Wow this Was damn Good!! i love this series!!
and i couldnt wait to read Blayne and Bo's story!!
And it Lived up to what i thought and more!! It was so good!!
Even tho the WowZah Scenes were limited it didnt bother me at all, I laughed so much threw this one!! I can not wait for Dee ann and Ric!!!
Re Read Was AMAZING!!! I Loved it so much more thend time around!! So funny :
RE READ Was Brilliant!!! Loved it therd time : Omg!! How much do I love this book and the whole freakin series.
. . Seriously, the realtionship between Blaynewho I love in the other books and have been waiting for her story and Bo was super cute and just like how well they went together even both have serious crazy issues going on.
If you haven't read this series yet you MUSTit is so LOL funny!! Ok, . . so I gave this bookbecause I LOVE SL's Pride series and this one was a great addition to the rest!, . . I've always loved Blayne, the little wolfdog has always been hilarious and it was fun to see her end up w/ someone so great.
Bo I LOVED!!! . a Polar bearlion who plays hockey, . too funny! and throw in his OCD w/ neatness and lists and time, . . what's not to love! This book had SL's signiture "sassy and crassy" humor, which is so much fun and will have you laughing out loud! I would say that my only complaint is that the "steam" factor was not the same as her other books.
. . normally she has some really great "smex" scenes throughout her books, . . but in this one it took 'till a little bit more than/way through the book for thest one to even show up and it wasn't really much of one.
. and the second one she gave us was a little bit "more" but it still wasn't what she normally writes, . . as I've said. . in her past books, she's written some REALLY GREAT "steamy" scenes! With that being said, . . it didn't take away from my love for the book, which is why I still gave itstars, Anyone who has read this series and enjoyed it should def, check it out! : One of my Favourites in the series, love Bo and Blayne, and despite having read this many many times still find myself laughing.
A fab blend of humour, action and romance, Engaging charcters and writing that draws you in make this a great read and reread, Impulsive Blayne is a perfect fit for super organised and focused Bo seeing them pop up in other books like Wolf with Benefits is always a treat.
I keep thinking Ive found my favorite Shelly Laurenston and then Im wrong, But this! This is it, For real!
I like the bear characters bc theyre funny, Sweet. Chill. And have a little less ego than the lions, I liked Blayne weve met her in the last book, She flushed out nicely as a character,
I adore this series for the humor, The strong heroines. And the action/pacing. An absolute goto for me,
Have to admit Im dreading DeeAnn Smiths book, Such a jerk face.
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Delightful and easy totally works for me this week! Well narrated by Charlotte Kane!
March,
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Sometimes you just want something light and fun this is perfect for that! I liked the characters and enjoyed the story! Beast Behaving Badly Stars
Beast Behaving Badly is book five in the Pride series by sitelinkShelly Laurenston.
I absolutely love this series and its quirky fun loving characters, It can be read as a standalone, but this series is best read, at least the first time through in series order, so you can fall in love with all the characters and supporting characters that are introduced.
I adored this book the first time and the second, This series is one I will always read again and again, It is funny, sexy and entertaining, The characters always have something funny to say, they have loads of fun together, and I just love the family feel, Family is so important to all these shifters, As for the story its fast paced and hilarious,
Our Leads: Blayne, I love her, She is just crazy, all over the place, and constantly underestimated, Even her friends underestimate her, They have no idea what she is capable of, Bo, I just love him and his fox companions, He is so uptight, schedule oriented, and cranky, You would never expect him to joke, but he gives Blayne as good as he takes, Watching these two was so entertaining, as complete opposites attract,
Beast Behaving Badly was a hilariously, fun, and entertaining read, I highly recommend this series, The characters are so infectious and fascinating,
Audio June: OMG I laughed so much, . . I have to say the audiobook for Beast Behaving Badly was superb, The narrator brings out the characters quirkinesses and their hipper over the top moments, It was just so much fun, My husband was looking at me and wondering why I was laugh and I had to point to my headphones, . . Yep it was that good, I adore both Blayne and Bo, These two are perfect for each other, I also love all the secondary characters that come into play, If you enjoy over the top, silly, unique, and quirky characters then you will love this novel, I had fun reading it, but I have to say the audiobook was so much more enjoyable, It felt like the first time!
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Blayne Thorpe, a hyperactive wolfdog, tries to escape from, then falls in love with Bo Novikoff, hockey player, careful thinker and polar bearlion hybrid.
Laughs abound as the two battle a hybrid fighting group, disbelieving friends and rabid badgers, This is a great series!
Lynn H, Ten years after Blayne Thorpe first encountered Bo Novikov, she still can't get the smoothtalking shifter out of her head, Now he's shadowing her in New Yorkall sevenplus feet of himdetermined to protect her from stalkers who want to use her in shifter dogfights.
Even if he has to drag her off to an isolated Maine town where the only neighbors are other bears almost as crazy as he is.
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Let sleeping dogs lie, Bo knows it's good advice, but he can't leave Blayne be, Blame it on her sweet sexiness or his hunch that there's more to this little wolfdog than meets the eye, Blayne has depths he hasn't yet begun to fathom much as he'd like to, She may insist Bo's nothing but a pain in her delectable behind, but polar bears have patience in spades, Soon she'll realize how good they can be together, And when she does, animal instinct tells him it'll be worth the wait, . . Really This was just such a weird read, . . I don't even know where to beguin, I will admit this book was way better than the previous one, . . still I think that
after the firstbooks the series just changed in a way I don't approve of, While I found thosefirst books funny and different from everything else out there, I found this lasttoo predictable and not as funny.
I will even admit I missed the dogs a bit, lol, I think my problem was with Gwen and Blaney, I just never really liked them, although Blaney got to be a more interesting character once we got to know her better.
I guess I will just never get to love this type of reads as much as other more serious books, I need more substance on the main characters, It's cute for the characters to have a defect or a vain or superfitial side, but when that's all there is about them they just stop being cute IMHO.
I just don't understand why everybody loves this series so much, . . I keep reading the books on it because I already started but I know it wouldn't have made things any different in my life to not have ever started it.
I just don't think this is a series worth spending time on, I just can't stop reading it now because I already started it but if I could go back I wouldn't.
Original read in: I loved this! It was fun :
Made me laugh, . .
Audiobook.
Reread in: even better! Fromtostars, This is everything. So lovely excellent narration. Love this couple. This is book number five in Shelly Laurenston's Pride Series and it is fabulous!
Warning!! The characters in this book take some getting used too, they are extreme and take on quite a few characteristics of their shifter animal.
If you have not read any books in this series before, I advise you to do so before reading this one, as the world and the characters are special, you really need the full picture from start to finish.
Blayne Thorpe and Bo Novikov metyears ago, the end result had ayear old Blayne running in fear of her life from a very intense, misunderstood Bo.
hilarious reading moment
Now they have run into each other again, Bo is just as intense and Blayne still thinks he is a crazy man who wants to murder her in his dungeon,
He was no longer the sixone, two hundred fifty pound serial killer looking sub adult she'd met all those years ago, Nope. He was now a sevenone, three hundredseventyeight pound serial killer looking adult
Bo, has a unexplainable immediate attraction to Blayne that hasn't disappeared even thoughyears has gone buy.
He has gone on to become one of the most formiddable and feared but also best Hockey player in the shifter league, Blayne is an extemely hyper, unorganised, easily distracted plumber by day, roller derby player by night and a friend to all, Unfortuanely , Blayne is in some series trouble and we fine Bo stepping up to protect her from herself and from the league of humans that are hunting her for there illegal dog fights.
The storyline more than kept my interest, with action, mystery and adventure, Brilliant characters, old and new show up in this book and they are all just gems!! The Bear community in Maine was a real win for me.
Oh and of course, roller derby, what fun!!!
If I had to go on and on about something in this book and series it would be the humour.
They are lots of fun and Beast Behaving Badly is just full of laugh out loud moments,
Blaynes craziness, the fact that she is always getting herself into ridiculous situations, Her bubbly friendliness,in my mind I see her like a unstoppable overyly excited labrador, Just, go, go, go with a constantly wagging tail, I am sure we are made to see her like this, like I said the people in these books really take on there animals traits in their human form.
Bo, who shifts into a half polar bear, half lion, is hilariously irrational, he has schedules and lists and loves to be on time, clean.
He is really focused, the total opposite of Blayne, This leads to many funny confrontation scenes between these two characters, Just reading each of their inner monologues was a good time, Such vivid personalities really make a book for me,
Shelly Laurenston has done a great job developing a different shifter world, that is interesting but isn't as dark and daunting as some of the books out there at the moment.
The Pride series is fun and light, without being flaky, Easy to loose yourself in, highly entertaining, a real winner in my book,
Another white washed cover, but a wonderful book, The cover girl really should be black, bearcat sexiness Stars
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“Stop!” Bo put his hands over his ears and gaped down at her.
“Good God, woman. Hit the brakes on the freight train that is your mouth, ”
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“Youre an asshole!” “You dont even know me, ” “On the ice. Youre an asshole on the ice, And now everyone wants to be assholes! Thats expected now!” She rolled closer, “And because Im not an asshole, Im suffering! Your fault!”
Beast Behaving Badly is theth book in the Pride series and it is awesomely hilarious.
I really love Blayne and Bo, Bo Novikov is a lion/polar bear hybrid, He is a totally lovable asshole, anti social loner with OCD which I totally understandand a kick ass hockey player, Bo needs everything organised and neat, He says exactly what he means and is all about being punctual, staying on schedule, and list! Bo set his eyes on Blayneyears ago and wanted her then, but she ran from him screaming.
Now ten years later she is asking him to help toughen her up for her roller derby team, since he is the asshole of hockey and all.
Even though he doesn't have time on his schedule he is willing to help Blayne because he wants a chance to be in her life.
“Dont you understand” she pleaded, “Im a wolfdog meant to be free! To roam the hills and roads as I see fit, Not to be held down by your expensive time keeping devices, I cant live in this kind ofooh! Earmuffs, ”
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“Will it make you happy if I do this” he asked, “Yes,” she hissed, frustrated. “It would make me happy, ” “Then Ill do it. ” Blayne blinked, her fists unfisting, “Just like that” “Yep. I like making you happy, ”
Blayne Thorpe is a wild dog/wolf hybrid, She is a super perky,hyper, sweet, all over the place scatter brain, but she can turn killer with mad skills she learned from her daddy when she has to.
She is always trying to help others she goes out of her way to be cheery and nice to everyone, Which is the problem she is having, her roller derby team thinks she is too nice and will cause their team to lose the upcoming championship.
So Blayne gets Bo to help toughen her up, but she also wants to help him too, Blayne can see that Bo is lonely and she wants to help him be more nice and make friends, cut loose and live a little.
“I dont hate you, you idiot, Im in love with you, Thats why Im panicking!” She marched to the door and yelled, “And our children will not be freaks!”
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Bos eyes narrowed, and his mane dropped to his shoulders.
“Oh, no,” her father said next to him with a level of sarcasm even Bo was finding hard to take, “Your kids wont be freaks at all, ” “I love your daughter, sir,” Bo said low for Mr, Thorpes benefit only. “But dont think for a second I wont snap your neck like a twig if you get on my nerves, ” The wolf looked up at him, brows raised, and Bo added, “No, really, ”
Blayne and Bo together had me laughin so damn hard, The way she is all over the place chaotic and it driving Bo crazy, I love that Bo learns to let loose and would do nice things just to make Blayne happy, I think it is great that even though they both could be other things Blayne could be mean and Bo could be nice they are still true to who they really are.
I love the fact that Blayne could go from sweet, nutty girl to trained killer inseconds flat, There is some seriously hot scenes in this book, I love a lot of the new characters we meet for the first time in this book, and really enjoyed seeing some old favorites from past books.
I really enjoy how closely the books tie together and build onto each other giving the characters more depth, A great read and a awesome addition to the series, Below I leave a couple of my favorite quotes from this book:
He grabbed her around the waist and lifted her up, enjoying her squealed giggles her arms looping around his neck, her legs around his waist.
“And now” he demanded. “And now, Id have to say, you have me where you want me, Marauder, Genghis would be proud. ” “Then you better kiss me quick before I burn your peasant village to the ground and take all your women as my concubines, ” “Oh, no,” she whispered, staring at his mouth, “Im trapped between wanting to help my people and keep my innocence, What will I do” “What you always do, Blayne,” he told her honestly while pressing his body into hers, “Help everyone else. ” She leaned in, her hands moving from his shoulders to his face, her fingers stroking his jaw, “My God,” she whispered, her sweet breath brushing against his mouth, “the sacrifices Im forced to make for my people, ”
“Bo!” “What” Blayne cleared her throat and said, “Uh, . . Bold Novikov, Id like you to meet my father, Ezra Louis Thorpe. ” Praying she was kiddingbut already knowing she wasnthe looked down the porch stairs, Unsmiling, black, powerfully built, in his fifties, and still wearing a buzz cut that was mere millimeters from bald, Bo knew this was Blaynes father.
“Sir,” Bo said before raising his gaze to Blaynes, “I am so naked,” he whispered, What kind of first impression could he be making right now “Im almost positive he noticed that,” she whispered back, “Although if you go inside and get some pants, . . I dont think hell mind, ”
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