Blog Tour, Review and Giveaway: Oyster by Fearne Hill

15 July of 2024 by ButtonsMom2003

Oyster By Fearne Hill

Genre: Contemporary Romance, GLBTQ

Tropes: Trans woman, secret relationship, small town, famous MC, hurt/comfort

Released: July 11, 2024

Publisher: Self-Published

Length: 266 Pages

Cover Design: Black Jazz Design

Synopsis

Low tides threw up all kinds of unexpected and random treasures. Wedding bands, hauls of driftwood, old bones worn smooth.

Jaded oyster fisherman, Nico La Forge, had seen them all.

Or so he believed. Until one night, a cold, bedraggled, and beautiful Éti Salvador washed up on the shore.

Nico had never been in love. Wasn’t even looking for love. With the body of a revolutionary hero and a face like the devil, Nico was the sort of guy your mother warned you to stay away from. But then, Nico had never come across anyone as extraordinary as Éti Salvador before; divebombing the emotional wasteland of his heart, shaking it like a maraca.

And, overnight, like the turning of the tides, everything changed.

Oyster is an MF queer romance.

*** Please note the following trigger warnings: Grief, secondary to death of a parent from cancer, one episode of transphobia.

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Review

Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003

A beautiful M/F queer love story.

I have to admit that I was a bit confused when I read the first couple of chapters of this book. The only books I’ve read by Fearne Hill have been MM romances so it took me a minute to catch on that this was not one. (Note that when I signed up to review Oyster the blurb didn’t indicate it was an M/F romance.) Now having said that, I’m not one bit sorry that I read this story.

Oyster has all of the things that made me fall in love with Fearne Hill’s writing. It’s a super touching story that brought me to tears more than once. Her writing is so richly descriptive that I don’t find it at all difficult to imagine myself in the places she writes about.

I’m pretty sure that this is the first trans woman story I’ve read and I think Fearne Hill did a wonderful job telling Eti and Nico’s story. Everyone should have a Nico in their life. He was caring, accepting and tender. Now I’m looking forward to reading Max’s story; he’s Nico’s brother.

Please heed the trigger/content warning shown in the blurb above.

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Giveaway

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About Author

Fearne Hill can be found deep in the British countryside surrounded by trees, flowers, birds, and pets. She likes it that way.

Her novel, Two Tribes, is a Lambda Literary finalist 2023. The first book in her Rossingley series, To Hold A Hidden Pearl, received nominations in five categories in the 2020-2021 M/M Romance Group Book Awards. It was also an Honourable Mention in the 2020-2021 Rainbow Romance Awards.

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