Shelly Laurenston: Pack Challenge

Shelly Laurenston ~ Pack Challenge (Magnus Pack 1)
From: Samhain

Pack Challenge is all about a fluffy little Werebunny named… No no sorry.

Pack Challenge is where we meet drunken outrageous Sara Morrighan as she weaves her way out of a bar brawl and into the arms of Zach Sheridan. Little does she know the bad ass biker boy is the soon to be leader of the pack. In more ways than she ever dreamed.

I love some of the comments I have read making Sara, our heroine of the story, out to be this psychotic bitch. Hell, come on the lady was raised by wolves or at least a wolf. Lynette was not your typical grandma though. It may have had something to do with the rocket launcher, the M-16 and the pile of grenades and armor piercing weaponry she kept in the cellar. I think we should cut Sara some slack here.

Reading Shelly Laurenston reminds me of what Chris Carter did in the show Millennium in a scene where you are essentially watching the horrendous murder of two old people in a RV by a pack of demonic wolves but the soundtrack keeps playing Karen Carpenter singing…
That is why
All the girls in town
Follow you all around
Just like me
They want to be
Close to you
You do not want to admit you were laughing your ass off, but you were.

The real reason I love these ebooks has to be that it seems Shelly Laurenston is out to not only undermine most Romance conventions but to serve them on toast with laughter. Like this excerpt shows…

“Hey!” That after his tongue darted out and swiped her clit. “Cut that out.” But she didn’t sound half-convincing. She lowered herself to his lap and handed him the box of condoms.
He looked at it and smiled. “You do know you just licked my very recently opened wound?”
“So? Oh God, what’s wrong with you? Mange?”
“There’s nothing a therapist couldn’t cure.”
She nodded knowingly. “You could use a good therapist.”
“I was talking about you.”
Sara whipped that middle finger out like she might fast-draw a gun. “Besides, it’s not disease I’m worried about.” She leaned close to him, her face filled with the most serious expression he’d ever seen from her. “The fact is, I don’t want children. Ever. And when I’m thirty, I’m gettin’ fixed.”
Zach frowned and leaned back. Could he have heard her correctly? She didn’t want children? Ever? She didn’t pine to be a mother? To know the joy of childbirth? Blah, blah, blah?
He grabbed her tight by the shoulders and stared straight at her. “My God, woman, I’ve been waiting for you all my life!” Startled by his shout, Sara reared back and fell off the couch.
“Shit, are you okay?” Zach looked down at her as she raised herself up on her elbows.
“What the fuck was that?”
“That…” he quickly slipped the condom on and was off the couch and between her legs, “…was utter fucking joy. That’s what that was.” He kissed her neck, her breasts, sucked on her earlobes.
Sara laughed at his loving onslaught. “You’re insane.”

Wow! Is that not saying something on the whole eye rolling Romance tripe about Tru4eva Lurve = Procreation or what? So thank you Shelly for being the breath of fresh air with your over the top strong independent smart mouthed heroines with funny one liners and a box of condoms that I reach for when I want to not only laugh but also read a good Werewolf Romance that does everything smart and funny and right. Grade Fucking A!

Tags: Grade A, M/F, Magnus Pack, Samhain Publishing, Shelly Laurenston, Werewolf Romance