Hot and Badgered: A Honey Badger Shifter Romance

Shelly Laurenston

Mar 2018 · The Honey Badger Chronicles Book 1 · Kensington Books

About this ebook

The “hot and humorous” debut of the action-packed shapeshifter series from the New York Times bestselling author of the Pride novels (USAToday.com).
 
It’s not every day that a beautiful naked woman falls out of the sky and lands face-first on grizzly shifter Berg Dunn’s hotel balcony. Definitely they don’t usually hop up and demand his best gun. Berg gives the lady a grizzly-sized t-shirt and his cell phone, too, just on style points. And then she’s gone, taking his XXXL heart with her. By the time he figures out she’s a honey badger shifter, it’s too late.
 
Honey badgers are survivors. Brutal, vicious, ill-tempered survivors. Or maybe Charlie Taylor-MacKilligan is just pissed that her useless father is trying to get them all killed again—and won’t even tell her how. Protecting her little sisters has always been her job, and she’s not about to let some pesky giant grizzly protection specialist with a network of every shifter in Manhattan get in her way. Wait. He’s trying to help? Why would he want to do that? He’s cute enough that she just might let him tag along—that is, if he can keep up . . .
 
Praise for Shelly Laurenston and the Honey Badger Chronicles
 
“When it comes to combining offbeat humor and mayhem, it is tough to beat Laurenston.”—RT Book Reviews
 
“Laurenston delights . . . Zany, sarcastic humor . . . Familiar, well-developed characters and full immersion into the universe make this a must-read for a new and returning readers alike.”—Publishers Weekly
 
“Pure, unadulterated fun. It’s ten pounds of bursting-at-the-seams excitement in a five-pound bag.”—Bookpage

Ratings and reviews

Way over price £5.00 should be the top price for the amount of pages compared to the average price of other books author is a greedy sod and a moron I bet he/she sells far fewer books than the £5.00 price ones thereby making far less money 😁😁😁😁😁 I haven't bought the book I was attracted by the hot guy on the cover (which no doubt the publisher thought would con people into buying without checking the amount of pages) but I'm not a moron a hot guy doesn't fry my brain!

Let me introduce you to three half sisters, born of Freddy MacKilligan, a promiscuous criminal honey badger and three different women. Charlie, the eldest, is half wolf-half honey badger. Her mother raised all three girls and Charlie has spent her entire life keeping her younger siblings out of trouble. Max, the second daughter is all honey badger and borderline psychotic. Stevie the youngest is half tiger-half honey badger, a musical and scientific genius she is also neurotic and likes nothing better than checking herself into very expensive mental hospitals and treating them like spas. The book opens with Charlie getting a phone call early one morning telling her to get out of her Italian hotel room, before she knows it armed men are breaking into her room and her only escape (naked) is into the room of another hotel guest. Berg Dunn is a bear shifter, acting as security for Cooper Jean-Louis Parker, the jackal shifter and prodigal musician and bored out of his mind until a naked woman burst into their hotel suite, covered in blood from gunshot wounds, and followed by men in black military tactical wear. How great an opening is that? Charlie knows that something like this can only mean one of two things - or both. Either her dead-beat Dad has done something monumentally stupid (again) or someone is after her genius sister (again). As it happens, it's both. This has a slightly different feel to Shelly Laurenston's other books, and that's no bad thing. It's still funny, there are still tons of shifters, lots of my favourite characters from previous books make an appearance, there's brawling, there's baking, there's a BBQ, there's a wedding, there's rocket launchers and roller derby. Maybe the humour is gentler? Maybe the characters are gentler? Berg is just one giant softie (despite being part of a private security firm) and Shen? Cutie! Anyway, what I think I am trying to say is that this is different to the Magnus Pack series, just as that is different to the Pride series, just as that is different to the Call of Crows series. Shelly Laurenston is exploring a different pack and I am dying to see what happens with Max and Stevie. A great start to a new series. I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in return for an honest review.

Hot and Badgered by Shelly Laurenston Genres; Adult, Action-Adventure, Humor & Comedy, Paranormal, Romance 5 Full Stars! Shelly Laurenston has not lost her touch. Not only that, but I think this has beat her other series all to heck and back. Definitely Off The Charts fantastic read. The world build and flow of the story was shear perfection. The humor has you laughing out loud. The romance is adult and perfectly written. It is not erotica nor porn. It is adult. Thank you, thank you, thank you Ms. Laurenston for writing this story! The suspense and action will have you on your toes and often laughing at these shifter's shenanigans. Charlie & Berg were fantastic together. All the characters got in on the action. Loved it. Laughed my Butt off!

About the author

Shelly Laurenston is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Pride, Call of Crows, and The Honey Badger Chronicles, as well as winner of the RT Book Reviews Readers' Choice Award for her 2016 novel, The Undoing. When she’s not writing about sexy wolf, honey badger, lion, and other fang-filled predators, she's writing about sexy dragons as G.A. Aiken, the acclaimed and bestselling author of the Dragon Kin series. Originally from Long Island, she now lives on the West Coast and spends most of her time writing and making sure her rescued pit bull doesn’t love everyone into a coma. Please visit her online at www.ShellyLaurenston.com.