A huge thanks to reviewer Clare Rhoden for her wonderful review of Jeremy C. Shipp’s The Merry Dredgers in Aurealis Magazine, Issue 160. As Clare says about the book: “Read it.”
An audacious, clever tone infuses The Merry Dredgers with imagination and liveliness. Jeremy C Ship has the gift of arresting attention and making us care about characters who inhabit this peculiar world. Rich in smarts and originality. Read it.
Clare Rhoden, Aurealis Magazine, Issue 160
The Merry Dredgers
Seraphina Ramon will stop at nothing to find out the truth about why her sister Eff is in a coma after a very suspicious "accident." Even if it means infiltrating the last place Seraphina knows Eff was alive: a once-abandoned amusement park now populated by a community of cultists.
Follow Seraphina through the mouth of the Goblin: To the right, a wolf-themed roller coaster rests on the blackened earth, curled up like a dead snake. To the left, an animatronic Humpty Dumpty falls off a concrete castle and shatters on the ground, only to reform itself moments later. Up ahead, cultists giggle as they meditate in a hall of mirrors. This is the last place in the world Seraphina wants to be, but the best way to investigate this bizarre cult, is to join them.
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