📖This book is available on KU! ➡️Get KindleUnlimited ‘Beauty and The Bears’ is a paranormal bear shifter short story that is heavy on the smut. It’s meant to be. This is a very light and easy read with very little plot. It’s basically PwP. But oh is it filthy and yummy! 𝘓𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘯𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘥𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘭𝘺. “𝘚𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘥.” “𝘍𝘶𝘤𝘬 𝘺𝘦𝘴, 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴,” 𝘈𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘴. “𝘐’𝘮 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦. 𝘚𝘩𝘦’𝘭𝘭 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘮 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘺 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘧𝘪𝘦𝘥.” Beauty and the Bears – L.V. Lane We meet Blaze, Linden & Aspen. Three bear shifters with strong plans of discipline for our dear Beaty. Imagine Goldilocks, just..well..more taboo and there is no porridge. “𝘞𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘬𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘵 𝘯𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘥, 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘱𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘴𝘦. 𝘏𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘰𝘮 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘺 𝘣𝘭𝘶𝘴𝘩 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴… 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯, 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘱𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴. 𝘕𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘺 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘨𝘪𝘳𝘭𝘴 𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦.” Beauty and the Bears – L.V. Lane The book is heavy on praise kink, and though dominant our bear shifters are definitely cinnamon rolls. Beauty is quite bratty, though she’s an adult and not a little girl, despite the praising calling her that, hehe. She’s all woman as they say. This book is part of the Coveted Prey world, but is completely stand-alone so you don’t have to have read any of the other books in this world to enjoy this little snack. “𝘏𝘮𝘮,” 𝘈𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘢𝘺𝘴, 𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘨𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘦𝘺𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘩𝘰𝘵 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯. “𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴.” 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘯, 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘺 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘤𝘬, 𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘧𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘢 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘯𝘶𝘥𝘨𝘦𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘪𝘨 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘮𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘴. “𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭, 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵’𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘵 𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘦,” 𝘓𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘴 𝘈𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘯’𝘴 𝘣𝘪𝘨, 𝘸𝘦𝘵 𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘱𝘴 𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘺 𝘱𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘺. 𝘐 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘢𝘯 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘭𝘺. “𝘔𝘺 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘦 𝘢𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵,” 𝘉𝘭𝘢𝘻𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘺𝘴, 𝘨𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘰 𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘧𝘵𝘴. 𝘐 𝘧𝘭𝘰𝘱 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬, 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘭𝘺. 𝘔𝘺 𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘴 𝘧𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘺 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘺 𝘱𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘺, 𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘭 𝘐 𝘢𝘮 𝘣𝘦𝘨𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘮𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘴. 𝘈𝘴 𝘐 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯, 𝘐 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘐 𝘢𝘮 𝘢 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘺 𝘉𝘦𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘮𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴. Beauty and the Bears – L.V. Lane Oh! Did I forget to mention that we have 👅 with 🐻? Oooops… #sorrynotsorry All in all, I found this to be a fantastically fun read. As always with Lane it flows well and the characters are lovable and sexy. It’s smut, but it’s well-written smut. And that matters. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Innie (@kindled.all.night) View this post on Instagram A post shared by Innie (@kindled.all.night) Innie Is an avid reader & ARC Reviewer of everything Dark/Erotic/Historical/Taboo/PN Romance. A lover of the Alphaholes. Reads MM, FM, MMF, MFM, RH. Contains content 🔞 Her reviews tend to be saucy, spicey and do not hold back…
📖This book is available on KU & Audible! ➡️Get KindleUnlimited | Get Audible I liked this book and where the story is going – the author has caught my attention and I really felt like I wanted to read more of her books. I did – because I finished this entire world that is currently published, and will be posting reviews of all the books in this series. This book belongs to the ‘Gods Universe’ and I highly recommend you read them in order – even though every book is a stand-alone. The Court of The Underworld #1 – Asterion was great but Ariadne less so… I haven’t read that many re-tellings of the Greek myths in a modern setting, but this wasn’t bad! I loved Asterion, he’s perfect – but sadly Ariadne just falls short for me. Don’t get me wrong, she’s got many good characteristics and she’s absolutely perfect for Asterion. The issue I have is that she’s written so epically good at what she does – you would never think she was mortal. This is a problem when said character IS “just” a mortal. Yes, she’s an assassin, she’s a great one at that – and trained kind of like the old Spartan schools where you either were the best or you died (just like in Sparta), but she’s also like five foot nothing and 100lbs – let’s try to at least be slightly realistic! There is just no way this small mortal female can do any type of hand-to-hand combat with a grown ass 6,5 foot 280lb fully trained (and we are talking trained-by-gods type of trained) man. It’s just not going to happen! That’s a “kick him in the balls and run” situation. That’s been proven several times, it’s just not physically possible. I’m all for her doing damage – and yes when she’s being a full assassin and getting the jump on people, coming out of the shadows etc etc, perfect! And I love it and yes she would definately be able to do her thing. But not if she’s the full-on focus! And this just kept happening… She was written to be so good, she’s better than Gods and Superheroes, and that got to me a little bit. It was just “too good” you know? The other thing that brings the book down is, and this is a repeating problem in the series by the way, and that is the editing. Now, the editing… it’s not terrible…but it’s not very good, and it could be miles better. There are consistently missing words, way more than there should be allowed to be. By that I mean when I am on double digits in a book, that’s way too many. And that’s for each book, not the whole series. There is also the problem of sentences starting with the FMC name again and again. Just a paragraph under or on the same page. This is a big no-no, and it gets annoying. It’s not a good…
📖This book is available on KU! Get KindleUnlimited! Owned & Knotted belongs to one of my favourite universes by L.V. Lane. The ‘Darkly Ever Afterverse’ is a Dystopian Omegaverse world set in the future. In the first book, Owned, we don’t have the designated ABO terms as we do in this short story sequel, but it was quite clear to me when I read the first book that the Author might go that way. Read my review of the first book here. In this 2nd book, the Omegaverse is fully developed and the designated categories exist. Though in this O-verse Betas can develop into Alphas or Omegas unless they take a sort of medication that blocks the transition, which I found kinda neat and a new twist on it. It’s never really made clear if the 2nd book co-exists along with the 1st one or if it’s sometime after the 1st one, but Taylor (from book 1) is still present and in charge (though we don’t meet him in book 2) so I assume it’s a bit further forward from the first book. Also considering the dynamics have now developed properly, though there were tonnes of hints towards them in the 1st book (which I go into in detail in that review). Owned & Knotted is a ‘why choose’ type of book, which is a category I do enjoy. It is an MMFM, making it a RH hehe. It’s something Lane writes extremely well and her intimate scenes are always a good favourite of mine no matter if it’s MM or MF. She does them sexy, smutty, heartfelt and dominating, but her female characters tend to be strong women who don’t take shit. Imogen’s Alphas are OTT Alphas, they are a bit of an Alphahole I won’t lie. This is the typical Dystopian atmosphere. It can be a little dark but this short story is quite lite in my opinion and focuses more on the Alpha Trio getting back together again after they were split up for several years, as well as Imogen and her leadership of her people in her community. A community whose territory Taylor very much wants – hence why That especially is the case here in the DEA verse as all three FMCs we have seen so far, are all of strong personalities and survivors. And even though they are aware that they are inferior in many ways to the men, and despite Taylor’s rules of ‘Ownership’ – these women fight strongly for what they believe in and are not to be trifled with, so if you enjoy strong females this is def a series worth exploring. This is a 5-star read from me and if you have never read this series, I do think you should start with book 1, but this short story can be read as a stand-alone. I truly hope there are more books to come in this universe as there is something unique about how Taylor rules his lands that is a bit…
📖This book is available on KU! Get KindleUnlimited! L.V. Lane‘s Owned is a dark-dystopian-HEA rough around the edges, kind of book. It’s got all the good stuff we have come to love from her writing. It’s erotic, it’s brilliant world-building, great character-building, and I really fell in love with the characters. This book is read from several perspectives, we have the two main female characters; Ava & Nora, but also their Alpha male men. This book is therefore two interlinked stories. This specific book has not been put in the Omegaverse category by the author, but the 2nd book ‘Owned & Knotted’ has. The setting itself, and the fact that this takes place in a dystopian world with slight a slight Sci-Fi feeling, where one of our male main characters, talks about the ‘enhancements’ that people have gotten, but also that he for example, and others, have had after-effects from these enhancements, and what he mentions, there are some of the things that we recognize from the Alphas in the Omegaverse trope. This I found very fascinating and cool! I also picked out several Omega traits from our two main female characters! I built this picture in my head that the book could very well be some sort of unofficial prequel to an Omegaverse world as if this was the very very beginning and another setting for how it came about that they developed the ABO dynamics hehe. But this was purely my own interpretation of the book and how I saw things, hehe, but it did open up for brainstorming and I enjoyed it, so I thought I would mention it. (It also turned out I was right when Book 2 was released! ) All in all, this is a wonderful book filled with action, but I must highlight that the setting is dystopian and women are in fact..well…owned. I say women, but I guess you could say, people. This is done by branding – so depending on who “owns” you…well… let’s just say that one of the main females has bad experiences. Therefore this book def. has power exchange, and the men are very very ALPHA, some are even insane (though not the main Hs) and so forth. The book has the normal dystopian setting, though it’s far from too gritty and I don’t consider the book to be extremely dark. It does have some dark content obviously, but mostly I found it to have more mystery of who the heroines are and what they are running from etc. The main Heroes are very family-oriented and I really liked them.
