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The Kraken's Sacrifice by Katee Robert

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fartbart's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional hopeful sad fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

Good book. Enjoyed it a lot.

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melann's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional medium-paced

Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

5.0

I went into this for a fun, steamy book and I got that but so much more. This book made me emotional! I love the varied pronouns and the way heavier topics were handled so well.

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olivialandryxo's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

I was Very Nervous going into this for one reason and one reason only: tentacles. And I won’t lie—I did find the smut scenes weird for that reason, but not enough so that I didn’t enjoy the rest of the book. I did, much more than I expected to. Although there was a portion of the book where I found Thane to be rather annoying and insensitive, he grew on me significantly; I loved Catalina from the start and that never stopped. And pushing through was so, so worth it, because I got to see them become comfortable around each other, heal and build their future together. 💙

Also, in the biggest twist of the year—this book made me genuinely like Ramanu. They had much more page time here than in the first book, which annoyed me at first because I thought they were an obnoxious asshole. But seeing how they softened around Cat and were such a good friend to her… it really endeared them to me. I’m suddenly quite eager to read their book in the Peculiar Tastes series, which I’d already been thinking about but now will definitely be diving into next.

Current ranking of the series:

The Kraken’s Sacrifice
The Dragon’s Bride

Representation:

two queer protagonists, each attracted to multiple genders
nonbinary side character that uses ze/zir
nonbinary side character that uses they/them

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the_tea_collector22's review against another edition

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slow-paced

Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.25

Tbh this was not good. I really struggled to like the MMC, he basically ignored her or abandoned her for most of the book because he didn’t want to be attracted to her. And I understand a lot of his motivations were based on grief, but even still it made it super hard to like his character & root for their relationship. Neither character was good at expressing themselves emotionally, and while they do try to reconcile with that it really doesn’t happen til the last 3 chapters so it fell very flat to me.

Idk how the rest of the books in this series will go, but if the next one is just as bleh as this one I might not continue- monster fucking alone is not enough to save it. Book one was good, I miss the dragon who was obsessed with his wife.

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