Breaking Badger by Shelly Laurenston

 

3 Star

Finn and his brothers rescue the Honey badger team from a bad situation.  When they try to make nice and are rebuffed Finn knows he needs to get back in their good graces.  Mads likes Finn and understands where he’s coming from with wanting vengeance for his father’s murder so she will help him get his revenge.  This is twofold it helps him and keeps her out of her own family drama.  Plus getting hot and heavy with him isn’t bad.

I wanted to like this more than I did.  It suffers from trying to be too much and not quite enough.  There are some incredibly funny parts of the book that I loved but it got very wordy and had too many plots going on at one time.

Book 4 Honey Badger Chronicles

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Badger to the Bone by Shelly Laurenston

4 Stars

Zezé was hired to kidnap her but he has other plans once he meets her.  Max “Kill it Again” MacKilligan let herself get kidnapped so she could take care of a problem created by her mother.  Instead she rescues Zezé from her team and gets him to realize that he is a shifter.  Now her sisters are forcing her to help him learn the ropes.

 

This book was a little slow to start but once it gets going it moves.  It is the conclusion of the Honey Badger Chronicles and it does an excellent job wrapping up storylines.  My most favorite part of the book was when Charlie went into the police station to get Max and her team out of custody.  All of these other bad ass shifters are like wasn’t us swear and she proceeds to have a knock down drag out fight with some new shifters and puts them in their place to get her sister out.  It was so funny I couldn’t stop laughing.  It would have been a five star for me but was a bit slow in the beginning.  I liked Max and Zezé together.  They balanced each other out and supported each other.  I also liked how the book ended with MacKilligan sisters’ father.  Overall, it was a really good book and tight up loose ends nicely.

 

Audio Book

Charlotte Kane did an amazing job once again.  She makes this book so much better.  If you don’t have time to read this book take the time to listen to it.

Book 3 the Honey Badger Chronicles

In A Badgerway by Shelly Laurenston

4 Stars

Youngest of the MacKilligan sisters Stevie, is brilliant at just about everything except life scares her.  She is even terrified of the bear shifters she lives by.  Everyone except panda bears.  Which means Shen must deal with her.  When Stevie gets asked to go undercover to investigate her ex-boyfriend Shen gets roped into helping her.

 

I loved Shen.  We met him in Bite Me and he was the annoying best friend but was awesome.  I loved how Stevie and Shen liked to screw with everyone around them.  There was no time in the book I felt went to slowly.  The shenanigans Stevie’s family got up to was just hilarious.  I can’t wait for the next book!

 

Audiobook:

Charlotte Kane did an amazing job narrating this story.  She got all the of the voices down for all of the old characters and all of the new ones.  Best narrator ever!

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Hot and Badgered by Shelly Laurenston

5 Stars

Honey badgers can survive just about anything.  Charlie Taylor-MacKilligan knows all about this.  She and her sisters are cursed because of their father.  The world would be better off if he would just die already. When she is saved by a shifter Berg she needs to figure out what her father’s done this time.  Berg just wants to get to know the beautiful naked stranger that fell out of the sky.

 

I loved this story so much.  It was so funny and I couldn’t put it down or really stop listening.  The pacing in the story was spot on.  There weren’t any parts of the story that I felt needed fleshing out or were over explained.  I really liked how Berg and Charlie were together.  I also loved the interactions between Charlie and her sisters.  I cannot wait for the next book to see where the MacKilligan sisters are going.

 

Audio Book: 3 Stars

This is going to be a weird review.  I have listened to all of Shelly Laurenston’s books on audio and have absolutely adored all of them.  Charlotte Kane narrates all of her other books.  I got used to her voices for each of the characters.  When this book was released the publisher had picked Traci Odom to narrate this new series that was spinoff of her other books.  It shared characters but had some new ones as well.  When Traci Odom would speak in the new characters voices she did an excellent job narrating the book.  The issues for me came in when she was speaking for the characters from the last series.  They had definitive voices that I hear in my head and it just screwed with me.  Plus there was some issues with some of the characters.  There was one character, Bo, she gave him an eastern European accent.  He was from Maine.  When I haven’t listened to the other books I can disregard the issues but I tend to just read this book instead of listening to it.

Book 1 Honey Badger Chronicles