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With an ex-boyfriend stalking her Riley Gold decides to take off and head back to her home town. Always restless, always searching for an elusive something, she doesn’t want to head back to her family, but feels she has no choice. When her tire blows out and she hits a tree she rethinks her idea to take the scenic route. Now she’s stuck in Den County with no cell service and no hotel. Luckily Theo Kodiak offers his spare bedroom while her car is repaired, but the heat between them is off the charts and shouldn’t even be possible since she’s a human and he’s a were-bear. This place, this man and his young sons and these people seem so right for her, but she isn’t clued into what their secret is. Will she accept what they are? Could she really have found what she was searching for?

Mmmm…were-bears. I love them. They may be my favorite shifter though I’m not sure exactly why. Anyway, this is a decently written paranormal story with a little suspense thrown in, some humor and a whole lot of heat. I love Riley’s confusion about how much everyone in the county seems to love honey and honey products. lol Everyone’s bear-related names are fun and the steaminess is wowzers. There are a few editing issues, but nothing major. This was quite an enjoyable read for me. I will definitely look up more of this new-to-me author’s work

Nope.

This was free on ARe, so I thought I'd give it a shot. In this case, it's true that you get what you pay for.

Sally runs in to a guy in the grocery store that she's attracted to, but she barely even talks to him. She bemoans how boring she is. She goes home to her townhouse to clean in preparation for moving to a new apartment the next day. Her noisy-sex neighbors end up having noisy sex and bothering her so she bangs on the wall and yells at them. They invite her over to join. She takes them up on it. Because she's tired of being boring. She lets them tie her to a trapeze and blindfold her. Nope. They finger her, go down on her, etc. Then the girlfriend asks her if she'd like a third to join. Sally thinks of the guy from the grocery store and says yes. She passes out and wakes up in bed with the two neighbors the next morning. She sneaks out.

Sally moves and starts her new job. Her coworker is Jarrett, the guy from the grocery store. He's interested, but not making a move. So, she sluts herself up at her sister's urging. She does things like get on the floor and show him her panties in the guise of looking for a lost earring. She joins the pep squad, at her the urging of her boss, for the company baseball team (because why would she maybe want to actually PLAY baseball) so that she can torture Jarrett further with skin-tight shorts and t-shirts. He resists because he doesn't do sex with coworkers.

They end up getting stuck in the elevator on their way to give a presentation (don't even get me started on how Jarrett FTD-ed a file to a server for Sally - yes, FTD rather than FTP) to their boss. They have sex in the elevator. Now they're hooked up. They have lots of sex. Apparently without using condoms. Nope.

Jarrett invites Sally to a friend's art show. Turns out it's the Sally's previous female neighbor - one of the two she had group sex with. Sally freaks out and leaves Jarrett. Come to find out, Jarrett already knew she had sex with his friends/her old neighbors. BECAUSE HE WAS THERE! He joined in when the neighbor girlfriend asked Sally if she wanted a third to join them. But, he never said and Sally never saw him there. Jarrett's reaction when Sally comes clean about having group sex with his friends/her previous neighbors makes no sense. He goes white. He looks shocked. Etc. What did he think was going to happen when he took Sally to this art showing? And why would he really care, anyway? He's had sex with them himself. He's filmed them. Etc. But, don't worry. Everything's fine after this. They continue to hook up. Six months later, Jarrett proposes.

Also, this was badly edited.

This was free on aRe as part of the Twelve Days of Christmas promotion.  I need to stop downloading and reading books just because they're free.

This was somewhat a play on Goldilocks, it seems.  In a small way.

Nothing earth shattering was revealed.  It played out as expected.  The characters seemed like cardboard cutouts to me.  The book could've benefited some further editing.  There were missing words, oddly structured/phrased sentences and some things were just confusing in places.  Also, I found myself almost disliking the hero at the end of the book for his making the "run", anyway.  He's hot on the tail of some other female when the heroine gets there just in time.  Bullshit.

Happy Father's Day List Party!

We need way more Single Father Heroes in Paranormal, Science Fiction, and Fantasy Romance! I know the can-only-breed-with-fated-mate and low-birth-rate-to-immortals gets in the way but come on!

We get lots of great dads post mating: Dragos in Dragos Takes A Holiday by Thea Harrison, Nate in Wild Invitation by Nalini Singh and  Mikhail in  Dark Prince by Christine Feehan as the series develops.

Single papas and heroines who need to join an existing family unit are rarer than they should be in this subgenre. 

Here are my favorites!

1. The Very Virile Viking by Sandra Hill 

2. Mate Claimed by Jennifer Ashley 

3. Unraveling Midnight by Stephanie Beck 

4. Red Moon by Elizabeth Kelly 

5. Soul Kissed by Erin Kellison 

6. The Mane Event  by Shelly Laurenston 

7. Bear's Gold by Yvette Hines 

8. The Marann by Christie Meierz 

9. Spellbound Falls by Janet Chapman 

10. Edge Of The Moon by Rebecca York 

Who is your favorite Single Dad of Paranormal Romance? 

To vote for the best of the best, go to the Goodreads list: Best Single Father Heroes of Paranormal, Science Fiction, and Fantasy Romance.

Get even more recommendations for Great Father Heroes of all kinds in Romance Novels, visit my Pinterest Boards: Family Man: More of the Best Father Heroes in Romance and Father Love: Best Father Heroes in Romance.

I saw this wonderful image yesterday from a forgotten body positive book writiten by Dr. Seuss (Therodore Geisel) himself. 

I just love all the splendid types of female bodies on happy display from the  wonderful rear view.  

It made me think of a Romance List I started a while ago on Goodreads that features heriones with junk in the trunk and the heros that love that gluteus maximus.  The heros of these love stories take the time to praise what they adore making the heroines feel just how sexy they are.  Kristin Ashley can be counted on to promote the bootilicious (look up here on urban dictionary for fun) heroine and the hero that tells her like it is. 

Geisel says of his commercial flop of a book for the adult marke featuring all these curves and dips that can make up a woman's body, "I attempted to draw the sexiest babes I could, but they came out looking absurd." 

The book is absurd but his feeling that these are some sexy babes isn't. Rock on, Dr. Seuss!   

Check out the great Brain Pickings Article on The Seven Lady Godivas. There are some super fun drawings. 

Add your recommendations of heroines with apple bottoms and the heros that love them to the Goodreads List: Baby Got Back. 

My favorites in from the list are noted above and all my recommendations are 3 stars or higher.