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Our Bloody Pearl
by D.N. Bryn
I started this today and I finished it today, if that gives people any idea of how much I adored reading this. Honestly, I couldn't put it down within reading the first page and I definitely couldn't as the story went on. The story has everything you could want: some romance, some action, some tear-jerkers and angst, pirates, and sirens. Oh, and LGBT representation from 50% (if not all of them) of the main cast!
I highly recommend it for people who want a mostly fun and easy to sink into book! You'll fall in love with Perle and Dejean and their friendship/romance, just like I did. Join me, join the pod. (There's bits of gore for the tender-hearted, but none of it was too squicky and a siren has to eat somehow! The circle of life continues!)
The rest of this review contains spoilers so read on at your own risk!
I don't have enough words in my vocabulary to explain how much I love Perle and Dejean. Everything about them is just super cute in general, which sounds like such an oversimplification of their relationship. Like, they even come up with their own language just to communicate?? I cannot, I know they had to, but it was just so adorable to watch them try to communicate with each other throughout the book.
Dejean goes out of his way to make Perle feel safe and happy, perfectly willingly to let them go free if that's what they wish, but offering them sanctuary and friendship as they recover from their ordeal. Then we have Perle, our bloody pearl indeed, whose iconic line "how can I eat this monster [of yours] if they are already dead? i can't eat bones" (tons of typos, I think) entirely describes who they are as a person. Bloodthirsty, but protective and caring and lovingly calls their friends idiots. These two idiots would kill for the other -- and they have, in Perle's case. I love them. I love them so much. These two idiots want to save the world and damn it I believe in them.
I loved the storyline about Perle's tail and about Dejean's injury. I can't speak as someone who has any such disabilities to hinder them the way Dejean and Perle do now, but I loved seeing the realism and the hope from it. And the fact that while this was a plot in the story, it didn't make up the entire point of the story. There was more to them than Perle's broken tail and Dejean's immovable arm.
I don't think I have any qualms about the story, short of not understanding some of the boating terms personally. I do have two questions though: 1) Why did Dejean keep Perle? Other than the goodness of his heart, it seemed like there was a reason that Dejean and Simone were on the ship that we were never told. I'm guessing it was for the siren blockers, to steal them or break them, but I feel like that was a point in the book that I either overlooked or it didn't get mentioned. 2) I honestly thought Red was the siren who was injured and Abyss the one who wanted to help them. How did Abyss end up left behind in this case? Or did I misread the situation?
My final question has nothing to do with the book itself: Is this a standalone or a series? I'm not going to complain either way because its a fantastic standalone book, but I can see the potential for future stories. I would love to see more of Perle and Dejean, but I also think this was a lovely, happy ending for them.
It's 1am where I am and I just had to type this all out before I went to bed so forgive me for typos or weird, incomprehensible sentences. Thank you to the author for giving my tumblr (mercythompson) a review copy, I'm so grateful to have been given the chance to read this wonderful book and I hope more people flock to it soon.
I highly recommend it for people who want a mostly fun and easy to sink into book! You'll fall in love with Perle and Dejean and their friendship/romance, just like I did. Join me, join the pod. (There's bits of gore for the tender-hearted, but none of it was too squicky and a siren has to eat somehow! The circle of life continues!)
The rest of this review contains spoilers so read on at your own risk!
I don't have enough words in my vocabulary to explain how much I love Perle and Dejean. Everything about them is just super cute in general, which sounds like such an oversimplification of their relationship. Like, they even come up with their own language just to communicate?? I cannot, I know they had to, but it was just so adorable to watch them try to communicate with each other throughout the book.
Dejean goes out of his way to make Perle feel safe and happy, perfectly willingly to let them go free if that's what they wish, but offering them sanctuary and friendship as they recover from their ordeal. Then we have Perle, our bloody pearl indeed, whose iconic line "how can I eat this monster [of yours] if they are already dead? i can't eat bones" (tons of typos, I think) entirely describes who they are as a person. Bloodthirsty, but protective and caring and lovingly calls their friends idiots. These two idiots would kill for the other -- and they have, in Perle's case. I love them. I love them so much. These two idiots want to save the world and damn it I believe in them.
I loved the storyline about Perle's tail and about Dejean's injury. I can't speak as someone who has any such disabilities to hinder them the way Dejean and Perle do now, but I loved seeing the realism and the hope from it. And the fact that while this was a plot in the story, it didn't make up the entire point of the story. There was more to them than Perle's broken tail and Dejean's immovable arm.
I don't think I have any qualms about the story, short of not understanding some of the boating terms personally. I do have two questions though: 1) Why did Dejean keep Perle? Other than the goodness of his heart, it seemed like there was a reason that Dejean and Simone were on the ship that we were never told. I'm guessing it was for the siren blockers, to steal them or break them, but I feel like that was a point in the book that I either overlooked or it didn't get mentioned. 2) I honestly thought Red was the siren who was injured and Abyss the one who wanted to help them. How did Abyss end up left behind in this case? Or did I misread the situation?
My final question has nothing to do with the book itself: Is this a standalone or a series? I'm not going to complain either way because its a fantastic standalone book, but I can see the potential for future stories. I would love to see more of Perle and Dejean, but I also think this was a lovely, happy ending for them.
It's 1am where I am and I just had to type this all out before I went to bed so forgive me for typos or weird, incomprehensible sentences. Thank you to the author for giving my tumblr (mercythompson) a review copy, I'm so grateful to have been given the chance to read this wonderful book and I hope more people flock to it soon.