Charlie, Max and Stevie are all half-sisters. They all have the same no good, thieving, idiot father who is constantly getting himself into trouble. The problem with that is that people think they can get to their father through his daughters. Not! Charlie, Max and Stevie were all raised first by Charlie’s mother and then when she died, by Charlie’s grandfather in a wolf pack. Charlie is half honey badger and half wolf. Max is all honey badger and Stevie is half honey badger, half tiger. They’re all incredibly dangerous and can take anyone who comes after them. That doesn’t mean they want to.

When the girls’ father once again gets them into the middle of things, Charlie, Max and Stevie take help from an unlikely source. Berg is a bear shifter and completely smitten with Charlie. He offers to help house them and they end up renting a house in an all bear neighborhood. Berg just happens to live across the street so this is convenient for him to be near Charlie as much as possible.

When the girls finally figure out what they father has done to get people after them they try to remedy the situation, but a wedding their not invited to, twin aunts who have no idea they're shifters and a psychopathic cousin make this incredibly difficult. With help from a bunch of unlikely sources the girls try to make their lives as normal as possible.

I love honey badgers. LOL They are tough and don’t take anyone’s shit. They can fight anyone and probably win and have a blasé attitude while doing it. This particular group of honey badgers made me laugh constantly. I love the way that Laurenston writes and her characters are always so alive and so incredibly irreverent.

This was Charlie and Berg’s romance but their relationship was so entwined into the story that it was more about everything else going on. That actually worked for me. There was SO much going on in this book that to add more of the romance wouldn’t have felt right.

I adored Charlie, Max and Stevie’s relationship. They were constantly at war with each other, yet they loved each other dearly and would have each other’s back in a hot minute. Charlie was very protective of her sisters and especially Stevie as she kind of had her head in the clouds. She’s a complete genius and was in her head a bit more than she was in reality. When people try to take Stevie for her big brain Charlie does everything she can to stop it. The girls may not hug each other on a regular basis but I could feel the love between the three.

I can’t tell you all the little bits of this book because A) there are a lot of bits! And B) you need to read it for yourself in order to get what’s going on. This was a fun and crazy book and I really enjoyed it. A great start to a new series that still includes people from other series that we already know and love.

Rating:4 out of 5

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I finally got my grabby hands on the full length version of this book ! Having previously read the first chapter tease that the publisher released I was extremely keen to know just what was planned next for the honey badgers in this book. We meet three sisters who are all so very different and yet believe me when it comes to protecting their little family they will do absolutely anything.
I've long been a fan of the authors dragon shifter books and think this story had all the same elements going on. Siblings at war with each other, often with hilarious results and yet a story that winds along pulling the reader in until it's impossible to predict just what will happen. No spoilers here but when it comes to families you just have to believe that in this world there are conniving relatives who lie, cheat, steal and generally just backstab their way through life uncaring or maybe even oblivious to consequences.
I looked up honey badgers and the results showed that this animal has the ability to adapt to its surroundings making it least likely to become endangered. Plus it's listed as carnivorous with few predators due to its ferocious defensive abilities. Now bottle all that up in an angry, often unreasonable and yet strangely rational person and you have Charlie. She's very defensive of her sisters but also sees them exactly as they are. So when the youngest is targeted for kidnapping Charlie isn't lying down. Oh wait maybe that's not exactly correct because when we meet her she's about to fall almost into the arms of a grizzly! Yes there's romance but no mate trope involved thankfully just a slow burn as the author concentrates on giving her readers a mad, detailed trip into the crazy world her shifters live in. In many ways Charlie and her sisters are outcasts but with the cute, noninvasive Berg around slowly but surely their lives change.
So many characters get involved in this story with plenty of old favourites showing up . I loved it and the madcap caper just pulled me in and now I'm tempted to read it again! These characters are extreme, they are truly larger than life but I've a feeling we haven't seen the last of them and I for one can't wait for more.
This voluntary take is of a copy I requested from Netgalley and my thoughts and comments are honest and I believe fair

Really loved this book. So great to catch up with some favourites.

Offbeat and hilarious with plenty of action, romance, and the family dramas that Shelly Laurenston is so good at mixing into an amazing book. As soon as I finished this one I wanted to read it again and again just because it is so good, I have really missed her shifters and while I love her other series the shifters were the first books that introduced me to her so are still my favorite characters. She has introduced us to a new set of “Good Guys” and “bad guys” some of whom may even not even be family. We also get a chance to catch up with a bunch of our favorites from the her previous series and maybe we will get a chance to read some future books about them too.

This is one of Laurenston's best books yet. I found myself literally laughing out loud in places. I can't help but admire the range of unusual (yet hilarious) situations she puts her characters through. My readers can't get enough of her!