Bite Me

Shelly Laurenston

May 2013 · The Pride Series Book 9 · Kensington Books

About this ebook

An “uproarious” shifter romance with “intensely satisfying chemistry between the leads” from the New York Times-bestselling author (Publishers Weekly).
 
Livy Kowalski has no time for idiots. When you shapeshift into a honey badger, getting through life's irritants is a finely honed skill. Until she gets stuck housing her nutso cousin and dealing with her dad's untimely and unexplained demise.

That's where Vic Barinov comes in--or his house does. Vic can't step outside without coming back to find Livy devouring his honey stash and getting the TV remote sticky. It gets his animal instincts all riled up. But he'll have to woo her at high speed: all hell is breaking loose, and Livy is leading the charge…
 
“Erotically charged…Laurenston builds up her world with a sprawling cast of memorable characters and their over-the-top antics, featuring everything from bear-only towns with Renaissance Faires to shifter roller derby…delightfully zany.”—Publishers Weekly 

Ratings and reviews

This steady to fast paced and smooth flowing plot keeps readers on the edge of their seat with lots of action, suspense, humor, drama and romance. The attraction between Livy and Vic is a slow burning flame that steadily gets hotter throughout the book sneaking up on them. The sex scenes are hot, steamy and sizzling with lots of passion that stimulates the senses. The relationship between the couple is filled with aggravation, friendship, loyalty, violence and humor that keep the reader tense with anticipation as they wait to see what will happen next. The story is filled with laughter and romance as well humorous violence situations and violence toward the bad guys which makes for a very entertaining read. I waited impatiently for this book and I was not disappointed, Shelly Laurenston gives readers a world full enchanting and intriguing vibrant characters that captures the imagination and ensures that the readers are fascinated with each and every story and character. Each story has unique freshness and its own quirky personality that jumps off the pages keeping the reader very entertained.

With a bit of a so-so start, this book took off about a 1/3 of the way in, and never let down. Same as me, started reading it one night, and a little bit the next day, then picked it up for a bit that night, and before you know it, 3 am! Vic and Livy play a prominent role in the previous book, though not romantically. I guess that is where the slow start came from, I didn't get any sparks between them. It was a wonderful and interesting story, but where was the romance? Then, little bits, as these two friendly shifters, became better friends, and had different thoughts. We see this more from Vic, as his logical bear side rejects all sexual thoughts of Livy All it takes is one very determined, post-jousting, honey badger, to bring Vic's cat to the surface, and then all bets are off. These two are explosive in the, well, it seems to be the kitchen a lot, and once they start, there is no turning back You will laugh, so much, because the honey badgers and the hybrids are front and centre in this book. Even Jessie and Bobby's little girl, and Ronnie and Brendan's apparent devil child show up. They all have their quirks, and they all let them loose. You will get mad in this book, mad at the bad guys, because the bad guys do unspeakable things. You will cheer in this book, when it comes time to take out the bad guy they have been looking for for a few books, and Dee gives her plan, #gowolfgo. Bite me has everything that makes this series fabulous, and has a friends to lovers story that only this world could put together, in the best possible way!

I love Shelley and have bought all her books and loaded into collections onto calibre. I will now have to buy elsewhere thanks Google Play - won't be buying anymore books from you!

About the author

Shelly Laurenston is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Pride, Call of Crows, and The Honey Badger Chronicles, as well as winner of the RT Book Reviews Readers' Choice Award for her 2016 novel, The Undoing. When she’s not writing about sexy wolf, honey badger, lion, and other fang-filled predators, she's writing about sexy dragons as G.A. Aiken, the acclaimed and bestselling author of the Dragon Kin series. Originally from Long Island, she now lives on the West Coast and spends most of her time writing and making sure her rescued pit bull doesn’t love everyone into a coma. Please visit her online at www.ShellyLaurenston.com.