The Mane Squeeze

It should first be said that this book is part of a paranormal / erotic romance series about shapeshifters. I think it's not impossible to read on its own, but it would be a lot more fun and make more sense to read the other titles first. They are split into two subgroups: Magnus Pack: 'Pack Challenge', 'Go fetch', 'Here kitty, kitty!', 'When he was bad'-anthology Pride stories: 'The mane event', 'The beast in him', 'The mane attraction' and then this book, 'The mane squeeze'. Lock is a massive grizzly shapeshifter who loves his salmon, honey, peace and quiet. That makes it all the more surprising to him (and everyone else) that he falls in love with Gwen, a mixed breed who is almost constantly in trouble and surrounded by chaos. But the two fit surprisingly well and their relationship gets only more intense when a group of shifters who hate mixed breeds in general and Gwen in particular go after her. This novel is a mix between Laurenston's typical brand of disrespectful, rough humour, some erotic scenes, a little suspense, not too much plot, but all the more great characters who are a lot of fun. What I simply love is the way she mixes realistic animal traits with human behavior, thereby creating credible (and very funny) shifters. With a grizzly shifter, this is a lot of fun and completely enjoyable. I would recommend the whole series and name this book as one of the best in the series. If you enjoy this book, it might also interest you to know that she also writes books about dragon-shifters under the name G. A. Aiken.