I’m reviewing Bear Meets Girl by Shelly Laurenston at Smexybooks

Bear Meets Girl (Pride #7) by Shelly Laurenston
Paranormal Romance
March 27, 2012
Brava

Favorite Quote: “I’m not going anywhere with you. I’m going to my seat and forget I ever met you and then I’ll decide whether to sue the makers of delicious Jell-O products.“

Bear Meets Girl is #7 in Shelly Laurenston’s hilarious, snark filled, sexy as all get out Pride series. In here we meet polar bear undercover detective Lou (Crush) Crushek and feline hockey enforcer and contract killer, Marcella “Bare Knuckles” (Cella) Malone.

Crush is an easy going laid back polar bear shifter who is transferred when his cover is blown. He is sent to The Group in order to investigate a group of humans who are hunting and killing shifters. Partnering up with Dez McDermont (The Mane Event ) and Dee Ann Smith (Big Bad Beast) brings him to the attention of Marcella Malone. Cella, a feline shifter, is a contractor for the KMZ, and plays enforcer for the Carnivores hockey team. She, along with other shadow shifter groups, have been pulled into a mass joint effort to help find these human hunters and shut them down. When Cella and Crush meet, the sparks fly in a shower of snorting and laughing. They are exact opposites. Crush needs nothing more than his foster dog, some fat to chew on, and a quiet home. Cella needs family, noise, and controversy. Cella believes it is her mission to make the uptight Crush chill out and relax while Crush believes Cella is certifiably insane and needs to be committed with no hope for release. When Cella’s interfering aunts try to set her up with her second cousin, Pete the “RV king”, Cella begs Crush to help her out by being her “pretend” boyfriend. They soon realize though that there is nothing “pretend” about this relationship at all.

 

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I’m Reviewing Big Bad Beast by Shelly Laurenston at Smexy Books

 

Favorite Quote: “It’s Miss. Nice Southern girls use Miss.”

“Then I guess that still makes you a Ms.”

I ADORE Shelly Laurenston and her crazy unpredictable shifters. When I received Big Bad Beast for review I decided to get the first one,The Mane Event, so that I could get an insight into the overall arc. From there I went and got her whole back list and spent the weekend with these crazy, sexy, outrageously funny shifters.

Big Bad Beast is #6 in the Pride series. Filled with Laurenston’s trademark humor and snark, we get a ring side seat to the romancing and mating of a tough and nonsense ex-marine Dee Ann Smith by chef premier and pretty boy Ulrich (Ric) Van Holtz. Plenty of laughter, smoking hot love scenes, and interfering pride members will keep you rolling.

 

 

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Things that caught my eye

I worship at the alter of Shelly Laurenston

I recently received Big Bad Beasts by Shelly Laurenston for review. When I announced on Goodreads I was preparing to read it I was told I HAD to read the others first. So I got  The Mane Event.  My lord…I have never laughed so hard in my life. Ms. Laurenston has a gift that allows for outrageous characters, over the top plotlines, and the snarkest lines ever to come together and keep you entertained.

I read her entire back list over the weekend and all I can say is buy her series NOW!

 

Louis Vuitton is looking to SCORE

According to  E! Online, which previously reported accurate rumors about Blake Lively landing a Chanel campaign, Angelina Jolie has been cast for a Vuitton campaign. Whether this would be the fall 2011 campaign or something else is still unclear. Louis Vuitton declined to comment on the story, but sources tell E! that Angelina is getting $10 million for the deal.

Yea, ‘cause she really needs the money. 0_o

 

Johnny Weir is hookin’ off the ice

National figure skating champion and U.S. Olympian Johnny Weir is gliding into the fashion fray. He’s launching a Little Black Dress collection for spring exclusively on eDressMe.com. The dresses, which will be available April 30, are being unveiled at the the second annual “Ice Dreams” skating show in Bensenville,IL. Each dress from the collection will be modeled during the show. Prices of the dresses range from $198 to $298.
“The level of design is complemented by my understanding of a woman’s body, and my knack to refine the classic Little Black Dress with fanciful embellishments like feathers and sparkles,” said Weir.

 

I <3 HauteLook

HauteLook, which I love like a second child, has some fabulous deals to score this week.

Mon4/25

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Tues4/26

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Wed4/27
Joie
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Kevyn Aucoin
Civil Society
Butter & Something Bleu
The Los Angeles Athletic Club
Statements by J
Sheila Fajh
Beeposh
Swiss Legend Women's Watch

 

All I find is trash!

Why is it always the ones who are never looking? I have scoured many a beach and parking lot trying to discover lost treasures and all I’ve found is old pop tops, stupid belt buckles, and a couple of pennies. *sigh* I couldn’t fill a mason jar with my “finds” over 5 years. Yet this man in in Austria  decided to till for a garden and discovers buried treasure. SERIOUS buried treasure.

Hundreds of pieces of centuries-old jewelry and other precious objects that Austrian authorities described as a fairy-tale find.

Austria's department in charge of national antiquities said the trove consists of more than 200 rings, brooches, ornate belt buckles, gold-plated silver plates and other pieces or fragments, many encrusted with pearls, fossilized coral and other ornaments. It says the objects are about 650 years old.

Guess I’m lugging back out the old metal detector. I feel lucky!

 

Rompers Schmompers

 

I’m not a huge romper fan. In fact, I’ve made fun of those wearing them over the years. But these…these I could actually wear.