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Hot and Badgered

by Shelly Laurenston

🌶️🌶️mild·spoiler·Honey Badger Chronicles #1

Why Read This?

Less a traditional romance, more a riotous action-comedy about three honey badger shifter sisters on the run from their criminal father, with a sweet grizzly bear hero who just wants everyone to calm down. The humor is relentless, the family dynamics are everything, and Berg is the patient cinnamon roll bear of your dreams.

Synopsis

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 . . .

At a Glance

4.15 ★ Goodreads
Spice Level🌶️🌶️mild
Endingspoiler
PairingM/F
Romance Pacingslow burn

Top Tropes

opposites attractslow burnprotector hero

Mood

hilariouschaoticaction-packedheartwarming

Book Details

Goodreads Rating

4.15 ★

Page Count

433 pages

Published

2018

Primary Genre

Paranormal Romance

Pairing

M/F

POV

Multi-POV

Romance Pacing

Slow Burn

Cliffhanger

spoiler

Audiobook

Available

Yes

Format

Unabridged

Narrator

Traci Odom

Tropes

RomanceMagicActionAngstWorld
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Mood & Vibe

Mood

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Characters

FMC: the boss sign in to unlock

Spice Details 🌶️

Very brief, semi-detailed scenes that appear late in the book (around 75%). Romance takes a backseat to action and comedy throughout. sign in to unlock

violence and goredeathanxiety and panic attacksbody horror (shifting)loss of a loved oneprofanitysedative use

World & Setting

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Reading Context

satisfying HEA with chosen family bonds solidified sign in to unlock

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