#Emma Hamm

[neonstardustart]

Two commissions for Emma Hamm's Deep Waters series! These are my favorite books, so I was super excited to create some illustrations for Emma. Highly recommend if you're a lover of mermen and Bioshock!

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✨ BOOK REVIEW ✨

Whispers of the Deep by Emma Hamm 🧜‍♂️

Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟

Spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️

Synopsis: One of the many engineers that keeps Beta, the city under the sea, running, Mira only wants to make her family proud and to prove herself worthy. She knows the mysterious city better than anyone and it’s her dream to help it flourish.

But then, on a solo job in an abandoned section of the city, she encounters a monster of legend. An undine. A dangerous merman from an ancient civilization, long forgotten.

Arges has fought his entire life for his people. With deadly creatures under his control, he plans to eradicate Beta once and for all to protect his kind and their peaceful way of life. But when a human woman saves him, she unknowingly creates a bond between them, one he can’t ignore. Even though her flaming red hair haunts his dreams, he needs her for information on the undine’s enemies.

So he steals her. Keeps her. Feeds her. Only to realize their bond is far deeper than captor and captive. He cannot let her go—but he cannot keep her under the sea. In a battle to determine if love can survive a war beneath the waves, it will be their decision that changes the tides.

Review: Human x Merman???? SIGN ME UP! 🌟 This book had me by the throat! This romance was top-tier!

The “I want to hate you, but I can’t have you” pining was everything to me! Also, the trope of “being unable to communicate/learning to communicate with each other” is like a drug to me. Something about them both just spewing their guts out to each other, thinking that the other can’t understand them just gets me! I was eating it up! Also a man in charge that would kill for you? Sign me up. The humor was also amazingly unexpected in this book, and so many times, I was laughing out loud. 💕

Before diving into this book, I saw some criticism about realism and plothole issues. I was wondering how it would pan out since the story would be taking place underwater, and there would be some nasty time with a merman, but whether the book was realistic or not did not affect my reading. I was having a great ol’ time, regardless.

Do you think I’m wondering how her breathing device is working underwater when she’s doing the nasty with the fishman? ❌ NO! I’m thinking about the nasty and where her leg is! Do you think I noticed that plothole I just read over? ❌ Noooooo! I was focused on the fact that they’re holding hands! I honestly don’t think issues with realism and/or plotholes are going to take away from your experience reading this book. I was here for a good time, not a scholarly time.

Ugh! …. Just pick up this book for a good fun time! 📖

[c-chai]

I saw merman and downloaded it so quick and I am loving it | available on Kindle unlimited

[ghostedgrim]

So I have read Whispers of the Deep my Emma Hamm, and am planning to read Songs of the Abyss, and then Echoes of the Tide when it comes out.

1) I F**KING adore this series!!

2) Please, I'll sell my soul if needs. Please write a wlw fem human × fem undyne! Buff, scary mermaid lady! Please! It can be a main book in the series or a spin-off but please, as a bisexual woman myself please do a wlw book in the Whispers of the Deep universe

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Rating: 5/5

Book Blurb:

When a demon thinks he has everything, one women will prove that he is wrong...

Envy has stolen every single power in his kingdom. Through magic, he devours all those with magic, stealing it for himself. But the one power he has never managed to steal is the one that can see his future. So when an oracle appears in his kingdom, he knows he has to steal her for himself.

Lilith has grown up in a circus. Traveling throughout all of the kingdoms, she has seen much and predicted even more prophecies than ever before. Until a certain demon king waltzes into one of her performances, and all she can see is darkness in his future. There is no future in him, just as she cannot see a future in herself.

Stealing her is easy. But keeping her alive? That's much harder.

The Demon King will stop at nothing to keep her for himself. When he cannot bring himself to steal her power, he decides that she will be his and his alone. But her old master has other plans. An insidious plot runs throughout the kingdom. Not just to overthrow the demon king, but to remove the threat from its source. Her.

He has more magic at his fingertips than any other creature to ever exist. And Envy will use every single spell he knows to keep her safe.

Book 4 in the Seven Deadly Demons series disappears underground into the depths of Envy's kingdom....

Review:

He's the demon King known as Envy and he'll do anything to get what he wants especially when it comes to stealing more magic for himself... so when he discovers a powerful oracle with the power to see the future, an ability he has yet to steal... he plans on stealing her for himself... little does he realize that she might have stolen his heart as well. Envy is one of the Seven Deadly Demons, having stolen every single power in his kingdom and collecting and devouring more magic for himself. The one power he has yet to obtain however is the ability to see his future... and oracles are a rarity... yet when he gets news that an oracle has appeared in his kingdom he'll do anything to steal her powers. However when he finds her being mistreated and abused... he suddenly wants to protect her and keep her all for himself... and the more he wants her the more he doesn't even seem to consider taking her powers but keeping her all for himself. Yet the circus he's stolen her from is determined to get her back... even if it means hunting her down and killing her. Envy will have to see if he has the ability to save her while also discovering that despite stealing her for himself, she's the one who has stolen his heart. This is the fourth book in a series, though you can read it as a standalone. Oh how I absolutely devoured this book. I've been a huge fan of Emma Hamm's writing and this series has been such a fun one to read. Envy and Lilith were a great couple. I loved how Envy fell so hard for Lilith without even realizing it himself and I loved that Lilith had her own strength and wouldn't let anyone control her fate. The romance was really well done in this and the story was such a fun one. The world itself is a really interesting one and the magic is unique. Overall, I would absolutely recommend this series and book to any fantasy romance lovers out there!

Release Date: July 26,2024

Publication/Blog: Ash and Books (ash-and-books.tumblr.com)

*Thanks Emma Hamm for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review*

[fangirlforthewin]

Hi I saw your fairytale retelling recommendation list and I wanted to ask if you have recommendations for beauty and the beast retellings in particular? Thank you in advance!

Thank you for the ask! I saw your other ask clarifying that you were specifically looking for Fae Beauty and the Beast retellings. I do have a couple that I've read that I can suggest.

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas

Curse of the Wolf King by Tessonja Odette

A Deal with the Elf King by Elise Kova

Heart of the Fae by Emma Hamm

An Enchantment of Thorns by Helena Rookwood

I know you weren't asking about nonFae Beauty and the Beast retellings, but here are a couple suggestions anyway because I like them a lot:

Hunted by Meagan Spooner

A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer

I hope you find a good read or two out of these suggestions! Let me know!

Also if anyone has any other suggestions, feel free to reblog and add!

[bookishlyvintage]

These Bitter Blooms, Emma Hamm

[friend-of-the-elves]

A light/shadow study, with Lorelei from Emma Hamm’s Dragon of Umbra series! (I still haven’t found the time to read the book, but the covers are very pretty!!)

[hodunkpodunk]

Chat with Arges from Emma Hamm's Deep Waters series

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This special edition of The Lovely Dark Anthology is just stunning 😍

(Originally posted on my instagram)

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Favorite books of 2024 2/?

[trendfilmsetter]

Variety Magazine’s ACTORS ON ACTORS Season 20 list has just been released!

• Jon Hamm & Kristen Wiig

• Brie Larson & Andrew Scott

• Anna Sawai & Tom Hiddleston

• Naomi Watts & Jonathan Bailey

• Joey King & Taylor Zakhar Perez

• Jodie Foster & Robert Downey Jr

• Chloë Sevigny & Kim Kardashian

• Elizabeth Debicki & Emma Corrin

• Leo Woodall & Nicholas Galitzine

• Quinta Brunson & Jennifer Aniston

• Hannah Einbinder & Chloe Fineman

• Tyler James Williams & Anthony Mackie

[newfashionlove]

Covers dedicated to the "Actors on Actors" editions of Variety have appeared online

Elizabeth Debicki and Emma Corrin

💋Robert Downey Jr. and Jodie Foster

💋Jennifer Aniston and Quinta Brunson

Kristen Wiig and Jon Hamm

💋Kim Kardashian and Chloe Sevigny

💋Joey King and Taylor Zahar Perez

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