Title: Bear Meets Girl ReRead
Author: Shelly Laurenston
Series: Pride #7
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: 2012

Cella is absolutely the quintessential cat, and an absolute shit stirrer (which, to me, is what makes her such a damn cat). She is definitely what my inner voice wishes my outer voice would do. And then there’s Crush, he’s the perfect counterbalance to all of her nonsense and chaos. They are a great opposites attract couple – Cella is all about causing mayhem and challenging people, Crush is all about being calm and just going with whatever flow comes his way. They also work so well at challenging one another in the most positive way at each and every turn.

Where Big Bad Beast really started the chase to find the Big Evil who is hunting and terrorising the hybrids, Bear Meets Girl starts to lead towards a finishing. Although there is a whole team of people causing havoc in this character arc, one of those evils come to their ending. I really like how integral Cella and Dee Ann are in this, with Crush also playing a major part, but mostly just going along with the insanity. In real life, I am totally against murder and mayhem, but the inner voice that loves these books – I love the way that this one part of the series story arc comes to a close.

In Beast Behaving Badly, the idea of polars having foxes is introduced, as always, I love how Laurenston uses real life animal behaviours to inform the behaviours of her shifters. But, more than Bo’s foxes and their chaos, I absolutely adored the reasons why Crush doesn’t have a fox that’s just attached itself to him. He is so outside of the norm for polar bears (and even many of the shifters), that he isn’t able to sustain a relationship with con artists and thieves. I mean, he’s completely straight laced and unwilling to bend the rules for anyone. Until Cella comes along and totally destroys his perceptions of the world.

Cella’s role as a pro hockey player and that being her first love (over the whole super sniper thing), was a really fun difference with the other mercenary characters. I love that this is a major aspect of the storyline – not just in how Cella chooses to live her life, but also in the ways in which the story actually unfolds. For starters, Crush’s brothers are absolutely okay with all kinds of revenge and nonsense being put upon him. But, when the pro hockey player is messed with? Yeah, there’s a whole heap of issues. And then, there’s how Cella is able to move on after her injury… it’s definitely part of the reason I love her so much as a character.

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Wolf with Benefits ReRead ->

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