Book Review: Hot & Badgered by Shelly Laurenston

Series: Honey Badger Chronicles Book #1

Format: ebook

Rating: 4 Stars

How I Got It: Borrowed from Library (Overdrive)

Genre: Paranormal Romance

Publisher:Kensington

Synopsis courtesy of Goodreads

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 . . .

Review

This book is a whole bunch of crazy-in a good way. I mean it's full of all kinds of shape-shifters and the main character and one of her sisters are both people of color.

It was also very funny. Both the dialogue is funny and there's situational comedy. There are still pretty serious situations along with some suspense, but the humor was really fun. One of the sisters kept hiding in cabinets and it was interesting to see where/when she would show up. 

The romance was pretty subtle and very cute. It was always the secondary story line, but you still felt the chemistry between Berg and Charlie. Sometimes, in paranormal romances-especially shifter stories-the romance can feel forced or rushed. Ms. Laurenston included characteristics from their animals, while also making the romance believable.

My only issue was that I would get confused sometimes. There are so many different types of shifters and characters constantly coming or going. I would have just liked a list of characteristics and their relationships to one another to keep them straight. 

I don't know when the next book will come out, but I'll read it. I assume the series will be at least 3 books-each one featuring one of the sisters. They are interesting in their own ways so I'm curious to know more about them.

Thanks for reading!

Holly