Go Fetch: Magnus Pack, Book 2 [Kindle Edition]

I don't know how Shelly Laurenston does it. I could summarize her stories in half a paragraph, there seems so little plot, and yet, the pages rapidly flit by.

I like her women; they are so crazy that even the craziest of the wolves back away slowly - that Miki is a human seems scarcely to matter; she's more wolf than the best of them. And she sees Conall for what he is, a Viking pretending to be a teddy bear. They have such great sexual tension and she's so mean to him.

Go Fetch is funny, and energetic, and you can see what each of them brings to the party, and the odd relationship just works. I'm always happy to spend time with the Magnus wolves but this was an especial favorite. An erotically charged romp. Highly recommended

Conall Viga-Feilan is a hunky viking shapeshifter and is absolutely smitten with Miki Kendrick, a brainy and geeky nerd femme fatale who is completely unimpressed with Conall's looks or his ability to shift into a big wolf. He tries everything to win her affections and she completely blows him off. His packmates think he's nuts for wanting a woman who obviously has no respect for him or them. Of course, the attraction between the two is undeniable, but Miki's not about to drop her underpants just because Conall thinks it's love. And poor Conall is indeed head over heels with a woman who's not only a genius, but is also skilled in the use of weapons and doesn't have an issue with hacking into someone's bank account and giving them a few nightmares or taking him to an all-night RPG (role playing game) session. Meanwhile, a pack of vicious hyena-shifters are out in force to decimate the members of the Magnus Pack and their mates, and Miki's stressing over her graduate thesis.

One of the many things I've enjoyed about Laurenston's heroines is they aren't all aflutter as soon as the hero walks into the scene. They don't stop being real and having an edge. Laurenston's heroines tend to be brash, foul-mouthed, just a few cards short of crazy and pricklier than a seguero cactus and that's why they make the perfect mates for the otherworldly shapeshifters. (I often wonder if authors realize that a wimpy heroine is just not going to make it when their new realities are comprised of being surrounded by things with claws, fangs and/or wings that just might want to kill them in horrible ways). Miki knows that Conall's far more powerful than she is, but she's just not fazed by it, to the point where she's often telling Conall to "go fetch" and where she 'mistakes' a golden retriever for Conall (something that drives him crazy since he disdains dogs like any good wolf would do). She's the type to go down swinging anyway. Miki is her own woman and she's incredibly flawed and granted, there were times in the book where I told her (loudly and on public transportation), to stop being so mean and open up a little. However it's those very flaws that make her so very memorable. In fact, while I certainly wouldn't kick a nice piece of man-flesh like Conall out of my bed for eating crackers, it's Miki who feels like reading about a best friend.

Conall's no wimp--he's got the alpha thing in spades, but in order to win Miki he's willing to soften up a bit and his struggles with being "a teddy bear" rather than the "me Tarzan" are fun to read. He's out of his depth and he knows it and yet he loves and is willing to protect Miki, even from herself.

The big clencher for me is that it's an interracial romance, and the paranormal genre has few of those, so when they do come along I snatch them up. What makes this aspect great is that Laurenston is one of the few authors in contemporary romance who populates her universe with people from different ethnicities. She seems to understand that when setting a novel in cities with diverse populations, it only makes sense for the characters (both primary and secondary) to reflect that diversity. The heroine and hero are trying not to get killed or kill each other. They're just two stubborn people in love.

I'm sure that even after Magnus Pack, I'll be seeing more of Miki and Conall and I'm sure that married life for these two must be a total kick!

This is a great book. She has great story that makes you laugh thru the whole book. She makes you see each person in the book and they do feel like a person. The story is fun, the sex is hot, the book is fast to read. I was laughing at loud in lots of the story. You can't wait to see what happen to Miki and if she really finds true love with her wolf..