A Merry Christmas for Art... and His Tentacles (Tinsel and Tentacles 2.0) by Amy Bellows & Shannon Mae
To kick off Season two of Tinsel and Tentacles we have A Merry Christmas for Art... and His Tentacles. This is a low angst high heat and humor holiday read from Amy Bellows & Shannon Mae .
From the blurb:
When cryptids came out as living among us, there was definitely a settling in period, but now having a loch ness monster as your neighbor and a bigfoot as your security guard at work is just par for the course. Luckily for me, I happen to work with the sweetest, sexiest cephalopod in the entire building. Unfortunately for him, his people skills aren’t the greatest. When our harpy boss demands that I teach him how to interact with people, I’m only too happy to take up the job. I can teach him all about the human holiday of Christmas while giving him important people skills. If our lessons happen to look like dates, well… I won’t complain. And maybe I’ll get those sexy tentacles wrapped around me before too long.
Art
It’s embarrassing that my boss assigned someone to teach me people skills. It’s also hopeless. If learning how to interact with human beings was something I could learn in a class, I would have done so by now. I’m an excellent student. But hanging out with Dean Miller isn’t so bad, even if my tentacles have a mind of their own and won’t stop touching him. He doesn’t mind my awkwardness the way other people do, and he doesn’t mind my tentacles either. His easy acceptance makes me want things that I’m not used to wanting. I wonder what he would do if I asked for more than people lessons?
Get ready for roaming tentacles, a shy cephalopod who’s never been kissed, and the human who is all too ready to help him with… everything. There’s ice skating, hot chocolate, holiday bazaars, tree decorating, baking, and of course a happily ever after for everyone (except for their rude boss).
A Merry Christmas for Art... and His Tentacles is part of the multi-author winter holiday M/M tentacle romance collaboration, Tinsel and Tentacles 2.0. All books are standalones but may be connected to some authors’ pre-existing worlds. Each book in the series brings festive fun related to a variety of winter holidays and explores the many delightful ways tentacles can be naughty and nice!
Molly Otto's review:
Now, this was just a fun co-write from Amy & Shannon. You feel both of their personalities in the writing and just can't help but smile. Art & Dean just get each other and embrace each other's uniqueness. Mix in with Dean showing all the joy that is the holiday season to Arts analytical mind just pure joy. The heat between the characters is next level with the fun of tentacles in play. All you can really say their intimate times are fire. What a great addition to the tentacle Christmas series.
This is the first book I've read in the second season of the multi-author Tinsel and Tentacles series. It's a short, sweet, low stakes read, and I'm so happy I picked this story to kick of my holiday reading.
Art is a cephalopod shifter who can be quite awkward when interacting with others socially (think Sheldon from Big Bang Theory). He's very smart, which makes him a bit too literal, and that sometimes rubs people the wrong way. But he has the biggest heart and the best intentions. Dean is his human co-worker and the two have secret crushes on each other. So when Dean is tasked with coaching Art on appropriate social interactions, he decides this is his chance to see if there is more cooking between them in the lab than his supposed one-sided crush.
I enjoyed the premise of the story and the worldbuilding. There is so much attention to detail in crafting the world and lives of cephalopod shifters, it felt like they could actually be real. I loved seeing sweet Art come out of his shell and realize that there never was anything "wrong" with him and plenty of people, especially Dean, wanted to get to know him better. Lady Karma comes into play helping Art get some well-deserved justice, and the ending to the story was very satisfying.
This was a low angst, sweet and steamy (what those tentacles do!) romance between a human and a cephalopod shifter taking the time and care to learn about each other's cultures. I loved everything about this story, the worldbuilding, and the characters. After reading this story, I'm ready to start my winter holiday season reading. It was the perfect palate cleanser after a couple months of spooky reads.
A Merry Christmas for Art... and His Tentacles is currently available as an e-book and paperback and can be read as part of your Kindle Unlimited Subscription
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