The kick off to Amy Bellows all new Trash Pandas series! The (Maybe) Murderer Who Knocked Me Up is a medium angst mpreg series of a family of trash panda finding their mates.
From the blurb:
I’m the runt of the litter. Not only am I much smaller than my four raccoon shifter brothers, I’m always behind. They all know what they want to do with their lives, and they can’t wait to move away from home to follow their dreams. All I know is that I like to bake, and I like Slade—the huge grizzly shifter next door who my brothers say I should stay away from.
I’m not very good at taking advice, apparently.
Less than a week after Slade knocks me up, he goes to prison for murder. He confesses and everything. I shouldn’t harbor a secret hope that he’s innocent. I know that. Which is why I don’t tell him about the baby.
But when he gets out six years later on good behavior, I offer to pick him up. Because I have to know if he’s really as bad as everyone thinks he is.
The (Maybe) Murderer Who Knocked Me Up is book one of the Trash Pandas series. It includes a brief mention of MPreg, knotting, a single dad, and a raccoon shifter family with a penchant for shiny things.
Molly Otto's review:
It's such a fun story with a great combination of heart, humor, and angst. Sequin (Quinn) is the runt of a trash panda family with a sweet innocence to him that you can not help but adore. Slade is their neighbor who Quin can not help but be drawn to even when everyone around him says he's bad news. As with so many things, looks can be deceiving, and some secrets need to be held to protect others around them. When Slade makes a decision that affects both of them irroctivavbly, it leads Quinn to hold a secret of his own. Six years pass before their passes cross again, and once they do these, two men can not help but be drawn right back to each other. They learn to trust one another once again and open up so that they can move forward to live their best loves. Highly appreciated. The author made this all of the emotions to make it a quick non-stop read, needing to know how it ends.
Jacqueleen the Reading Queen's review:
I recently read a holiday romance since 'Tis the season and all, by this author. It was A Merry Christmas for Art... and His Tentacles in case you're curious. However my point for telling you this is that holiday romance was my first book by this author and I had picked it up because one, tentacles, and two, I am a big fan of Shannon Mae. I was quite glad I picked it up because I really enjoyed it, so when this book became available and I got a look at the title, I knew I had to have it!
Quin being the runt of his litter has been very sheltered. His bigger siblings are very protective of him, as are his parents. I really liked getting to know each of them a bit. It made me excited for future stories. Quin and his siblings are all so different. And they went completely different paths in life as adults. But one thing didn't change as they got older. They are still super protective of their smallest brother and even more so of his kid.
Slade's life story made me really sad. And even sadder when it got exponentially worse as an adult. I admire him for what he did, but it broke my heart what it cost him. Finding out he had a child he knew nothing about for years of his life was shocking to say the least. But his reaction after he got over his shock was so emotional I teared up a little. Let's just say I have every faith that Slade would have been a doting parent were he allowed to be and not ended up in prison.
The racoon family dynamic was a fun one to read about. You could tell how much they cared about one another. And man, I wish my family had a tradition of shopping for shiny things as an adult right of passage. That scene made me smile. And so did seeing Slade and Quin start to fall in love with one another after never really having the chance to before. I'm so glad these two got their HEA.
The (Maybe) Murderer Who Knocked Me Up is currently available as an e-book and can be read as part of your Kindle Unlimited Subscription
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