Personal Enjoyment: 6/6 Writing Quality: 6/6 Final Rating: 5⭐️

It takes a lot of work for me to read a romance and enjoy it. It takes even more work for me to giggle and kick my feet like a lovesick teenager. This absolutely adorable manga has achieved both not once, but TWICE.

This is one of the most healthy and realistic yuri I’ve ever read. The characters feel like real people. They embody their insecurities so effectively and really capture what it is like to be a teenager navigating crushes, cliques, and jealousy. Even the side characters have an immense amount of personality and motivation. This book is funny, realistic, adorable, and completely worth the read.

this is an honest ARC review. eARC courtesy of the author via BookSirens.

shifter pirates. a selkie. reverse harem. this honestly sounds like the perfect setup. i love a pirate story and i can’t resist a why choose. the concept was excellent but unfortunately execution was lacking.

our characters are likeable and reasonably well-rounded. the world-building was confusing. this feels very much like a first attempt at a novel, it really could have used another pass through editing as it feels unpolished. it seems a bit like it’s trying to do too much.

ignoring the previously discussed flaws, i enjoyed the story. the romance burned very slow until things heated up. when we finally get to the spicy stuff there writing is excellent.

i will probably give the next book a shot only bc of the promise that the series gets progressively spicier. and we ended on a cliffhanger.