The Kraken’s Sacrifice, Katee Robert

GoodReads Rating: 3.44 ⭐️

My Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Spice: 🔥🔥🔥🔥 (per Romance.io)

On Kindle Unlimited?: Yes

Kindle E-book: $4.99

Audiobook: $5.95

Paperback: $10.99

Length: 176 pages

Catalina makes her deal with a demon out of desperation. With no where to go and no one to miss her, she doesn’t see a reason to *not* go to the magical realm to serve a demon for seven years. Her personal issue and too much personality be damned, once the seven years are up, she’ll return to the human realm richer than she’s ever been and be able to do whatever she wants.

Thane doesn’t want a human bride. Or the potential child she could sire him. He made up his mind years ago to abdicate the throne in favor of his younger sibling. But, since that hasn’t happened yet, he has to take a bride to be on equal standing with the other territory leaders. Whatever kind of human he was expecting, he never could have predicted Catalina, who annoys him as much as she excites him.

But there are hurts dark and deep as the waters of Thane’s territory surrounding both of their hearts. Will Thane and Catalina be able to open up to each other, or will this contract be made null and void before more damage can be done?

The Kraken’s Sacrifice is the second entry in the A Deal With A Demon series. And like its predecessor, The Dragon’s Bride (⭐️⭐️⭐️), I find the length to be detrimental to the storytelling. Though there is character growth, for both characters, I was vacillating between loving and hating both of them. Their motivations were understandable: Thane is a widower, still mourning the loss of his husband five years prior, and Catalina is a victim of neglect bordering abuse with attachment issues. And the way they both nearly immediately fell into bed together made sense; neither of them are in the correct headspace to make healthy relationship choices.

At the same time, Robert hit us over and over again with doubt as to whether-or-not the relationship would work. Yet, the sex they quickly get to turns out to be the catalyst for several difficult conversations and a beginning of a change in thought and action. Kind of like a more tentacle smut version of the wolf attack in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast.

Speaking of tentacle smut: Thane is a kraken. Tentacle smut features heavily in this book. Catalina gets more tentacle than cock in most of the sex scenes, and even when Thane finally goes for penile penetration, the tentacles still feature heavily.

If you think you’d enjoy The Kraken’s Sacrifice, I’d recommend reading The Dragon’s Bride first. Though the couples are brought together through similar means, Thane and Catalina are a more at-odds couple than Briar Rose and Sol. So you while you will need the latter book for the general setting and basic understanding of what is going on and why, this is not turning out to be a series where the couples are the same story with a different coat of paint applied.

Additionally, I’d caution reading this book if you are uncomfortable with themes of unplanned pregnancy and abortion. Both play a role in later parts of this story.

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