Thanks Fur Last Night 4 Star

Title: Thanks Fur Last Night

Author(s): Eve Langlais, Milly Taiden, Kate Baxter

Series: 

Genre: Romance, Urban Fantasy

Publish Date: January 30, 2018

Pages: 400

Ages: 18 + 

Rating: ✭✭✭✭ ( solid for each part of the anthology )

Bearing His Sins by Eve Langlais 4 Star

Eve Langlais has written a sexy and totally comical romance. Which after looking at her website some post reading this anthology, that is sort of her style. I like it. Cole is bear shifter and an assassin who is scouting out a hit that he was going to do but was recently cancelled. While he is there in a tree looking through some binoculars and that's when Anja appears below him with a shotgun. A shotgun ready to shoot and an attitude of a total badass. Anja and her grandmother live together on the land he is using to spy. They've been fighting and hiding bodies defending Anja from her fiancé for years. There are parts where Cole was making dirty jokes towards Anja and the whole time her grandmother is there trying to marry her off to him. It is so hilarious. Like dirty jokes that a drunk frat boy would say. My husband and I use stupid dirty jokes all the time like "I need more filling for my pie" and he would say "I got some filling for you." So for me I loved that. I love the banter between them. Cole reminds of Deadpool sometimes with just some of the things that he says. For example, he is talking about them getting busy in a very HOT was against a tree, and then next breathe saying he should really kill her. I really liked the ending it went well with their banter. It did feel a little jumped into pretty quickly, but what do you want it's a novella

Bought by the Bear by Milly Taiden 4 Star

I flew through this book. Like I stayed up till midnight after reading non stop after the kids went to bed. This is written out like it really should have been a full novel and was trimmed down to fit in this anthology. Josilyn has been living life like a single mom  and raising her nephew Nick since his parents died in a hit and run car accident. She also has been barely scraping by since her husband divorced her and took everything he possibly could, including her public image so no one will hire her. She has a day job cleaning the rich and rudes houses to she can barely feed them. So her best friend and neighbor gets her a job pretending to be a mate for Xander. He needs a fake mate for a week to convince his grandmother he is actually maturing and not just being a frat boy. They meet and surprise, she is actually his one true mate. The story has a lot going for it. She has her own drama unfolding where people keep trying to kidnap her. And meanwhile she has the hots for this bear shifter she is now living with.

The Alpha and I by Kate Baxter 4 Star

Devon has moved out to no where. She lives in a cabin and owns a bar for the town. The town has like 70 people in it. She was driving home in a blizzard one night and ends of meeting the most amazing man in the world. The man she picks up on the side of the road is naked and covered in blood. He is werewolf. Don't judge this by the short basic snippet though. I know the random chance meeting, love at first site might be so repetitive you might not be in the mood for it today. However, I really recommend that you give this third part of the anthology a shot. The thing is, the bond between the characters is true and real. I felt the love they have. You can feel their magnetic pull and complete understanding of each other. The love is real in this one.

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Some Normalcy in My Life Again

It Super Bowl Sunday! This mean I'm gonna fight my minions to be quiet so I can watch a little tv today. Only so I can remember what it was like to watch football every Sunday like I use to. I just need a break from Paw Patrol and all those other goodies.

The end of December into January was a shitty time. Our little family of four is still living in my mother in laws house to try and catch up on debt. The problem has been the noise that comes with having a three and one year old. Her house is a nice slightly older house in North Carolina. That's empty of curtains and wall hangings in most rooms. It has hardwood floor so every toy car or barbie that hits the floor sounds like a mini bomb going off. It wouldn't bee so bad if my brother in laws didn't live here also. One has slightly random schedules and sleeps whenever he wants, and the other has zero schedule and plays video games all day. They're not young. The zero schedule brother lives in the downstairs. So yep, all the noise carries down. Needless to say this has caused some conflict because god forbid kids make noise, or even worse you actually get onto them for doing things. 

So there were a couple minor conflicts that caused me at thirty-two years be homesick for the first time ever. Have I mentioned that I grew up a military brat. When you grow up moving around a lot as a kid you develop this weird feeling of you don't have a home location. I had even taken vacations away from my parents for a month at a time, states away. Never once did I feel so upset that I wanted to run away to home, wherever that may be. 

I did this time. I wanted to take my two kids and run home to my parents house in Pennsylvania. They wouldn't have the space and my mom wouldn't be able to handle the kids being around for such a long time with her post cancer meds making her tired and stuff. Those things and the fact that there was a blizzard expected to hit made me decide to do the next best thing. I talked to my husband and my best friend (and her husband) in Maryland and we spent two and a half weeks there. 

I regained so much while I was there. I got my balls back. They are my kids and I will what I can to the best of my ability. I won't be taking suggestions from people who only spend 10-20 mins a day with them. It is not fair to the kids to not be allowed to make noise because someone is sleeping from 6 am to 7 pm for no specific reason. I will not allow myself to be driven crazy, well, other than the normal my kids drive me crazy crazy. I can't over stress about what noise level is ok, or if they drop a sippy cup would it wake a bear. I got my kids to be nice to me again because I'm not constantly yelling at them. I gained feeling like a human again instead of a mommy machine. Of course that happens anytime you are with your best friend. I just only get to see mine three times a year.

Things have also gotten better since we got home too. My one brother in law has taken a job across the US. That freed up his downstairs room so our family is living in downstairs which is literally like its own apartment. It has been really hard trying to get the kids to sleep in a room together but they can play and do what they want again. The other brother in law who works sometime normal hours doesn't hear them at all. I've been able to sit and do one on one with my daughter again to try and get her ready for school. I couldn't before because my son was not contained and would be climbing or running around somewhere. Plus I would always feel judged by my husbands brothers. They're sort of know-it-all types... who don't have girlfriends, kids, homes of their own... (the one just got his license back after almost 10 years.)

My husband has been amazing through everything. He completely understood and agreed with me. I felt horrible pitting him again his blood vs our family but I think that is just one of my own character flaws where I feel guilt for things I shouldn't. Well that's what my friend likes to tell me all the time. I always had this fear that I would lose my husband or my kids after moving down here. He was just amazing. He said I could go away for as long as I needed to go. To take time for myself. It was dual beneficial because it gave the two brother in laws and mother in law a break from my little darlings. I think he knew I was broken and scared.

So things have been crazy. The kids are still kids and my son is still climbing up every box, couch, table, and gate he can find. My daughter still competes for attention and is an instigator. But it's normal. We have our own space, and we are out of the way. The kids are almost back to where they were before we moved here in September. So I just need to keep doing my thing. Working with my babies and keeping us on a normal path.