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Ladyfish

By: Andrea Bramhall
Narrated by: Heather Wilds
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Can love blossom beneath the waves of the Florida Keys? Or will the shadows that haunt two strangers prove too much to survive?

Scuba diving instructor Olivia Zuckerman loves guiding tourists under the water almost as much as she loves guiding women to her bed. Coerced into picking up a new trainee from the airport, Oz has no idea that her life is about to change in every imaginable way.

Daniela Finnsbury-Sterling, Finn to her friends, is trying to break away from an overbearing father, a man intent on making her life fit his plans. Desperate to make her own way, she escapes to Florida to train as a diving instructor. She knows it won't be easy. She knows her father will do anything he can to force her back into line. Unfortunately, she has no idea exactly what anything will be!

©2012 Andrea Bramhall (P)2013 Audible, Inc. Contemporary Literature & Fiction

Editorial reviews

Accomplished actor Heather Wilds' enthusiastic and warm voice is a perfect mate to Andrea Bramhall's debut novel, Ladyfish. With a forceful energy, Wilds brings to life all of the tension and romance from Bramhall's Florida Keys where two women are on a crash course for love or complete disaster. Olivia Zuckerman is a pro scuba diving instructor, but she is also a pro at courting women. Daniela Finnsbury-Sterling is a rebellious girl trying to shed the influence of her father. When she turns up in Florida, there is no telling what will happen.
Exciting Suspense • Interesting Plot Twists • Excellent Narration • Compelling Adventure • Good Romance • Complex Hero
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Definitely worth the read. I'm a fan of lesbian romance and since I'd not read this author before I went for it. The characters were interesting even though they stretched believability at times. There were good plot twists that kept the story interesting. There were a number of bodies falling in rather bloody ways, so it's not for the squeamish.
Now it was steamy enough at the end, I felt rather robbed that this waited so long to get there.

More than I expected

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This is a thrill ride from start to finish. The narrator really makes the story sing. I have already purchased the sequel 😸.

Wonderful!

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This book was very enjoyable. The voice actor did a very good job sorting the characters.

enjoyable

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Wow! If you are into action, suspense and love this is the book for you.

A mail biter

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I hate to give this book a bad star review because I was really enjoying the story but when I was about half way through the book it was suddenly unavailable with no way to even purchase it. I guess this is more of an audible gripe that I got no warning that it was going to be taken off but I was also looking forward to the next book swordfish that now I won’t listen to since I can’t finish ladyfish. Hopefully I can write a better review if I have a chance to finish it.

Wish I could have finished it

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Ladyfish is book 1 and Swordfish is book 2. Best part of this book is the awesome narrator. Heather has to be English her accent is so good. Lovely dangerous adventure and romance as well.

Good suspense and romance

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I enjoyed this book i thought the story moved at an interesting pace the narration was good.
I would recommend this book.

Good story

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Thes three together were a force to be reckoned with. Thanks for the great book. I wasn’t sure I wanted to read this one, but the cover was very interesting. Not as much happens underwater, but it was very interesting on land. Thanks for this one. Off to my next adventure.

Peter, Flint,& Oz

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i was enjoying the characters and the diving part. but the subplot with the father and the disease kind of lost me. It didnt really feel like it fit with the rest of the story. I was more interested in the subplot about her mother and Oz's background and history. The father was also one dimensional but that was probably the point.

I didnt think it needed this world ending suspense, the question on if her mother were murdered or not and her father's general asshattery was compelling enough on its own

Nice characters but subplot lost me

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"Ladyfish" is a quick read about a sweet lesbian romance set in the Florida Keys and centered around the local scuba diving culture. I can see this making for a popular summer read, and my audio book version narrated by Heather Wilds is performed really well. I finished this in less than three days (!), which is significant for me.

Olivia "Oz" Zuckerman is a retired Navy diver turned diving instructor, who has a string of lovers but no true loves. Daniela "Finn" Finnsbury-Sterling is a British lab researcher who signs up for Oz's accelerated diving course to try and start a new life in the States on her own, and she has not officially come out yet so has never had a girlfriend or even kissed a girl. I like how their relationship develops and all of their scenes alone together are really great, especially the chapter spent in the Everglades. Even though Finn is a bit too naive to be believable, all of the thought processes written from Oz's perspective are great.

As cute as their budding relationship is, however, there are many messed up things in this book that really sour the experience. A third of all straight men mentioned in this book are evil rapists, and half of the sex scenes in this book are rape scenes, specifically of men raping women. I don't know what these scenes were supposed to narratively achieve, and so I was just left extremely disturbed which really brought me out of the story each time. I feel like everyone who was accepting of the main couple's sexual orientation were portrayed as flawless angels, and all those who were homophobic were pure evil incarnate, which doesn't seem realistic at all and comes off as just bad writing.

Finn and Oz have sex for the first time the SAME DAY Oz dislocates her shoulder and Finn is almost raped and murdered. Seriously, WTF?! That is so messed up and unbelievable; that is NOT how recovery from sexual assault works.

Overall, some of this is written well but some of it is rather disturbing. All of the rape stuff should have been cut and then the tension could have focused on the fighting biological warfare part. The action sequences are written well, and I could see this being made into an "Atomic Blonde"/"James Bond" kind of action movie. Love me some BritishXAmerican romance, and that scuba diving lesbian romance is what got me to rent the book in the first place.

FYI, there's an obvious hook at the end for a sequel, which is called "Swordfish".

Cute Couple but other Rape Scenes DISTURBING

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