I may had squealed a little when I got the email telling me I got this ARC. I absolutely love this series. It’s combines Shelly Laurenston’s signature humour with exciting action and a really lovely sister relationship that at times really steals the show. All the previous characters from other books make an appearance too which I loved. Max and Ze were at first a bit mismatched, with Max knowing with 100% certainly who she was and Ze still struggling to discover his true self. But just like her 2 sisters, once Max decides Ze is it for her (even if she doesn’t want to fully admit it) she is all in which is something else I really love about this series. No beating around the bush with the H&h. I will say I that wish we had gotten just a few more scenes with Max and Ze alone, this book has a lot of stuff going on, a lot of stuff being wrapped up, and at times I felt like they didn’t get as much attention as the previous couples did. Overall though I highly recommend this series, one of the best shifter romance series out there IMO

<I><b> ARC Provided By NetGalley For An Honest Review</I> </b>

I received this ARC via Netgalley and Kensington Books in return for an honest review. While not the first in this series, it is easily read as a standalone. Shelly Laurenston returns to her modern day, alternate reality of shifters and humans with the story of Max MacKilligan, one of three sisters by the same father. Because their father is a horrible person and a hard-to-kill honey badger shifter, Max and her sisters, Charlie and Stevie, learned that they can really only rely on themselves as they try to overcome the dangers of being their father’s daughters. In the two preceding books, both Charlie and Stevie found their mates and now it’s Max’s turn.
Max meets Ze, an ex-military man who infiltrated a group of mercenaries and tasked with kidnapping Max. Imagine his surprise when she takes out the group, saves his life and informs him that he is a cat shifter! The story follows Ze being introduced to the world of shifters and the crazy, crazy world of the MacKilligan sisters. Characters from formers books in this long-running series make appearances and new characters are introduced which provide potential future storylines for Ms. Laurenston. This is a well-written and funny book, as are all of Ms. Laurenston’s. If you like light-hearted, well-developed characters and settings with a paranormal, romantic setting, this is the series for you! It’s always fun to return to this world and I’m already and greedily looking forward to her next book.

Hilarious as always!

The Mackilligan sisters are some of my absolute favorites. They are, as always, lots of laughs, but really almost too funny and insanely violent and crazy to describe.

Like in the previous books, it's best just to throw out your normality and enjoy the ride of blow-your-head-up crazy fun.

This time it's a story about Max, and how max realise that she actually does care.

One of the best parts, is where we really get to see Charlie redefine what being bad-ass means - Now I get why everyone is so scared of her!

Badger to the Bone is book 3 in The Honey Badger Chronicles by Shelly Laurenston. In this book we are following the 3rd MacKilligan sister Max "kill it again" MacKilligan, who has by far got to be one of my favorite characters in this series. She is tough and scary but will do anything to protect the ones she loves. While trying to find out information on the man who is trying to kidnap her, Max meets Ze who is ex-military and does not know he is a cat. What follows is Ze being introduced to the world of shifters and learning about a whole side of him he didn't know existed while also being thrown into the chaos that surrounds the MacKilligan sisters. I loved how in this book we learned more about Max and her basketball team! This series is amazing and I always have a great time reading and rereading these stories. I absolutely love how Shelly brings back old favorites like Blayne and the Wild Dogs. She creates a world that I just can not wait to dive back into. 5 Stars, I highly highly recommend this series!!

You need to read everything in the series!

There is no way to even try to describe Badger to the Bone by Shelly Laurenston because Max MacKilligan is trying to protect her sisters and when ZeZé (Zé) Vargas gets in the way of an attempted kidnapping. Max decides to save Zé from himself because he doesn’t know he is a shifter and take him with her and her basketball teammates. Max tries to educate Zé about shifters and that is not so easy with the Dunn triplets humming a song and he doesn’t want to believe his eyes!

I love anything Shelly Laurenston has written but each book gets better and better especially in her Pride Series which The Honey Badger Chronicles are part of because you get characters that have been in prior books show up in the books and Miki Kendrick is one of my favorites and I’m hoping at some future time we get to see her daughter.

Read the book because you will laugh constantly at stuff the characters say and do!

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book from NetGalley. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Shelly Laurenston is always an entertaining read. Badger to the Bone picks up pretty directly from the second book in the trilogy. As a reader it is really beneficial to have read her earlier works as their are lot's of callbacks, not just to the books in this series, but to her previous shifter series. It also sets up some new characters, giving her room for the series to continue.

Shelly Laurenston is always a must read for me and Max's story was worth the wait. She finds a kitty who is not aware that he is a shifter and chaos ensues. We are introduced to new characters as well as wnd on a huge cliffhanger. You will not be disappointed.

Exciting, action-filled addition to Laurenston's world of shifters. I love reading each new book and learning more about the world that Laurenston has created. Max and Ze's story brings more romance, adventure, and questions, with a hope for more.

The MacKilligan sisters are hybrid shifters but so unique. After reading their story you really will want to be their best friend. This is the third book in the series and the story of Max probably the most bloodthirsty and really rather crazy. Family is everything to Max and there is nothing she will not do to protect her sisters. The humour and sassiness is off the scale and the fact Max and cats in any form do not mix will have you rooting for her with Ze a jaguar shifter who Max is willing to take on big time. The action is ramped up and will take you on a rollercoaster ride.
I would really recommend to read the other sisters stories you will not be sorry and will gain you extra time in the honey badger laugh a minute world.
I was given an ARC of this book by Netgalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

Shelly Laurenston is one of my favorite go-to authors for paranormal, suspenseful romantic comedy. That's a lot of adjectives to assign to one book but they all fit. Badger to the Bone is the third book in The Honey Badger Chronicles. I love the writer's dark, laugh out loud humor and her character-filled worlds. I'm assuming there will be a fourth book in the series because she ends each volume with limitless possibilities for her creative genius. Ze is perfect for Max and I know we haven't seen the last of the couple. The author revisits all of her best characters like a family reunion.

ZeZe Vargas is an undercover agent working with some ruthless and deadly kidnappers who have target Max MacKilligan. When Max makes mincemeat of them and rescues him, Ze realizes he is in for a wild ride because not only does he not know about Shifters, he doesn’t understand that he is one. As a latent jaguar shifter, Ze has a lot to learn so Max takes him under her badger claws introducing her new friend and possibly more than friend to crazypants world of lions, tigers, bears, badgers and other assorted species of the Shifter kind.

As a full Honey Badger, Max has a lot of mad skills when it comes to mayhem and taking out the bad guys whether they be humans or Shifters. What is new for her is finding she has a softer side when it comes to the sexy jaguar who sets her own motor to purring. Ze has a huge learning curve so Max feels compelled to be his guide and protector in the strange and dangerous new world.

As usual, the MacKilligan sisters are the focus of more than one group including their own relatives who either want to eliminate them or own Max and her hybrid sisters. Their worthless piece of trash father is causing chaos and major stress especially for Charlie who always takes Freddy’s despicable actions to heart. Not surprisingly, Freddy has a once again found a way to make the girls lives a whole new level of miserable and disgusted.

Max seems like a flat out killer on the surface, but she has a deep well of hidden compassion and loyalty especially when it comes to protecting her sisters. Along with Max’s posse of Honey Badgers whom she plays on a sports team with, the sisters have battles on more than one front as usual. Max’s growing attractions to Ze, her mother showing up, and another whack job cousin bent on revenge gives her plenty to think about and deal with while putting up with the usual bedlam of their Shifter lives.

This third in the Honey Badger Chronicles will more than please fans of this quirky, humorous, and often times raucous series. Ms. Laurenston’s talent for crating stories infused with the sublime to the ridiculous and a high body count will delight everyone who enjoys the life and times of Max, Stevie, and Charlie, underdogs in Shifter society who navigate their world with aplomb, serious claws, and a lot of firepower.

Laurenston continues her Honey Badger series with as much hysterical laughter and accidental (or not) maulings as her previous books. ZeZé Vargas runs into Max MacKilligan when she's kidnapped; he's one of the kidnappers. When Max accidentally outs Ze and realizes he doesn't know he's a shifter, the bloodshed and hijinks begin. Laurenston's humor is truly glorious to behold.

Max's book is here!!! And I am so happy. Ze is the exact type of guy that the happiest honey badger needs. It was perfectly executed. Badgered to the Bone fits into the Laurenton’s world perfectly. Some old favorite characters make an appearance, and have aged exactly as expected. (We even get to see the parenting skills of a favorite couple). This book was full of Shelly Laurenston’s humor. I was smiling the whole time. This is a must read. I will admit that I was a little scared to read this book, because I did not want to leave one of my favorite shifter universe, but thanks to Max’s friends I have hope that Honey Badgers are not done

Another great book from Shelly, and Imreally like the way she is bringing all her shifters into the books. Looking forward to more to come.

How did we not see this coming???? Everything we know of Max, her one true nemesis, her weakness when she is home with her sisters, the one who never gives up on annoying her, pursuing her, and that she just can’t back away from, the feral cat in their neighbourhood. Which means, it was only poetic justice, when at 7% into our rip-roaring, loud out loud, action packed tale, she states “That’s my kitty cat. You can’t shoot my kitty cat.”it all made sense

Max doesn’t like cats, never has, and Zé is no exception "And this was why Max hated cats! Tricky, evil, fur-licking cats!" but he wiggles into her conscious and she is inexplicably drawn to him. And what a cat he is, between his antics, "Then, with his gaze still on Dutch, Zé slowly reached over and, with a flick of his wrist, knocked Dutch’s soda out of his hand." And Max’s one-liners “It’s quickly turning into a teddy bear picnic. I thought I’d go out and pick up some liquor.” And the story in general “&#@k!” the last human male exploded. “More badgers!”", I was laughing so hard in places, I had to stop and catch my breath

The attraction is there too, but finding time and place is isn’t easy, as Charlie clearly states to Max, “@#%k the cat on your own time. Let’s go! Let’s go! Let’s go!”, there is always something that needs to be done. When they finally get time on their own, they are explosive together, well matched, physically and emotionally, and Max’s cat has her pegged 😊

There were some emotional moments as well. Settling of some matters with their extended family, and Max coming to the realization that she has a heart and feelings. “Family is family.” That’s what Carlie had taught Max. But it was Charlie who’d taught Max that family only mattered “if they are in it with you. To the end. Do or die.”. Max won my heart, Zé won my heart, and Charlie, Berg, Stevie, Shen, and Kyle, yes Kyle is still around, burrowed deeper into it

And fear not fellow Honey Badger lovers, I don’t think this will be the end….

It has been a long time since I’ve smiled and laughed out loud as much as I did while reading this book! The antics of the last of the three honey badger MacKilligan sisters, Max, gets her story in Badger to the Bone. While in the process of being viciously attacked by her cousin, Max quickly ends that fight and runs toward her own kidnapping. It is here that she meets ZeZe Vargas and turns his whole life around.

This book had so much going on with so many characters that I kind of got lost in a few places. It has been a few months since I’ve read (or listened to) any of this author’s books so I had a hard time remembering who everyone was. But as I kept reading I was able to follow along pretty well.

Overall, Badger to the Bone was a really fun read. Max is one bada$$ honey badger, she is vicious, crazy but so protective as only she can be. And then just imagining what Ze saw when he was brought to Max’s world, now his world, still brings a chuckle. And those scenes with Charlie and the fear she brings out of people around her makes me smile so big! Looking forward to more with these characters.

Thank you Netgalley and Kensington Books for giving me the opportunity to read this complimentary copy. All opinions are my own.

In order to review this title, I went back and reread books one and two. Which was helpful. Although I enjoyed this final edition of the crazy sister trilogy, I really found myself doubling down on what I didn’t love about Laurenston’s writing.

Shelley, you are amazing. You create characters that I want to adore, and follow, and see reach hea’s with brilliantly written romantic heroes. I just wish that you didn’t find yourself writing for people who have already read your entire ouvre. I mean, these women that have cameo’s in a Badger are brilliant, but it can actually act to exclude a casual reader. These characters, and this adventure that you have created are awesome. I just couldn’t find myself recommending it to anyone who hadn’t already read everything that you‘be ever written.

So, as much as I live the Honey Badger sisters (and applaud the introduction of a brand new AND deaf sister), I can only give this a three out of five.

What can one way about perfection? Humor and romance marry perfectly in this book with outstanding characters and a great story! Read it now !!!!!

What would a story about Max be like?
I was entertained. The family drama is extensive. Previous characters have cameos. A new shifter runs into Max and she is made responsible for him.
Chaos and violence ensues. Not much romance, but it was still satisfying.

Anyone who has liked previous books in this series will enjoy this installment.

I read an ARC from Netgalley.

I laughed and laughed and laughed. I thoroughly enjoy all of Shelly Laurenston's books and this one was no exception. Fun - a bit all over the place with all the characters - but easy to follow and just hysterical! Can't wait till the next one!