Bite Me

Pride, Book 9

De: Shelly Laurenston

Narrado por: Charlotte Kane

Livy Kowalski has no time for idiots. When you shapeshift into a honey badger, getting through life's irritants is a finely honed skill. Until she gets stuck housing her nutso cousin and dealing with her dad's untimely and unexplained demise.

That's where Vic Barinov comes in-or his house does. Vic can't step outside without coming back to find Livy devouring his honey stash and getting the TV remote sticky. It gets his animal instincts all riled up. But he'll have to woo her at high speed: All hell is breaking loose, and Livy is leading the charge…

©2014 Shelly Laurenston (P)2014 Tantor

Reseñas de la Crítica

"Hot shape-shifters and even hotter passion." (Gena Showalter, New York Times bestselling author)

Once again!!!

Shelly comes through with a dynamite story. I bought and read this book months ago, but now I wanted the audio version. Yes, unabridged, but so good. The audio is worth every penny.

Not my favorite, but still worth the credit

How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?

I would have had more romance/interaction between Livy and Vic, and less violence. It's a good-sized book so I sometimes lost the thread of the romance amongst the rest of the story. (Since I do most of my listening at work, part of that lost thread could be my distraction and no fault of SL.)

Any additional comments?

I'll definitely listen to this again as I have almost all of the other books in this series. I love listening to my favorite series over and over again. If I do miss something one time, I'm sure to catch it the next.

Love Laurenston!

Did it meet my expectations? Yes!
Favorite part? I have two actually. The part where Victor and Nobokov go head to head in their hybrid forms and they were just "play fighting" as they tore each other and their surroundings apart. And the part where Livy shifted into her Honey Badger form and attacked Blaine for being annoying. Hilarious!

cute and engaging

This is a great Shelly Laurenston book, the story is really engaging. The reader is hard to listen to though. A but flat and monotone for much of the book, pretty good with characters' voices and distinctive. Not good for driving as she almost put me to sleep!

Humor that makes you LOL!!

My Thoughts - 5 out of 5 Unicorns - I loved it!!!

The cover is beautiful with the white tiger though I wish it would have looked more like a hybrid :)

This is the 9th book in the Pride series. I have read most of the books in this series though before I started reviewing the books I read.

I really love this series! It always has family drama, fighting, love, conflict, and the good guys win (well kind of good….lol) which is the way I like it. This is Livy and Victor’s story. Livy is a strong but scary woman….err honey badger. Victor is a hybrid, and he is interesting. I am not one for giving plot details away which makes my reviews hard to write especially when I love the book. Whether reading the book or listening to the audiobook, you cannot go wrong when it is written by Shelly Laurenston. She weaves fantastic stories that are complex, and her humor always has me laughing to the point of tears. I love her style and characters. I also love that even though each story is unique and features a new couple; she always brings those characters you already love back so you don’t have to miss them :)

I am a huge fan of all of her shifter books. Time is my only limiting factor :) I really love audiobooks because I can listen in the car while I drive :) At the start, I wasn't sure I would like the narrator, but I quickly grew to love her and all her voices. Great job and very entertaining :)

I highly recommend this story and series to any shifter lover because you will fall in love with her characters and humor.

CAPTIVATING !!!

Shelly Laurenston has become one of my top favorites with this series, so well written and narration is just PERFECT!! You will definitely LOVE and ENJOY this book and all the others in The Pride Series!!!

Best series ever

Cute characters that make me laugh every time I read this series of books, then you add the narrator/actress who who brings these books to life so beautifully.... perfection!

Awesome

Great. Like the best. So awesome. No complaints. Hilarious, smart and sexy. Great narration. Love the relationship between the cat/bear hybrid males.

I love this series

This is one awesome,amazing,funny series and I am sad this is the last book so far I really really hope there will be more Pride series book. I want to say Ms Laurenston is an amazing author who puts every ethnicity in her book, most romance novels by popular authors only write about really white Caucasian girls and guys but I love how her books have Asians, African Americans thank you!

Funny, innovative, You HAVE to read these!!

“Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn’t mean the circus has left town.” – George Carlin

Poor Livy. Being a honey badger shifter is really the pits sometimes. Let’s take her father’s funeral.

“So how did it go?"

“Fistfight on the casket. Poisonous snakes in the backyard. My father’s ex-girlfriend head-butted by my mother… The usual really.”

Wow. Growing up in a family known for being enemies to … well … everyone, isn’t actually all that easy. Especially when you have no interest in learning the finer skills of pickpocketing at age three or how to best break in to a safe, steal the swag and get away clean by the time you are a preteen. Huh. Livy isn’t interested in the family business of breaking every local, state, federal and international robbery law on the books – she just wants to be a photographer. And she is a really good one at that. But family business rears its ugly head, no matter how carefully Livy tries to stay away. And her father’s death will lead to a return to the family business, will she or nil she. Thank goodness she has good friends to back her up. And, believe it or not, her family as well. Of course, when her old friend Vic, a bear-tiger hybrid, shows up along with his friend and sometimes business partner Shen, the giant panda, things get even stickier.

Livy: “Your feline is showing.”
Vic: “Because you’re not being rational and there’s an eight-foot four-hundred-pound whiny baby over there begging me to claw the holy shit out of him.”

Polar Bear Hockey Player (and aforementioned whiney baby): “You are Rude!”

Livy has no interest in a ‘relationship’ with anyone – especially when said hybrid makes her insides feel funny. But sometimes what we want and what we need are very different. And having a mammoth sized hybrid on her side turns out to be rather a good thing after all.

I read the first two of Shelly Laurenston’s “Pride” series quite some time ago and remember liking them, and finding them rather funny. “Bite Me” is sooo much more! I laughed so hard all through the book I had tears running down my face. The story is great, but the characters make the book. From Tennessee hillbillies (and proud of it) to savants in everything from art to music to science, Shelly takes what could be cliché characters and make them so much more. There is tremendous humor here, but also depth – the love of family and friends, the sacrifices friends are willing to make, and a lot about love and duty, greed and egotism – and the best way to break into an unbreakable vault, of course.

Yes, the first ones were OK but Book Nine? Priceless! It is now on my “to be read immediately when feeling sad” shelf. And I am going to go back and read the rest as well. The first two were more of the typical ‘paranormal romance’ with some humor thrown in – lots of sex and not as much story. This one? LOTS of story, lots of laughs, and a tiny bit of very well-done sex – lagniappe rather than main course!

Highly recommended. Have fun! Oh, and please note. Just because Shelly’s wonderful cover artists couldn’t figure out the best way to make Vic look sexy in his hybrid form, (he really is quite terrifying in his shifted form! All. That. FUR!!) and put that gorgeous tiger on the cover instead, doesn’t mean that Shelly doesn’t respect her friends, the hybrid shifters!