Wolf With Benefits (Pride, #8)

by Shelly Laurenston

• ISBN13: 9780758265227
• Publish Date: 26 March 2013 (first published 1 January 2013)
• Publish Status: Out of Stock
• Out of Print: 6 May 2017
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Brava
• Format: Paperback (UK Trade)
• Pages: 400
• Language: English

Reviews

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It's not a secret that I really love the Pride series by Laurenston. Whenever I need a funny, light, crazy romance to pick me up I know I can count on her because that's exactly what her books deliver!

Wolf with Benefits is perhaps the best example of that, as it's not only trademark Laurenston but my favorite book in the series so far! A big part of that is because the romance took more time to develop between Ricky Lee and Toni, which is the only major weak point in the rest of the novels. Not here. Here, we are able to grow comfortable with the idea of them as a couple as the novel gives us time of them just being around each other and talking with each other and not having sex with each other (lol).

And of course, they worked really well as a couple. They were cute, they brought each other up, they protected each other... the whole package!

Another subject that I liked a whole lot more in this installment was the family bonds. The Pride series features totally messed up families, and sometimes, it's just slightly too much. In Wolf With Benefits, the dysfunction is more outward than inward, albeit it's not lacking inwardly either.

However, this family units around each other (mostly thanks to Toni's mad organization skills) when needed and would die for one another, a vibe that is sorely missing from some of predecessors in the series.

Eight books in and I still look forward to more books and romances set in this world (and, possibly, more love stories set in this particular family!), which is quite the accomplishment!

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Jackal shifter, Antonella “Toni” Jean-Louis Parker is the only one of her ten siblings who is not a child prodigy. Because of this, she takes care of scheduling all their classes, recitals, concerts, gallery showings, and competitions. She is overworked and underappreciated, and with the encouragement of her mother’s best friend, Irene Van Holtz, she attempts to finally start to live her own life and gets a job with the hockey team, the New York Carnivores taking care of schedules, travel arrangements, appearances and competitions for a much larger set of prima donnas. A job she is well qualified for.

It is outside of the Carnivore’s arena where she first meets Ricky Lee Reed, a wolf shifter and an employee of Llwellyn Securities. At least she thinks he has a job, but he always seems to have plenty of time to follow her around and “wait for the entertainment to find him.”

Toni’s self-centered siblings don’t like that Toni is no longer at their beck and call and are using their talents to plot a way to get her to quit her new job. Between the temperamental prodigies, the hot headed athletes and the sexy wolf who’s chasing her around, Toni is more than ready for a melt down of her own.

THOUGHTS:

Another enjoyable Pride story by Shelly Laurenston. Both Ricky Lee and Toni were very likeable characters and her temperamental siblings added a lot of humor to the story.

We first met Toni’s parents in the anthology When He Was Bad (another good story). Jackie was the roommate of Irene Conridge, now Irene Van Holtz, mate of the Alpha Niles Van Holtz. Jackie too was a child prodigy and she too relies on Toni’s help to corral all of her younger children. Although Jackie agrees that Toni should have her own life, she calls Toni with her problems as much as the younger children.

Ricky slides himself into Toni’s life, whether she wants him there or not, and his laid-back personality is beneficial to Toni. He quickly learns how to manage Toni and helps stabilize her whenever her siblings or her new job start to push her over the edge.

Shelly Laurenston is another author who drops you right into a story and you just enjoy it from start to finish with just the right balance of humor and action. She’s always a good choice.

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