Landlocked in Foreign Skin
The Fisherman can't fathom why anyone would want to be human.
Small wonder.
They've been ripped from their underwater home under Europa's ice, and stripped of their skin--the nebulous outer layer that enables them to shapeshift for survival. Imprisoned on a ship that's hunting for a mad undersea god, they must help the crew find it if they want to retrieve their skin and return home.
Dame Isobel, an insane young heiress, owns the ship, desperate to find the god in the hopes that it will heal her mortally-injured girlfriend. The Fisherman is stuck in a female human form. They're pulled into a toxic, codependent romantic relationship with Dame Isobel-- in a world where being LGBT is punishable by death.In the midst of this insanity, it's quite clear to the Fisherman: Humanity is confusing, inefficient, and messy.
When Isobel reveals that she will never let the Fisherman go, even if they find the mad god, the Fisherman knows:
It's time to get violent.
- Pages
- 166
- First published
- January 28, 2025
Shelved by 1 Litcadian
Reviews
Started January 2, 2025 · Finished January 3, 2025
This was truly a book like no other. The immersion was immediate, straight from the get go. The writing was confusing, disorienting, overwhelming, and that was exactly how it was supposed to be. You are seeing through the eyes of a creature who has very little concept of humans, you are feeling what they do. Beautifully done. This is not a happy story. This is not a cutesy romance. It is brutal, it is gory, and it is toxic. And I ate up every bit of it. Some parts did feel a little repetitive, but not much. To anyone struggling to get past the first chapter or two, just hold out. It gets less confusing. And the plot twist is WORTH IT. My jaw was on the floor and rolling away from me.