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Basketball & Mayhem with a side of honey cake

To Kill a Badger by Shelly Laurenston

December 23, 2025 by Jen K 4 Comments

As the sixth novel in the Honey Badger Chronicles (and who even knows what number in Laurenston’s extended shifter universe), readers will know exactly what they are getting into with this one. After the first three novels focused on the MacKilligan sisters finding hijinks and love, the following three have followed Max’s basketball team members as they get closer to the O’Malley brothers (Siberian tiger shifters). Laurenston knows that we are primarily here for the sisters, and especially Charlie, so unlike other romance series where […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: Honey Badger Chronicles, Shelly Laurenston, Shifter romance

Jen K's CBR17 Review No:134 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: Honey Badger Chronicles, Shelly Laurenston, Shifter romance ·
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New York City is about to be invaded by a lot of honey badgers.

Born to be Badger by Shelly Laurenston

November 15, 2023 by Emmalita 4 Comments

Welcome to the 5th installment in Shelly Laurenston’s Honey Badger Chronicles, Born to be Badger. It has everything and everyone you loved from the first four books including the McKilligan sisters, Max’s teammates, violence, anti social behavior, inter species conflicts, and plot so bonkers it can’t be explained. This one also has a small child and puppies. Actually, the plot isn’t so bonkers it can’t be explained, but there is a lot of action as the plot unfolds. The plot is basically – someone is tying […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: advance reader copy, Born to be Badger, Honey Badger Chronicles, NetGalley, Shelly Laurenston

Emmalita's CBR15 Review No:98 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: advance reader copy, Born to be Badger, Honey Badger Chronicles, NetGalley, Shelly Laurenston ·
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This was their time to be really f’ing weird.

Breaking Badger by Shelly Laurenston

May 22, 2021 by Emmalita Leave a Comment

Shelly Laurenston’s Honey Badger Chronicles have joined Martha Wells’ the Murderbot Diaries and Becky Chamber’s Wayfarers series as the books I shove in everyone’s faces given the slightest opening. Are they even romances anymore? I don’t know. Who cares? They have transcended genre and reason and exist on their own plane. There are always 30 something characters and 56 plots going on in a Honey Badger book and it feels a bit like the Motown Wall of Sound. Either you can’t take the confusion or […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Romance Tagged With: advance reader copy, Breaking Badger, Honey Badger Chronicles, NetGalley, Shelly Laurenston

Emmalita's CBR13 Review No:48 · Genres: Fantasy, Romance · Tags: advance reader copy, Breaking Badger, Honey Badger Chronicles, NetGalley, Shelly Laurenston ·
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A Bananapants Guide to Rescuing Cats

Badger to the Bone by Shelly Laurenston

April 17, 2021 by Emmalita 5 Comments

I adored Shelly Laurenston’s Hot and Badgered when I read it last year. The second book, In a Badger Way was fine, but I found it more work and less charming. Badger to the Bone is a delightful return to bananapants. The Honey Badgers Chronicles would make an awesome tv series. It could go for years. The world is diverse with both a small town feel and an international scope. Max MacKilligan has had my heart since she pulled a rocket-propelled grenade launcher out of her trunk […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: badger to the bone, Honey Badger Chronicles, paranormal romance, Shelly Laurenston

Emmalita's CBR13 Review No:31 · Genres: Romance · Tags: badger to the bone, Honey Badger Chronicles, paranormal romance, Shelly Laurenston ·
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A Bananapants Guide to Befriending Bears

Hot and Badgered by Shelly Laurenston

May 23, 2020 by Emmalita 8 Comments

I made the terrible mistake of starting this book at 10:30 pm. I planned to pick a book that I would read the next day, but instead I kept reading until 2 am. I could not stop laughing. Finally, I got so tired that I dropped my tablet on my face. Technically, this is a romance. But it’s really more about the MacKilligan sisters – Charlie, Max, and Stevie. Charlie, Max, and Stevie share a ne’r-do-well father, a honey badger shifter named Freddy McKilligan.  Charlie, […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Honey Badger Chronicles, Hot and Badgered, PNR, shapeshifters, Shelly Laurenston, the Honey Badger Chronicles, Urban Fantasy

Emmalita's CBR12 Review No:40 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Honey Badger Chronicles, Hot and Badgered, PNR, shapeshifters, Shelly Laurenston, the Honey Badger Chronicles, Urban Fantasy ·
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