Review: Bears Behaving Badly by MaryJanice Davidson

Bears Behaving Badly (BeWare My Heart #1) by MaryJanice Davidson

Publication Date: March 31st 2020 by Sourcebooks Casablanca

Pages: 384

Source: Publisher

Purchase Links: Amazon | Barnes & Noble

About the book:

These social worker bear shifters give the term "mama bear" a whole new meaning! Bestselling author MaryJanice Davidson is back with this brand-new paranormal romance series featuring a foster care system for at-risk shifter babies and teens.

Werebear shifter Annette Garsea is a caseworker for the Interspecies Placement Agency. When a selectively mute and freakishly strong teen werewolf is put in her custody, Annette has to uncover the young girl's secrets if she's to have any hopes of helping her. And not even the growling of a scruffy private investigator can distract her from her mission...

Bear shifter David Auberon appreciates Annette's work with at-risk teen shifters, but he's not sure if her latest charge is so much a vulnerable teen as a predator who should be locked up. All that changes when he, Annette, and her motley band of juveniles find themselves dodging multiple murder attempts and uncovering a trafficking cartel that doesn't just threaten the kids, but risks discovery of the shifters by the wider world of homo sapiens.

My Thoughts:

Annette teams up with fellow bear-shifter, David, investigating an assault by one of their at-risk juvenile charges, and that’s what starts this whacky, fun-filled mystery.

David’s had a crush on Annette, but hasn’t found the courage to ask her out, and when a rumor gets out at the office that they’re dating Annette forcefully denies it making it seems she’s not interested. Little does he know that she really, really is, and just denies anything going on because Annette thinks David isn’t interested. They operate under this misconception all the while hunting down a horrible, abusive group of shifter traffickers. But the more they work together, the more their undeniable attraction surfaces, and it’s impossible to hide that they’re falling a little more with every hour spent together. These bears were made for each other!

Bears Behaving Badly was slapstick mayhem, with a sweet romance, and hilarious characters. It was a little on the long side, and went around in circles a bit, but pretty fun, and downright steamy in the end! I think fans of Shelly Laurenston would enjoy Ms. Davidson’s brand of storytelling.

4 Suns