A Ship of Bones and Teeth

By: Karina Halle

Narrated by: Jo Raylan, John Masterson

Princess Maren is a woman with a secret.

Ten years ago she sold her soul to the sea witch Edonia, giving up a life underwater in exchange for the love of Prince Aerik on land. But after a decade of abuse and misery inflicted by the cruel prince, Maren wants nothing more than to reverse the spell.

An opportunity for escape presents itself when the prince and princess are traveling overseas and are taken hostage by a band of notorious pirates, led by the fearsome Captain Ramsay "Bones" Battista. Maren has heard the sordid stories about the infamous pirate-not only is his ship supposedly haunted and crewed by the damned, but that no prisoners ever survive.

Fortunately for Maren, she learns that the captain also has a score to settle with the sea witch. With any luck, Maren may be able to get her old life back, even if it's being held in the captain's wicked hands.

But Ramsay gets more than he bargained for when he learns who—and what—Maren is, and that her appetite for revenge, freedom, and bloodlust rivals his.

Meanwhile Maren finds herself falling for the pirate's dark nature, even as she discovers that Ramsay has a secret more deadly than her own.

Contains mature themes.

©2023 Karina Halle (P)2024 Tantor

A wonderful spin!!

If you love Pirates of the Caribbean and Little Mermaid this is the book for you!!! I loved the story line with the plot twists with a happy ending! The steam is perfect!!

Great book

This is one of my favorites books. Full of action and wow on the love parts.

great voice actors

I absolutely loved how both narrators could do both parts very well. this is my 2nd audiobook ever and I'm hooked!

I really enjoyed the alternate options for the Little mermaid retelling.

I really enjoyed this book I thought everything was well written. I think some of the language used during some of the spicy scenes was a little intense for me. but that's just a personal preference thing I prefer when it's a little bit more metaphorical than like right in your face. but the scenes were were spicy and good. The one thing I didn't really like about the book was the narrator you know they depict that the main characters are like 26 and 35 but the narrators they chose to use had very old sounding voices like they were in their '60s. I would really love to see this book put into a graphic audio I think it would be amazing and I would love to hear it with a younger cast. I really loved the alternating POVs in the fact that they had different narrators for each POV. I'd love to reread the book I thought it was very good it will be on my favorites list for sure.

Witty Banter

I must say I was shocked at how quickly this book pulled me in. Being a retelling of The Little Mermaid, I had to give it a try. This book put a dark fantasy twist on the story we’ve all known growing up. This was my first dark romance fantasy book and honestly did not disappoint!


I loved the banter between Maren and Ramsay. The story was full of emotions and twists that had my bingeing this audiobook to see what happens.

Also, who doesn’t love a happy ending?

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