Hello book dragons, hope you’re all ready for the week ahead. Today’s blog post is my first BBNYA finalist spotlight tour for the 2025 awards. I’m so excited to share Speak the Ocean by Rebecca Enzor with you. I have a marine science background so when I discovered one of the BBNYA 2025 submissions was inspired by the author’s own love of the Ocean I was so excited to read it. Speak the Ocean does not disappoint on its marine biology-goodness, wrapped up in an epic romance.
Speak the Ocean was the 13th place BBNYA 2025 finalist!
What is the BBNYA?
The Book Bloggers’ Novel of the Year Award (BBNYA) is a yearly competition where book bloggers from all over the world read and score books written by indie authors, ending with 15 (17 in 2025) finalists and one overall winner.
If you want some more information about BBNYA, check out the BBNYA Website https://www.bbnya.com/ or take a peek over on Twitter @BBNYA_Official.
Page Count: 354 Pages
Genre: Fantasy, Science Fiction, Romance
Age Category: New Adult
Date Published: Â April 2, 2024
Amazon Link: https://a.co/d/66hPgdo (Canada) https://a.co/d/8LaDDXv (USA) https://amzn.eu/d/3k4DOQj (UK)
Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35433530-speak-the-ocean
The Story Graph Link: https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/62fd1f94-f2e1-44cb-8973-a49f5d901a41
Book Blurb:
“Corporate tells the public the mermaids aren’t dangerous, but that’s a lie.
When the superpredator Mer kill another trainer, Finnegan Jarvis finally sees his opportunity to become a superstar trainer. No more scrubbing tanks and cleaning blood: he’s gonna be in front of the audience showing off his brand-new, fully-trained mermaid. If only he can get her to do the tricks she’s supposed to.
That mermaid is Erie, an ocean-princess ripped from her home when she pushes another Mer out of the way of the net. She doesn’t understand why she’s there, but she’s determined to learn air-words to find out.
While Finn trains Erie, she teaches herself air-words. And when she finally speaks, Finn breaks the number one rule at Oceanica: Never Humanize The Mer.
Now he’ll do whatever it takes to save her.”
Rebecca Enzor – Author Bio
Rebecca Enzor is a fantasy author and environmental chemist on Whidbey Island, WA, where she lives with her husband, two dogs, one cat, and sometimes chickens. Her articles on writing science in science fiction can be found in “Putting the Science in Fiction” from Writer’s Digest Books. Obsessed with everything ocean, she studied fisheries biology in college and electrocuted herself collecting fish in a river, which inspired several key scenes in her debut novel, Speak the Ocean, a Blackfish meets The Little Mermaid retelling.
You can find Rebecca online at:
Website: https://rebeccaenzor.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rebecca.enzor Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/rebeccaenzor.bsky.social
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