She's tough and fearless and willing to tackle being much bigger than she is. Max is an intriguing character who embodies all the best honey badger traits. I liked the story and liked that a number of characters from earlier books had roles in this one. I liked his growing relationship with Max - once Max gets used to having him around and stops forgetting he exists. Zé is busy learning all about the new things he can do and meeting all the zany characters we have come to know in Laurenston books. Max is also under threat from a cousin who is jealous of her and wants her dead. Because they are all hybrids or one kind or another, they aren't well accepted by their honey badger relatives who are after them all because their loser of a father has stolen money from them and want the girls to find him for them. Her younger sister Stevie is a genius who is frightened of bears and who shifts into a very large Siberian tiger/honey badger hybrid but more usually hides in the kitchen cupboards or hangs from the ceiling. Stress baking works just great for her because they are living in a part of New York City which is a haven for bear shifters who just love all the baking. Her older sister Charlie doesn't shift but is a crack marksman who terrifies everyone around her and stress bakes when she gets tense. Of course, Max's world is likely not typical for shifters. And when she takes him with her in her escape and brings him home with her, Zé enters a world that he had never heard of. When Max tells him that he is a shifter, he thinks she is crazy. Max takes one look at him and knows something about him that he doesn't know about himself. Zé is a former Marine and now a mercenary. Unfortunately, she doesn't know that a force is gathering to "rescue" her. It begins with Max letting herself be kidnapped so that she can get to the kidnapper. This is the third story in the Honey Badger series and focuses on middle sister Max. If you like my reviews I hope you will follow my blog. They were fun and entertaining characters but lacked depth or any relationship credibility, which was very disappointing. I love how Laurenston can weave animal traits into these shifters, it felt very realistic but I never felt that moment when Max and ZeZé had a deep connection. These shifters are loud, foul mounted and snarky, with no filters and they made me laugh. I love the humor and outrageousness of Laurenston's shifter world but sometimes the relationship get's lost with all the other activities. The various story arcs include but are not limited to: Max's father and his lunacy, Max's mother escaping prison to protect Max, a mafia bear clan selling humans, Vargas learning about his past and learning how to be a shifter and about interacting with shifters, Special Ops recruitment, introduction to new characters, as well as old favorites making appearances. This book is not all about this couple it is more about MacKilligan sisters and the various MacKilligan Honey Badger families from various parts of the world. Little does he know his world is about to drastically change. ZeZé Vargas is undercover when the lady he's suppose to be saving blows his cover and makes crazy claims about him being a cat and that she's a honey badger. Max 'Kill It Again' MacKilligan, allows herself to be kidnapped only to have her plans foiled when she realizes one of her kidnappers is really a good guy who doesn't know he's a shifter. My audio copy had some short repeated sections not sure if it was a download glitch or a problem with the audio itself. Listened to audio narrated well by Charlotte Kane.
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