3.5 Stars
"Let's go, Sparkleson."
"Right behind you, Wriggly."
This is fun and campy. If you're looking for an irreverent mockfest of unicorns and krakens, then you've found the right book. The jokes are rolled out regularly, and they're funny--only a few groans. I think I might have contracted diabetes just reading what Anderson ate--sugar-fueled supernatural being that he is. While it plays with the stereotypes it also deconstructs them and by association all stereotypes, thereby pointing out how ridiculous they are even if appearances are deceptive, or not.
No one is a ONE SIZE fits all. No one.
Add in some clever gender fluidity that's inherent in fishes and you have a wicked funny gender fluid hero/ine. I loved all of the snipping back and forth between Lynn and Anderson. It's the format of the book that I wasn't as thrilled with. Essentially, this is episodic with five separate incidents/dramas that weave Lynn and Anderson's lives together. It's well done, but it reads like four short stories. But... it has the most romantic and sweetest tentacle sex I've ever read!
"Once she's gone, I feel there should be some make-up role play."
Anderson heaved a long sigh. "Any excuse with you. Fine. But it's really hard to keep a straight face playing virgin sacrifice."
Overall, fun read for unicorn and kraken fans.
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