Love this series and pride series aswell

Great books full of funny moments can't wait to see what crazy antics they all get upto next. On a side note I also like a series by this author called call of crows can't seem to find it anymore

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great listen

great narrator. excellent story can't get enough of the hunny badgers. make sure you are some where you can laugh out loud when you listen to this .

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Funny and so enjoyable

Another great episode in the life of the awesome Mackilligan sisters. Funny, fast paced and thoroughly enjoyable.

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Must read series.

One of the funniest books I've listened to in a long time. The narrator is great too. I've come across her narrating SPI files under a different name. The change in narrator from the first book is a little disjointing but after a chapter, I got over that.

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Outstanding in every way.

I have never come across a Shelly Laurenston book that I didn't love but this is one of my favourites.

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This series continues to by very very funny

When you have a series about a family and the people they are friends or associate with the second book is always more plot orientated than the first. We are introduced to everyone in the first book. We understand the family structure, the personalities of the people involved and the world building is already established. This means the book can be about things other than the set up.

This book is about Stevie, the youngest of the MacKilligan sisters. Stevie is a former child prodigy who suffers from a panic disorder. She is also a tiger/honey badger hybrid that turns into a 2 ton giant tiger striped honey badger. When she panics, she shifts and she is met with horror and disgust amongst her community. She has often wished she could be different. Other than her enormous alter ego she is a sweet and kind woman and incredibly brilliant. She was a music prodigy but she felt too pressured as a child by her fame so she left the music industry and became an equally brilliant physicist.

Since she has been back in America with her sisters, Stevie has started relaxing a little and even started writing music again. She has also decided that she likes cuddling Shen Li, a giant panda shifter who her friend Kyle’s bodyguard. There’s not much to do whilst guarding Kyle, so he finds himself being drawn into more of Stevie’s schemes as she tries to get a handle on her panic disorder and find out who is murdering hybrid shifters, without involving her sisters. Shen finds himself becoming more drawn to Stevie as each day goes by, despite her unusual ways and her high maintenance family.

As with the first book in the series this story was hilarious. The author’s writing is fluid and natural and the narrator delivers very well. The only reason I didn’t give the narration 5 stars is because of the dodgy Scottish accents. I thought with a change in narrator from the first in the series, the accents might improve, but I think it’s an American failing that their Scottish accents always drift into Irish ones. Apart from the accents, the narrator delivers the personalities of all the characters flawlessly. I’ll definitely look out for other books read by her.

The plot was intriguing and complex with many different strands to the story. There are a lot of characters in the book and if you hadn’t read the first book recently the reader may find the book confusing. I read the books quite closely to each other so I had no problem keeping track, so that wasn’t a detriment to me. It’s just something to bear in mind.

It was also nice to see how the other two sisters were doing in this book. There is character development within the family as a whole as well as only focusing on Stevie, which I really enjoyed.

I really look forward the third book being released next year. I may have to re-listen to really enjoy the next one!

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Great book

Really liked this book. The characters are all quirky and the plot is fun to fallow.

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A fun story, but...

I enjoy this author but she gets so wrapped up in including characters from previous books that the main characters often ended up pushed aside or forgotton about completely. The main threat to this couple was pushed aside for another threat that was largely forgotten about for most of this book.

Individually I liked all the characters and enjoyed how they interacted with each other but this was billed as Stevie and Shen's story and this was not it.

The narrator did a good job but she really cannot do a Scottish accent and it needed to stop!

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Meandering mess

I remember liking the first book in this series, though I mentioned in my review of that book (when I read it recently to remind myself) that it got a bit lost at times. This book was way worse in that respect. I can’t even count how many points of view there were. It read like an extended epilogue catching up with random characters from a tonne of other series the author has written, but at the cost of the actual plot of this book. I didn’t feel the connection between the couple either. The first book was hilarious but I didn’t feel that so much this time either. So much potential with this author, but I think they need to work with a good editor to direct their obvious talent and humour in the right direction to make a book stand alone in its own right. Other reviewers seem to love this book, but they also mention that they loved catching up with other characters, but Audible doesn’t have these series so I’m missing out on that experience. I’m left feeling like it was a missed opportunity.

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Good, but not as funny as the first

A funny story with funny characters. Being the second book in the series I had higher hopes since the first one was really funny. Didn’t really reach all the way though in my opinion. The characters were pretty much the same as the first book meaning it felt like the same main characters all over again. Could have done more with mfc Stevie’s genius status I think to differentiate a bit more from her sister Charlie. Charlie however suddenly turned in to more of a comic relief than in the first book so her character felt like it got mauled on the way. Shen the mmc though I liked a lot. He still reminded me a bit too much of Charlie’s love interest Berg from the previous book but the way he was more panda and how that came out in his character were super funny. Wouldn’t have minded a bit more of that though since it almost got lost. Good narration but lacking in the Scottish accent which took away a bit from the storyline for me. Over all ok and worth a listen if you like funny, crazy badger shifters. 🦡☺️

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