Rating: 3.5🌈
J P Sayle’s A Sucker for Christmas is a fun, sweet addition to the Winter Holiday Tentacle collection.
A best friends to lovers story with an added twist of one of them being an octopus shifter, there’s not a lot a universe building or exploration of the octopus shifter culture here. It’s a soulmate relationship, where the shifter recognizes his mate early on in life, in this case, at the age 4, but again no real background is known other than Fitch’s parents revealing their own human/octopus courtship.
However, even without a shifter framework, this does cutely work on the misunderstandings/doubts that occur between two established best friends who are afraid to take the next step into a romance.
There’s the sister Mandy to assist with this, and the madcap events that follow.
There are many questions about the relationship, the culture, that never really get answered. But the characters are adorable and the Australian location perfect for the romance.
Christmas down under style with octopus tentacles . Very cute.
Tinsel and Tentacles (11 books)
◦ Jingle Bells and Elder Gods by Kiernan Kelly
✓ All I Want for Christmas is Tentacles by Chloe Archer ❤️🫶
◦ Tentacles and Other Stocking Stuffers by Delaney Rain
◦ Tentacles Rock by K.C. Carmine
✓ A Sucker for Christmas by J.P. Sayle
✓ Kraken Klaus by Charlotte Brice
◦ Twelve Days of Squidmas by H.L. Hiers
◦ It’s a Tenta-ful Life by Amanda Muewissen
✓ Rebel without a Claus by L Eveland
✓ Cthulhu for Christmas by Meghan Maslow ❤️🫶
◦ Tentacle Wonderland by Reese Morrison – Jan 1,2024
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A Sucker for Christmas: A Winter Holiday MM Tentacle Romance
Blurb:
An annual Christmas vacation to Australia gives two long-term friends more than they bargained for—love. But one of them has a secret that could suck in more ways than one.
Fitch found his soulmate, Shaun, when they were both four years old, but they were separated by two things, a couple of oceans and their age. Not to mention the secret Fitch has been keeping. The fact you can turn into an octopus at will isn’t the kind of thing to be sprung on anyone, especially a soul mate.
Every winter, Shaun heads down under to spend Christmas with his family. For the last twenty years, he’s spent his favorite holiday surfing and lazing around on golden beaches with his best friend, Fitch. Shaun wants more than friendship, however, but has no clue how to get the man of his dreams to see him as more than a friend. Enter Mandy, Shaun’s sister, and Christmas is all set to become an adventure with hilarious consequences.
Fitch and Shaun are about to find out how to deal with the discovery that true love comes with suckers.
A Sucker for Christmas: A Winter Holiday MM Tentacle Romance is part of the Tinsel and Tentacles multi-author collaboration and a complete standalone. Expect to find steam worthy of an Olympian swimmer and laugh out loud moments that will make your ribs ache. Want more tantalizingly tentacular winter holiday romances? Grab the whole series!
• Publisher: (December 4, 2023)
• Publication date: December 4, 2023
• Print length: 222 pages
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