REVIEW: Palaces and Other Prisons by TJ Nichols (Tinsel & Tentacles 3.0 #8)

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PALACES AND OTHER PRISONS

Tinsel & Tentacles 3.0 - Book Eight

by TJ Nichols

Release Date: November 21, 2025

Review

This is a side story to TJ’s Mytho Collapse series and I thoroughly enjoyed it. You don’t need to have read the series to read this.


King Ul’s island has appeared on earth, in the same location as an oil rig. Being secluded in the North Sea, no one knows what’s happened, but with no sign of the mainland getting to them any time soon, humans and mythologicals must figure out how to communicate and live together.


King Ul is a kind man carrying the weight of his people and his past losses on his shoulders. When he meets rig worker Dawson, who acts as an emissary, sparks fly (or rather skin glows).


I love the journey of all of them trying to figure their way through this, learning their languages, and discovering their feelings. It was tender and hopeful. 


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Synopsis

Sometimes the world is actually ending…

Dawson Hill is used to the routine and isolation of working on an oil platform in the North Sea. He’s woken up by what he thinks is an emergency drill, then the platform shudders and tilts like it’s about to fall into the sea…but the sea is gone. The oil platform is now on an island. And the island is inhabited by all kinds of beings. It soon becomes clear that rescue isn’t coming, and they are running out of food.


Magic is gone, and the water tastes different. Is different. King Ul doesn’t know what to tell his people when they look to him for answers about what happened or what the metal contraption is. The invaders must have answers, so when they leave the metal boxes, he has them arrested, which is how he discovers the marks on his skin glow in the presence of one man. His mate.


Even though Ul wants to get his tentacles on Dawson, he doesn’t have time for love while his kingdom is in trouble.


A gay Christmas/solstice romance in the Mytho Collapse world, which is set when the mythological world collapses into the human world, stranding all kinds of beings from myth.

About TJ Nichols

Urban Fantasy where the hero always gets his man.

TJ Nichols is the author of the Studies in Demonology, Familiar Mates, and Mytho Investigations MM romance series. They love writing about fated mates, enemies to lovers, found family, shifters, demons and other monsters. After traveling all over the world, TJ now lives in Perth, Western Australia. You can find more at my website tjnichols-author


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