All Shane wanted was to get away from the wreckage of his career for a while. He picked New York City to provide him with a distraction from his early, unwanted retirement from the police force.New York City delivered, distracting him with three corpses and a miniature llama with a spitting problem and an attitude. If he wants to return to a normal life, he’ll have to face off against a sex … a sex trafficking ring targeting the woman of his dreams, ancient vampires, murderous criminals, his parents, and an FBI agent with a hidden agenda.
Some days, it isn’t easy being an ex-cop.
Warning: This novel contains excessive humor, action, excitement, adventure, magic, romance, and bodies. Proceed with caution.
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I am enjoying several of these stories by the same author. Love them all
Well-written story with humor, and heart-felt emotions that tells a complete story without having to read 3 books to feel a sense of completion.
The whole Gibson family is weird and wonderful. Loved the world that they live in. I will read the series!
It was an unexpected surprise. I enjoyed it very much.
Strange story!!! Hard to follow with people changing into wolves, shape shifters, etc. Pretty drawn out story and I skipped over lots of pages of mundane dialog. I love a good mystery, but this is not one of those.
Just a little to short, enjoyable
I almost never give 5 stars but this was a great read. Very good world building, very consistent. Gave me the feeling that I would love to join any of the main characters for dinner. The author respected the characters. The final battle was a bit over the top, but stayed loyal to the world created. I laughed out loud. Loved the intergenerational arguments.
I absolutely loved this book. RJ Blain is a new author for me but will be on my Automatic Buy list. The snark and humor were awesome. I laughed out loud several times.
What a hoot to read!!! Well written. Kind of book you will read more then once.
Terry
I looked this story. But not quite as much as many of the author’s other stories. In this work the characters’ usual familial banter is ramped up to eleven. It’s the same sort of violent love you may have noticed in the Witch&Wolf stories, but, as I said, (and to use a well known quote) this one goes to eleven. By which I mean that in my opinion she’s gone over the top here. Too much cuteness.
This book is not in the same world as the WnW books, even though there are werewolves (“lycanthropes”). I think it’s the same world as Playing With Fire, there are many similarities, but no crossover characters that I remember.
Can’t really give a plot recap without spoiling a lot of it, so I’m not gonna. Suffice to say that the RomCom designation feels about right. It’s not really a “romance” as the romance in the book is mostly peripheral to the plot. But it is just a bit steamier than usual (but not actually explicit, I’d hazard a 16+ rating). The good guys win the end (but the definition of “good guy” is far from lily white here). Definitely a comedy. Not really laugh-out-loud funny, though. There are a few jokes, and even a couple puns, but most of the humor is in the situations that arise, as she continues the over the top theme by inserting the characters into (more than) a few absurd situations. In that sense it might even qualify as a “zany comedy”. It’s difficult to judge comedy because uproarious to one person could easily fall completely flat to another. But I very much did enjoy this one and do recommend it to others. Except for those of you who are too easily nauseated by terminal cuteness, as this book certainly has more than its share of that.