Audio Review: The Family boxset book 1-3 & 4-6 by Susi Hawke and Crista Crown. Narrator: Kirt Graves

A shifter crime family and their loved ones in The Family. Laora has reviewed both audio box sets of the series.   

From the blurb:

Books 1-3:

The Family Novak is an mpreg bear shifter series featuring a family that lives on the shady side of the law but always stands for what’s right when it comes to protecting what’s theirs.

Family Ties

River Erikson has protected his independence like the wild cat he is, and he’s determined that no alpha, not even his mate, Vasily Novak, will ever tie him down. But when Vasily’s son is kidnapped, River is forced to work with the big bear and realizes that maybe being mated isn’t the prison sentence he expected.

Ties That Bind

Joey Novak grew up an omega in an alpha’s world. He’s had to fight for his place, and he can’t imagine ever finding an alpha who won’t expect him to step back into an “omega’s place”. But Tony Erikson isn’t your typical alpha. Neither of them are looking for love, but maybe its exactly what they need.

Trivial Ties

Tanner Wong was in the wrong place at the right time to help another omega in distress. When the only way to save the man is to knock at the front gates of one of the most powerful mafiosos in the city, Tanner didn’t hesitate. And lucky he didn’t when it turns out his mate, Ivan Novak, is right behind those doors. They’re from completely different worlds, but maybe together, they can build a place of their own.

But that's not all!

Included with the first three stories of this series is a previously shared but never published short from the Team ALPHA world, Trick or Treat. Take a step back to the crew who started it all as an unfortunate set of miscreants decide to take Halloween a little too far.

Get ready for a world ruled by the Don’s iron fist, true mates, and a family that stands together...no matter what. You can expect to find naughty, knotty scenes of steamy passion, along with a lot of potty-mouth language and more violence than you’re used to from us. But at its heart, you’ll still find all the fluffy mpreg feels and crazy antics you’d look for from Susi Hawke and Crista Crown.

Books 4-6:

The Family Novak is an mpreg bear-shifter series featuring a family that lives on the shady side of the law, but always stands for what’s right when it comes to protecting what’s theirs. 

Sticky Ties

When fainting goat-shifter Gary is dragged in front of the Novaks, suspected of working with their enemies, it only takes one scent for Boris to know he’s found his mate. He may have to fight his entire family to prove Gary is innocent, though….

Crossing Ties

The O’Malleys and Novaks have been rivals for years, sometimes friendly, sometimes not. When the O’Malley patriarch goes missing under dubious circumstances, Rory O’Malley is furious when his brother Patrick drags the Novaks into their mess. Even though it turns out mischevious Misha Novak is his mate. Maybe especially so.

Tied and Laced

Don Novak has been widowed for years, happily raising his six boys and seeing them finding love. The boys’ papa hadn’t been his true mate, but they’d been in love. He never expected find that again, let alone find a true mate, but when sexy cat shifter Dante Hernandez salsas into his life, he knows better than to let a good thing slip out of his grasp.

But that's not all!

Included with the second three stories of this series is a previously shared but never published short from the Alphabits series, Off Grid. Resident odd couple, techno-wiz Gizmo and backwoods survivalist Micah, take a vacation away from it all…mostly. At least…that’s what Micah’s intention was…

Get ready for a world ruled by the Don’s iron fist, true mates, and a family that stands together…no matter what. You can expect to find naughty, knotty scenes of steamy passion, along with a lot of potty-mouth language and more violence than you’re used to from us. But at its heart, you’ll still find all the fluffy mpreg feels and crazy antics you’d look for from Susi Hawke and Crista Crown.

Laora's Review:

First box set:

Susi Hawke and Crista Crown created another addictive series after their other series  'The Outcast Chronicles',, 'Team Alpha', 'STAPH', Alphabites ' series.

We meet many of the previous characters and  now get the men of the Novak crime family.

I like all the various shifters who turn out to be mates for the Novak (bear shifter) family and of course there are mpreg pregnancies and cute kids in the mix.. They 'fight' crime in their own way and create their individual families  within the large Novak clan.📚 5*

I enjoy that the omegas are no wall flowers, but have their own life and strengths.

Kirt Graves does great work in creating a believable fantastical world by providing various  voices for the characters. 🎧 5*

Second box set:

This bundle tells more stories about the Novak  family members finding love and strengthening family bonds  I really enjoyed this and the first bundle.  📚 4,5*

Kirt Graves has the right skills to bring the stories even more colour. 🎧 4,5 *

The Family is available individually or as box sets on Audible.