Gay mermaid books

While searching for answers in the water, Sarai finds something she never could have imagined. Honestly, this should be much more well known. Read the full review by Shana. books based on votes: Stealing the Wind by Shira Anthony, Blood in the Water by Megan Derr, Love Rising by Piper Vaughn, The Deep by Rivers Solom.

This juxtaposition of conservative, period-piece village daintiness with a literal seal-woman and a bloodthirsty mermaid, I mean, freaking sign me up and sell me the Extras package. Efa is a selkie determined to rescue her best friend, who is being held captive by a man who stole her seal skin, trapping her in human form.

You can easily finish it in one sitting, but it will stick with you long after that. In its place, a lonely witch named Riven paddles out in her boat every night to call the tides. Before her adventure can end, however, a storm throws her overboard and separates her from the ship.

Read the full review by Danika. Published in , the novel tells a dual or even quadruple story at once. Read the full review by Megan G. This one is both a selkie story and a mermaid story! The Deep is a reimagined mermaid story about an underwater society descended from African women tossed overboard during the transatlantic slave trade.

So why does everything feel so wrong? The main character falls in love with one of the atargati of course , and really grapples with what this means for her identity as a lesbian, especially when she had to fight so hard to claim that space in the first place. From Pride parades to a fisherman and mermaid love story, here are eight of the best new LGBTQ+ picture books out in A marriage has been arranged for him to unite two kingdoms.

The Deep is a compelling and absorbing read that would appeal to lovers of feminist science fiction, underwater fantasy epics, or stories from the African diaspora. From people of all genders longing to be mermaids to mermaids longing to be human — not to mention girls longing for girls and boys longing for boys — mermaids and queerness are central.

Full of clumsy encounters and fraught yet attempting-to-be-loving relationships which the novel clung to me, and I took, much like the smell of durians following Miranda, to bringing the book with me into any room or space that I went to, whether or not I actually did any reading.

Enter, a mer. We learn about the culture and history of these people, the wajinru, through the eyes of Yetu, their newest Historian. Each of these books have gotten a glowing from Lesbrary reviewers, which are linked if you want to learn more about any of these!

Read the full review by Shira Glassman. When she awakes on the shore of her homeland, there is a week-long gap in her memory, and the ship she was on is nowhere to be seen. Calder is a merman and a Prince of the Seas. For Pride month, the Lesbrary has posts going up every day in June!

Ydri, the mermaid that kidnaps Sarai and brings her to the mermaid kingdom, is incredibly sweet and a wonderful love interest. Nyel’s arrival disrupts everything Atreus has built. In these 13 queer mermaid books, representation and relationships of all kinds are at the fore.

Denver’s dreams of being a musician fall apart when he loses his father. It floats out of time frames, bodies and characters but the main focal points are two protagonists. Read the full review by anna marie. In an attempt to flee a fate he doesn’t want, Calder barters for a year on land.

When his popular, irritatingly confident teenage brother Trick comes out as gay to a rapturous response, Jake realises he has questions about his own repressed bisexuality, and that he can’t wait any longer to find his answers. Though they clash at first, their growing friendship—and the flicker of something more—forces both men to confront the prejudices and traditions that shaped them.