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Shark Heart

A Love Story

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Shark Heart

By: Emily Habeck
Narrated by: Karissa Vacker, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Soneela Nankani
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For Lewis and Wren, their first year of marriage is also their last.

A few weeks after their wedding, Lewis receives a rare diagnosis. He's turning into a great white shark, and has less than a year left to live as a human. At first, Wren resists her husband's fate. Is there a way for them to be together after Lewis fully transforms?

But as Lewis changes, day by day, Wren begins to make peace with the inevitable. After all, this isn't the first time she's lost a loved one.

An extraordinary novel of love, loss, hope and happiness, Shark Heart explores the shapes that love takes, in all its many forms, and asks us to ask ourselves: what makes us human?

©2023 Emily Habeck (P)2023 Quercus Editions Limited Family Life Fantasy Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Magical Realism Marriage Magic

Critic Reviews

'Compelling, moving, lyrical.' - Claire North, author of Ithaca and The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
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Apart from the titular twist the book fell into the standard tropes of this genre. None of the main characters diverged from the stereotype - with the beautiful, quiet and intelligent girl seeming not to grow or change much throughout the story. Every time there seemed a chance to change she did the expected action for her trope. It was a shame as by the time the story got started we then focused on history’s of characters who had no real bearing on the plot.

It felt like a story about love rather than a love story, with us never getting to k ow any of the characters enough to care particularly what happened to them. With the diagnosis occurring in the first few chapters we never really met the characters and instead were described how they were perfect for each other without seeing it.

This also touches on a dislike of mine, the characters were one dimensional with no real impact if their decisions, instead we would skip to weeks later, or years later, only seeing the storybook next step rather than the characters being real people with lives than consisted of more than a paragraph showing a short moment with no consequences.

The book was good enough but I wouldn’t recommend it

Original enough but bland and stereotypical characters

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This story was a crazy journey however I loved every minute and couldn’t put it down!

A story of love, transformation and acceptance

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