Audio: In a badger way - Shelley Laurenston

Narrated by: Charlotte Kane

Series: Honey Badger Chronicles Series, Book 2

Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins

Unabridged Audiobook

Release date: 03-26-19

Publisher: Tantor Audio

PNR

My Thoughts

Honestly, there is only one way to describe this book and that is crazy! It is on a hell of a ride. A roller coaster filled with madness and fun.

Stevie is smart, like crazy smart, could win every Novel prize there is smart. She also suffer from depression and anxiety. And she is really scared of bears. Which makes it hard living among bear shifters. I like Stevie, she feels like a lost puppy (make that kitty) at times. She is fun, strange and when she decides something then that is it.

And she has her eyes on Shen. Ha, omg this guy was awesome. He is a giant panda and he is nice, cos pandas are nice. Calm and loves hanging upside down eating bamboo. Who can blame Stevie for setting her eyes on him! And she is also not afraid oh him, cos hello, panda, the sweetest of bears.

Ok, that sounds normal, well it is not. She has two sisters. They are all crazy. Max keeps trying to capture a stray cat. Charlie bakes all day. Their father is a crook and so is the rest of the family. Max is probably a sociopath. They enjoy getting into fights and gets into a LOT of fights. Stevie has shift into a godzilla like honey badger since she is a hybrid. Someone out there is killing hybrids. Stevie is on the case. More ass kicking. More craziness. *deep breath* It never ends, craziness ahoy!

I did like book 1 more, because even though this one was funny, it felt at times, maybe she was trying too hard to always be funny. But hey, it still works for me. 

Final thought

I love the absurdness of it all!

Narration

She has her work cut out for her. Non stop craziness and people beating the shit out of each other. But she did great and kept up the tempo and still, most importantly, made these characters fun and likable.

The voices for men and women worked well and they had their own distinct voices. This really is one for audio so you can breath in all the craziness 

Blurb:

Petite, kind, brilliant, and young, Stevie is nothing like the usual women bodyguard Shen Li is interested in. Even more surprising, the youngest of the lethal, ball-busting, and beautiful MacKilligan sisters is terrified of bears. But she’s not terrified of pandas. She loves pandas. 

Which means that whether Shen wants her to or not, she simply won’t stop cuddling him. He isn’t some stuffed Giant Panda, ya know! He is a Giant Panda shifter. He deserves respect and personal space. Something that little hybrid is completely ignoring.

But Stevie has a way of finding trouble. Like going undercover to take down a scientist experimenting on other shifters. For what, Shen doesn’t want to know, but they’d better find out. And fast. Stevie might be the least violent of the honey badger sisters, but she’s the most dangerous to Shen’s peace of mind. Because she has absolutely no idea how much trouble they’re in . . . or just how damn adorable she is.

Audio. Hot and Badgered - Shelly Laurenston

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 . . . 

Audio cd, 13 h
Published March 27th 2018 by Tantor Audio
The Honey Badgers #1
Pnr
For review

My thoughts:

These women were insane...ly funny! Honestly this book did not have a dull moment. After a rocky start it took off and never slowed down.

Charlie worries all the time. Her father is an effing idiot. Her sister is a genius and her other sister a sociopath. The rest of the family is a mess too. And it seems that honey badgers are the shifty shifters of the shifter world. 

And so she meets Berg. Oh he was a calm mountain. I loved Bear street, they were all these hunky calm enclave of bears who ate honey and chilled. Oh and they were totally fierce if needed. 

But then the sisters show up, dang, they are messy. They are trouble. There is always chaos and they are always cool, crazy and insane.

Charlie and Berg were perfect. He is so calm and she totally needs to chill.

How on earth her sisters will find love I do not know, I can not see it, nope, she sure has her work cut out for her there.

I guess this is pnr, but it was low on the romance and I liked that. The crazy was at the front here and love came at the end.

Debating what to rate this on GR. But it was just so crazy fun and for that it needs to be stamped with great!

Conclusion:

You will not be bored and you will run screaming from these sisters while you laugh.

Narrator. Traci Odom

I liker her style and voices and she sure rolled with the punches. Great job.

3 PNR reviews and Book Blog Walkers: Weekly Check-in September 19 2014

This challenge is organized by Felicia over at the Geeky Blogger's Book Blog

Saturday 5 km bike and 30 min walk
Sunday 5 km bike and 1 hour workout class
Monday 5 km bike and 40 min walk
Tuesday 5 km bike, and 30 min walk, 1 hour yoga
Wednesday 5 km bike, and 1 hour zumba class
Thursday 10 km bike, and 1 hour zumba
Friday 5 km bike and 30 min walk

No pic this week :/ But it was a good week.

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That's what runs through Desiree "Dez" MacDermot's mind the minute she hooks up again with her childhood buddy, Mace Llewellyn.  Mace likes making Dez crazy. In fact, he likes her any way he can get her―in bed, on the desk, here, now, again. Together, they'd always been trouble, but Dez has no idea just how good trouble can feel...

Brendon Shaw has seen better days. He's been beaten, had a gun to the back of his head, and had to be rescued by a Pack of shape-shifting wolves. He didn't think he'd survive the night, much less find the woman of his dreams. And he never thought the woman of his dreams would have a Tennessee accent and wear cowboy boots. 

Ronnie Lee Reed is ready to change her life, and New York City is the place where any girl―even one who runs with a Pack―can redefine herself. First order of business: find a mate, settle down, and stop using men for sex. Even big, gorgeous, lion-shifting, oh-my-what-big-um-paws-you-have men. Then again...

My thoughts:

I am sorry but why is everyone loving this. Omg so dull!!!!! I tried my best, I really did! I was told it was funny 

Yeah that would be a negative on funny. I read up to 100, the rest of the 100 pages of the first story is a blur. The other story I skimmed.

I will not be reading more. A big fail.

Paperback, 391 pages
Published September 25th 2007 by Brava (first published January 1st 2007)
Pride #1
Paranormal romance
Own

Once, Sarah Bingham’s biggest challenge was making her students pay attention in class. Now, after rescuing a wounded stranger, she’s landed in the middle of a battle between corrupt vampires and powerful immortals who also need blood to survive. Roland Warbrook is the most compelling man Sarah has ever laid hands on. But his desire for her is mingled with a hunger he can barely control…

In his nine centuries of immortal existence, no woman has tempted Roland as much as Sarah. But asking her to love him is impossible—when it means forfeiting the world she’s always known, and the life he would do anything to protect

My thoughts:

*sleeping*

I am sorry, what?

*sleeping*

Gods! I am PNRed out! I can't handle this anymore! Big ass guy meets tiny female. Insta love/lust, blah blah blah

*sleeping*

It was just so dull! I got to page 100 and skimmed the rest. No world building. just these two boring people talking.

Mass Market Paperback, 345 pages
Published March 3rd 2011 by Zebra (first published January 1st 2011)
Immortal Guardians #1
Paranormal romance
Own

In this dazzling, sensual novel, Dianne Duvall beckons readers into a world of vampires, immortals, and humans with extraordinary gifts…where passion can last forever, if you’re willing to pay the price…

Defense attorney Kim Fraser has to venture into the dark and dangerous Shiftertown to get answers for a client accused of murder, but the secrets she learns from the enticing lips of Liam Morrissey might just get her killed if the shifter doesn't claim her for his mate.

My thoughts:

Another book that showed me that I am PNRed out. I am just all, sigh, why even bother?

It was ok at first, I did try my best, but it was a bit over 100 pages where it all fell part for me. I just could not be bothered about the heroine, or the hero who went all mine. And all the rest. Still I saw that it could have been good for me a few years ago. But now I might be over most pnr books. They do not work.

Anyway, a story about a woman who meets a sexy shifter, has hot sex, saves a life and lives happily ever after. Boring for me.

Mass Market Paperback, 304 pages
Published January 26th 2010 by Leisure Books
Shifters Unbound #1
Paranormal romance
Own