Cover des Buches Marine Biology: A San Andreas Shifters Short Story Prequel (ISBN: 9781944751029)
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Rezension zu Marine Biology: A San Andreas Shifters Short Story Prequel von G. L. Carriger

Just doesn't work

von Sakuko vor 7 Jahren

Kurzmeinung: Just doesn't work. The romance is 0-mated in a day, the plot confused and barely there and the characters are flat.

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Sakukovor 7 Jahren
Alec, marine biologist and werewolf never expected to survive his transformation, but he did. Now he just tries to keep out of the way, since his dad, the packs beta, hates his guts for being gay and intellectual (he's also a smart ass, which doesn't help).
Two merpeople ask the packs help in finding some embezzling selkies and Alec, as the go to ocean-guy is tasked with helping them.

Ok, so this one did not work on any level for me.

The romance went from 0 to moving in together in a day without so much of a proper talk about anything at all.
I could deal with it being fast, if there was any indication of "something". But it's just interest and some kisses, which would be fine and suddenly they apparently plan to move in together.

I just did not get them as a pairing. As a matter of fact, I did not get any personality from Marvin besides flirty and not much from Alec either.
I didn't like Alec much in Sumage Solution and I did not like him any more here. I did not feel the story expanded on his character at all, he's still entirely obscure to me. Hell, Marvins sister Giselle showed more personality then the main characters.

Alecs alpha state and gayness where apparently common knowledge, so his big reveal felt pretty silly and doucy. Also entirely anticlimactic.
The whole story felt entirely lost and confused to me. There wasn't really much going on, the plot line felt just weird and random, even for a short story.
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