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In a Badger Way
In a Badger Way
In a Badger Way
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In a Badger Way

Written by Shelly Laurenston

Narrated by Charlotte Kane

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

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Petite, kind, brilliant, and young, Stevie is nothing like the usual women bodyguard Shen Li is interested in. Even more surprising, the youngest of the lethal, ball-busting, and beautiful MacKilligan sisters is terrified of bears. But she's not terrified of pandas. She loves pandas.

Which means that whether Shen wants her to or not, she simply won't stop cuddling him. He isn't some stuffed Giant Panda, ya know! He is a Giant Panda shifter. He deserves respect and personal space. Something that little hybrid is completely ignoring.

But Stevie has a way of finding trouble. Like going undercover to take down a scientist experimenting on other shifters. For what, Shen doesn't want to know, but they'd better find out. And fast. Stevie might be the least violent of the honey badger sisters, but she's the most dangerous to Shen's peace of mind. Because she has absolutely no idea how much trouble they're in . . . or just how damn adorable she is.

Contains mature themes.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateMar 26, 2019
ISBN9781541489776
In a Badger Way
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Shelly Laurenston

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. 

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Hysterical as always! Really enjoy her books and glad this narrator is back!

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Love it and it's funny as hell. Book one is awesome also!!

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    The chemistry between Shen, a panda shifter and Stevie, a tiger badger shifter hybrid is off the charts. This is a wacky wild ride. Stevie is probably my favourite of the sisters, and I'm really glad I dived back into this series.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I know this was just like 2 chapters, but it's more than long enough to for me to determine the important stuff, namely that this book will be Stevie the psychotic supergenius and Shen Li, the Panda shifter, and it will be awesome and March is a really REALLy long time from now.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I don't pretend for a minute that these are "good" books -- however, they are highly entertaining, and I absolutely love that Shen is so grounded on physical enjoyment. He likes hanging upside down in a tree eating bamboo. He likes playing with a ball and eating bamboo. He's not particularly bothered by the hijinks around him, as long as he has a steady supply of bamboo. Good times, and great fun.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    If you haven't read previous books in the series(es), do not start here. Start with The Mane Event, Big Bad Beast, or Bite Me. Otherwise the side characters will overwhelm everything. The plot is sprawly, but always entertaining.
    Shen and Stevie don't get a lot of time together, but they're great for each other. More than romance, this book is about sisterhood. With so much screwball comedy- everybody seems to be quite nuts in their own way.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Fun, hilarious and outrageous.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This second in the Honey Badgers series features the romance of the youngest of three sisters. Stevie was a prodigy in both music and science and her older sisters are determined to protect her - mostly from her father who once sold her to Peruvian drug lords.Stevie has panic attacks, anxiety, and really hates her hybrid nature. A combination of honey badger and tiger makes for a scary being. She is also terrified of bears! Well, except for cute panda shifter Shen Li who is a bodyguard for Stevie's friend Kyle who is one of a talented jackal family. Shen is a laid back sort of guy who spends a lot of time eating bamboo and being puzzled by Stevie. After all, she has decided that they are going to be girlfriend/boyfriend. And he takes some convincing. Events center around a family funeral and a scientist who is experimenting on hybrids like Stevie. The story is filled with madcap humor and over-the-top situations. It was a lot of fun to read.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    3.5 Not my favorite, but it had some fun parts. i do love the Panda shifters
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I was among those lucky enough to receive an advanced reader’s copy of In a Badger Way prior to release in order to provide a fair and honest review. But having to say goodbye to Zeus put the brakes on life for a bit. Clinical depression is a thing and I’m working on it. Now here I am, ready to dish about the latest from Shelly Laurenston, the queen of my shifter-loving heart. Now, y’all. I have so many notes in this book, you might want to go fix yourself some tea and get yourself some place comfortable before you read on. Go on. I'll wait.The MacKilligan sisters are back and as wild and unpredictable as ever in In a Badger Way. Our couple for this instalment of the Honey Badger Chronicles is Shen Li and Stevie MacKilligan. Shen is a Giant Panda shifter and Stevie is a Honey Badger-Tiger hybrid shifter. Shen is actually Vic Barinov's business partner but he's currently employed as bodyguard to Jackal shifter, Kyle Jean-Louis Parker, Stevie's old friend and fellow prodigy. Oh, what a tangled web Shelly Laurenston weaves for us, right? Somewhere along the way, Stevie gets it into her mind that she likes Shen and they'd be good together. We follow Stevie as she corrals bamboo-obsessed Shen into a happily ever after all while dealing with the antics of her own unique hybrid genetics, all of the MacKilligan family drama, and some under-the-radar sleuthing for The Group. The level of crazy is through the roof with this one, y’all.I adore Stevie, she's a multi-disciplined prodigy with an extreme panic disorder and an abnormal shift as a honey badger-Siberian tiger hybrid. Her responses to her triggers are varied but they’re always extreme. Whether it be burrowing away from the situation through walls and floors or shifting and making toys out of people, I’m totally here for that, just let me pop some popcorn. Somewhere along the way, Stevie decides that Shen is the one for her and, come hell or high water, that Giant Panda is going to live happily ever after with her. And it’s hilarious because Shen Li is a bear and Stevie is terrified of bears but not Shen. Never Shen. Shen is the yin to her yang and that dude is all hers.Something I want to make note of here is that we have good mental health care representation in this book. In this crazy-arsed book with hijinks and antics that make you cackle, you will also find Stevie heading to a psychiatrist and Stevie makes a point of saying“Medication should never be given without therapy…and if you ever go to a doctor who tries to tell you otherwise…..get another doctor.”THIS DESERVES SO MUCH ATTENTION! Not only is Stevie actively seeking therapy, but she's making a point to explain that you shouldn't be taking medications for your head without talking with a therapist - and if your doctor is just handing you pills and seeing you to the door, you should get another one. This should be shouted from rooftops with the amount of doctors I've seen in my nearly thirty years of life and the percentage of them that were of the "here's your hat, what's your hurry variety" is proof of that. 2000 bonus points for this!Among the hundred different things that happen in this book, I have to tell you that Blayne Thorpe-Novikov is back and she is still my favourite hyperkinetic hybrid wolf-wild dog. This brilliant woman continues to prove her father right by hugging some random arsed shifter in someone else’s home and is surprised that it doesn’t turn out to be cotton candy and rainbows. I love Blayne.Also among our revisiting characters are the Jean-Louis Parkers, Dr Irene Conridge, and Gwen - I’ve got to let y’all find out some for yourselves, right? If you’ve not read a Shelly Laurenston Pride world book before, you’re sure to find yourself falling in love with them through this book as Ms Laurenston picked some of her best characters to pop in for a visit in this new branch’s latest. I know not everybody adores random violence in their humour, but Ms Laurenston brings will make you laugh with the absurdity of her characters’ antics. People can talk all they want about how they need their paranormal romance/urban fantasy books to be believable, but y'all. We are reading about human beings transforming themselves into another species and maintaining their sentience. What part of that is believable? No, really. I'll wait for that answer because I have a feeling it'd be more entertaining/worrisome to hear than my schizophrenic brother when he has an episode.While you can technically read In a Badger Way as a standalone novel, I’d suggest you don’t as it picks up where Hot & Badgered leaves off. If I’m being honest, I’d suggest reading from the very beginning for all the subtext and character info. But most folks don’t have that amount of patience, granted they usually finish the one book they choose and decide to do just that but stubborn is as stubborn does. I did it that way too at first. Blayne’s book was my first, but it definitely was not my last, obviously.Now, I have a bloody nose from my lovely allergies and I'm going wrap things up here so I can go stick some tampons up my nose. judge me. Overall, I'm giving In a Badger Way 5 stars because this made me laugh when I wanted to crawl into a hole and die.This has been a review by Once Upon a Time, I Read a Book (dot-com), tune into my website for more weirdness every other day!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    The MacKilligan sisters' story continues, IN A BADGER WAY by Shelly Laurenston. Honey Badger/Tiger hybrid, Stevie MacKilligan goes undercover to help capture a scientist experimenting on hybrids. Simultaneously, she sets her sights on Bodyguard/Giants Panda shifter, Shen Li. This contemporary PNR is suitable for adults. It will have you laughing uncontrollably. I can always count on Shelly Laurenston to make me laugh so hard that I cry. I love her humor. I find it amusing how she adds in different animal quirks of the shifters. Top that off with the hybrids and she takes it to another level of entertaining. There is never a dull moment in this story. I love Stevie. She was a child prodigy in both music and science. I love the way her mind works. The stuff going on with her family is always amusing. Shen is the perfect boyfriend, whether he wants to be or not, for Stevie. He’s laid back and happy. I love how he chews bamboo any time he wants to distract someone’s attention. I appreciate how Shelly Laurenston includes characters from her other work in this story. It’s fun when someone from a previous book pops up. I’m always excited when Shelly Laurenston comes out with a new shifter book. I was not disappointed. IN A BADGER WAY had me laughing throughout the entire book. I voluntarily reviewed an advance reader copy of this book.