Lucy has been writing her dissertation on Sappho for nine years when she and her boyfriend have a dramatic break up. After she hits rock bottom in Phoenix, her sister in Los Angeles insists Lucy dog-sit for the summer. Annika's home is a gorgeous glass cube on Venice Beach, but Lucy can find little relief from her anxiety - not in the Greek chorus of women in her love addiction therapy group, not in her frequent Tinder excursions, not even in Dominic the foxhound's easy affection.
Everything changes when Lucy becomes entranced by an eerily attractive swimmer while sitting alone on the beach rocks one night. But when Lucy learns the truth about his identity, their relationship, and Lucy's understanding of what love should look like, take a very unexpected turn. A masterful blend of vivid realism and giddy fantasy, pairing hilarious frankness with pulse-racing eroticism, The Pisces is a story about falling in obsessive love with a merman: a figure of Sirenic fantasy whose very existence pushes Lucy to question everything she thought she knew about love, lust, and meaning in the one life we have.
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(Bloomsbury, 3 May 2018, ebook, 281 pages, #popsugarreadingchallenge 2019, a book with a zodiac sign or astrology term in the title, bought from @AmazonKindle)
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What the hell kind of nonsense did I just read? I admit, I didn't even read the blurb before I chose it for this Popsugar category but I noticed quite a lot of decent 4 and 5 star review's and let that influence my judgement. After wading through this mess I'll take more care in future. I'm sorry but I found this book just awful. I didn't find one redeeming quality. The book tries to be erotica and funny erotica at that. I didn't find it very erotic and the humour was sort of vulgar and crass. And what is the deal with calling a vagina ad nauseum? I also couldn't really stand Lucy as a character. She's whiny and irritating beyond any tolerance level and never matures into someone I give a stuff about. Lucy is just pathetic and judgemental. I found her abhorrent. I haven't disliked a book this much in a while.