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{{Infobox book | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject_Books --> |
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| name = Sleeping with the Fishes |
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| image = Sleeping with the Fishes cover.jpg |
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| country = [[United States]] |
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| language = [[English language|English]] |
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| series = Fred the Mermaid Trilogy |
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| genre = [[Paranormal romance]] |
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| publisher = Jove |
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| release_date = November 28, 2006 |
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| media_type = Print |
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| pages = 304 pp |
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| isbn = 0-515-14222-0 |
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| congress= CPB Box no. 2602 vol. 13 |
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| oclc= 76687779 |
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| followed_by = [[Swimming Without a Net (novel)|Swimming Without a Net]] |
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''For the term "sleeps with the fishes", see [[Cement shoes]] and [[Luca Brasi]].'' |
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'''''Sleeping with the Fishes''''' is a 2006 [[paranormal romance]] by [[MaryJanice Davidson]], in which the central character is a half-mermaid. This is the first book in the Fred the Mermaid series. |
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==Details== |
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This book is awful. Like impossibly bad. From prose to plot it fails repeatedly and spectacularly. The plot revolves around Fred, who is a half human half mermaid. She works at an aquarium where a new coworker, Thomas, has just started working. Thomas is incredibly smart, handsome, athletic, a great fighter, and the only person who can see the true color of Fred's hair (which is seemingly important, but never explained). Her best friend, Jonas, is in love with her boss, Barb, who he has only spoken to a handful of times over the many years he has known her. Unfortunately for Jonas, Barb believes with absolute conviction that he is gay and does not shy from saying this to his face. But more on that later. Fred is visited by a merman named Artur, who is the prince of the Black Sea. He constantly gropes Fred regardless of how many times she rejects his advances. |
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The primary conflict is that the ocean is becoming polluted. It is found out that the pollution is coming from a hotel chain started by Barb's ex-husband. He decided the best way to get revenge on his ex-wife was to start a hotel chain and link the sewage system to the ocean in order to pollute the water Barb loves so much. He eventually planned to expand his chain out and pollute the entire ocean. If spending years and years starting a successful business venture from the ground up, solely to pollute the entire ocean because your wife was a marine biologist, sounds like an extremely slow and ineffective method of revenge, that's because it is. |
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In the end they get into a gunfight with Barb's ex-husband on the top floor of his hotel and Barb's ex is graphically killed. Jonas finally gets Barb because he is just too attractive. And Barb is a real catch. Uttering lines like "I could grate cheese on your stomach" and "You're my tsunami" in the throws of love making makes it clear how lucky Jonas is to have her. Meanwhile, Fred cannot decide between the perfect human specimen Thomas or the sexual harassment obsessed Artur. As Thomas and Artur both leave for their own reasons, Fred is left to ponder the complete insanity of everything she has been through the past few days. |
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[[Category:21st-century American novels]] |
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[[Category:2006 novels]] |
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[[Category:Paranormal romance novels]] |
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[[Category:Novels by MaryJanice Davidson]] |
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[[Category:Novels set in Boston, Massachusetts]] |
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[[Category:Mermaids in fiction]] |
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