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Tentacles Shifter #1
Passionate Ink
Tattoo artist Catalina Brown falls head-over-orgasms for the stranger who asks for a tentacle tattoo on his...most sensitive body part. Normally mixing business with pleasure isn't her thing, but he's a sexual magnet she's instantly drawn to, particularly after Cat experiences a wicked-hot artistic high while tattooing his every succulent inch. It all seems too good to be true. Octoposeidon shape shifter Calder Croft catches the female's succulent scent when she passes his California marina, and he can't ignore the way she fires his blood. After meeting her, he's stunned to discover Cat has no idea she's a shifter about to come into her Change. It takes all his self-control to keep from ravishing the sexy woman right on the spot. Calder has to tell Cat the truth about her heritage. She'll either accept her birthright as a shifter-or succumb to madness, forever losing their chance at love.
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First published July 20, 2012
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About the author
Jan Springer
232 books380 followersNew York Times & USA Today Best Selling Author Jan Springer writes erotic romances exclusively for Spunky Girl Publishing. Past publishers include Ellora's Cave, Totally Bound, Siren Bookstrand and Pocket Books. She lives near Minden, Ontario in Canada
Jan enjoys gardening, hiking, kayaking, reading and writing. She is a member of the Writers Union of Canada and the Romance Writers of America.
Jan enjoys gardening, hiking, kayaking, reading and writing. She is a member of the Writers Union of Canada and the Romance Writers of America.
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July 7, 2012"Tentacle tattoo on his cock"?!? "Octoposeidon shape shifter"?!? Oh, I gotta get my hands on it this! But how the f*$% do I classify an octoposeidon shape shifter on my shelves?!? LOL!
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May 9, 2012OMG... SERIOUSLY???!!! The guy WANTS a tentacle tattoo on his c*ck??!! I'm so on this book, baby... LOL!
July 22, 2012
To be completely honest, I was slightly disappointed with this book. The cover and the blurb were so great, I was highly anticipating reading it, but I feel like it fell short. The story was good, but could have been better. The heroine is a young woman who has been on her own for several years, and has a traveling tattoo business (which I found pretty cool) and the hero is a super hot guy who wants his junk tattooed with a tentacle (ouch!) There's an instant attraction on her part, he already knows she's his mate from her scent. The story line and interaction was fine, it was some of the descriptive words that just irked me I guess.... The word 'gosh' was used way too much and maybe its just the mood I was in, but I didn't like that. It was a shorter read, which normally I like but not worth the price in my opinion.
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July 22, 2012
Lots of octopus all around.
June 24, 2024
*sigh* this is so badly written. The word "cream" is used waaaay to many times (honestly, one time is too many). So much of the wording is just downright cringe I laughed out loud a few times.
The tentacle thing didn't weird me out, but the shifters torso still being human and only the arms and legs shift weirded me the fuck out! Imagine human floating torsos with tentacles for arms and legs and just fucking each other with said tentacles. No. Just no.
If you want to write octo shifters, you gotta go full octo.
Thank goodness it's only 100 pages. I will not be reading anything else from the author.
The tentacle thing didn't weird me out, but the shifters torso still being human and only the arms and legs shift weirded me the fuck out! Imagine human floating torsos with tentacles for arms and legs and just fucking each other with said tentacles. No. Just no.
If you want to write octo shifters, you gotta go full octo.
Thank goodness it's only 100 pages. I will not be reading anything else from the author.
March 27, 2026
The word creaming was said every other line so if that's your thing sure you're in for a treat. Also her response to finding her swim suit was wild why would it automatically mean drugging and kidnapping. I could also not picture the tentacles to save my soul but overall entertaining yet still disturbed.
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January 31, 2020
Penis tattoo....Octoposeidon shapeshift
You know, I give this author credit for trying. In time they might have some good stuff.
Not awful but expect more. In various ways.
You know, I give this author credit for trying. In time they might have some good stuff.
Not awful but expect more. In various ways.
April 4, 2025
Took me 3 weeks to get to the end of chapter 2. Finally, I decided to give it away. I tried. Sorry. It bombed for me.
August 28, 2012
I got just a bit excited at the thought of a octopus shifter book. All those lovely tentacles to use in all kinds of dirty mcdirty ways. I’ve read nearly every kind of shifter book and I love reading about new things. The only type I’ve refused to read is snake shifters. Just the thought gives me the willies. When I got a request for Passionate Ink I knew I needed to read it. After finishing it, I felt slightly let down. This book/novella just wasn’t what I had envisioned. First off the shifters are called Octoposeidon because they are only half octopus and the other half descended from Poseidon. This means that when they shift the arms and legs become tentacles but the upper body essentially stays the same. WHAT? That’s just weird and creepy. They only shift at night and then during the day are fully human. So when do they sleep? Even shifters need to sleep. Calder makes it a point to think several times throughout the book that while in weird half shifter half man form they eat, swim and have kinky tentacle sex. No sleepy time.
Tattoo artist Catalina has no idea she’s a Octoposeidon shifter. World famous for her tattoo skills, she travels all over in her mobile tattoo studio. I was never sold on that aspect. A mobile tattoo studio? I think if she’s that good a tattoo artist people would travel to her. I wouldn’t get a tattoo out of the back of someones mobile unit. Nope. Nada. Just no. Catalina sets up an appointment with a man who wants a huge octopus tattoo that includes a tentacle on his penis. Since she happens to have a huge tentacle fetish she jumps on the chance to take the job. There is a lot of fondling and thinking how big he is before anything actually happens between them.
Calder knows Cat his is mate and he is aware she has no clue what she is. His plan of telling her slowly is cut short when she starts shifting in what she thinks are dreams but are actually reality. Cat is understandably concerned that she is losing blocks of time but not concerned enough to actually go to the doctor or even talk to someone in any way qualified to help her. Calder seems more concerned with her sanity since some shifters go crazy when they learn their true nature and then who would he have constant sex under the sea with? Maybe they go crazy from the lack of asleep instead. I just didn’t like Cat. I didn’t find her sexy. I didn’t find her to be a strong character. I didn’t find her likable at all. Calder and Cat together was just “meh”. I wasn’t invested in them in any way.
I wanted to like this one. It’s a incredibly unique concept that could have been spectacular. The execution left a lot to be desired and I just didn’t like it.
I give Passionate Ink by Jan Springer 2.50 stars
Tattoo artist Catalina has no idea she’s a Octoposeidon shifter. World famous for her tattoo skills, she travels all over in her mobile tattoo studio. I was never sold on that aspect. A mobile tattoo studio? I think if she’s that good a tattoo artist people would travel to her. I wouldn’t get a tattoo out of the back of someones mobile unit. Nope. Nada. Just no. Catalina sets up an appointment with a man who wants a huge octopus tattoo that includes a tentacle on his penis. Since she happens to have a huge tentacle fetish she jumps on the chance to take the job. There is a lot of fondling and thinking how big he is before anything actually happens between them.
Calder knows Cat his is mate and he is aware she has no clue what she is. His plan of telling her slowly is cut short when she starts shifting in what she thinks are dreams but are actually reality. Cat is understandably concerned that she is losing blocks of time but not concerned enough to actually go to the doctor or even talk to someone in any way qualified to help her. Calder seems more concerned with her sanity since some shifters go crazy when they learn their true nature and then who would he have constant sex under the sea with? Maybe they go crazy from the lack of asleep instead. I just didn’t like Cat. I didn’t find her sexy. I didn’t find her to be a strong character. I didn’t find her likable at all. Calder and Cat together was just “meh”. I wasn’t invested in them in any way.
I wanted to like this one. It’s a incredibly unique concept that could have been spectacular. The execution left a lot to be desired and I just didn’t like it.
I give Passionate Ink by Jan Springer 2.50 stars
July 12, 2015
Oh my God, this is the lulz-iest *new word* thing I have ever freakin' read!
I was feeling bummed out tonight, so I wanted my "literary Twinkie" to take my mind off stuff. Something that would be hot, fluffy and easy to read and I went looking. *facepalm* And the facepalm was for real, y'all. I literally, physically did that, a LOT.
I'm not even going to go into the plot, read the blurb. But the lulz...oh yeah. :)
Catalina's most recurring thoughts during sex? "Wow", alternated with "Oh, wow" or even "gosh". *side-eyes you* The freaking book was filled with descriptions of "the warm cream" *facepalm* coming from her vagina. *I can't make this shit up guys*
Calder (who in his human form sounds admittedly hot) at one point thinks about how dangerous it would be for humans to discover his shifter race and how, if captured, he would take the "death pill" hidden under the skin of this thigh.
Hand to God, every word of this is true. *facepalm* But mission accomplished, I feel so much better now! :D I'm giving it 3 stars just for that.
I was feeling bummed out tonight, so I wanted my "literary Twinkie" to take my mind off stuff. Something that would be hot, fluffy and easy to read and I went looking. *facepalm* And the facepalm was for real, y'all. I literally, physically did that, a LOT.
I'm not even going to go into the plot, read the blurb. But the lulz...oh yeah. :)
Catalina's most recurring thoughts during sex? "Wow", alternated with "Oh, wow" or even "gosh". *side-eyes you* The freaking book was filled with descriptions of "the warm cream" *facepalm* coming from her vagina. *I can't make this shit up guys*
Calder (who in his human form sounds admittedly hot) at one point thinks about how dangerous it would be for humans to discover his shifter race and how, if captured, he would take the "death pill" hidden under the skin of this thigh.
Hand to God, every word of this is true. *facepalm* But mission accomplished, I feel so much better now! :D I'm giving it 3 stars just for that.
March 3, 2013
Talented sea creature tattoo artist Cat Brown is thrilled to use her skills to bring to adorn Calder Croft's body with an octopus and can't stop thinking how much she'd like to adorn her body with his. Upon meeting he knows he has just met his Octoposeidon shape shifting mate.
I don't know why I expected more of this short. It's not bad - it just misses the mark on a few levels. With such a unique shifter things could have been quite original & intriguing but it was rather insular as it was about coupling and had a minimum character roster. Many miss the opportunities that could unfold with a tattoo parlor as a focal point and this isn't really an exception. The characters are fairly good and the writing as well. After a set-up for getting them together and a rush to the finish line the middle seemed to sag a bit - except of the steamy intimate scenes.
It's like a marshmallow. If you read it you have a glimpse of something. If not you've saved your reading time for something else
I don't know why I expected more of this short. It's not bad - it just misses the mark on a few levels. With such a unique shifter things could have been quite original & intriguing but it was rather insular as it was about coupling and had a minimum character roster. Many miss the opportunities that could unfold with a tattoo parlor as a focal point and this isn't really an exception. The characters are fairly good and the writing as well. After a set-up for getting them together and a rush to the finish line the middle seemed to sag a bit - except of the steamy intimate scenes.
It's like a marshmallow. If you read it you have a glimpse of something. If not you've saved your reading time for something else
December 11, 2013
Bizarre. I thought this was a story about a female tattoo artist who falls in love. It is. However, the man she falls in love with is… an octoposeiden. A what? Oh, and she is too, but her parents didn't tell her. So…I can't recommend this one. There are interesting elements, but it does't come together and I really resent that the cover and blurb make it sound like this is a straight up erotic contemporary, when it's a erotic paranormal.
Update: it turns out that I only read half the blurb. Or some sites only have half the blurb showing. Le sigh. Big difference.
Update: it turns out that I only read half the blurb. Or some sites only have half the blurb showing. Le sigh. Big difference.
July 25, 2012
I thought I would like this more than I did. It was such an interesting premise and the characters themselves were likable enough, but something about the writing style just left me a bit cold.
July 24, 2012
strange read for me
August 20, 2012
After reading the blurb, I just had to do it. Very different, but not in a bad way. It was nice to read about a different kind of shifter!
June 5, 2015
Weird
This is a different kind of a paranormal than I am used to. To different to be enjoyable.
Squid love. Interesting....
This is a different kind of a paranormal than I am used to. To different to be enjoyable.
Squid love. Interesting....
September 25, 2012
A bit too silly to finish, and the grammar was problematic, as well.
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