hot new series that i love. i love her other work and this one is just as great as all the others.

I really enjoyed this book, so funny and I loved the Macgilligan sisters! Charlie and Berg were perfect together! I hope Max and Stevie get books next, Britta, Dutch and Dag too!

TEN!!! RIP-ROARING, ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC, MARVELOUS, LAUGHED SO HARD I THINK I CRACKED A RIB FROM FALLING FROM THE BED, READ IT TWICE, ON MY THIRDRE-READ SO GLAD THAT MS. LAURENSTON WRITES THESE ASTOUNDING BOOKS STARS!!!!! (Ummmm, was that too much, you think? Nah, Lol) I am so glad that Ms. Laurentson has continued to write these shifter stories. I cannot recall laughing so hard and so much and able to totally relate to these stores as I have never done with any other book before. The honey-badger MacKilligan sisters are a hot mess and I am in love with them so freaking much! It seems Dee-Ann has met her match with Charlie Taylor-MacKilligan (and love that last name by the way, kill-again, lol, priceless). We have Charlie the oldest and the one that can keep, Max the middle one, from killing everyone while smiling and Stevie, the youngest, the prodigy who I believe, in my opinion was the best of them all, in line and out of trouble, Lol. Then we have the Dunn's, Bear Triplets! That is just, WOW. I mean Bears in Triplet form? How freaking amazing is that! Loved it! Loved Berg, who was completely and calmly perfect for Charlie. I cannot say enough about how awesome it was to catch up on past characters and so many pleasant surprises. This was the best, I read it so fast the first time, I had to read it again and I am currently reading it for the third time and decided I needed to write this review, Lol. I cannot say too much about this, because if I do, I will spoil it for all the fans and I cannot do that. So please, please, I implore to read this and enjoy it! AMAZING 10 STAR READ!!!

P.S. I need more Panda, can we please get more Shen? Lol...


*****ARC provided thru Netgalley in exchange for an honest opinion*****

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 . . .

Review:

Honey Badgers are freaking awesome!

If you have read other books by Ms. Laurenston's Pride series you will recognize many of the characters and places in this book. If not, where the heck have you been? Really though. If you like crazy, flawed, sarcastic, and interesting characters you should read her books. This book like her others are full of strong women characters. Charlie is a caretaker and sometimes taking care of others more than herself. Berg is a perfect compliment to her. He is calm, strong and watches out for her, while the craziness that is family and friends is going on all around. There is sex, violence and good times all through.

Great start for the Honey Badgers, I will be waiting for impatiently for the next book in the series.

5Stars
*I voluntarily read an advance reader copy of this book provided by the publisher.*

Charlie MacKilligan, a honey badger/wolf hybrid, has been shot, fallen off a balcony, and is running away from armed military types that want to kill her. She’s not sure why but she’s pretty damn sure her father Freddy is at fault. She and her two sisters, Max and Stevie, haven’t had the most normal of lives, but once they meet Berg Dunn, grizzly bear, they start to realize that normal isn’t what’s important - family is. Well, the ones you don’t want to kill, at least. And yes, eventually, romance happens.

The Good, The Bad, and Everything In Between

The Good
It has Laurenston's trademark humor and action (with the accompanying violence)...and that's just the family scenes. Honey badgers are the name of the (shifter) game for this series, which is a (pretty close) offshoot of Ms. Laurenston's Pride series and I am loving every minute of it. Charlie and her sisters aren’t the best at making friends and influencing people (unless it's through fear and pain), but they make up for that in sheer mayhem and snark. Charlie, Max and Stevie have a close, and at times violent, relationship but you never doubt their love for each other. Their banter was hilarious and my kindle should glow in the dark from the amount of highlighting I did.


The Bad
I’m a romance junkie, and I did love Berg’s sweetly beta ways and Charlie’s badassery. But I’ve come to realize that Ms. Laurenston’s books are much more about the overarching storyline. They’re incredibly entertaining, but if you’re all about the romantic scenes, they are not plentiful. It’s the literary equivalent of running out of road. Establishing three very different women and their complicated relationships with those around them truly took up most of the book, and the romance got the fuzzy end of the lollipop, so to speak.

Everything in Between
For longtime readers of Ms. Laurenston’s books, you can enjoy the integration of the MacKilligans into the Pride ‘verse and seeing old favorites from new eyes. I think it can work as a onramp for new readers to join in the fun. However, I can also see the potential for confusion, because there’s ALOT going on. But when the world is so balls to the wall that it comes alive on the page, especially when the action ramps up, I can’t be mad at it.


The Bottom Line 4.5 stars
Ms. Laurenston writes the best shifter stories, and the MacKilligan sisters are a worthy addition to her ‘verse. The MacKilligans can bring the sh*tstorm like no other (as honey badgers do), but Charlie and Berg were the calm in the middle of that madness. I think Ms. Laurenston brought fresh eyes to the Pride ‘verse and I cannot wait to visit them again.

**ARC provided by publisher via netgalley for review**

*edited on my third read*
5 Stars!
As anticipated, this story grows on you like a 20 ft honey badger.
It’s extremely well crafted with a million minuscule details that makes it into a freaking awesome story.


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ORIGINAL REVIEW
4-4,5 stars.

Shelly is my unicorn author, and every new release has me counting down the months until release.

This particular story was just as funny and action-filled as I expected. The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars, is that I feel like I missed something. I remember feeling this way when I first read the Crows, and that series has jumped to 5 stars after numerous re-reads.

I love Berg and Charlie's story.
I love the small glimpses of previous characters.
But what I love most is the chemistry between the sisters!
I can't wait for everyone to meet these crazy HBs:)

I read Shelly Laurenston's books when I need a pick me up, a mood lightener, or just some all around fun. Hot and Badgered follows the winning recipe that is true to all of Ms. Laurenston's books--a dash of outrageous characters, a pinch of ridiculous situations, and a big whopping cup full of fun, fun, fun. Charlie MacKilligan is the oldest Honey Badger sister. She handles things, seriously dangerous, out of control things for her psycho sister Max, and her spastic, basket case, genius of a little sister Stevie. With a loser father that always drags the girls into dangerous situations, the sisters are tough, take no crap, honey badgers that should stike fear into the hearts of everyone they meet. Their father's latest scheme has the girls seeking help from bears and staying in bear suburbia. Living in the bear neighborhood provides the sisters with a normalcy they have never known as shifters. Charlie is totally crushing on grizzly shifter Berg. Berg might be perfect considering his acceptance of all Charlie's baggage and as a reader you want to see their HEA happen. The MacKilligan family's craziness keeps the pages turning just to see what will happen next. The book put a silly grin on my face from page one and I was still grinning and giggling at the end for one of the most fun reads ever. My voluntary, unbiased review is based upon a review copy from Netgalley.

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Favorite Quote: “I hate my fammmmiiillllyyyyyyy!!”

The MacKilligan sisters are in trouble. Their father has done some terrible things in his life but this time, he may have sealed his death warrant and possibly theirs with his latest get rich scheme.

Berg Dunn is just your average bear who works as security for the rich and famous with his siblings. When a gorgeous but naked honey badger drops into his suite with guns blazing, he falls head over heels. Determined to help her, Berg gets his siblings and the other bears involved because you never EVER get between a bear and his honey.

Hot and Badgered is the first in a new spin-off series starring her infamous honey badgers. Laurenston first introduced this new species in her Pride series in book eight, Wolf With Benefits and ended (maybe) the series with a honey badger heroine in book nine, Bite Me.

Shelly Laurenston can do no wrong in the paranormal world and proves it with this latest hilarious, sexy, action-packed story. This new series introduces readers to a whole new set of characters who put the fear of God into the shifter world and has all the groups up in arms. A rambunctious story line blends well with solid plot lines, a sexy engaging romance, punchy dialogue, and a slew of new and old friends. Non stop action and crazy antics keep this ever-expanding world rolling along, delightfully fresh and laugh out loud insane.

I laughed this entire book. The MacKiligan sisters are a riot and their unconditional love for one another is the mainstay of this story. Charlie MacKilligan is a fixer. There is nothing she will not do for her two younger sisters. Raised by their grandfather and insulated from the other shifters, these three hybrid honey badgers learned early that life is not fair, their father is a horrible HORRIBLE person, and allergies are the devil. Max is the killer of the group. She has no empathy or morals. Her leash is held by Charlie and woo to anyone if Charlie lets her go. The youngest of the group, Stevie, is a genius and is scared of everything. Until she shifts then everyone needs to look out because she is something never seen before. She is also besties with Kyle Jean-Louis Parker. YIKES.

I love Laurenston bears and she definitely outdoes herself with this bear family. The Dunn triplets (Berg, Dag, and Britta) are an easy-going family who grab onto the MacKilligans and hold on for dear life once it becomes clear Berg is falling for Charlie; even though it takes Charlie awhile to get it. They give the MacKilligans something they haven’t had for a long time-a family who helps with no conditions attached. Though there is a romance, the foreplay last most of the book, the story revolves mainly around the MacKillians and their problems. Family first in here. I liked that this one was lighter on the romance and sex. It worked well for this story line and the characters.

Berg and Charlie are the perfect match for one another in that they are both natural-born protectors and warriors. Both are calm until angered (or startled), intelligent, and witty with a unique approach to handling life’s little problems that belay their complexity. They accept their attraction and eventually act on it without a lot conflict, fussing, or chasing. Berg understands female shifters and waits for Charlie to make the first move. It takes Charlie awhile because she’s only dated humans and has no idea of her own appeal. I loved that Berg not only understands Charlie but accepts her and her sisters just the way they are. He is also very protective of them.

There are multiple subplots rolling through with the main one revolving around the MacKilligans’ sister’s father. Laureston does her usual excellent job of setting up the parameters and explaining the various family members and their relationship to one another. The Group involves themselves and learns the hard way in a hilarious scene that sometimes the bigger you are just means the harder you fall.

As usual, plenty of familiar faces arrive in a mass hoard to interfere, offer useless advice, and generally annoy each other to distraction. I love that Laurenston always infiltrates current story lines with past characters. The entire shifter nation interacting with one another is what makes these stories so damn funny plus we get to see what they have been up to. Bo Novikov, Dee-Ann Smith, Crush and Malone, the oh so arrogant Kyle Jean-Louis Parker, and even Livy and Vic show up to hinder… errr…offer some help to Charlie and her sisters. We also meet plenty of new characters and species whom I can’t wait to see more of in action.

The ending is explosive and resolves the main conflict perfectly while leaving a large opening for plenty more stories to come. If you enjoy outrageous scenarios, witty banter, and insanely hilarious characters then look no further than Shelly Laurenston. She writes winners across the board.

Grade: B+

Review: HOT AND BADGERED (The Honey Badgers) by Shelly Laurenston https://wp.me/p3d0RZ-aFx
Publication Date: March 27, 2018
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Reviewed by: Reading in Pajamas/ Donna
Rated 5 Stars

I enjoyed the story and the crazy sisters. At first I wasn’t sure how I liked them overshadowing the established hard-assed characters I’ve grown to love…but it was fun. Though fewer in number, the MacKilligan girls reminded me a bit of the Jean-Louis Parker family with less histrionics. Not to say they don’t have their share, it’s just tempered with a few tender and understanding bears. This promises to be a fun spin-off series full of sexy mayhem.

*Review copy provided by Kensington in exchange for an honest review.

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The Honey Badger Series is a spin-off series from Shelly Laurenston’s Pride Series. Here’s the series link and a link to a blog post with some of our favorite quotes.
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Amazing!! I've been waiting years for the pride series to return and this spin off didn't disappoint!!! I loved that I got to see some of my favorite characters and hopefully I'll continue to see them with the next book of the series!

ARC - I voluntarily offered to review this book with no obligations and my opinions are honest
I love, love the MacKilligan sisters.
They crack me up.
Stevie is totally Kyle # 2. That is why they get along so well.
( They do not understand their geniuses! )
Max is Olivia # 2. However, Olivia will definitely claw me for saying that.
Charlie, sweet Charlie, until you threaten her sisters. Then watch out!
( Just ask Dee Ann )
I hope that Max + Stevie get their own books.
I can't wait to meet their mates.
I loved the storytelling + the characters
The storytelling + the character's build were awesome!

I received an Advanced Reading Copy of Hot and Badgered from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. As always, the following review consists solely of my opinions and mine alone. I then reread the entire series so it was all nice and fresh before I dived into the ARC.
In Hot and Badgered, we meet a whole new set of shifters and see the return of some of our favourites as well. I was almost fooled by the prologue and was worried I wouldn't have any Blayne, Dee-Ann, or Livvy cameos in Hot and Badgered, but I shouldn't have doubted Shelly Laurenston to deliver. I'll never doubt you again, Ms Laurenston.
Hot and Badgered focuses on an ostracised branch of Livvy's family, the MacKilligan sisters. The oldest of three sisters, Charlie Taylor-MacKilligan is an anomaly. She and her youngest sister, Stevie, are only half honey badger which isn't a thing since HB genetics totally dominate in every other pairing with honey badgers involved. Together with their middle sister, Max, the MacKilligan sisters are on the run from the the first paragraph. Their guesses as to who's behind the hit squad after them varies from a Peruvian drug lord to government types, but one thing they know for sure is that it's definitely their no-good useless father's fault.
Charlie jumps off her hotel room's balcony and lands on Cooper Jean-Louise Parker's balcony (yes, the JLPs are baaaaack!) and Berg Dunn is Coop's bodyguard on duty. Berg and Charlie take on the black-ops types that crashed the party and while Berg has no idea who she is, he starts falling for Charlie then and there, even as she takes off again. She meets up with Max, and the two go to Switzerland to break their genius sister, Stevie, out of yet another 'mental health spa' and then they head to Manhattan and a Yang Family safe house (aka Livvy's house that is most decidedly not a Yang Family safe house).
Eventually Berg takes Charlie and her sisters to a place he knows will be perfect for the sisters to hideout until they figure things out. It doesn't hurt that it's a house in the same neighbourhood as the house Berg shares with the other members of his triplet set, Britta and Dag. The safest place he could think of was in a bear-only neighbourhood and as long as Max doesn't raid their hives and Charlie keeps stressbaking, everybear is more than happy to welcome the sisters to the neighbourhood.
It isn't until we're introduced to Dee-Ann's daughter that I realised that Hot and Badgered takes place at least 7 years after Livvy's story, Bite Me, which I wasn't too happy about. If you've read the entire series of Laurenston's from Eggie Ray's short story to Sara Morrighan's introduction to her true self to Mace Llewellyn's reuniting with his Bronx love to the mighty bearcat that is Novikov (who is not a serial killer), you've seen the craziness that I love and adore in Laurenston's books. And I was so upset that I missed the pregnancy crazies that I just know Dee-Ann and Blayne experienced through their pregnancies. I will literally get down on my hands and knees and beg Ms Laurenston for a book that has flashbacks (which I steadfastly despise) just so I can read how wild Blayne got or how terrifying Dee-Ann was during their pregnancy days.
Moving on before I start that wailing again (I get emotionally invested in my favourite books!).
Due to a few miscommunications (I totally blame Max's best friend), Dee-Ann and Cella (yes, the cat killer is back!) end up chasing Charlie and her sisters around Manhattan, including at the Sports Center where so many things I love happen and I can't tell you about them because it would spoil the story.
We get to see Sissy Mae and Mitch crash a house party, the sisters gain a Jean-Louise Parker prodigy roommate, Ric gets back in the kitchen (while Dee-Ann is teaching their daughter what her daddy taught her), Stevie faces her fear of bears in Shen Li, and Charlie gets a job to do what she does best that pays over $80K for a few days work. And we get a new shifter breed introduced! What else can I say to convince you that you need to read Hot and Badgered? There's moderate bloodshed, funny moments abound, and favourite characters return in cameos!
There are only a few things I disliked about Hot and Badgered. Mostly the fact that we skipped witnessing pregnant Dee-Ann and pregnant Blayne being in the same room. Because if you know Dee-Ann and Blayne, you know things happened. I'm not a fan of horrible fathers like Charlie, Max, and Stevie are cursed with but that's pretty much my daddy issues popping out of the closet to say howdy-do. But the likes by far outweigh the dislikes for me.
I love that the MacKilligan sisters are half-sisters (Charlie is half-wolf, Stevie is half-tiger, and Max is full honey badger) and they're all raised by one of the moms until they end up having to go live with Charlie's grandfather. Max is outright unstable but then you have Stevie who is heavily medicated for her anxiety issues and when she goes off-meds, she's just as unstable. When Stevie isn't hiding in trees from man-eating bears (don't judge), she's got her sisters' backs too. And then, there's Charlie, who's the one who always has her head on straight and always has several plans to keep her sisters safe. I love how Stevie and Max advise Berg on how to win over Charlie, "stray dog it!" is now a thing that shall live in infamy. Novikov trying to recruit the sisters repeatedly in the strangest moments.
If this book were human, I'd marry it. Therefore, I give Hot and Badgered 5 out of 5 stars (le gasp!) and a nice mellow 2 flames of sexytimes. Ms Laurenston focused on the storyline and didn't overindulge in the love scenes so I didn't feel like an unwilling voyeur reading through things. I wholeheartedly suggest y'all check it out.

These books are always so much fun to read:) I love how she mixes her species up and comes out with some unexpected and funny hybrids. I also enjoyed so many of the previous characters showing back up. I always look forward to reading the next one; action, kick-ass females, hot males, shape shifters, humor, romance, hot sex. These books have it all, I just wish you could write faster;)

Berg Dunn is a great at his job, in the personal protection agency his family runs, a family of grizzly shifters. While protecting a world renowned child prodigy, pianist, and shifter a naked woman lands on their hotel balcony. That is nothing new with woman throwing themselves at his charge but what is new is she is a shifter and being chased by a bunch of human assassins.

Honey badgers are a class unto themselves, fearless and ready to take on the world so when assassins kick in her door, Charlie does what she needs to do to survive. Even if it means falling out a window in a hotel. Little did she know she was going to end up with a fan of her own…a giant sized grizzly.

There are not many authors that can make me go from laughing hysterically to white knuckle reading all within a few minutes. Nor are there many authors that can write complete outlandish fictional characters and have you utter and complete submersed in those fictitious character’s lives…Shelly Laurenston does that and more.

Belly laughing, intense, romantic comedy that just puts a smile on your face.

I received this ARC copy of Hot and Badgered from Kensington Books. This is my honest and voluntary review. Hot and Badgered is set for publication March 27, 2018.

My Rating: 5 stars
Written by: Shelly Laurenston
Series: The Honey Badgers
Sequence in Series: Book 1
Paperback: 432 pages
Publisher: Kensington
Publication Date: March 27, 2018
ISBN-10: 1496714342
ISBN-13: 978-1496714343
Genre: Paranormal Romance | Fantasy | Shifter

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I LOVE this shifter world. I love it so freaking much. It is without a doubt my favorite PNR shifter world. This book is based in the same world that her Pride series is in. But with different people. Specifically honey badgers. YAY. If you read the Pride series then you know Liv.. and Liv was freaking hilarious. So I was so excited to start this series. And it did NOT disappoint.

Charlie is half honey badger and half wolf. She is kind of the mother hen of her two sisters. I kind of feel like you should go into this book not knowing anything specific about the sisters so I won't tell you about them but I will say that I loved them. Berg is a grizzly and omg have I said how much I love the bears in these books?! I could go on and on but I won't. I loved every single character in the book. I loved that we got little glimpses with some of the shifters from the Pride series. I loved how absolutely crazy and funny this book is.

I think I said loved 302 times but I don't care. It was fantastic and I am so excited for the next one!

OMFG this book was hysterical! I love a good PNR story interwoven with fun, and this had it in spades!!! I loved seeing the gruesome threesome as kids and how they manipulated those around them, ensuring they were taken care of by a pack that essentially would have ostracised them.

When the main story starts we find our trio of hard hitting, slightly psychotic sisters are on the loose again! Charlie is left running for her life in her birthday suit when she runs into Berg's room. He is protecting a music prodigy at the time but is distracted by this shapely shifter! After giving her some clothing she runs off and Berg is resigned to never seeing her again.

But fate has finished with Charlie and Berg. After a mad dash across Europe which included shoehorning their baby sister from her break in a mental health facility, Charlie and Max are still covering their asses from however is after them...again. Cos this is not the first time the girls have been in trouble and usually their father is behind it!

Berg and his triplets end up being involved in the drama which follows the McKilligan girls and as the story progresses Berg realises that Charlie is the one for him, but with her so stressed and distracted protecting Stevie, can he get her to realise the same?

What a fantastic rampage! With a family that defines dysfunctional..they are not above clotheslining each other! Brings a whole new meaning to sibling relationships. But if you go against one sister, the other two will rip your face off! I loves that even though they are technically half-sisters, these girls are superglued together. Berg, Dag and Brita are kind of the same, less the bloody thirstyness! I was a bit put out that once again the Scots were the bad guys, but all is fogiven cos this book is stonkingly good!!!

HOT AND BADGERED is the first instalment in Shelly Laurenston’s contemporary, adult THE HONEY BADGERS CHRONICLES paranormal, romance series –a spin off from the author’s Pack and Pride Series. This is hybrid honey badger/ wolf Charlie Taylor-MacKilligan, and grizzly shifter Berg Dunn’s story line.

NOTE: Fans of the author’s Pride and Pack series will recognize a number of the secondary and supporting characters including the Jean-Louis Parkers, Bo and Blayne, and of course the Van Holtz and Smith Packs; Sissy Mae Smith and her mate lion shifter Mitch Shaw.

Told from several third person points of view including Berg and Charlie HOT AND BADGERED introduces the MacKilligan Honey Badgers and their large extended family, and the Dunn grizzly bear family and friends of the BPC –Bear Protection Council-the international protection agency for the bear nation. HOT AND BADGERED follows the MacKilligan sisters as the struggle to stay one step ahead of a group of mercenaries intent on taking them down –dead or alive. Charlie, and her half-sisters Maxie (honey badger) and Stevie (honey badger/tiger) have been on the run for years. Their father, Freddy MacKilligan, an a$$hole of the first degree, has endangered his daughter’s lives since the moment they were born, and in this, the trio have battled enough evil in their lives to ensure a lifetime of therapy for everyone involved. When news comes that their father has died, the girls go in search of the truth only to discover that desperate times call for desperate measures and the trio find themselves hiding out amongst the shifter bears of New York. Enter Berg Dunn, grizzly shifter and security expert, and the man with whom Charlie will fall in love. What ensues is a complex battle with several forces intent on taking down the MacKilligan sisters, as a series of events and catastrophes threaten their less than well-ordered lives.

HOT AND BADGERED is a detailed storyline with all of the author’s requisite humor, sarcasm, wit and charm. Charlie MacKilligan, the eldest sister, is very protective of Stevie and Max. As members of the honey badger shifters, the trio are feared for their aggression and ability to kill but it is their ‘hybrid’ genes that make them an unknown threat in the world of the shifter nations. Stevie has a copious number of emotional and psychological problems, and her ‘shifter abilities’ attracts some unwanted attention. Maxie is a trained killer; a warrior in her own right, and a woman whose ability to get the job done catches the eye of The Group, and The Carnivore’s shifter hockey team.

There is a large ensemble cast of secondary and supporting characters including some very familiar shifters (Dee-Ann and Ric; Niles Van Holtz, Bo, Blayne, Loch, Crushek and his mate Marcella Malone) and the introduction of many more including Berg’s triplet brother and sister Dag and Britta Dunn, and Maxie’s best friend wolverine shifter Dutch Alexander. Panda shifter Shen Li, Kyle Jean-Louis Parker’s body guard has caught the eye of Stevie MacKilligan.

HOT AND BADGERED advances the series several years as there are now a number of off-spring spawned by the Pride series characters. It was great to reconnect with so many familiar characters, and witness the next-generation of shifters taking their place in the author’s story lines and series.

Shelly Laurenston has an amazing ability to pull the reader into an elaborate world of spirited and playful shifters with her fantastic story line banter, and characteristic charm. Maxie’s on-going and stingingly successful raids on the local honeycomb and bee apiaries is nothing short of pure unadulterated fun; and Stevie’s inability to navigate the world in which she was born is both heart breaking and humorous. HOT AND BADGERED is a fantastic and imaginative take on the paranormal; Shelly Laurenston is an author you do not want to skip.

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I very much liked this book. It was entertaining and funny and endeared the 3 sisters to me. I want to find out their stories and what happens with them in the future. Having said that, I thought that this was the first in a series, i.e a brand new series, but it actually is set in the "Pride" universe. When I was reading it - before I knew that - I found that I was reading a book where I was expected to know characters in it already. I thought that those characters had been underdeveloped or something but it turns out that they had been in another series. I think that if I had read the other books then this one would have been a 5 star book but I had to take a star off for the fact that I got confused in places due to the fact that I didn't already know the other characters in the story.

What a fantastic new series. I love this author. This book made me laugh so many times. I love these three sisters and I really loved their take no prisoners attitude. I can't wait to see what type of men Max and Stevie end up with. I really enjoyed all the cameos by characters from other books too. This author is an automatic buy when she releases a shifter book.

"Hot and Badgered" is not just a return to the world of Shelly Laurenston's "Pride" series, it feels like a return to form. Laurenston makes it clear that this is a separate series from the "Pride" series (which wrapped up nicely in 2014 release "Bite Me") by introducing a whole host of new characters, while giving us a glimpse into the lives of some of the stars of previous books. While characters like Dee-Ann Smith, Cella Malone, and my favorite Jean-Louis Parkers play a major role, this book and series are all about the Honey Badgers.

The MacKilligan sisters--our heroine Charlie and her half sisters, Max and Stevie--get a great introduction, as does our hero Berg Dunn, who comes with a fun pair of siblings of his own. Add in a dysfunctional father, an all bear-shifter neighborhood, and, of course, honey badgers, and as a reader, you're in for a wild ride. "Hot and Badgered" is everything long-time readers love and expect in Laurenston's work: over-the-top ridiculousness that'll have you laughing out loud, an admittedly high body count, and distinctly loony but lovable characters, not to mention a sweet romance.

This is a super fun beginning to The Honey Badgers series, and I can't wait to read more!