Reviewed by Becca
TITLE: Hot Nights, Wet Dreams
SERIES: Blue Pearls #1
AUTHOR: Susan Laine
PUBLISHER: Siren Publishing
LENGTH: 65 pages
RELEASE DATE: March 22, 2017
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Even at college in San Diego, Chauncey “Chuckles” Sawyer is able to laugh off just about anything. Except when his best friend, Ryan Norton, has sex dreams about him. Awake, Ryan can’t remember doing so. Should Sawyer speak out or remain silent?
Then, Sawyer learns that Ryan is a merman, a supernatural ocean creature. And Sawyer is supposed to be his mate—though he’s not gay or even bisexual like Ryan.
To be with his straight mate, Ryan has sacrificed his happiness to be just a friend to Sawyer. It’s up to Sawyer to test the waters and see if they could be more.
But what happens when Sawyer gets a chance to decide the matter of the mating bond, once and for all, for both of them? And what is the second dangerous secret Ryan is keeping in store for the future?
One thing is certain, though. Their friendship will never be the same.
REVIEW:
This was a cute friends-to-lovers. Every relationship has its catches though, don’t they? Especially when one is straight and the other has a big secret.
Sawyer and Ryan have been best friends since they were kids. All through school and now college. They even plan to find work together and never be apart from each other. But Sawyer overheard a dream Ryan was having and things have begun to change. Sawyer finds out Ryan is dreaming of him and to get a break away, they go swimming. Sawyer discovers Ryan’s eyes change colors and apparently he does more than that. Sawyer’s life has just turned upside down. He finds out his best friend is a merman and that he is also Ryan’s mate. But Sawyer is straight. So they have to figure this out and still be friends at least or will all this ruin everything they have? Especially when Sawyer finds out Ryan is hiding something worse.
It’s a clusterfuck for both of these boys. No lie. Ryan has been distraught knowing his family is being slowly killed away. The ocean’s pollutants are making things extinct. He’s afraid he has no family left. Plus trying to hide his origin from his best friend all these years and that fact that they are mates. It’s a lot bearing down on him. And Sawyer is clueless about almost all of it. He’s human so he doesn’t get it. Plus he’s straight. All he knows is he’d be lost without his best friend with him by his side. But with so much changing the dynamics of their relationship, they have to find out how they mesh together. If at all. Lots of tough choices to make.
It was a cute little book. I think you guys would enjoy it. Nothing like a pretty merman.
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