hunger for your pleasure, They growl for your touch, And in these sizzling stories by New York Times bestselling author Shelly Laurenston and Cynthia Eden, these sexy wolf shapeshifters are lust at first bite.
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Like A Wolf With A Bone by Shelly Laurenston
Quiet little Darla Lewis couldn't be happier when the mostfeared member of the South's rowdiest pack kidnaps her.
A girl gets real tired of being overprotected by her own shifter family, and there's nothing like an ohsobig bad wolf to start a pack feud, unleash her instinctsand have her surrender however and whenever she wants.
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Wed Or Dead by Cynthia Eden
Gage Ryder knew his human bride had a wild side.
But spending their honeymoon night on the run from hunters out to finish him and his pack is sure not the kind of fun he was looking forward to.
No problemGage will do whatever it takes to lay bare Kayla's secrets and find the truth, If he can keep from being captured by his own seductive game, . .st read:th November
Only for Shelly Laurenston's novella,
Buddy read with Maru
ND read:th March
Buddy read with sitelinkJo 'Like a Wolf With a Bone' by Shelly Laurenston
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Laurenston often uses the novella format to give us back stories of characters in her series from previous generations.
In this one we get the story of hillbillie shewolf killing machine DeeAnn's parents Eggie and Darla,
More wolf than man, we know from 'Big Bad Beast' that Eggie Ray Smith's favorite saying is "time to start the killin'" and he often invokes it when forced to spend time with his crazy kin.
So how then did a lethal military operative end up with sweetaspie Darla Mae Lewis This is their sweet story and I really liked it.
We got to see a whole new side of Eggie, and find out he may be scary, dangerous and feared by all who know him and of him, but he's really a protector at heart and gentle Darla is his perfect mate.
'Wed or Dead' by Cynthia Eden
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Not as good as Laurenston's story IMO, but still entertaining and definitely hot as one would expect from Eden.
In this one, a werewolf has to convince his new wife who turns out to be hunting his kind that supernaturals aren't all bad.
It started it out interesting, but lost some momentum halfway through and I ended up
skimming through the rest of the story.
When I seen this on netgalley I knew I had to re read this!, It's beenyears and I must admit I forgot how much I loved Shelly Laurenston's style of writing,
Like A Wolf With A Bone
Eggie Ray and Darla May are just the cutest ever.
His big tough brooding personality to her sweet rosey and a little fiesty one complemented Eachother perfectly, Total opposites in everyway yet they just worked, I love how unsure of the whole situation Eggie Ray was and how little Darla May sorta just took charge! She tickled me to no end with her fiesty little snits.
I love how she defended his virtue against others including her family, Eggie Ray melted me with how gentle her was with her! For a deadly creature he was for sure as sweet as pie to her.
I devoured this sweet little love story in a few short hours with no breaks, It's seemlessly written jam packed with all kinds of sweet, sexy and alot of funny, I have no complaints. . it was a pleasure to read again,
Cynthia Eden Wed or Dead,
This ones a new read for me, I must admit I enjoyed it and it's one of my favs from this author despite it being a short read it was brilliant.
Kayla and Gage's book is all gogogo from the first page!, A gunshot wedding after a brief courtship probably wasn't the best idea for two people who've got skeletons sky high in their closets.
Lies and deceit isn't the best way to start a marriage but it clearly worked out for these pair, I loved that I'm thrown straight into action without time to prepare, It made me pay attention to what's going on and sucked me in from the start.
Although they're both very dominant personalities they didn't clash as much as I'd expected, . . they didn't have an easy road to happiness, They had to let go of demons that they've lived with a long time and trust in Eachother, Super fast paced with action, humour and some hot romance it has a little of everything jam packed into this little story.
It's my first read since being neck deep in Christmas prep and birthday parties so it was a needed escape from reality that ticked all the boxes.
I kindly received this ARC from netgalley in exchange for an honest review, BR with sitelinkAly is so frigging bored,
Just Shelly Laurenston's story,
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I'd totally forgotten what this story was about.
It was like reading it for the first time and it was awesome!
I admit that whenever I read books about my favorite characters parents I feel kind of awkward.
It's like catching your parents "kissing", I'm a weird person, don't judge,
But I'm a serious fangirl were Eggie is concerned, I love his brooding, glaring personality, It was nice seeing how sweet he was with Darla and how cute he could be when in love, In the rest of the series we usually just see his ruthless side when it comes to enemies or is protective one when it comes to Dee Ann.
Darla was also such a sweetheart,
This is definitely a great start for one of my favorite series!
Here's a quote that had me laughing out loud.
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"Arms wide, Darla reached up and hugged their daughter, She favored her mother in the face, but she has Eggie's eyes, Whether wolf or human, her eyes were cold and yellow and deadly, Sometimes, when she'd come to visit, the teo of them would go to the mall, get a couple of chocolate shakes, sit around, and just stare at people.
Taking bets on who they could get to piss their pants with nothing more than a look, It was something they'd been doing since his little girl was about five or so, It was also something they never told her momma about, " Loved loved loved Shelley Laurenston's 'Howl for It', I'd forgotten how funny this series is, A light read that filled in some back story of current characters, Nothing like reading how bad and mad a character's parents were back in the day! or in this series case still in this day I think I'm just going to write one review for every single book in this series.
It will work because it's essentially the same book written nine different ways,
When I read the prequel to this series, sitelinkHowl For It, I thought to myself, Well, this could be interesting.
I really liked reading about Darla and Eggie, The backwoods redneck theme made me a bit leery, but Laurenston wrote the characters with such unapologetic frankness that I found myself liking even the loudest, brashest southerners in the mix.
Which is saying something because I can't really stand that kind of thing in real life, Laurenston has a way with characters and dialogue, and there's a wit in these stories that's sadly missing from a lot of modern romances.
Her pacing is good, her sex scenes are enjoyable, not overthetop or full of purple prose, but also not so dirty they'd throw some readers off.
They're a sort of middle ground, I suppose, Which can be good or bad, depending on your taste, I personally can handle far raunchier sex scenes, but I don't need them, and I think the level of sensuality in these books is fitting to the sense of the stories overall.
The characters are likable and irritating all at the same time, and that creates a tension while reading that's surprisingly enjoyable.
You find yourself unable to put the book down, but not just because you love it, There's a desire to see what idiot things the characters will do next, A lot of them are the kind of people we love to hate and hate to love,
As an author, Laurenston is capable of crafting characters with charisma, You may not like them, you may disapprove of their life choices, but damn it, you find them intriguing,
The only negative thing I have to say about these books is that they're just too damn similar.
In every book, the heroine is reluctant and bitchy, slightly hysterical and irrational, and the men are the ones who have to convince them they're fated to be together.
I don't mind that in a story, but after nine full installments and two novellas, that formula got to be a little annoying.
Stars: Loved "Like A Wolf With A Bone" by Shelly Laurenston, It was great to read about Eggie Ray Smith and Darla Mae Lewis, They make a great couple, I enjoyed the history, and getting a glimpses into the aunts and uncles of the Smith Pack.
Stars: "Wed Or Dead" by Cynthia Eden was ok, I would have liked more development in the relationship between the two lead characters, Lots of action. Over all it was good,
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