Romance Book Review: Milly Taiden's Bearfoot and Pregnant

Author: Milly Taiden
Series Connection: Paranormal Dating Agency

ASIN: B0184XC750

Genre: BBW Paranormal Shape Shifter Romance

Purchase Link: Amazon

Yet another of Gerri's assistants heads on a otherworld trip with Gerri and finds her shifter mate.

Cassie doesn't really believe Gerri when she tells her that she wants Cassie to go to another planet for a party for one of her former matches. Looking for an escape from her own life Cassie decides to take a chance and go anyway.

When she's there she meets sexy bear shifter, Talen, and decides a night of great sex is just what the doctor ordered. When she wakes the next morning with him gone, Cassie heads home.

Talen is excited to meet his mate, but trouble at home sends him away too soon and he misses the chance to tell Cassie she's his true mate. Only one thing to do is to go to earth and bring his mate back home.

Milly Taiden has worked her way into a formula on this series. There is an alpha male, a strong female who has been treat poorly because of her weight. This story reads well and offers a quick read of mindless entertainment.

Description:

Cassandra Grimaldi’s boss has lost her mind. Too bad. She really liked the fiery matchmaker. But when Gerri offers to prove aliens are real and multiple orgasms exist, Cassie can’t help but be curious. Who would say no to orgasms and aliens? Not this curvy girl! 

What’s a bear to do when his mate leaves him after he’s mated her? Talen Arctos goes to earth to claim sassy and curvy Cassie. Now if only he could figure out how to convince her to return to his planet with him without offending her…again. 

With a brother wreaking havoc in his clan and his pregnant mate thinking she’s a one-night stand, Talen has his work cut out for him. Good thing this bear isn’t letting his woman go. Even if he has to learn what groveling means.

Romance Book Review: Milly Taiden's Curves 'Em Right

Author: Milly Taiden
Series Connection: Paranormal Dating Agency
ISBN: 978-1503175129
Genre: Paranormal Romance, Shifter Romance, BBW Romance
Publisher: Latin Goddess Press

Purchase Link: Amazon

Dani is looking has given up looking for the perfect boyfriend until her friend introduces her to Mrs. Gerri Wilder of the Paranormal Dating Agency. Gerri is sure she can help an adventurous girl like Danny find the man she's been looking for, maybe even two men who really need Dani to complete them.

Alpha Kane and his Beta Blake have been looking for the right woman to complete their triad. Kane's mother has decided it is time to intervene and introduces the men to Gerri Wilder and the PDA. Thinking there is no way she is going to find them, what the two have been looking forever for Blake and Kane agree to give it a try.

Dani is surprised when she meets the men that Gerri wants her to meet is her brother's good friends Kane and Blake. Kane and Blake can't believe that the woman that Gerri wanted them to meet is Dani, someone they've wanted for a long time, but promised her brother they would never date. Once the three meet the chemistry is definitely there, but there is still a lot to work out for them to have a future together.

The is book can be read alone from the series. It definitely scores high on the hot, hot, hot meter, however it may have a tad too much sex for me. I liked the idea that the wolves thought they needed to spend some time with Dani so that she didn't think their relationship was all about sex, however they never seemed to get around all the sexy time together.

Description:

A BBW in search of love + two sexy wolf shifters ready to claim her as their mate = Sizzling Ménage Romance

Daniella Flores is looking for a good man. A man who will accept her as she is and go crazy for her curves. So far she’s had no luck in the romance department and is worried she might never find the right one. When Mrs. Wilder of the PDA offers to help, Dani is all for trying anything. Mrs. Wilder promises to find her love, romance and hot sex. What woman in her right mind would say no to that?

Kane and Blake have been searching for a mate to complete their Alpha triad. There’s just one problem: they’ve yet to find a woman they both want. 

Not to worry, Kane’s mother comes to the rescue and brings in the PDA. Unfortunately for them, Mrs. Wilder has something up her sleeve and it’s not a bra. When they meet their mysterious date, they know she’s the woman they need.

A masquerade ball brings Dani and the shifters together. The two men who are really good friends with Dani’s overprotective older brother. She’ll get one chance to finally live the fantasy night she’s always wanted with the wild wolves. Besides, it’s not like they could really want her for a mate. It will take some maneuvering for Kane and Blake to keep Dani, not lose their friend and their pack, and prove her curves are the only ones they want.

Note: This book can be read as standalone.

Reader Warning: This book contains panty-melting sex (the kind that makes you need fudge and a cold shower), adult language (we like some freaky dirty talk), and violence. If this is not the kind of stuff you like to read, skip this book. However, if you like dirty, raunchy sex with two men on one curvy sarcastic girl, then this is right up your alley. Enjoy!

Romance Book Scene: Milly Taiden's Twice The Growl

Author: Milly Taiden
Series Connection: Paranormal Dating Agency Book 1
ISBN: 978-1501062919
Genre: Paranormal Romance, Shifter Romance, Menage Romance, Erotic Romance, BBW Romance
Publisher: Latin Goddess Press

Purchase Link: Amazon

Tally's family has taken more to her ex-husband then to her, so when she has to attend her cousin's wedding she knows she needs to have a date or not go at all. Taking her neighbor, Gerri, up on her offer to set Tally up with a date for the event, Tally puts her complete trust into Gerri.

Gerri's nephew and his friend, Theron and Connor are looking for a mate. They want someone who can complete their alpha triad.

Gerri knows the three would make a good match, but with Tally's relationship hang-ups and the Theron and Connor's fears of Tally being accepted by the pack are they ready to become mates together.

The is a hot and sexy book with two strong alpha males and one really sassy BBW. Tally has had her bad relationships and problems, but I admire how she has held her ground and kept her head up despite her family. I would have loved for the book to be slightly longer with more time with the pack, but the story was saved by the well written erotic bedroom scenes.

Description:

Talia Barca needs a date. Badly. She uses the services of the Paranormal Dating Agency hoping for a decent guy to take to a family wedding. A wedding her ex-husband has wormed his way into as a guest. 

Connor and Theron want Tally to complete their Alpha triad. She's sexy, curvy and funny. But she's human. And they're not sure she'll go for a relationship with two men at the same time. 

As if deciding to give two men a shot wasn’t difficult enough, Tally will also need to deal with a threat from the pack. She'll either prove she's strong enough to be an Alpha mate or find herself at the mercy of a vicious opponent. 

Reader Warning: This book contains lots of scorching sex (including a threesome so hot it will make your ereader sizzle), adult language (hanky panky with no dirty talk is no fun), and violence. If this is not the kind of stuff you like to read, skip this book. However, if you like dirty, raunchy sex with some sarcasm and two hot men on one curvy girl, then this is right up your alley. Enjoy!

Romance Book Review: VA Dold's Simon

Author: VA Dold
Series Connection: Le Beau Brothers
ISBN: 978-0990523512
Genre: Paranormal, Werewolf Romance, Vampire
Publisher: VA Dold

Purchase Link: Amazon

Before entering the Marines, Simon Le Beau never realized that he would miss the touch of another so desperately that he was endangering his own well being and the wolf soul that lives inside him. Coming home his family works to bring him back to his former self, but it isn't until he meets his new sister-in-laws best friend Rose that he truly comes back to life.

Rose had a rough childhood, losing her parents early in life, she gets the chance to really experience the family bond. This leaves her very insecure. In adulthood she holds dear the friendships she developed with her best friend Anna and her boys, as well as her foster brothers. When she meets Simon and his family, she gets a completely different experience of love and family.

Simon knows right away that Rose is his mate even though she is human. Can he convince her that his feelings are true before someone else kidnaps her and takes her for his own?

I love this story and so far this series. While this story is pure paranormal fantasy it touches on bringing to life post traumatic stress that many soldiers go through. With the loves and support of his family Simon begins to come back to the man he used to be. Rose is a strong character who doesn't have a problem of taking care of herself when she needs to. I love the way she was able to keep calm under duress. Very well done.

Description:

NOTE: Complete novel. No cliffhanger. Dual POV. Rated 18+ for language and strong sexual content. 

Four years of honorably serving his country has left Simon, Cade’s younger brother, damaged and trapped in wolf form. Little did he know the only person with the ability to heal him completely would be found at home. Literally. Now that he’s found her, he is desperate to claim her. 

Rose is a beautiful, voluptuous woman with limited experience with men. Although she's confident, she still has reservations. Never having a family of her own, her fear of abandonment has her fleeing romantic relationships, and doubting herself. 

Travis is insane. A deadly loose cannon that a secret organization hired to destroy the Le Beau family by denying them their mates. Permanently. 

Simon’s dream will be lost forever unless he is able to maintain human form. 

Rose needs unconditional love and a mate to create the family she’s always wanted. 

Travis’s all-consuming drive is to take Rose for himself. 

Will Simon ever be whole again, able to claim his mate, giving Rose the love and family she so desperately craves? Or will Travis destroy them both? 

Romance Book Review: Bonnie Vanak's The Mating Chase

Author: Bonnie Vanak

Series Connection: Werewolves of Montana 

ASIN: B00BVA2QBO

Genre: Werewolf Romance, Paranormal Romance

Publisher: unknown

Purchase Link: Amazon

For her own good, Beth's uncle and alpha of the pack is forcing her to choose a mate or participate in a mating chase. Since coming back from college, Beth is more human than wolf and knows that the only wolf she'd want to mate with wouldn't work because he doesn't trust humans, she decides she must participate in the chase. 

Can Beth's wolf save her from a claiming frenzy or will she be saved by the one she's wanted from the beginning. 

Good world building in this Montana set paranormal story. This story reads fast and while the hero and the heroine appear to be worlds apart in who they are the author brings them together well in the end. 

Description:

Welcome to the sensual world of the Lupine, where the burning drive to mate claims all...

Home from college, where men teased her for being overweight, Beth doesn't fit into pack life at the Mitchell ranch. Because she's forgotten how to shift into a wolf, the pack alpha has ordered her to choose a mate or leave. The only male Beth desires is Dale, a fiercely protective Lupine who loathes the human lifestyle she embraces. She hungers for the handsome shifter's touch, but fears their differences are too vast to overcome.

Dale has waited for four long years for Beth's return. Her scent ignites his desire and her voluptuous body fires his blood. He is determined to awaken her to the sensual world of the Lupine. Although she acts more "Skin" than wolf, he can't deny his overwhelming drive to claim her.

As the heat of passion threatens to consume them both, a new peril arises. Someone is killing a local rancher's livestock and blaming it on wolves, endangering the pack's ability to shapeshift. It will take all Beth's courage and Dale's skill to find the enemy threatening to destroy their world...

Romance Book Review: Maddy Barone's Wolf's Vengeance

Author: Maddy Barone
Series Connection: After the Crash
ISBN: 978-1-62210-108-5
Genre: Paranormal Romance, BBW Romance, Sci-Fi Romance, Werewolf/Shifter Romance
Publisher: Liquid Silver

Purchase Link: Amazon 

In Maddy Barone's After the Crash series book six, she takes readers to where she left off after book five at the ranch of the Dirk family where wolf shifter, Snake Wolfe, has agreed to help his new mate, Melissa and her brothers find their mother who was kidnapped 11 years before.

Melissa isn't so sure about her new mate. She agreed to marry him after he rescued her from former brothers-in-law who, after winning her in a bride fight, wanted to rape and murder her because she killed their brother.

Now home Maddy only hopes to see her mother again. As she gets to know Snake, she has to deal with living with being a woman in a society mostly composed of men and the repercussions of her past.

Snake Wolfe has finally found his mate and will do anything to keep her happy and safe. With the help of his cousin, Stone, he sets out to find Melissa's mother so that he can take his mate back home to the pack with him where he can keep her safe from harm.

Melissa is one of the strongest female characters that readers have seen in this series. She's been through hell and back with the best intentions of keeping her mother safe. I like this sci-fi series and the world that the author has created in a way to bring both a post-apocalyptic future and paranormal shifter genres together with imaginative descriptions of what the new world would look like.

Description:

In a post-apocalyptic future, a woman desperate to save her mother marries the werewolf who promises to help her. Wolf’s Vengeance takes you once again into the dangerous and passion-filled world created by Maddy Barone in her amazing romance series, After the Crash. 

In a future world where modern technology is unknown and women are rare, werewolf Snake Wolfe claimed Melissa Dirk as his mate the moment he laid eyes on her. All he wants is her love for him to match his for her. Mel will do anything to save her stolen mother, even marry the fierce werewolf who promises to help with the rescue. Love? Well … maybe she’ll love him someday. 

When trouble from Mel’s past threatens her very life, Snake swears anyone who wants to hurt her will have to go through him, and he will avenge every insult dealt her. Can love be born in blood? Or will Snake have to settle for merely his wife’s gratitude? 

Content Notes: Spicy, Paranormal, Shifters, Wolves, Science Fiction, Time Travel, Post Apocalyptic 

Romance Book Review: Celia Kyle's Lion's Honor

Author: Celia Kyle

Series Connection: Ridgeville Series

ISBN: 9781311793706

Genre: Paranormal, Shifter Romance, Werelion Romance, BBW Romance

Publisher: Summerhouse Publishing

Purchase Link: Amazon

Since she was 16 years old, Grayson, second in command of the Ridgeville Pride, suspected that Honor was his mate, but he knew that he had to let her go and finish college before he could claim her. He let's her go even though he doesn't want to.

Honor decides to leave the pride to go to London to attend Cambridge University. Since werelioness' don't reach their first heat until 22 she hopes that she will be home before it happens. Unfortunately, everything goes wrong in London and she is forced to come home battered and beaten. She knows that Grayson will be there for her, but will he still want her after what happened? 

Grayson isn't the only one who is interested in claiming Honor though, can Grayson protect her and keep his one true mate to himself?

This appears to be the ninth and final book in the Ridgeville Series. This book picks up four or so years after book eight in the series. Honor's story finds another werelioness in peril with the pack rallying to help keep a member of the pack safe from an evil disturbed rogue werelion. 

The nearly 80,000 word novel is well written offering a look at a strong alpha female who has been tortured and finding it hard to face those she loves with what she believes as her own shame. She fears her destined mate can't understand her reluctance to mate after all she has been through. Grayson is a strong alpha who plays a strong sensitive role and who works hard to protect his mate. His character is well developed and well written. There are excellent supporting characters in the entire series. I like the way the author handled this story much better than she did in the last book in the series. 

Description:

Sometimes the Queen of the Jungle needs to lean on her King. Okay, she’s really not the queen and he’s totally not the king, but damn it, they need each other.

Four years ago, werelioness Honor Mauer walked away from Ridgeville and hopped on a plane bound for London. She had college dreams and none of them included her pesky maybe-mate Grayson. (Even if he is the hottest thing to ever walk on two legs—and four.)

All is fantastically furry in London until she goes through her first heat. Then her world collapses, her bright, obnoxious eyes dim, and she runs home with her tail tucked between her legs. Too bad the London werelion who sent her scurrying home decides to show up just as she’s feeling a little less psychotic. Bastard.

Werelion Grayson got his curvy, luscious mate back on U.S. soil and he refuses to let her go. He knows there’s a lot of emotional work to do, but he didn’t become Ridgeville’s Second by turning belly up at the first sign of trouble. She’s his. The quicker she realizes that—and opens her heart to healing—the better. He’s got a plan for a life filled with love, laughter, and cubs and it sorta requires her cooperation.

Just when he thinks her recovery is around the corner, the male who’d hurt Honor shows up in Ridgeville. Which is a good thing, really, since it gives Grayson a chance to kill him. It’s like Christmas in July.

Romance Book Review: VA Dold's Cade

Author: V.A. Dold

Series Connection: LeBeau Brothers

ISBN: 978-1497533745

Genre: Paranormal, Shifter Romance

Publisher: Vickie Dold

Purchase Link: Amazon

Anna James sons are gone and successfully out on their own. This gives Anna the chance to finally leave her no good husband and find a new start. For five years she's been dreaming of a man who shows her love and romance. Moving to New Orleans she never would have guessed she would actually meet her dream man. 

As Anna and oldest LeBeau brother Cade begin to spend time together she learns that the world out there she never knew existed and her new love isn't exactly human. That's okay because the man in her dream wasn't totally human either. While Cade opens a whole new world for Anna, her ex-husband isn't quite done with her and is working hard to drag her back into her old troubled world. 

As far as I can see this is the first book for V.A. Dold and not a bad start. Like with all new series there is a lot of explaining and meeting of several characters that will more than likely have their own stories told in the near future. I think there is quite a bit of stumbling during the sex scenes making them appear a little rushed, but not bad. I was just thinking that Cade's personality lead more to the romantic and would have like to see more romance rather than erotic in this case. Otherwise I can't wait to read Simon's story which isn't out yet, but is promised sometime this summer. 

Description:

*Heat level=hot.* Recommended for 18+ due to explicit sexual content. This is an adult paranormal romance with erotic content. 

The series centers on wolf shifters but also includes vampires, voodoo priestess, a Marine, and magic. These are stand alone books that create a series. They do not need to be read in order. 

Anna James is single again, finally. In her opinion, men are self-centered and will never love her for who she is, a beautiful, plus sized woman. All except the fantasy man that she’s been meeting in her dreams for five years. 

She just never expected her fantasy to be a real live alpha shifter... 

Cade Le Beau isn't what he seems. He’s a billionaire wolf. A Shifter. He laments his missed chance six months ago to meet his fantasy woman in the flesh. Just as his second chance presents itself, his fantasy woman, his mate, is threatened by the local mob boss and her ex-husband. Now, he has forty eight hours to deal with this threat once and for all or chance losing her again. 

Is it Anna who’s in danger, or the humans who unwittingly threaten her? 

The heat is on the moment they lay eyes on each other. Neither, age, children, horrid ex-husbands, nor mob bosses will stop this love affair.

Romance Book Review: Celia Kyle's Big Furry Deal

Author: Celia Kyle

Series Connection: Ridgeville

ISBN: 9781311813817

Genre: Paranormal, Shifter, Suspense, BBW Romance

Publisher: Summerhouse Publishing

Purchase Link: Amazon | Barnes and Noble

This is the continuation of the Ridgeville pride series. Cat shifters, Walt (lion shifter) and Millie (panther shifter), two lost souls find themselves to be mates, but neither know if they would make good mates at this time because both have haunting pasts. 

Millie is a member of the group of shifters that was kept prisoner by McAllister who was killed in one of the previous books. Millie has a little more of a problem then just being abused by McAllister, she has a sensitive power that is so angry that any man who comes near attacks first and asks questions later. The only man who has yet to be attacked by the power is the man Millie realizes is her mate. 

Walt lives with the knowledge everyday that his mother believed him to be a demon and not someone that anyone would want to love. He isn't sure that Millie will even find him worth the effort of mating. 

When the two start to explore mating, Walt realizes that he can help Millie control her sensitive power, but attacks on Millie's life is bringing out her sensitive's anger and putting everyone in danger. 

This is a good story addition of the Ridgeville series. As always I like the Pride Prima, Maya's sense of human and the way she works to help her pride members, both Walt and Millie make good additions to the series. I like the suspense storyline wondering who could be committing the attacks and Millie's protective cat. The only problem I had was they way the author handled the submission angle of her book. I don't like using violent dominating tactics on previously abused.  

Description:

Panther shifter Millie Walker is finally free, finally knows her real name, and finally… has a mate? Well, crap.

For Millie, having a mate is a horrible, no good, he’ll end up very dead, bad idea. She’s got what some refer to as a “control problem.” In other words: she has no control and that’s her problem. So, she stays away from others, keeps to herself, and generally tries not to kill people. Except the pride Prima—Maya—has this “awesomesauce” idea and suddenly Millie’s at a pride picnic surrounded by people… and then she meets her mate. Her tall, delicious, please-may-I-lick-you-from-head-to-toe mate. Now she prays her powers don’t suddenly decide Wyatt is better off six feet under.

Lion shifter Wyatt Dane knows he’s not the kind of man who takes a mate. His own mother proved he wasn’t worth loving. But then he meets Millie. Millie with her fiery hair, generous curves, and dangerous powers. He tries to resist her, forces himself to reject her, but then she returns and he realizes he can’t let her go. Her powers will just have to figure out how to deal with his presence. He’s keeping her. Period.

But someone from her past didn’t get the “she’s mated” memo and he’s determined to have her, no matter the cost.

Warning: Big Furry Deal contains kick ass violence, some potentially trigger content (what do we expect from the bad guy), and copious hilarity. Be prepared for laughing, crying, and cringing. As always, curvy women rock, boys drool-girls rule, and your mileage may vary.

Romance Book Review: Georgette St. Clair's The Alpha Claims A Mate

Author: Georgette St. Clair

Series Connection: A BBW Paranormal Romance

ISBN: N/A

Genre: Paranormal, Shifter, Werewolf, Witch, Ghost, BBW, Erotic Romance, Light BDSM, Mystery, Suspense

Publisher: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.

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After breaking up with her longtime boyfriend, Ginger, a wolf-shifter/witch, heads on vacation with her roommate from New York to a small town in Florida. While out at a local bar she accidentally insults a local alpha werewolf shifter, Loch, and gets in trouble from her own alpha. 

To make a mends, Ginger agrees to work for Loch in his sheriff's office for a couple of weeks. Determined not to let the sexy man get to her Ginger can't help but continue to put her foot in her mouth.

While she is working for Loch she gets to see a different side of him and can't help falling. In the meantime, a professor who is staying at the same boarding house as Ginger ends up going missing and while everyone fears the worst, Ginger knows he isn't dead, but exactly what has happened to the professor remains a mystery. 

This book has a little bit of everything in such a small package that it almost seem a little rushed, however the lead characters work well together and seem to click. The story is told in the third person, but only in Ginger's point of view. That is fine except it would be interest to her from Loch, especially after his behavior of the first night to two meet. It would just make me like him more if we were in depth with his feels, as well. 

Description:

New Yorker Ginger Colby, half witch, half werewolf, all curves, has made an immediate and lasting impression on the Alpha of Blue Moon County. Unfortunately, she did it by publicly insulting him – she turned down the smug, sexy werewolf sheriff when he asked her to dance with him at the local honky-tonk. 

Now the furious Alpha of her pack is ordering her to make amends with Sheriff Sexy – or risk igniting a war between the Red Wolves and the Gray. The Sheriff’s idea of re-establishing his dominance includes a bare bottom spanking, making her work for him as his new assistant, and flirting with her outrageously. But is he flirting with her just to get revenge for humiliating him – or does he want something more? And can a liberated big city werewolf find happiness with a dominant small town shifter?

With the mysterious disappearance of an archeology professor, and a jealous Alpha female stirring up trouble…Ginger may not have a chance to find out!