured ritual. Andreasen romps through the lunatic and surreal with a tender generous ease; there is a joyous absurdity to each premise. Just because a sister is born without a head doesn't mean her brother won't love and protect her; just because an adulterous tryst ends in alien abduction doesn't mean the man doesn't miss his wife. Simultaneously daring and deeply familiar, unfolding in wildly inventive worlds whilst emphasising our common yearning for connection and understanding, The Sea Beast Takes a Lover uses the supernatural and extraordinary to expose us at our most human.

Zoe Smolen

I really loved about half of these stories, and couldn't care about the other half. The stories are haunting, creepy, and will linger in your mind. But some of them are not quite cohesive enough to follow. 

Thanks to Penguin for a free copy in exchange for an honest review.

Anyaconda

Turned out to be a meh 😕 book. Some of the short stories are only connected to the sea and monsters by s super thin threat.
I did like some and some stories were a bit too weird for my tastes.

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