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The Things We Water

Mariana Zapata

Start date: June 1, 2025

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Jun 08, 2025 Kate rated it liked it

Shelves: wounded-broody-and-handsome-alphas, kindle-unlimited, standalones, ebooks, 2025-read, the-tingles, all-things-supernatural, 3-stars, funny-as-fcuk, hotties-with-rugrats

A meteor hits and suddenly all hidden DNA is revealed to what mythological creature you are or if you have magic. Have I gotten it right?

Magical Puppy. Check. And so adorable. But way too much dunky-dunk and donut. It's found family which I always like. However the book was too frigging long. Yes, I know MZ is known for this but ther is good long that makes sense. This type of long wasn't necessary. It could have been at leasrt a hundred and so pages.less. There are loads of mythical beings wer ...more

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Jun 04, 2025 Stacie rated it really liked it

Shelves: fated-mates, pnr, shifters, single-parent, grumpy-sunshine, 2025, bipoc-authors, fantasy, found-family, touch-of-magic

I thought this was a very pleasant story. Slow and maybe just a little predictable, but I still liked it a lot. Especially Nina. She was great. Happy reading!

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May 06, 2025 Fiona rated it liked it

Shelves: immortal

3*

This story would've probably worked better as a contemporary romance. The world building was vague and confusing, it felt like 700 pages of Nina having random interactions with magical beings. Long, drawn out internal monologues, repetitions and one dimensional characters. The MC's were in their early 30's & 40's but this read like NA/YA fan-fic. ...more

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Aug 31, 2025 Shan ~A~ rated it liked it

Shelves: 2025-turf-wars, family, paranormal, urban-fantasy, animals, millionaire-billionaire, small-town, contemporary, romance, angels-or-demons

Nina Popoca & Henri Blackrock

I'm always up for reading a new take on paranormal life and I really like how this one was steeped in myths and folklore from around the world.

I really love how much Nina loved the people that she cared about and the underlying family theme that ran throughout this novel.

On the flipside, I did feel like this was entirely too long, just my opinion. It got to the point that I only stuck to the story to find out what type of supernatural Nina and Duncan were. It was h ...more

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