The Kraken's Sacrifice

2,5 stars (compared to the first one)

I've read this book in one sit (and it's short as well).

I have a confession to make: this is maybe my nº00 recent guilty pleasure: monsters romance. This is really something just to make myself as far away from reality as possible.

But, despite my super into love-monsters-relationships-phase, this book was lacking. The themes approached by the author still slide to the heavy side of all human issues (such as parent neglect, death of a loved one, self-harm, abortion, personal traumas, and the list continues), it wasn't as well treated as it was in the first book. That sense of “things will work quite well” that lasted after I finished Sol and Brier's book, didn't linger in this one. It felt like they were both running away from their problems, but instead of being alone and lonely, they would be together. They aren't wrong, in a way, but something was missing.

Also, the first sex scene was a bit out of nowhere, as if she needed to insert that kind of explicit moment asap, otherwise, she would lose her audience (and I'm sure it was already engaging enough to stand a feel more pages until the “main scene” on the island).

As a hentai tentacle thingy, it serves well.

Those covers are STUNNING, you have to agree with me (the one with Ramanu hits quite in the right way. They are another character that changed from oil to water from one book to another that I'm not quite sure yet if I'm used to this new version).