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Monday, September 14, 2020

Book Review- The Merman's Kiss (Mates for Monsters #1) by Tamsin Ley

The Merman's Kiss (Mates for Monsters #1)
by Tamsin Ley
Published January 27th 2017 by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 
How I got it: Purchased

Even Monsters Need a Mate

After the death of her child, Brianna seeks to end her life within the ocean’s final embrace. Instead, she falls into the arms of a sexy, sleek-tailed monster. He’s wild, seductive, and sets her blood on fire every time he touches her, and soon she begins to need him for more than his magic to breathe underwater. He might just give her a new reason to live.
Zantu has evaded the mate-bond for thirty-five years, dodging promiscuous mermaids with vile intents. Unlike mermaids, mermen bond for life, and Zantu refuses to accept the heartbreak most mermen die of. That is, until the glint of gold catches his eye, and a simple salvage mission turns to passion. Now he’s bonded to a human and begins to wonder if bonding to the right mate might not be so bad. The problem? A finless female won’t live long among the dangers of the sea.
Now Zantu must choose between keeping her at his side and keeping her safe. Either way, he’s sure he’ll end up with a broken heart.

Content Warning: Explicit love scenes, dangerous mermaids, and sexy merman secrets. Guaranteed HEA with no cliffhangers. Intended for mature audiences.

Review: I had mixed feelings about this book. Brianna is depressed, majorly, and in an unsupportive relationship to say the least. She decides that the only way out is suicide, by throwing herself into the ocean with weights tied around her. She is then found by Zantu who comes to, basically scavenge her body. Let's just say he gets way more than he bargained for.
The situation was weird, but ok we'll roll with it. I've read stranger. (Trust me.) My big problem with the book was how Brianna acted, so the whole reason she was killing herself was due to a promise she made her father that she would up and leave her husband like her mother had him. So by disappearing into the deep with Zantu isn't she breaking this promise anyway, I mean her logic seemed flawed.
There were aspects I did like, for example, the crazy mermaids and Ms. Ley's take on the merman anatomy. Oh and the boiling hot sex. The plot was ok, but I just had these nagging issues.
In the end it was a nice diversion, a steamy short with a decent HEA.



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