A review by daniireads
A Bone in His Teeth by Kellen Graves

4.0

โ€œ๐ƒ๐จ๐งโ€™๐ญ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฆ๐ž,โ€ ๐ก๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ง๐ž๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐จ ๐„๐ซ๐ข๐๐š๐ง๐ฒ๐ฌโ€™ ๐ž๐š๐ซ. โ€œ๐ˆโ€™๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ก๐š๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฒ ๐๐š๐ฒ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎโ€™๐ซ๐ž ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž.โ€ 
โ€œ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฌ๐ž?โ€ 

A Bone in His Teeth is a hauntingly beautiful story full of violence and cruelty, set in a brutal and merciless world where humans lack empathy and oppress others for their own gains.

We meet Alba, an injured and indentured sailor, who is on the run after having spent his life working towards paying off his family's ever accruing debts. With plans to meet up with his mother in her small and secretive hometown of Moon Harbor if anything ever should happen, Alba doesn't realize he's about to step out of the frying pan and into the fire.

It is there, while moonlighting as the town's newest lighthouse keeper, that Alba stumbles upon Eridanys, the last merrow of Moon Harbor, who is wanting to uncover what happened to the merrow that once filled its waters. The pair strike a deal of sorts, with their relationship deepening as they uncover the horrors of Moon Harbor.

With the odds stacked against them, Alba and Eri eventually free themselves from their pasts and the cruel grip of Moon Harbor, but not without one hell of a struggle. Their story is painful and oh so dark, but I loved every minute of it.

What to expect: 
- trans mm romance
- dark fantasy with seaside horrors
- small town full of secrets
- touch him and die, literally 
- mating ritual
- two dicks