Shark Heart: A Love Story

Interesting, unique story. Beautiful writing.

Lovely writing style, great characters, very interesting story, and too many passages that hit you right in the feels. The pacing felt awkward at the end. There was a clear climax of the story you started with about, what 2/3 through the book? And the rest felt like a long epilogue and prequel combined that had me wallowing in sadness. I listen to the book for bookclub and those last two hours were just punishing to continue after the culmination...read more

I really enjoyed this book. It was unique and I felt like I was invested in the characters and I wanted to know what happened next. The prose was beautiful. It brought about a good discussion at our book club. The cover art is beautiful as well.

I was hesitant to read this novel because I don’t usually gravitate towards romance or love books, but the concept of someone turning into a shark certainly piqued my interest. This book was wonderful! It was full of heart, unique prose, and familiar landmarks (the novel centers around north Texas and Oklahoma where I have lived my whole life), and left me wanting more! I enjoyed how the story was broken up into 3 parts to tell the entire story o...read more

Surprisingly evoked drop emotions even though I tend to lean toward memoirs and realistic fiction. An intriguing additional trial to societal life.