This is book 2 of the "BeWere My Heart" series by MaryJanice Davidson. I would recommend reading Bears Behaving Badly, which is book 1, before reading A Wolf After My Own Heart. If you enjoy paranormal romance and/or any shifter story, you will enjoy reading this book series.

I received an advanced copy of this book from the publisher through netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This book is well written and the characters are described well. I adored Mama Mac, Oz Adway, Lila Kai, and Sally Small's characters! This is the second book in this series and it is very fast paced just like the first book. It sucks you into the world from the first page. This can be read as a stand alone but I recommend reading the first book in this series. It is a entertaining fast paced book. This book is in stores for $8.99 (USD).

A good read and a new book for me by Ms. Davidison. I was looking for a paranormal read and decided to give this one a try. This was the story of Oz and Lila. It was okay and in the end, a good read, not really what I am used to but still good. 3.5 stars
***I voluntarily reviewed a complimentary copy of this book provided by Netgalley***

A Wolf After My Own Heart by MaryJanice Davidson
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
Genre: Sci Fi & Fantasy
Publication Date: February 23, 2021

A Wolf After My Own Heart by MaryJanice Davidson is the second book in the BeWere My Heart series. I hadn't read the first book, but was able to read this as a standalone novel.

This book started off really fast and I expected it to be incredible, but it ended up being just so so. The story was actually really interesting, but I just struggled to connect with it. I was so excited about this shifter novel and struggled to finish it.

I'm so grateful to MaryJanice Davidson, Sourcebooks Casablanca, and NetGalley for providing me with a free copy of this ARC ebook in exchange for my honest review.

I have to say I love this series - the Author manages to bring a sense of fun , in fact a a smattering of the absurd
at times to her characters in these shifter romances/mysteries .

Oz Adway is a wolf shifter , a former accountant with the Interspecies Placement Agency (IPA) , he has at last been given his first case ........ find a runaway wearbear cub .
Lila Kai , a normal human ,has just move into a rental property in St Pauls , Minnesota - with a high tolerance for the unusual , a warped sense of humour and a protective streak of a 'mamma' bear , characteristics she will need when she rescues a bear cub .
What could possibly go wrong - well with Oz , just about anything , and he is not about to let Lila jeopardize his career prospects - or is he ?


This book made me laugh out loud at times ,full of humour and the Author's trade mark tropes it also had its moments of sadness - both main characters had tragic backstories . I particularly enjoyed the fact the the romantic side of the story was more of a slow burn rather than boy meets girl lets fall into bed/lust .

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

Well, heeeeeeelllllllooooooo Oz Adway, our sexy wolf shifter accountant. Oz has recently decided to dabble in investigating social work cases of cub shifters, which is quite the departure from accounting. As you can expect, his first case is a doozy. Readers will be introduced to Lila Kai, an ordinary “stable” (human). However, she doesn’t even flinch at the idea of there being a shifter community, so there is something obviously unique about her. As the story starts, she is moving into a cursed house and takes in a wearbear cub. Totally normal, right? Oz is tasked with finding the cub and it’s also a bit of a test to see if he has what it takes to be Interspecies Placement Agency investigator. This book is a great follow up to Bears Behaving Badly, where we first meet Oz.

In this world, weird is the norm. If you like paranormal romance with lots of humor than this book is for you. Davidson has a talent for the strange and the weird being funny. It’s unexpected to crack up during a suspense arc, but it totally happens in these books. It’s what makes them unique. It’s definitely more focused on the mystery and a bit less on the steamy romance, but there is a happily ever after. I would argue that Lila totally deserved getting something good in life and Oz is just the man to be with. One of my favorite details about Lila is that she drives a decommissioned ambulance and people kept mistaking her for a real EMT. So, she did go and get EMT training, but didn’t do it as her job. It was kind of a backup because of what she drove.

The mystery part of the story is about trying to dismantle the shifter trafficking ring. There are kernels of truth within the story about racism and supremacist groups. They are not in your face, but are the foundation for the shifters going missing. This book is fun, with enough action and suspense to make you keep reading well after bedtime. If you love shifter paranormal romance, this series is for you!

My Kindle broke and I had to factory reset it and lost all of my Net Galleys, so I wasn't able to complete my read/review of A Wolf After My Own Heart.

The archive date had already passed and I wasn't able to re-download it. I'll be catching this book from my local library.

4.5 Stars
A great follow up to Bears Behaving Badly. I loved the banter and the character dynamics along with the fabulously written story. I am definitely a fan of this series and will be recommending to readers as well as looking to read more.

WOAH - this book took me on a ride! To be fair, I have not read book#1 in this series, so I had no idea what I was getting myself into, for sure.

Lila is... amazing. She is unflappable, super weird, and just one of the best characters I've met in a long time. Sure, she's got a backstory that explains some things, but not everything, which leaves me loving her even more. She's just moved in to town, relocated her very strange business, and rescued a bear cub and, somehow, things just get weirder from there. Oz is drawn to her in a totally not creepy shifter way. There might be fate at work here, but no matter what, these lovely oddballs are perfect for one another.

The cast of characters here is INSANE. Each is so awesomely strange and quirky that how could I not love them all? The larger story here is... pretty twisty turny. There's missing people who are presumed dead but might not be dead. There's mysterious strangers who fly planes for a living. There's possible sabotage and spies around every corner! Throw all that together with some fires and lots of sarcasm and you get the wonderful world that I stumbled into (already in progress). I couldn't put this darn thing down!

A Wolf After My Own Heart, the title alone drew me in. After assimilating to the writing type where you feel as if you are bouncing around in these characters head, hearing every thought they have. I was mildly confused as the beginning, (Spoilers) Why would you kick someone who broke into your house into the basement, only to leave, return and expect them to still be there. How would you be so calm? Not to mention the male lead only thinking of the attractiveness of the woman's house he just barged into. (Spoilers end) Getting over the beginning we get some steadiness, our character get to know each other, we get our romance, and worldbuilding. I enjoyed this story despite the minor mind tangents the character go on. I would recommend this as a light read, with adjusted expectations.

*Thank you Netgalley for an ARC of, A Wolf After My Own Heart, in exchange for a honest review.

Finally, our second installment of the BeWere My Heart series is here! MaryJanice Davidson continues her funny, snarky, and widely entertaining paranormal streak with A Wolf After My Own Heart.

Lila finds herself in the middle of some very weird happenings to go along with pretty much the story of her life of weird happenings. So, pretty much, just another night. Lila is just minding her business, driving her decommissioned ambulance, on her way to her new rental home, when she gets stuck in some pretty familiar horror story scenarios. Large wolf creature, she accidentally clips with her vehicle, then stops to check it out, and.... nothing. Then she gets flagged down by some kids, at night, on a school night, and told someone needed help in an alley. Cue children on the Corn, anyone? Yesh. Then she finds a bear cub huddling in an alley and the other kids are gone? Um, yeah she might be getting set up. Then, when trying to contact animal control for the bear cub she gets sent to some other weird acronym group and a severely handsome man comes barging (ahem, breaking) into her house only to tell her everything is ok? Yeah, he really deserved that trip down the basement steps. Then the bear cub isn't a bear cub anymore but an actual kid? And, yeah. She's probably, definitely getting punked.

Oz Adway, wolf shifter, a former Interspecies Placement Agency (IPA) accountant turned social worked, and Annette Garsea's foster brother is working his first case. And, well, it's kind of gotten a bit away from him. The kid has flown the coup. Well, not flown, because she's a bear shifter, so, lumbered the coup? And then he finds a delicious scent of a woman, gets hit by an ambulance, and then that delicious scent and er the woman attached to it steals his kid? Then, the delicious-smelling Stable gets the drop on him and knocks him butt-first down into her basement while she and his quarry fled the scene. Yeah, Annette is never going to let him live this down.

As always, MaryJanice Davidson writes a wonderfully entertaining story. Oz and Lila were fun. I quite enjoyed Lila's unflappability in the face of all the paranormal shifter happenings. There was no studdering, utter denials, and huge leaps of folklore assumptions. She just took everything at face value and continued to be her quirky little self. Loved that. The mystery aspect was quite well layered. I was guessing the culprits until well up into the ending.

For those that like more mystery and less saucy, steamy romance, this is your book. The romance was there and though a constant aspect, it wasn't THE focus of the story. Also, this is a clean book with off-page saucy-times and only a single mention of ahem... you know. = ) And while this is a draw for some, well I'm just a creeper, I guess... because I was a little disappointed. I wanted and missed that about the story. It just felt like that was what we were leading to and then, fade to black-ish and then off-page remembering. Boo!

Anywho. A Wolf After My Own Heart was greatly entertaining, once you got used to the sort-of were-stream of consciousness writing... which is different and fun. I have really enjoyed this series so far. I seriously am interested in who the next book will be about. I absolutely LOVED Annette's old rommie from Bears Behaving Badly. He/She/They? were awesome and I would be greatly interested in more about them!!!!!! Long story short, More, Please!?!?!

*ARC provided by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.*

I have voluntarily read and reviewed a copy of this title given to me via NetGalley. This book was just amazing. I just lost myself in this story and didn’t want it to end. It was really well written and just drew in you into these characters lives. I look forward to seeing what’s next from this author.

Oh, I've missed reading MaryJanice Davidson--I didn't even realize how much until just now! (Yes, all my fault. I know she's been writing all along. I've just been...distracted by other books? Gah, I have no excuse!)

A Wolf After My Own Heart probably isn't for everyone--it's snarky, full of irreverent humor, contains a ridiculous number of asides and even footnotes. There's so much that this book takes forever to explain--because it's the second in the series? Or because of Lila's nothing-can-surprise-her, bizarre-weirdness-just-rolls-off-of-her-like-water-from-a-duck's-back attitude? Even now I'm not sure. I'll go back and read the first book and let you know.

Or maybe I still won't know. We'll see.

Anyway--there was much snort-laughing during the reading of this book. I apologize (again!) to everyone unlucky enough to be in the same room as me as I did so. I tried really, really, REALLY hard not to read too much of it out loud to you, even though you were clearly busy doing your own thing.

I wasn't terribly successful. Again, apologies.

Again, anyway--Wolf is the second book in the BeWare My Heart series, which (apparently, at least so far) deals with shifter social workers. Or a shifter social worker, a shifter PI, a shifter accountant who has decided to do social work instead, and the Stable (plain old regular human) who moves in down the street and finds herself thrown into the middle of their drama, some of which is continued at least in part from the book before and some of which is new(er)(ish).

The Stable (Lila) and the accountant-turned-social-worker-wannabe (Oz, though I spent a whole lot of the first many chapters going, wait--it's *not* Ox, right?) may or may not be fated mates, which may or may not be a thing (everyone keeps saying it isn't, except maybe it is--and their behavior from the start veers heavily on the side of the latter, which means I am 100% using this book to fulfill a "fated mates" prompt for one of the dozens--only the slightest of exaggerations, sadly--of reading challenges I'm doing this year). As if their possibly-paranormal-level of attraction to each other weren't enough, they also have runaway shifter children to keep track of; shifter supremacists, traffickers, and arsonists to find and fight--all while Lila, at least, still hasn't unpacked all of her moving boxes.

It is clear why I wasn't terribly bothered by all of the asides and footnotes now, isn't it?

Anyway--again--I honestly can't adequately put into words how much fun I had reading this book. I'll even forgive Ms Davidson the teensy amount of tears she might have had me in near the end (Sally's mom--GAH!) as I nearly trip over my own (figurative, because of course I'm getting it digitally) feet hustling to get my hands on Bears Behaving Badly ASAP.

And yes, of course Amazon really does sell everything. But you didn't need me--or Ms Davidson's footnotes--to tell you that, did you?

Rating: 4 stars / A-

I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader Copy of this book

Another delightful addition to the series. I still struggle a little with the style of writing, but I get used to it. Prefer my heroes a little more alpha, but still enjoyed it.

This book was so entertaining. I was drawn into the story from the beginning and was involved until the end. The characters were complex and interesting. I found the story to be well paced and engrossing throughout the whole book. I was invested in the couple throughout the book and felt all the emotions through both the highs and lows of the story. Also I love stories sent in the shifter world because I get romance as well as some suspense. All of the characters are written well and I’m interested in further books in this series. If you want an entertaining and well written book this is it for you.

I was introduced to Mary Janice Davidson a few years ago with the 'Undead Series' which I thought was hilarious. I am also a fan of shifters so I thought this book would be a win, win situation. I really enjoy her style of writing the characters are always very spunky and keep you guessing. There were quite a lot of them in this book which I have now realised was the second book in the series, I haven't read the first but I don't think it detracted from my enjoyment or understanding of the book.

It centres around Lila new in the neighbourhood where most people only stay for a short while due to strange goings on. It would appear that all her neighbours are shifters of some sort but Lila having had her own traumas in life takes this with a pinch of salt. I really liked her character and the blossoming relationship with Oz. It was a lot tamer than the undead series but enjoyable, I will definitely read the first book at some point.

Thank you to Netgalley and Sourcebooks Casablanca for a advanced copy of the book in exchange for an honest review.

My rating scale
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - Absolutely loved it! Gave me a warm fuzzy feeling or made me cry. And took me on an emotional rollercoaster.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - Really liked it. Will read more by the author and other books in the series.
⭐️⭐️⭐️ - It was just okay, didn’t move me, but don’t feel like I wasted me time reading it either.
⭐️⭐️ - Didn’t like this book and probably won’t read other in the series.
⭐️ - I did not care for this book at all and feel like I wasted my time reading it

A Wolf After My Own Heart is the second book in MaryJanice Davidson’s BeWere My Heart, and I was eager to dive into it after adoring Bear Behaving Badly. As with the first book, it was an addictive story I could not get enough of.

I’ll be honest and say I felt the mystery in this one fell into the background a wee bit. There was more added to the world, lots of chaos throughout, but the mystery wasn’t quite as intense as it was in the first book. Although it wasn’t as intense, I was hooked and eager to see how everything came together. With laughter and silliness, the story had me eager to see how each piece played out and had me hooked on the characters.

All in all, another addictive addition to the series. I certainly have my fingers crossed that we get more – specifically about a certain side character from this one.

MaryJanice Davidson is a new-to-me author. But she is on my list now! A Wolf After My Own Heart is delightful. Loads of snark and humor are mixed with a variety of characters – everyone of them is full of personality!

And style. This book is full of style. The hero drives an orange car. (Oh, sorry, Sunset Metallic.) The heroine drives a decommissioned ambulance. If that is not style, I don’t know what is. And there is quite a bit of speaking in italics. Yes, it is a thing and it is very stylish.

Going back to the hero and heroine (Oz and Lila), their occupations are accountant and Teddy Bear surgeon, respectively. It takes a lot of cheekiness to make a hero out of an accountant. Think about it. And Teddy Bear surgeon is just plain cute!

Interwoven into the story are a number of socio-political references. (guns, reactionaries, racists, succession of power and the evolution of a certain political party). These are not subtle, so prepare to laugh or be offended. I laughed…..soberly.

A Wolf After My Own Heart is part of a series but absolutely okay to read even if you have not read book 1. But don’t blame me if you then want to go back and read book 1.

Through Netgalley, the publisher provided a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

I got this title off Netgalley, not knowing which world of MaryJanice Davidson it was in. Hey, Davidson tends to be entertaining as a rule, so that was not a big deal. It turns out that A Wolf After My Own Heart is book 2 in her Minnesota Shifter world and the wolf in question is Oz, the nerdy accountant first encountered in Bears Behaving Badly which needs to be read first if you want to be able to follow the plot closely. Starring alongside Oz is Lila Kai who drives a decommissioned ambulance, is self employed and is a new neighbor to Mama Mac. She is also prepared for almost any situation - break-ins, fires, shifter bear cubs, etc. Plenty of snark, action, and even some character development! It will be interesting to see where Davidson takes this world next!

Thanks Netgalley for the opportunity to read this title.

The BeWere My Heart series continues with A Wolf After My Own Heart, a delightfully not really steamy but funny, lovable romance between two most unlikely people — and one adorable little runaway bear cub shifter who will steal your heart.

I enjoyed Lila and Oz’s adventures very much yet I do want to mention that this author’s sense of dark humor, her delivery might not be for everyone – just keep on going for the story itself is entertaining and easy to slip into… for the humor, the mystery, and one adorable little girl if nothing else.

Lila is a human who drives a decommissioned ambulance, lives in a probably haunted house, and will soon discover that she lives in a paranormal town full of shifters of all types. She’s been oblivious to all this until she runs across a bear cub who seems to have attached itself to Lila. Well, being a teddy bear surgeon (yes, such a profession exists) not quite used to the real deal, Lila does her best when the baby bear keeps showing up – right up until she shifted into a little girl, then all bets were off. But that doesn’t mean that she’s about to abandon this precious little one, nope, not going to happen, even if she does have to deal with the sexiest male she’s come across in quite a while.

Oz might have been trained as an accountant but he longed to get out in the field and do the work he felt drawn to, helping the helpless. Yet on his first field assignment, things aren’t going quite to plan since the little bear shifter keeps escaping and refuses to believe that her parents were killed in a plane crash. Little Sally keeps giving him the slip and taking refuge with a human who Oz would very much like to get to know better – in different circumstances. Right now, he has a bear cub to protect, a mystery to solve, and perhaps a mate to claim… eventually.

I enjoyed my time in A Wolf After My Own Heart. Yes, there were times when the POVs were a bit cloudy at first, but that was soon cleared. While this certainly isn’t the steamy, sizzling shifter romance many readers are accustomed to, it’s still a love story that will entertain and definitely draw a chuckle out of you. I had fun here and look forward to the next visit to this series.

*I received an e-ARC of this novel from the publisher, Sourcebooks Casablanca via NetGalley. That does not change what I think of this story. It is my choice to leave a review giving my personal opinion about this book.*