Another action-packed, steam-filled romp from Katee Robert. Good world-building with interesting characters and page-turner plot lines. I could've done with a bit less battle scenes, but that's just my taste, as they were well written.

Another wonderful romantasy by Katee Robert. Loved the characters and the continuation of the plot from book 1 was a delight.

Mood Readers: Blood on the Tide is part of a series, but can be read alone. It would be great for someone interested in an adventure of strong women with a side of romance. There’s a strong backstory but it doesn’t take away from the importance of Lizzie and Maeve’s story.

How did the book make you feel? I was kept well entertained throughout the book.

What can readers expect? I think that Katee Robert is known to be an inclusive author, which I love. I know that when I read her fantasies that I will discover more than the relationships of vampires, witches, and selkies. There will also be varying gender identities, and romantic preferences. I appreciate that so much in her stories, because it’s opening the reader very realistic people in a fantasy scope.

I also expect a loooooot of hot s3x. Let’s be real about that. My first and favorite read by Katee Robert was Neon Gods. I think that she’s made her mark on the “romantasy” genre. Blood on the Tide tells of two women who are pretty much polar opposites, and yet they find each other irresistible. It starts out as an opposites attract situation, until they grow into love and realize they’re not quite so different after all.

Would you be friends with the main characters IRL?
I would love to be friends with Maeve. I’d prefer to also be selkie and able to rip through the ocean as a seal whenever I please. Lizzie is a little too scary for me, although I wouldn’t mind being bitten by her. *wink*

Do you recommend Blood on the Tide?
Absolutely! There is a rebellion, fights at sea, paranormal creature, pirates, and a spicy romance. This book packs several elements that romantasy readers need. It is the first I read in this series, and I didn’t feel lost at all.

This author is my favorite of all time. I had no doubt in my mind I would love this book. The story line was amazing! Definitely recommend to everyone that comes in.

We are back in Threshold, although this time we are following Evelyn's ex-girlfriend, bloodline vampire, Lizzie on her quest to find the jewels Evelyn stole from her. Things are never as they seem in Thrteshold though and obstacle keep getting in the way of Lizzie's goal, including a gorgeos selkie named Maeve who needs her help. Another fun romp around and a solid introduction to the characters of the next book, which I cannot wait to read!

Thank you to netgalley and the publishers for providing me with an arc for an honest review!

Thank you to NetGalley and Penguin Random House for providing me with a digital arc of this book!

Blood on the Tide is the second book in Katee Robert's swashbuckling fantasy romance series, and it follows bloodline vampire, Lizzie, and selkie, Maeve. Readers see Lizzie as a secondary character in the first book, Hunt on Dark Water, and in another series by Robert, Court of the Vampire Queen. The story starts off with Lizzie reluctantly working with the rebellion to take down the Cwn Annwn, biding her time until she can return her family's stolen jewels. Together, she teams up with Maeve, a selkie who has had her skin stolen. Along the way, the two grow closer and closer as their goals seem to shift.

I don't really have any strong opinions about this book. I generally like Katee Robert's works because they are enjoyable and easy to read. It's nothing groundbreaking, but it is a fun palate cleanser. In this book, I enjoyed learning more about the other types of creatures in this world, like selkies and shapeshifters. I also enjoyed getting to see Lizzie have a bit of a soft spot.

I feel this book needs to be longer. The relationship between Lizzie and Maeve wasn't drawn out enough to make the strangers to reluctant allies to lovers arc feel earned. I also didn't see much about the war or others involved in it. Just when I felt the book was starting to get good, it ended. This book could have done well with another 100 pages, giving the events more time to breathe and teaching the readers more about the world as a whole. Overall, this story doesn't stand out to me very much; it was rather forgettable. 3/5

This isn’t my first Katee Robert book, but I daresay it’s my favorite so far.

In the second installment of the Crimson Sails series, all bloodline vampire Lizzie wants is to reclaim heirloom jewels and grab a portal home. Unfortunately, her allies have bigger problems to deal with, and she’s not having much luck. After saving a captured selkie, Lizzies problems seem to be solved. She’ll have a guide through the Threshold to retrieve her stolen goods, and she’ll help retrieve the selkie’s stolen pelt.

Selkie Maeve is hesitant to form a partnership with the terrifying yet intriguing vampire. She just needs to get her pelt back and help Lizzie find her jewels, but she finds it difficult to resist Lizzie’s allure and her pleasurable bite. Their growing attachment isn’t the only thing to worry about. When they find the jewels, they’ll face a vicious foe who isn’t ready to let go of anything, and they’ll have to risk everything to retrieve them.

This book was so much fun. Honestly, I was sold at sapphic vampires and selkies, but the adventure was just as fun as the spicy romance. There were plenty of side characters contributing to bith the action and the, well, character of the book. I loved the hesitant romance between Lizzie and Maeve as well as their trials and tribulations once they gave into temptation and began to grow closer.

*Thank you to NetGalley and the Publisher for providing me with an ARC of this title. All thoughts and opinions are my own and were in no way influenced by receiving this copy.

I genuinely have no idea how to rate this. It's a solid 3.5 but I think I need to round down. I just don't love the "Evelyn, She/Her" introduction, it feels like forced activism. And the fact that Evelyn is the ONLY character to introduce herself this way just feels off. Like if you're going to commit to the bit, commit to the damn bit.

And I hate that there are never any consequences for what these people do. Sure Maeve got hurt twice, but she wakes up totally fine after just a few days. Lizzie can take out an entire ship of people without even thinking about it, but then struggles to take out a sea horse? Like that feels unrealistic. And Maeve's inner monologue "it could be weeks before we find the man that stole my pelt, he could be anywhere. And even when we do find him who's to say he hasn't sold it already" and then literally the next paragraph he is showing up to her in a diner, they find the ship in the NEXT chapter, kill him, and the pelt in still on board. Like what a boring plot.

Also you can't say this book is for anyone who wished there were more girl pirates that kissed each other in Pirates of the Caribbean, when all the parts of them being actual pirates on ships doing sailing and stuff is ONLY focused on them having sex, and not on them actually sailing, like those parts were intentionally skipped over! How freaking lame.

Thank you to NetGalley and Berkley for the ARC of this title.

I am a big Katee Robert fan, but for me personally, this series isn't quite hitting for me how I want it to. I fear that I'll forget about this book when it comes to review my year in reading, which makes me sad because it has so much I should love!

What I loved: morality chain, vampires, selkies, portal fantasy (all things I think we don't see enough in fantasy romance, so if nothing else I am so grateful that Katee is able to play in the genre like this and add some variety) and a sapphic relationship with caretaking scenes for both characters!

This series struggles with pacing. There's so much action and therefore the relationship development feels very fast. That's usual for Katee's books - they are definitely more steam forward then feelings conversations happen afterward which is fine for me. The issue here is that I both felt that this book was paced too fast and I was a bit bored at times.

I know some people felt that the world-building was lacking in the first entry in this series and I think that this book rectifies that because there's a lot of development of the political / revolutionary machinations going on in the realm.

Katee Robert is my favorite hot-and-spicy romance palette cleanser - she delivers fun, well-thought through stories that both plot heavy AND spice heavy. I enjoy the dark fantasy aspect to her books and this was a fantastic follow-up to Dark Tide. I love the witch - pirate aspect and jumping between worlds through mirrors, etc. Katee Robert is an auto-read author for me and if you love her Wicked Villains series and greek mythology retellings in the Neon Gods series, then you'll love this as well.

Thank you to Netgalley for this eARC in exchange for my honest review.

thank you to netgalley, the publisher, and to katee robert for the advanced reader copy of "blood on the tide". katee robert has become an auto-read author for me, especially after how much i enjoyed her raved about book "neon goods". not to mention, this one is about vampires AND has a mermaid-esque cover, so you know i had to get my hands on an ARC for this one too. i thought the selkie x vampire pairing was such an interesting choice because i feel like that is not something you see portrayed often in books, or any media in general, for that matter. the grumpy x sunshine dynamic that was present between lizzie and maeve was SO fun to read about.

This was too fun! Katee Roberts flipped the script with vampires and pirates in a sapphic romance? A total must read.

Katee Robert does it again. I love that the sequel is the same pace as the first book. Quick and spicy. Just how I like.

Katee Robert can do no wrong and I loved the second book in her Crimson Sails Series. She said Sapphic Vampires Pirates with a grumpy sunshine trope and I said say less.

I did need to borrow the first book from the library and skim through it because it had been a while and this book had more plot than what I normally expect from Mrs Roberts... But I thoroughly enjoyed it all and will be on the lookout for her next book.

Thank you to NetGalley and Berkley Publishing Group for providing me with the ARC in exchange for an honest review

I recieved an advance copy in exchange for an honest review.

Sorry to the first couple in this series but I would follow Lizzie the vampire and Maeve the selkie off a cliff, what a couple of badasses. Lizzie fell into the world of the Cŵn Annwn in the first book while chasing Evelyn, and she fascinated me then. Here, she gets what she deserves: a sunshine selkie whose skin has been stolen to Lizzie's grumpy self. The two of them have to find Maeve's skin and then relocate and re-acquire Lizzie's stolen famiy jewels, conceivably so Lizzie can return home without getting murdered. But instead, there's pirates, hot sapphic scenes, and a grump of a vampire becoming a total simp for a selkie. This was fantastic and I had so much fun.

I fell in love with the Lizzie character from the first book in this series, Hunt on Dark Waters, and was so intrigued to see how her story was going to go. I was certainly not dissapointed. It was entertaining and tender and with Maeve's character, we got to see a different side to Threshold that I really loved seeing. The way Lizzie warmed up to Maeve and slowly grew to care and love her was perfection!

I’m a big fan of everything Katee does and I’m especially loving her foray into the romantasy realm of pirates. I loved Lizzie’s story and going on this adventure with her. Grumpy sunshine is one of my favorite tropes and it was executed well here.

Thank you Berkeley for the ARC of this book in exchange for an honest and fair review!

Thanks to NetGalley and Berkley Publishing for an advanced readers copy of this book.

I was excited for book 2 of the Crimson Sails series after reading Hunt on Dark Waters earlier this year. Unfortunately though, this one fell a little flat for me.

I can appreciate a good, Sapphic romance, and this one had its moments, but I felt that the dynamic between Lizzie and Maeve was... off. Maybe Lizzie was too broody, or maybe Maeve was too passive... I can't put my finger on it. (Pun intended 😉) Maybe I was still too emotionally attached to Bowen and Evelyn from book 1.

Overall, I felt that it was missing the *spice* and banter that we've come to love and expect from Katee Robert. Don't get me wrong, the spice that was there was pretty steamy, but it just wasn't what I was expecting.

Definitely glad to have read it, disappointed that it didn't grip me like I had hoped it would.

📚Trope(s): Unlikely Allies/Lovers, Grumpy/Sunshine, Touch Her and Die / Protective
What you get: 🌊⚓️💰🍑💦
⭐️Plot: 2.5/5
🔥Chemistry: 4/5
🌶️Spice: 3.5/5

I would recommend that readers pick up the first book in the series, HUNT ON DARK WATERS before they pick this one up. I was so intrigued by the idea of a sapphic romance featuring pirates, vampires and sirens - i haven’t read anything like it and if anyone can think outside of the box like this, it’s Katee Robert. I would’ve liked to see a little bit more relationship buildup between Maeve and Lizzie - it seemed to go from angst to lust to love pretty quickly and made the pacing of the story seemed off. Overall, this was a fun one from Katee Robert - can’t wait for what’s next!

3.5 stars rounded up

What happens when a kind selkie and an ice queen vampire head off on a hunt for something each has lost- you get book two of Katee’s pirate series! I will admit this moved a bit slowly for me and I missed some of the characters as the story narrowed to Maeve and Lizzie, but it still was a lot of sexy fun on the high seas. Their love story is incredible .I’m invested in our rebels and have to end with this question- when are we getting Nox’s book!!!
**Thank you Netgalley for the advanced copy of this book.**