The Seas by Samantha Hunt

 

I listened the unabridged audio version of The Seas by Samantha Hunt, which is well narrated by the author. Samantha Hunt is a new to me author. I enjoyed reading The Seas very much and look forward to reading other books by Samantha Hunt.

The Seas was my 10th read of 2025 and what an excellent read it! It's also a very quick read too. Essentially, The Seas by Samantha Hunt is a coming of age story with an unnamed and unreliable narrator as the protagonist. Throw in some magical realism and you have an almost perfect read with The Seas. I think The Seas may be my favorite fiction read so far for 2025.

Below is the publisher's summary for The Seas by Samantha Hunt, I found on Chirp's website:

Moored in a coastal fishing town so far north that the highways only run south, the unnamed narrator of The Seas is a misfit. She’s often the subject of cruel local gossip. Her father, a sailor, walked into the ocean eleven years earlier and never returned, leaving his wife and daughter to keep a forlorn vigil. Surrounded by water and beckoned by the sea, she clings to what her father once told her: that she is a mermaid. True to myth, she finds herself in hard love with a land-bound man, an Iraq War veteran thirteen years her senior. The mesmerizing, fevered coming-of-age tale that follows will land her in jail. Her otherworldly escape will become the stuff of legend. With the inventive brilliance and psychological insight that have earned her international acclaim, Samantha Hunt pulls listeners into an undertow of impossible love and intoxication, blurring the lines between reality and fairy tale, hope and delusion, sanity and madness.

I'm giving The Seas by Samantha Hunt a rating of 4.5 stars out of 5 stars.

Until my next post, happy reading!!