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Speak The Ocean by Rebecca Enzor
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Speak the Ocean was the 13th place BBNYA 2025 finalist!
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Book Details


Page Count: 354 Pages
Genre: Fantasy, Science Fiction, Romance
Age Category: New Adult
Date Published: April 2, 2024
Amazon Link: https://a.co/d/66hPgdo (Canada) https://a.co/d/8LaDDXv (USA) https://amzn.eu/d/3k4DOQj (UK)
Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35433530-speak-the-ocean
The Story Graph Link: https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/62fd1f94-f2e1-44cb-8973-a49f5d901a41

Blurb

Corporate tells the public the mermaids aren’t dangerous, but that’s a lie.

When the superpredator Mer kill another trainer, Finnegan Jarvis finally sees his opportunity to become a superstar trainer. No more scrubbing tanks and cleaning blood: he’s gonna be in front of the audience showing off his brand-new, fully-trained mermaid. If only he can get her to do the tricks she’s supposed to.

That mermaid is Erie, an ocean-princess ripped from her home when she pushes another Mer out of the way of the net. She doesn’t understand why she’s there, but she’s determined to learn air-words to find out.

While Finn trains Erie, she teaches herself air-words. And when she finally speaks, Finn breaks the number one rule at Oceanica: Never Humanize The Mer.

Now he’ll do whatever it takes to save her.

Author Bio


Rebecca Enzor is a fantasy author and environmental chemist on Whidbey Island, WA, where she lives with her husband, two dogs, one cat, and sometimes chickens. Her articles on writing science in science fiction can be found in “Putting the Science in Fiction” from Writer’s Digest Books. Obsessed with everything ocean, she studied fisheries biology in college and electrocuted herself collecting fish in a river, which inspired several key scenes in her debut novel, Speak the Ocean, a Blackfish meets The Little Mermaid retelling.

Rebecca can be found online at:
Website: https://rebeccaenzor.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rebecca.enzor
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/rebeccaenzor.bsky.social

My Review First off I’ve watched Blackfish on Netflix (highly recommend) and this author mentions the Orcas kept in captivity as a foreword. I am hugely against keeping such magnificent creatures in such small tanks, or in captivity at all. So I knew this book was going to resonate with my beliefs. I was not disappointed at all. Can any of the characters be redeemed, I think so. But it was interesting to read and see this character development. Such bravery and loyalty is displayed in this book, the learning that everything you’ve been taught can be so wrong, if you just listen to the other person’s point of view. Equal measures of heartbreak and triumph this book was a real page turner.