Title: The Mane Event ReRead
Author: Shelly Laurenston
Series: Pride #1
In: The Mane Event (Shelly Laurenston)
Rating Out of 5: 5 (I will read this again and again and again)
My Bookshelves: Paranormal romance, Shapeshifters, Urban fantasy
Pace: Fast
Format: eBook, Novel
Year: 2007

The Mane Event encompasses the first two modern-day novellas to start off the Pride series. Like a Wolf with a Bone and Miss Congeniality work as wonderful prequels from the generation before to lead into this series, but then Christmas Pride and Shaw’s Tail truly start off the whole series with a wonderfully loud and chaotic bang. And I love that both of these stories are great and quick snapshots into different aspect of the Shifter World. Particularly some of the Packs and Prides that form the backbone of this series.

It was really interesting going back and rereading this novella collection after reading the entirety of the Pride series and up to publication with the Honey Badger Chronicles. Plus, I actually read the Magnus Pack trilogy right before diving into my reread, and this was definitely something that I would call worth doing. It gave so much more context to just about everything. Plus, I just all around loved picking up the little hints of what is to come, or what has been in doing this reread. It’s also nice how The Mane Event is able to really drive home the stark differences between the three wolf Packs.

As with my first read through, I still wish that The Mane Event was two full-length novels, not two novellas. I just wanted more of these characters and romances. And yet, I kind of understood why they weren’t. It’s just my need for more strong women like Dez and Ronnie that make me want more. But, I also just love that both of these somewhat insane women show up frequently in the other books anyway, so I kind of get my fix.

I’m absolutely loving diving feet first back into the murderous and intense world of Laurenston’s Shifters. It’s always fun to pick up different nuances in a reread, and I’m definitely finding a whole heap of layers in this writing. Now I’m excited to dive into the next story in this reread… The Beast in Him.

<- Shaw’s Tail ReRead

The Beast in Him ReRead ->

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