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Selkies are hard to resist

Selkies Are a Girl's Best Friend by Molly Harper

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I love the Mystic Bayou series and picked up the fourth audiobook, Selkies Are a Girl’s Best Friend Goodreads synopsis: Sonja Fong isn’t afraid of a little chaos. As director of the league’s research center in Mystic Bayou, a tiny town in Louisiana that’s home to supernatural creatures and humans alike, she’s responsible for making sure things run smoothly. It’s not an easy task when her daily memos include lines like, “New equipment is needed because the old equipment was destroyed by a temper tantrum […]

“Capable was one thing. Alligators were another.”

How to Date Your Dragon by Molly Harper

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Once in a while, I dip my toe in the paranormal pool. The temperature is never right, and I always regret it. Plot: Jillian Ramsay is a human anthropologist working for a secretive organization called the League for Interspecies Cooperation. Her first job is supposed to send her to the jungle, but last minute, she’s given the task of developing a comprehensive study on the one town in the world where humans and the magie live peacefully, as a blueprint for other places, since the cat is […]

Bayou love and magical mischief

Love and Other Wild Things by Molly Harper

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Love and Other Wild Things is the second book in the Mystic Bayou series by Molly Harper. Said bayou deep in Louisana attracts magical beings. The town is near a mysterious rift that’s catnip to shifters, witches, and any other magic being that you name. Decades ago humans and magi settled in Mystic Bayou. They mostly live in harmony. Through the series, we meet scientists who have come to observe and research the unique place. In the first book, How to Date Your Dragon, an […]

By now, the plots are all starting to blend together a bit

Shifters in the Night by Molly Harper

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I was happily surprised when logging into Audible to discover that there was a new Mystic Bayou book out. Ever since a video went viral of a shifter going raging in a parking lot, the world at large has become aware that supernatural creatures exist and live among them. The existence of Mystic Bayou, a little southern town where humans and supernatural beings co-exist happily has also become public, and it’s bringing in a lot more visitors, both through tourism and people who want to […]

The entire series is free, as long as you already have Audible Plus

How to Date Your Dragon by Molly Harper

Love and Other Wild Things by Molly Harper

Even Tree Nymphs Get the Blues by Molly Harper

Selkies are a Girl's Best Friend by Molly Harper

Always Be My Banshee by Molly Harper

One Fine Fae by Molly Harper

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CBR13 Bingo: Home (so many of the various characters come from very unstable family backgrounds and are only too happy to settle in Mystic Bayou, having finally find somewhere they can properly call home) This is going to be a bulk review for the first six stories (four novels, two novellas) in the Mystic Bayou paranormal romance series by Molly Harper. I listened to all the books in audio, as they are available as part of the Audible Plus catalogue. Considering that I already pay […]

Mystic Bayou Binge – Shifters and Curses and Pie

How to Date Your Dragon by Molly Harper

Love and Other Wild Things by Molly Harper

Even Tree Nymphs Get the Blues by Molly Harper

Selkies are a Girl's Best Friend by Molly Harper

Always Be My Banshee by Molly Harper

One Fine Fae by Molly Harper

Shifters in the Night by Molly Harper

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Three things happened that resulted in a multiday binge of the Mystic Bayou series, narrated by Amanda Ronconi and Jonathon Davis. One, some reader friends have been talking positively about the series for a while. Two, the entire series is included in my Audible membership. Three, I needed a long break from reality because sometimes reality sucks. The Mystic Bayou series is 5 novels and 2 novellas (so far). That’s about 39 1/2 hours of bingeing. Mystic Bayou is a small town in Southern Louisiana […]



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