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Seascape
How sexy can a woman be after being on a hijacked plane and tossed into the deep blue sea?
Very, according to the merman she lands on! Storm was minding his business, sunning in the sea,
doing what mer folk do on vacation when suddenly love falls onto his lap. Literally. Dr. Elanna
Richfield never thought she would see the light of another day. Especially from several fathoms
below. But Storm opened up a world she had never seen, a world filled with magical elemental
creatures, of unending beauty and mystery. A world filled with political intrigue and danger. Now
if she can survive mystical transformations, jealous queens, and the dictates of a ruling council,
she may very well discover true passion and desire, within her Seascape.
Very, according to the merman she lands on! Storm was minding his business, sunning in the sea,
doing what mer folk do on vacation when suddenly love falls onto his lap. Literally. Dr. Elanna
Richfield never thought she would see the light of another day. Especially from several fathoms
below. But Storm opened up a world she had never seen, a world filled with magical elemental
creatures, of unending beauty and mystery. A world filled with political intrigue and danger. Now
if she can survive mystical transformations, jealous queens, and the dictates of a ruling council,
she may very well discover true passion and desire, within her Seascape.
279 pages, Paperback
First published June 30, 2003
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About the author
Stephanie Burke
162 books126 followersStephanie is a multi published multi award-winning wife and mother of two whose unparalleled imagination causes her no end of trouble. From sex shifting shape-shifting dragons to under sea worlds, up to sexually confused elemental fey and homo erotic mysteries, all the way to pastel challenged urban sprites, Stephanie has done it all, and hopes to do more.
Stephanie is co-founder of the charitable organization Write 4 Hope, Co Creator of the Japanese Culture and Anime Convention Mikomicon, Home-school Mom, English Tutor, an Orator on her favorite subject of writing and world building, a sometimes teacher when you feed her enough coffee and donuts, an anime nut, a costumer, and a frequent guest of various sci-fi and writing cons where she can be found leading panel discussions or researching more and varied legends and theories to improve her writing skills.
Stephanie is known for her love of the outrageous, strong female characters, believable worlds, male characters filled with depth, and interracial that make the reader sit up and take notice.
Stephanie is co-founder of the charitable organization Write 4 Hope, Co Creator of the Japanese Culture and Anime Convention Mikomicon, Home-school Mom, English Tutor, an Orator on her favorite subject of writing and world building, a sometimes teacher when you feed her enough coffee and donuts, an anime nut, a costumer, and a frequent guest of various sci-fi and writing cons where she can be found leading panel discussions or researching more and varied legends and theories to improve her writing skills.
Stephanie is known for her love of the outrageous, strong female characters, believable worlds, male characters filled with depth, and interracial that make the reader sit up and take notice.
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March 20, 2023
Retain Your Brain Cells by Skipping This
Let’s all put exclamation points after our every sentence! Wouldn’t that just be grand! No other punctuation marks allowed! Solely exclamatory points! It gets old and annoying really fast.
Exclamation points are used to either emphasise or alert us that the character is shouting. Am I to believe that these characters only communicate by shouting at each other? Every sentence ended with an exclamatory mark. I didn’t know whether they were angry with each other or just yellers and it was infuriating.
“I want to get this over with!” she whispered - even the whispers are filled with exclamation points.
Another infuriating point, Elanna being as dumb as a bag of bricks. Blimey! I hated her character and her every outburst! I had to go back to the prologue to reread all these scientific accomplishments she supposedly had under belt. The woman in the prologue and the woman in the reminder of the story are 2 completely different persons. Night and day. I will hear no excuse of this convenient amnesia or the fact that she inhaled fish boy’s powders. Amnesia doesn’t revert to the mental state of a tantrum throwing child, and she was acting a few sandwiches short of a picnic before she inhaled that powder. I could not understand what her character was supposed to embody, but I embodied annoyance for it.
Fish boy was not the best H either.
Amadala wasn’t great, but Sting sucked. Calling her a bitch and essentially forcing her to mate with him? Yeah, no. While we’re at that, this book tried to come off as though it loved and respected strong female characters but constantly had the males calling Amadala who was a strong queen, a bitch. Over and over. It was jarring and quite disturbing.
Ugh. This was a torturous read to get through and I started hate reading just to be done. Not even that could get me done with this book fast enough. I started skipping pages because I missed nothing and it was terrible. Sex scenes, dry- I know, IRONIC since they occurred underwater.
Hard pass on this book. Feel free to skip it. I am mad at myself being sucked into the synopsis because the entire synopsis was better than the book.
TLDR; boring book, terrible treatment of lead female characters, terrible dumbed down h, snoozefest H, DRY!!
Let’s all put exclamation points after our every sentence! Wouldn’t that just be grand! No other punctuation marks allowed! Solely exclamatory points! It gets old and annoying really fast.
Exclamation points are used to either emphasise or alert us that the character is shouting. Am I to believe that these characters only communicate by shouting at each other? Every sentence ended with an exclamatory mark. I didn’t know whether they were angry with each other or just yellers and it was infuriating.
“I want to get this over with!” she whispered - even the whispers are filled with exclamation points.
Another infuriating point, Elanna being as dumb as a bag of bricks. Blimey! I hated her character and her every outburst! I had to go back to the prologue to reread all these scientific accomplishments she supposedly had under belt. The woman in the prologue and the woman in the reminder of the story are 2 completely different persons. Night and day. I will hear no excuse of this convenient amnesia or the fact that she inhaled fish boy’s powders. Amnesia doesn’t revert to the mental state of a tantrum throwing child, and she was acting a few sandwiches short of a picnic before she inhaled that powder. I could not understand what her character was supposed to embody, but I embodied annoyance for it.
Fish boy was not the best H either.
Amadala wasn’t great, but Sting sucked. Calling her a bitch and essentially forcing her to mate with him? Yeah, no. While we’re at that, this book tried to come off as though it loved and respected strong female characters but constantly had the males calling Amadala who was a strong queen, a bitch. Over and over. It was jarring and quite disturbing.
Ugh. This was a torturous read to get through and I started hate reading just to be done. Not even that could get me done with this book fast enough. I started skipping pages because I missed nothing and it was terrible. Sex scenes, dry- I know, IRONIC since they occurred underwater.
Hard pass on this book. Feel free to skip it. I am mad at myself being sucked into the synopsis because the entire synopsis was better than the book.
TLDR; boring book, terrible treatment of lead female characters, terrible dumbed down h, snoozefest H, DRY!!
August 6, 2010
OK, I am embarrassed to say I read this book. I was not familiar with Stephanie Burke and I thought mermen, the sea and terrorists would make a good read. I actually can't say one thing nice about this story. If I could give it 0 stars I would.
First Pet Peave
Constant (!) shouting throughout the story. None of characters talked, they yelled. Maybe it was an editing error but it drove me nuts.
Second Pet Peave
Nothing sexual that you can't find in a regular adult romance novel. Dirty words, yes...sexual situations, nothing great. And, hopefully, you'd find more of a plot than this story had. Better yet, what plot? Or, should I yell to keep in line with the book, what plot?!!!!!
Third Pet Peave
A ditsy, stupid, heroine who supposedly has (I forgot how many, yawn...) PhD's but can't think outside of the box. She does have convenient partial amnesia to explain why she can remember certain things but not others. I guess this is one of those cases where the author wants you to believe that someone with supreme intelligence has no common sense.
If you insist on reading this book try to borrow it from someone or get it at the library if they have it.
First Pet Peave
Constant (!) shouting throughout the story. None of characters talked, they yelled. Maybe it was an editing error but it drove me nuts.
Second Pet Peave
Nothing sexual that you can't find in a regular adult romance novel. Dirty words, yes...sexual situations, nothing great. And, hopefully, you'd find more of a plot than this story had. Better yet, what plot? Or, should I yell to keep in line with the book, what plot?!!!!!
Third Pet Peave
A ditsy, stupid, heroine who supposedly has (I forgot how many, yawn...) PhD's but can't think outside of the box. She does have convenient partial amnesia to explain why she can remember certain things but not others. I guess this is one of those cases where the author wants you to believe that someone with supreme intelligence has no common sense.
If you insist on reading this book try to borrow it from someone or get it at the library if they have it.
April 17, 2018
This was my very first merman erotica! I finally remembered the title. This is the dreamy story of a brilliant African American scientist who is left for dead and rescued by a handsome merman who just happens to be in line to be King.
Ladies a prince! This doesn't happen everyday ;)
There's plenty of sex and action and shiny scales. Good times.
A winning read for Mermaid May.
Ladies a prince! This doesn't happen everyday ;)
There's plenty of sex and action and shiny scales. Good times.
A winning read for Mermaid May.
March 28, 2009
A sexy merman, a brainy scientist, and the terrorists who bring them together. Sound a little weird? Well, this is the beginning of Stephanie Burke's red hot novel "Seascape". If you've ever wondered how a merman would 'do it', ponder no more. Burke has created a plausible, and very romantic, story that's really about second...or even third chances.
Elanna is a world-renowned scientist who is very close to a breakthrough for treating AIDS. When she is accompanying a patient to Hawaii on a small plane, it's hijacked by terrorists. She volunteers to take the place of her patient as a hostage and then, to prove the seriousness of their claim, the terrorists throw her out of the plane. What should be the end of her life instead turns out to be the beginning when instead of dying, she lands on a sunbathing merman who heals her and becomes intrigued by and attracted to this human who is so different from all he knows.
Storm was enjoying his play time when he was hit by a falling body. What are the humans doing now, throwing away a perfectly beautiful female?
There's a lot of humor in this story. As well as intriguing mersex (if I can make up a word!) that made me want a merman of my own. But Burke's story has more heft to it than just sex, sex, sex, plot. There's an underlying theme about second chances, doing what's right, and the arrogance of humanity...without preaching. It was a delight to read and I think I'll just make a space for this one on my keeper shelf!
Elanna is a world-renowned scientist who is very close to a breakthrough for treating AIDS. When she is accompanying a patient to Hawaii on a small plane, it's hijacked by terrorists. She volunteers to take the place of her patient as a hostage and then, to prove the seriousness of their claim, the terrorists throw her out of the plane. What should be the end of her life instead turns out to be the beginning when instead of dying, she lands on a sunbathing merman who heals her and becomes intrigued by and attracted to this human who is so different from all he knows.
Storm was enjoying his play time when he was hit by a falling body. What are the humans doing now, throwing away a perfectly beautiful female?
There's a lot of humor in this story. As well as intriguing mersex (if I can make up a word!) that made me want a merman of my own. But Burke's story has more heft to it than just sex, sex, sex, plot. There's an underlying theme about second chances, doing what's right, and the arrogance of humanity...without preaching. It was a delight to read and I think I'll just make a space for this one on my keeper shelf!
May 22, 2015
Wow, just wow. How the author managed to turn such interesting premise into this (for lack of a better word) nonsense, I just can't understand.
Why tell us that the heroine is this unbelievably smart woman who is on the cusp of curing cancer, AIDS, etc, in the first chapter, and then turn her into a screaming IDIOT for the rest of the book???
And there wasn't even any redemption to be found in the hero either, for a super powerful warrior/healer he was just sickeningly pathetic.
Why tell us that the heroine is this unbelievably smart woman who is on the cusp of curing cancer, AIDS, etc, in the first chapter, and then turn her into a screaming IDIOT for the rest of the book???
And there wasn't even any redemption to be found in the hero either, for a super powerful warrior/healer he was just sickeningly pathetic.
July 23, 2022
This sounded like an intriguing story with a plot that I knew I just had to read about. Elanna and Storm had an interesting relationship. But their dialogue was all over the place at times and Elanna yells and freaks out way too much for a woman of her education and intelligence. I found it comical (and distracting) after a while how much of her dialogue contained exclamation points. Honestly, this book was a little bit of a letdown as I love merman books and couldn't get into this one. 3 stars.
February 21, 2023
So this was interesting. I loved the premise and would have easily given this a 5 but the story lacks in certain places. For instance, our main lead, Elanna, is a Ph.D. several times over yet comes off as a spoiled, small-minded idiot at the start; it threw me off the way she acted. Another strike is the choppy writing, it was a bit over the place. Also, didn't like how quickly the mains got together and confessed their love after literally a couple of days. I get this is a fantasy but cmon. Other than that, the action and romance was chefs kiss- I recommend it.
July 28, 2022
Very informative and emotionally engaging story. Storm and Elanna have a lot in common and are both very independent, strong-willed and have big hearts. Their story is a whirlwind and I enjoyed getting caught up in the intricacies of weighing their culture differences and probability of merging human life with the life of mermaids. I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
July 30, 2022
Disappointing . . .
This book was disappointing in several ways. I didn’t really like the main characters, especially Dr. Elanna Richfield who seemed more like a screaming teenager with a bad attitude. The dialog was poorly done and added nothing to building up the story line. There was an over-use of needless cursing that didn’t really enhance the story either. The whole thing felt juvenile.
This book was disappointing in several ways. I didn’t really like the main characters, especially Dr. Elanna Richfield who seemed more like a screaming teenager with a bad attitude. The dialog was poorly done and added nothing to building up the story line. There was an over-use of needless cursing that didn’t really enhance the story either. The whole thing felt juvenile.
January 6, 2023
To the Sea with love
Just loved the story I would recommend the story to everyone a lot of faith in love wherever you find it
Just loved the story I would recommend the story to everyone a lot of faith in love wherever you find it
November 8, 2023
Good
Had me cry, laugh feel slight anger and happiness
Quick read.
I liked it a lot
Lovey dovey time was spicy
Had me cry, laugh feel slight anger and happiness
Quick read.
I liked it a lot
Lovey dovey time was spicy
July 28, 2011
Seascape is a decent fantasy romance book between a human woman and a merman. The premise sounds like it could work really well but it doesn't.
The main heroine, Elanna Richfields, is apparently supposed to be very intelligent and classy, but as the story progresses her attitude is completely different. She has a very obnoxious way of saying things, especially to Storm, the main love interest. The author also uses indecent ways of describing what's going on, diminishing the intelligence level of this novel. What makes Elanna's character worse is the fact that she is African American, making it a little offensive that the author tries to portray a very intelligent and sophisticated Black woman at the start but took the exact opposite later. The author tries to use the excuse that the epimorph powders is what makes her act strange but even after the effects wear off she still has an attitude that doesn't quite fit the type of character that author wanted to express.
Storm is an interesting character but his love for Elanna seems forced and rushed. One thing I do like a lot is how he's attracted to her because she's very "exotic" from his people. But beauty alone seems like his main reason to pursue her. The way his appearance is described is not very accurate. At first his fin is described as "mother-of-pearl" but then later it's a dark blue. His skin is described very pale at first and then it's blue.
The writing is genuinely very humorous at times and it did give me a few chuckles. Some of the things the characters say are well written and show their character well. The punctuation has too much yelling and errors. I spot several typing mistakes, unforgivable excuse from the editor.
Many of the ideas pertaining the merfolk are intriguing but are not explored well. Unfortunately, the ending is anti-climatic and could honestly use more depth. It leaves some open possibility but it goes to a sex scene rather than something far more interesting.
Enjoyment: 3/5 stars
Story Itself: 3/5 stars
The main heroine, Elanna Richfields, is apparently supposed to be very intelligent and classy, but as the story progresses her attitude is completely different. She has a very obnoxious way of saying things, especially to Storm, the main love interest. The author also uses indecent ways of describing what's going on, diminishing the intelligence level of this novel. What makes Elanna's character worse is the fact that she is African American, making it a little offensive that the author tries to portray a very intelligent and sophisticated Black woman at the start but took the exact opposite later. The author tries to use the excuse that the epimorph powders is what makes her act strange but even after the effects wear off she still has an attitude that doesn't quite fit the type of character that author wanted to express.
Storm is an interesting character but his love for Elanna seems forced and rushed. One thing I do like a lot is how he's attracted to her because she's very "exotic" from his people. But beauty alone seems like his main reason to pursue her. The way his appearance is described is not very accurate. At first his fin is described as "mother-of-pearl" but then later it's a dark blue. His skin is described very pale at first and then it's blue.
The writing is genuinely very humorous at times and it did give me a few chuckles. Some of the things the characters say are well written and show their character well. The punctuation has too much yelling and errors. I spot several typing mistakes, unforgivable excuse from the editor.
Many of the ideas pertaining the merfolk are intriguing but are not explored well. Unfortunately, the ending is anti-climatic and could honestly use more depth. It leaves some open possibility but it goes to a sex scene rather than something far more interesting.
Enjoyment: 3/5 stars
Story Itself: 3/5 stars
September 6, 2010
I did not like this book. You get all of this information in the beginning about her being the most incredible doctor of her time, how she has unlocked the key to cancer and possibly found the cure and for what. Nothing. This knowledge serves the reader or the heroine no purpose except to make the reader want to kill the heroine on multiple occasions. At no time does her vast knowledge help her get out of any situation. As a matter of fact, it probably would have serve the reader better if you didn't know she was brilliant, then maybe you wouldn't think she was so annoying. I cannot imagine wanting to gag anyone more than her. For the majority of the book you want to scream "Please, Shut up!!".Her conversation is nothing more than babbling the majority of the book. Childish babbling at that. And just when you think it can't get any worse, they pledge their undying love. For the icing on the cake the authors leaves many holes in the story and many, many unanswered questions. The end is anti-climatic and at this point, you don't care how it ends, just that it ends. I would recommend this book if it's free, and there are only 30 books left on Earth. Read this one, right before Video Vixen. Wait, under no circumstances could I see recommending Video Vixen, so forget that last comment LOL.
December 10, 2014
Really I don't know where to begin. The plot was very interesting and the story seemed to be heading the way I hoped but the psychology of the characters and the writing ruined the book for me. I really don't see how this book got past an editor. Several words repeated in the same line, or right on the next paragraph, it was an uncomfortable read and I am not even a native English speaker. Also the main character and her nemesis, the two most important women in the story, despite their age and academic achievements behave like fifteen year old's. I couldn't finish this book.
September 2, 2007
Great imagination, i absolutly love this book
January 24, 2009
I found it charming - for everyone of us who thought the Little Mermaid was crazy for leaving... but still wanted a happily ever after!
July 21, 2009
I liked this one because the plot was different.
December 27, 2009
Hilariously funny and very emotional! Love her mind!
June 6, 2015
Friend told me to read this book and I did Mad when I had to give her book back but happy when I got my own a must get for your books
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