From the first chapter, I could already tell it will be one of those novels I’ll cherish in my soul and will live rent-free in my head.

I could relate with Wren in a way that we’re both analytical and systematic. We don’t prefer doing things outside our routines and we like predictability.

With Lewis’s mutation posing a challenge to their marriage, I often stopped and pondered what I would have done had I been in Wren’s position.

Would I bargain as much?
Go out of my way to help my husband?

Considering their love story, Wren’s decisions seem appropriate. Just imagine having a difficult life, finally meeting the love of your life and getting married, but the next year around he’s fully mutated into a great white shark. I’m not sure that’s an easy pill to swallow.

As with the structure and production, the poetic writing is so enticing. The narration is top quality. I enjoyed hearing the multiple POV’s and how the characters are unrelated yet intertwined.

This is the first magical realism novel I’ve “read” and finished, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. This is also the first novel I read by Emily Habeck and I could almost be sure that I’ll enjoy her other works.