Hot and Badgered

The MC's didn't have the best chemistry. One was too oblivious to see what was going on. The other didn't show much of a backbone. I like Shelly Laurenston for her crazy strong-willed female leads. But this book missed the mark for me.

Female MC: 2/5
Male MC: 3/5
Scratch that itch: 3/5
World building: 3/5
Plot: 2/5
Other Characters: 2/5

Five stars for what it is - a very funny, action packed, violence packed romantic fantasy about weres. This is a story of three bad-ass half sisters with a no-good honeybadger daddy, and each their own mom. The eldest, Charlie, has a wolf mom, who ends up being mom for everyone, as first the middle-sister's (Max) honeybadger mom leaves her daughter to be watched after while she was busy doing a heist, and then the little sister's (Stevie) tiger mom did the same. And then when their dad gets the wolf mom killed, the girls wander to live with her dad's pack. It was so funny, I laughed out loud a lot, and read a lot of passages to my husband. :-D Not that much hot sex, but some. I love it how Shelly makes the shapeshifters behave like the animals they are supposed to be, even when they are in their human form. I love these people, most of them. The villains are adequately evil and scary, the dad is an a-hole, and I love the violent fighting scenes. Charlie is my hero! :-DNow, this is the first in the Honey Badger Chronicles, but it helps, if you start with [b:Pack Challenge 112539 Pack Challenge (Magnus Pack, #1) Shelly Laurenston https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1388246223l/112539.SY75.jpg 108358], the first book in the “Smith's Shifter World Series”. There were quite a lot of people I didn't have the slightest idea of who they were or what they were, and that made it a bit hard to understand.

This book is a spin-off of the Pride series. Now, I didn't realize this before I read it and I was wondering who all these other characters were and if I was supposed to know them somehow. So, it would be best to read Pride first, but you totally don't have to. In fact, out off all the books set in this world, this is probably my favorite books.

We've got some awesome characters, the romance is... pretty darn good, I feel like they did get to know each other, and I enjoyed the action scenes. My only problem is the amount of characters thrown out in book 1 of a series. I am sooooo looking forward to the second book.