Unavailable
Unavailable
Unavailable
Audiobook8 hours
Mermaids in Paradise
Written by Lydia Millet
Narrated by Cassandra Campbell
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
3/5
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this audiobook
In this hilarious novel from Pulitzer Prize finalist Lydia Millet, a honeymooning couple makes friends with a marine biologist who discovers genuine mermaids in a coral reef - and who, the next night, apparently drowns in her hotel bathtub. As a resort chain swoops in to corner the market on mermaids, the newlyweds (opinionated, skeptical narrator Deb and handsome online gamer Chip, the world’s friendliest man) join forces with other vacationers - including an ex–Navy SEAL with a love of explosives and a hipster Tokyo VJ - to protect the mermaids from the corporate "Venture of Marvels" that wants to turn their habitat into a theme park.
Unavailable
Author
Lydia Millet
Lydia Millet is the PEN Award-winning author of eleven works of literary fiction, including Sweet Lamb of Heaven and Magnificence, which have been New York Times Notables and Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalists. She lives in Arizona.
More audiobooks from Lydia Millet
Everyone's Pretty Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Oh Pure and Radiant Heart Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLove in Infant Monkeys Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPills and Starships Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5My Happy Life Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5How the Dead Dream Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5
Related to Mermaids in Paradise
Related audiobooks
Hunt for Eden's Star Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Sisters Sputnik: A Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Mom Identity: An Oriceran Urban Cozy Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Book of Dragons: An Anthology Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Guardsman Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDark Wizard's Case Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Kissing the Lizard: in the desert, no one can hear you, queen Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCobalt Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMagic Ocean Slide, The & The Giant Conker Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEpoch Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsQueer Little Nightmares Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sherlock Holmes and the Father of Lies: The Confidential Files of Dr. John H. Watson Book 2 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Mermaid of Venice: Gia's Lost Lover Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Age of Iron Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Neptune's Children Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Vril, The Power of the Coming Race Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Captain Hawklin and the Jade Dragon Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Metal Monster Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Metal Monster Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBreachers: Holt and McKenna Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Literary Fiction For You
Demon Copperhead: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Bell Jar Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Stardust Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Leave the World Behind: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes: A Hunger Games Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Remarkably Bright Creatures: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Man Called Ove: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Parable of the Sower Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Tom Lake: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Yellowface: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Poisonwood Bible Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Song of Achilles: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Picture of Dorian Gray: Classic Tales Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Measure: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Alchemist Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5It Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Their Eyes Were Watching God Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Dutch House: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Name of the Wind Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Road Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Overstory Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beneath a Scarlet Sky: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The House in the Cerulean Sea Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of The Oxford Translators' Revolution Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hang the Moon: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Flowers for Algernon Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Kindred Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Mermaids in Paradise
Rating: 3.0320512884615383 out of 5 stars
3/5
78 ratings9 reviews
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The narrator on the audio book did a fabulous job! She really captured Deb's sense of humor and the personalities of the other characters. I didn't really like Deb as a person, so it made it hard for me to sympathize with anything that happened to her. I didn't really like any of the characters, except maybe the mermaids and they only have cameos. I'm glad I listened to the book on audio because I would not have made it through the paper version.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5On their Caribbean honeymoon, Chip and Deb go diving - and see mermaids. A scientist vacationing in the same resort organizes an expedition to film them. Things get out of hand when the resort management tries to capture the mermaids for display.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I had high hopes for this book when I read its description. Unfortunately it fell flat for me. Deb is a young woman about to get married to Chip. After shooting down one idea after another (she doesn't get to pick) they settle on honeymooning on Virgin Gorda in the British Virgin Islands. Leading up to the wedding, Deb moans and groans and shuts down one wedding tradition after another. I totally understand this as I was one to forego all the frills and whistles and had a simple courtroom marriage followed by a dinner party with close family friends. Somehow, though, Deb sounded much more petulant and whining. Not a good start.Amazingly, the trip to Virgin Gorda received no real comment though I know how much effort it takes. Imagine, party favors deserved pages and pages of derision but apparently security checks, changing planes, taking ferries, etc. were acceptable. Go figure!Even when the real action started when mermaids were sighted and a guest disappeared, it was still all about her. What a shame.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Laugh out loud funny. Raucous honeymoon gone absurd. Delightful and enjoyable read. A tropical romp!
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Fun to read mixture of the realistic and outlandish. The tone is so tongue in cheek it is sometimes hard to distinguish where the narrative is verging into the fantastical. Sends up mega-corporations, media, and the travel industry in what is (most of the time) a pretty hilarious story.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I was not expecting this AT ALL. A couple of newlyweds go on their honeymoon to a Caribbean resort, and discover actual mermaids living in the coral reef. The resort wants to turn the mermaids into a commercial attraction, our couple and their friends want to stop them. So.This is one of those books that I wasn't very happy with right out of the gate. It's billed as a humorous book (I think that's a bad sign), and while I get why it's funny, it's relentless in being wry and arch all the time. For probably the entire first half of the book, I was thinking that this style would really work better for short stories, and I was tempted to put it down several times because I was exhausted by how wry and arch everyone was. The characters didn't seem like real people that I could like or dislike, it was like listening to people I didn't know shout one-liners over each other. It was that feeling that the book thought itself very humorous. It's like that thing where sometimes people don't get that a big part of the reason that our friends are funny is because we know our friends already, and then you get stuck listening to a line-by-line account of every allegedly funny thing your coworker's friends said over the weekend, and you don't care at all. Book, I don't know you well enough to care if you are that funny yet.But, thank goodness for Chip, the newlywed husband, because I started to like him, and kept with it. The second half of the book really picked up -- not even in terms of plot, but it simply seemed more engaging. The reading felt much easier. I was thinking, okay, this is a solid three stars.And THEN, then in the last two pages of the book ... I don't think this is really a spoiler, but in the in last two pages of the book, the story got completely reframed and I was all JAW DROPPED. Impressive. If you were watching me, the funniest part of the book was probably my exaggerated WHAT THE WHAT face as I went back to read that part again. Absolutely five stars on the wrap-up.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I tried for an hour of this book, but had to stop listening. The narrator is utterly negative and unbearable. Even after her companions discover mermaids (discover mermaids!), she's insufferably small minded and unchanged. I just couldn't bear one more hater paragraph.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A cute, light, read - perfect for the summer. Having lived in The Virgin Islands for a couple years and being familiar with the locations they were in, I found the book a lot of fun!
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Deb and Chip get married, head to a Caribbean resort for their honeymoon, go snorkelling, and find themselves in a ecological murder mystery that places their commitment to each other and the planet on the line. Or something like that. At any rate, Deb narrates and it is her voice that is the real charmer here: her wry comments on cruise ships and the kinds of people who populate them; her instinctual fear of and yet attraction to the “heartland” peoples; her friend Gina’s insistently ironic stance (which is really Deb’s own stance); her periodic personality breakdowns; and the kindness that she and others display even in this time of duress. This is a novel with a sting in the tail, but there’s more than enough in what is mentioned above to warrant giving it a go without spoiling anything.There is a lightness of touch here that masks a deeper seriousness. And sadness. The latter is can come as a shock but if you look back you’ll see that a lot of it was there from the beginning. Nevertheless, I could have stood a bit more at the end.Gently recommended.