Bears Do It Better by Jessie Lane
Series: Grayslake: More than Mated
Published by Indie
Published on: September 19, 2016
Genres: Paranormal Romance
Pages: 76
Format: eARC
Source: Author
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Misha and Borys sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G …
Misha falls in lust at first sight with the big, sexy bear shifter, but she doesn't have time for his mating nonsense. Raised in Russia by tiger shifters, she came to America to follow up on her first real lead for finding her biological family.
Borys wants the smokin’ hot bear who recently wandered into town. Now all he has to do is convince Misha that she’s meant to be his. The stubborn woman won’t give him the time of day, though, saying she’s looking for her kin.
His biggest problem? He might be the family she's looking for.
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This is a short story that is written in the world of Grayslake series, originally written by Celia Kyle. It was a series that I really loved. The series is full of snark, romance, and some tough topics, but in a way that I found very fun. I wasn’t sure what I would think about additional books in this world written by authors that I’m not familiar with. This is my second book to read from an author besides Kyle.
I’ve never read Jessie Lane before starting this story. It is a short story, so I don’t get the full depth of her writing. This story was a cute one, but I didn’t enjoy it as much as the first one I read. The characters in this story aren’t very complex. But that doesn’t mean that I don’t like them.
The character that I liked the most was Misha’s “aunt”. Misha is a bear that was raised by tigers. The tigers found a young shifter bear cub in a traveling circus in Russia. They rescued the bear and raised her as their own. Misha comes back to Grayslake, Georgia to find some of her biological family. They’re assuming that her parents were killed by the circus.
The big thing that got to me was the instalove (quick even for fated mates story). Borys no sooner steps on the same property as Misha and he’s running head long for her. Also, he said that she smelled like cookies and kept calling her that. Now, don’t get me wrong, I love cookies, but I would never barrel through a group of people and climb a tree saying “cookie, cookie, cookie” the entire time. He kinda reminded me of the Cookie Monster.
Anyway, it was a cute story. The aunt had some really great lines, even if she did have a hard time with the English language (her sentence structure tended to be way off). I would love to learn a lot more about her. Lastly, I think ever famous bear from cartoons is mentioned. Yogi, Boo-Boo, Winnie-the-Pooh, Baloo. They are all used at some point in this story.
This was his day off after working overtime with the lawn care business he owned. He wanted to lay around, watch things blow up on the television, and be lazy for the rest of the day, which was why he decided that the next idiot who knocked on his door and interrupted his day of hibernation was going to end up with a bucket of fertilizer over their head.
Of course Auntie Arina took the choice right out of her hands when she asked the oversized male leader, “You bears eat a lot of these honey rolls? Like that Pooh of the Winnie with his head stuck in the honey pot?”
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I’m Melanie and I live in Ohio. I have two horses and a dog. I’m an animal lover, avid book reader and audiobook listener. I like to live vicariously through fictional characters. I enjoy reading and listening to mostly fictional books in the paranormal genre, including Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance and Horror. My favorite paranormal creatures are shifters, doesn’t matter the flavor.
Ah yes. Instant love with shifter stories are typical, aren’t they? But glad you enjoyed this shortie, nonetheless. 🙂
It was cute. I really loved the aunt. She was hilarious.
Melanie recently posted…Review: Hell’s Bells by Eve Langlais (@mlsimmons, @EveLanglais)
That sounds interesting to read a story set in the same world by another author. I’ve seen a few Kindle Worlds books on amazon, but haven’t read any of them yet. I think I read one of Jessie Lane her earlier books and I gave it a 2 star if I remember correctly.
Fated mates romances can develop a bit quickly, but I still like it when there’s a bit of time for the romance to develop. Great review!
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I haven’t read any other Kindle World books besides the few in this series. I don’t mind when there’s instant love, but they still have to figure out how to be together. That is hard to do in such a short story. Still cute.
Melanie recently posted…Review: Hell’s Bells by Eve Langlais (@mlsimmons, @EveLanglais)
I’ve only read one bear shifter book and I didn’t love it. I’m just not sure they are for me for some reason. I’m glad despite its faults, you did still like this one.
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I love bear shifter books. I’ve read so many of them. I hope you get a chance to try another one that you will enjoy.
Melanie recently posted…Review: Hell’s Bells by Eve Langlais (@mlsimmons, @EveLanglais)
Glad it was cute and shifters are often instalove, but usually the author sells it.
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I’m used to quick romances in PNR, but this one was quicker than most. I still enjoyed the story though. Nice little escape for a few hours.
Melanie recently posted…Review: Hell’s Bells by Eve Langlais (@mlsimmons, @EveLanglais)
Since I’ve read a couple of the books in this series by Celia Kyle and liked them this sounds really interesting.
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I really loved this series. These books by other authors have been really short. I wish they were a little bit longer. But it is nice to still have some time in the world.
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I didn’t realize it had branched out to a spin-off with a variety of authors. That can be nice to finding more to love. Haha, yeah a ‘cookie, cookie, cookie’ type of chant would make me think funny, but not romance.
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I’ve not seen anything like this before. I don’t think I would do this, if I had created the series, but the two books I’ve read, were well done. The first one I read, Make Her Howl, had more of a feeling of the series. This one was more set in the world, but had little to do with the original characters. I would read more of them. I’m sure some will be better than others.
Melanie recently posted…Review: Hell’s Bells by Eve Langlais (@mlsimmons, @EveLanglais)
Your review made me laugh out loud! (cookie monster)And how unusual that the original author would give up her series to other authors. That’s a first for me. I guess that being such a short story there had to be insta-love maybe? If it’s that fast it probablywould bother me a bit too, although I usually give leeway to shifter insta-love. Fun review!
Glad I could make you laugh. Yes, Cookie Monster. He’s referenced in the book too. LOL. Other authors writing in a series is new to me too. I’ve only read two. I liked the first one better. It felt more like the original series. This one was cute, but didn’t feel as much a part of the series.
Melanie recently posted…Review: Hell’s Bells by Eve Langlais (@mlsimmons, @EveLanglais)
That is a lot of bears
I do really like bears. 🙂 Even when I volunteer at my zoo, I spend a lot of time with the bears.
Melanie recently posted…Review: Hell’s Bells by Eve Langlais (@mlsimmons, @EveLanglais)
This sounds appealing, and even though I might have the same issues you found with the story I think I might still enjoy it.
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It is a very cute story. If you’re looking for a quick read that will make you chuckle, this isn’t a bad choice. 🙂
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I’ve not read Jessie Lane either, Melanie. I’m glad that this particular story in the series wasn’t a complete bust but yeah, insta-love like this is not one of my favs. The story behind Misha is interesting though. Someday I’ll get to reading the original series from Kyle. 🙂
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It was a cute story. I just saw the first book in the original series up for review on audio. I had to grab it, even though I’ve been trying to get review books that I’ve already read.
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Will definitely not start with her shorter reads, but once that is established I think I would enjoy this one too. Plus, this one sounds like I would get a laugh out of it. 🙂
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That was how it worked for me. I don’t know that I would’ve enjoyed this as much without knowing the world (though there isn’t a ton of worldbuilding needed for this story).
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Interesting that other authors are writing books from the same world…
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I’ve not ever seen an author let other authors write in their world. I didn’t mind it though. It was a cute story.
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