A review by renpuspita
Hunting Season by Shelly Laurenston

4.0

Hunting Season is about Denise"Neecy" Lawrence, a history professor with PhD by day and a fearless Crow second in command by night. She feel annoyed since Willhelm Yager, The Raven's leader seems interested to her and always follow her like a dog with bone, or a bird with worm. Whatever. Yager want Neecy for forever even Neecy think she's not worthy for him. She was drug dealer before she gunned down by her boyfriend, almost dead and become Crow. Neecy thing Yager is a nice guy. What she doesn't know is, Yager is a nice HOT guy. They have sex for 24 hours, just to scratch the itch, but of course its not enough for Yager.

There's a threat from Hunters and Hunting Season is begin. Neecy must train her new member Arri Chang with the help of her fellow comrade Janelle, Katie and her leader, Didi. While she also resist her feeling to Yager. Now, this Viking must play dirty to win the heart of the most stubborn Crow member.

I have been read a lot of Shelly Laurenston books lately and I think she will become the "Author of the Year". At last for me. Her books is full of humor and crazy people. Snark fly everywhere. Add it with strong heroine that you want to shake your head when reading their bitchines and snark comment but you can help to adore them because of their strength. And Laurenston write a resilient, strong, annoying-but-cute, alpha-beta hero. Oh, and don't forget she write the steamiest story ever. What I can ask more?

She do it again with Hunting Season, even the craziness not as much as Pride series or her other series Dragon Kin. Love the way she take a new direction of Norse legend with creating The Ravens, Odin's warrior and The Crow. Imagine The Crow as Amazon women just from the Norse. The Crow is made by Skuld, one of the Norse Fate. Skuld also love to read Penthouse magazines and The Crow kinda remind me of Valkyrie from Immortal After Dark by Kresley Cole. Nosy, bitchy, snarky but full of fun. Funny thing is, the Valkyrie in this book are Crow's "enemy". Not enemy after all, just they like to pissed The Crow off. Valkyries is full of bimbo that Odin created and meaningless creature. But some Old School Valkyries, the true Valkyries is a healer to the Ravens and don't give Odin a shit.

I feel sometimes Neecy is too stubborn and I got impatient with her try to resist her feeling toward Yager. As for Yager, I love his Alpha-Beta character. He's a geek but also 6 ft 7 inch Viking that make him ....hunk. He does care for Neecy, and wait patiently for her. He also tend her when she got wounded by the Hunters. The other characters are crazy like always. I see the possibilities of the sequel, since there's a chance some characters will get their own story. Such as Tye, Yager second in command, with Janelle. And Mike who is like typical dumb hero Laurenston created with the meek Arri Chang. Shelly Laurenston implied at her site that she doesn't know when she will write the sequel. But I really hope some times in the future, she will write it.