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Six Stingers Stinging
When you just happen to be a jellyfish shifter, things can get a little, well, tingly whenever you touch the wrong person too much. Talk about a dating faux-pas. Leaving your partner with itchiness, burning, and reddish purple welts all over sensitive areas tended to result in being ghosted. A state that was no fun at all and even a bit depressing when you happened to be a social creature, like me.
The only good thing to come from trolling a bar for a bit of competition on the pool table and maybe even someone to share a few drinks with, was meeting the coolest pair of sea turtles this side of one of my favorite animated movies. Seriously laid back and chill, they offer to show me around the area and help make my transition from island hopper to island resident complete.
At least my new sea turtle buddies are immune to my venom and interested in being more than just friends with benefits. Merry flippin' Christmas to me on that point, there might be a bit of tinsel and bows in my future after all.
Six Stingers Stinging is a paranormal MMM holiday rom-com i in the Tinsel and Tentacles 3.0 series, featuring an intersex jellyfish shifter, island living, a unique holiday celebration, and marine shifters of several different varieties.
The only good thing to come from trolling a bar for a bit of competition on the pool table and maybe even someone to share a few drinks with, was meeting the coolest pair of sea turtles this side of one of my favorite animated movies. Seriously laid back and chill, they offer to show me around the area and help make my transition from island hopper to island resident complete.
At least my new sea turtle buddies are immune to my venom and interested in being more than just friends with benefits. Merry flippin' Christmas to me on that point, there might be a bit of tinsel and bows in my future after all.
Six Stingers Stinging is a paranormal MMM holiday rom-com i in the Tinsel and Tentacles 3.0 series, featuring an intersex jellyfish shifter, island living, a unique holiday celebration, and marine shifters of several different varieties.
176 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 17, 2025
About the author
Layla Dorine
121 books217 followersLAYLA DORINE lives among the sprawling prairies of Midwestern America, in a house with more cats than people. She loves hiking, fishing, swimming, martial arts, camping out, photography, cooking, and dabbling with several artistic mediums. In addition, she loves to travel and visit museums, historic, and haunted places.
Layla got hooked on writing as a child, starting with poetry and then branching out, and she hasn’t stopped writing since. Hard times, troubled times, the lives of her characters are never easy, but then what life is? The story is in the struggle, the journey, the triumphs and the falls. She writes about artists, musicians, loners, drifters, dreamers, hippies, bikers, truckers, hunters and all the other folks that she’s met and fallen in love with over the years. Sometimes she writes urban romance and sometimes its aliens crash landing near a roadside bar. When she isn’t writing, or wandering somewhere outdoors, she can often be found curled up with a good book and a kitty on her lap.
Layla got hooked on writing as a child, starting with poetry and then branching out, and she hasn’t stopped writing since. Hard times, troubled times, the lives of her characters are never easy, but then what life is? The story is in the struggle, the journey, the triumphs and the falls. She writes about artists, musicians, loners, drifters, dreamers, hippies, bikers, truckers, hunters and all the other folks that she’s met and fallen in love with over the years. Sometimes she writes urban romance and sometimes its aliens crash landing near a roadside bar. When she isn’t writing, or wandering somewhere outdoors, she can often be found curled up with a good book and a kitty on her lap.
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November 10, 2025
Always appreciate an author who can have an established couple easily welcome a third to complete their group. These three have that beautiful island chill to an art form, they all just go with the flow and allow life to lay as it may lie. With a brillant cast of side characters that have you howling and asking how do these people get anything done? oh wait island life the community of these people is a truly magical thing to witness. Lets be honest Lani & Nyx needed Kekoa to bring balance into their chaotic lives. Truly appreciated the intersex rep and how their partners handled it beautifully. Just one of those feel good Christmas reads that has you smiling over their shennigans from start to finish.
November 22, 2025
Tentacles and Island living
This was a cute holiday story with a few non-typical shifters: jellyfish and sea turtles.
The author spends a few of time creating the island backdrop and the history of the two sea turtles - to the point that I was actually skimming through parts just to get to the main storyline. I felt like not enough page time was really given to the three new mates, and what was given got bogged down. There was a bare minimum of heat and I really missed that. I felt like so much more could have been done but the relationship was overwhelmed with backstory and history and long winded descriptions/explanations. The small drama was wrapped up far to quickly and unsatisfyingly.
I love Layla Dorine and her writing but this really wasn't my favorite. Aside from being set during the holidays, it just didn't have that holiday vibe I was hoping for. 3.5*
This was a cute holiday story with a few non-typical shifters: jellyfish and sea turtles.
The author spends a few of time creating the island backdrop and the history of the two sea turtles - to the point that I was actually skimming through parts just to get to the main storyline. I felt like not enough page time was really given to the three new mates, and what was given got bogged down. There was a bare minimum of heat and I really missed that. I felt like so much more could have been done but the relationship was overwhelmed with backstory and history and long winded descriptions/explanations. The small drama was wrapped up far to quickly and unsatisfyingly.
I love Layla Dorine and her writing but this really wasn't my favorite. Aside from being set during the holidays, it just didn't have that holiday vibe I was hoping for. 3.5*
February 4, 2026
Swimming & Snacks!
4.5 Stars
I loved this book so much! This was such a fun read and Kekoa, Lani, and Nyx are perfect together. I think this is the first jellyfish shifter book I’ve ever read and it was a really interesting concept especially with how Kekao interacted with their mates. The relationship in this book was it quite quick with it being a fated mates book but I think it was paced really well. Even though they basically moved in together immediately I really liked how they were still getting to know one another and going on dates. I think this book was the perfect amount of dating and domesticity. Lani and Nyx included Kekoa into their existing dynamic really well and I liked how they found their place in the relationship. I think there was really great chemistry with these characters and I was a huge fan of them playing or just being in their shifted forms too!
4.5 Stars
I loved this book so much! This was such a fun read and Kekoa, Lani, and Nyx are perfect together. I think this is the first jellyfish shifter book I’ve ever read and it was a really interesting concept especially with how Kekao interacted with their mates. The relationship in this book was it quite quick with it being a fated mates book but I think it was paced really well. Even though they basically moved in together immediately I really liked how they were still getting to know one another and going on dates. I think this book was the perfect amount of dating and domesticity. Lani and Nyx included Kekoa into their existing dynamic really well and I liked how they found their place in the relationship. I think there was really great chemistry with these characters and I was a huge fan of them playing or just being in their shifted forms too!
December 20, 2025
DNF @ 36%. For a book about shifters, this is pretty prosaic and down to earth
November 20, 2025
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💜mmx
💜sea turtle shifter x sea turtle shifter x jellyfish shifter
💜intersex mc
💜fated mates
💜bar scuffle meet cute
💜fast paced
💜tentacles
💜established relationship
💜party planner mc
💜handyman mc
💜military parents
🌶️🌶️
💧
😂😂
🪼🐢🌊🚔💜🏥🎖️🥵💋👨❤️💋👨
💜mmx
💜sea turtle shifter x sea turtle shifter x jellyfish shifter
💜intersex mc
💜fated mates
💜bar scuffle meet cute
💜fast paced
💜tentacles
💜established relationship
💜party planner mc
💜handyman mc
💜military parents
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