Aqua: The Pufferfish & The Prince
by Nina Soelian
🌊 A fairy tale for adults that explores bully love…
- Genre
- Fantasy
- Chapters
- 30
- Status
- Completed
- Reads
- 371
18+Review by Julia ·
Aqua, a former mermaid, washes up on a beach stripped of her identity and forced into a world she does not understand. She tries to start a new life in Bryn’s family resort, but she is met with cruelty from Kieran, who mocks her for her size and the secrets she hides.
Aqua finds some comfort in Finn, who is gentle with her and helps her build herself up again. When the truth of her mermaid past is exposed, Aqua must choose to either stay with the humans she has grown to accept and love or head back to the depths that she calls her home.
Themes Discussed in Aqua: The Pufferfish & The Prince
🔮 Fantasy meets reality
💞 Choosing where you really belong
💥 Transformation and identity
👩❤️👨 Enemies to lovers dynamics
Reasons to Read Aqua: The Pufferfish & The Prince
🌶️ Lots of banter and steamy scenes
♀️ Vulnerable yet strong female lead
💧 A magical seaside setting
Meet The Main Characters
🧜🏻♀️ Aqua
A mermaid who was stripped of her tail has to learn to survive with humans. She is soft-hearted and stubborn and must choose what life she prefers.
🧑🏻 Kieran
He has sharp words and loves to tease Aqua every day, but every cruel word hides his own insecurities and guilt.
🧑 Finn
A calm, patient resort worker who treats Aqua with respect and dignity. He is warm, loyal, and the complete opposite of Kieran.
🐟Dive into deep waters with Aqua: The Pufferfish & The Prince and explore themes of bullying, transformation, and real love.
Aqua: The Pufferfish & The Prince synopsis
Aqua, a former mermaid, washes up on a beach, stripped of her ocean identity and forced to adapt to a world she doesn’t fit into. As she tries to rebuild her life at Bryn’s family resort, she faces cruel taunts from Kieran, who constantly mocks her for her size and the secrets she hides. But as Aqua grows closer to Finn, a kind resort worker, she struggles with her feelings for Kieran, whose cruel remarks hide a deeper, confusing attraction. When her true identity is exposed, Aqua must confront the reality of her past and the consequences of choosing a life on land, while fighting the pull of the ocean that threatens to pull her back to the world she left behind.
Read Aqua: The Pufferfish & The Prince – Chapter 1: The Storm
“Where am I?”
The question floats in my mind before I’m fully awake, like a whisper caught between waves. Everything is sore. My skin burns with salt and sand, my throat raw from choking on something too dry, too sharp. I blink against the light, but the world above me spins, smudged with gray clouds and dying thunder. The storm is leaving, but it’s taken something with it.
I’m lying on a beach, that much I can tell. My fingers sink into wet sand, trembling. My lungs rattle in my chest—tight, unfamiliar. My body is… wrong. Heavy, slow, like it’s been rewired overnight. I reach instinctively for my neck, for something I know should be there. Gills. But all I find is smooth skin. Human skin. My breath catches, my chest tightening. I’m not supposed to be like this.
I try to sit up, but my muscles won’t cooperate. My legs are numb, long, pale things that feel like they belong to someone else. I stare at them, confused. Two legs. Not a tail. My body is draped in seaweed, tangled and cold, barely covering anything. My top is ripped and soaked, clinging in all the wrong places, pulling tight over the curves I was always told were too much. I tug the seaweed off with shaking fingers, trying to hide, but it doesn’t matter. I feel exposed, like the tide spat me out just to be laughed at again.
I don’t know my name. I don’t remember who I was. Not really. But I remember the word.
“Pufferfish.”
Tropes
- Week to Strong
- Enemies to Lovers
- Romantic Suspense
- Romance
- Bully Love
- Steamy