Sable SylvanCritiques

1.75 Stars

Can't honestly say if it is adult steamy or not. I just couldn't take it anymore.
Boring and jumpy with no flow.
The characters seem immature and Boring.
The story is Boring
Everything about this is PAINFULLY BORING

It's only about 95 pages and I had to tap out before I even made it halfway.
I Am Not Wasting my time this year with BORING!

I chose Grizzly Bear Buns to read because I have never been to a strip club and in my younger days I was curious but never got around to going and now I honestly have no real desire to go to one. I am good with reading naughty books and viewing the occasional bedroom scene in the movies, even though I think movies need to be more equal opportunity in the nudity department.

Grizzly Bear Buns has a really great start with the strip joint and hot guys and all but after the strip club it kind of goes down from there making it a good thing that nearly 50% of the story takes place there before Helen runs away like a scared rabbit. The loser ex-boyfriend with his looser girlfriend take the cake in adolescent behavior that is just plain pathetic in adults, who are in their late twenties, sad really when you think about it. The bedroom scene could really use a lot of help I mean if you are going to have guys eating chocolate and whip cream off each other in a scene, for the love of all things hot and naughty, make the men naked and involve the man parts. The rest of the bedroom scene which takes place over a number of chapters is rather lame and uninspiring leaving me cold. I mean really a reference to communist in the middle of a sex scene, that is so not even close to sexy or hot, more along the lines of rude and highly inappropriate for what is happening.

I am having a hard time rating the heat in Grizzly Bear Buns because of the mood busters scatter throughout the bedroom scenes, they left me scratching my head and wondering what the author could possibly be thinking at a time like that. Clearly there is some active sexually activity going on but is it worth even a 4-star rating that I would normally give such scenes? They were graphic scenes but with the crap they left me with a dilemma of heat rating. In the end, I was glad that this book was a freebee and that I hadn’t wasted and money on something that I am going to delete from my library. The only question I am trying to answer for myself now is whether or not I should read the other books in the series also, as I downloaded them around the same time for the same reason I had gotten Grizzly Bear Buns.

This review posting contains the body of the review, which is only a portion of the original review which is posted here http://lauralusbookreviews.blogspot.com/2017/09/grizzly-bear-buns-twelve-dancing...

Rumpled Bear Skin (Shifter Princes, #5)
by Sable Sylvan

Artemis and Jasper story was very fun. I love the way the mate marks play a major part in these stories. And I love Jasper's nickname.

I had even figured out the mate mark this time before it was revealed!

Sable Sylvan does a fantastic job of writing a remix of these wonderful fairy-tales. They are so far from the original, but with enough hints as to which fairy-tale it is about.

Can't wait to read Blue Bear.

*ARC given for an honest review*

Rapunzel And The Billionaire Bear (Shifter Princes, #4)
by Sable Sylvan

It's amazing how some stories can bring back memories. This one brought back a memory of girl I knew in high school. Unfortunately there was no billionaire bear to come to her rescue.

Zelda has believed herself to be sick since she was 16. Her adoptive mother told her she had to stay in a penthouse. Her meals were ordered for her. There was a cleaning crew and several others that would all tend to her needs. She didn't want for anything except companionship, love and freedom. That's not to much to ask for....is it?

Lance is approached by Lorelei, a bear shifter, and told that she thinks he would love to meet her daughter. That she is sure they would hit it off well. Lance decides to meet her daughter, Zelda, and he is glad that he has. Zelda is his mate. She has been closely watched and never touched, so he has to figure out how to tell her.

But, everything is not as it seems for Zelda. There have been many secrets kept from Zelda and now she is going to have to figure out just what she wants. She knows she wants Lance, but is she going to have to give up everything else to be with him?

*ARC given for an honest review*

Three Grizzlies Gruff (Bear-y Spicy Fairy Tales, #3)
by Sable Sylvan

Daisy has had it with the three gruff bears that keep treaspassing through her marionberry fields. Armed with a shotgun she confronts them.

Wanting to avoid the Sheriff the three bears want to make a deal. They will work in Daisy's fields free of charge, for access to the woods through Daisy's land.

Bill, Liam & Wylie know that Daisy is the fated mate, but they don't know how to approach her. Then, the opportunity to get closer to her comes along and they jump at it. Wylie helps Daisy with the accounting and the other two help in the fields.

Daisy soon realizes that the three bears are much nicer then she thought, but when it comes out that they all want a relationship with her, a forever relationship, she just can't do it. She was born and raised a Texas girl and what would her mother think of her being with three men at once. There just isn't anyway that she can see if it ever working.

*ARC given for an honest review*

Sleeping BBW And The Billionaire Bear (Shifter Princes, #3)
by Sable Sylvan

Talia Ackerson is the third Talia in her family. First there was her grandmother, who died giving birth. Then there was her mother, who also died while giving birth. One of Talia's aunts, Martha, who is an estranged aunt, claims the Talia is responsible to her mother's death and that Talia is cursed to die during child birth too.
Talia is happy with her life. Oh she would love to get married, have that someone special to spend her life with, but she knows she can never have kids, so she doesn't really expect to ever find someone to love and marry.

Cedar Asher has been looking for his fated mate for years. He has traveled to world, mostly for business, but during those travels he thought he would find his mate. He does, he just never thought he would find her in his hometown while visiting his grandmother.

Things are going good until Talia's estranged aunt shows up on Talia's 25th birthday. Then it is a race against time for Cedar to save Talia's life. He just found her, he can't lose her now.

*ARC given for an honest review*

Beauty And the Billionaire Bear (Shifter Princes, #2)
by Sable Sylvan

Rose's father works for a lumber company in upper Montana. He likes to bring things home to his girls, but Rose knows they can't afford to spend much money, so all she asks for is a wildflower. One weekend when Rose's father comes home there is a problem. He is brought home by his boss. Rose's father had picked a rose, a special rose and his boss is planning to press charges. Rose talks him into letting her make amends. Now she has to spend a month at her father's boss's house and have dinner with him once a week.

Beast has been looking for his fated mate for a long time. Could Rose be her? Only one way to find out.

Shifterella And The Billionaire Bear (The Shifter Princes Book 1)
by Sable Sylvan

I love these Fairytails with a twist. They are so much fun to read.

Eleanor, who calls herself "Ella", is in a Cinderella position. Her father passed away and left her with her stepmother and two stepsisters. All of which happen to be cat shifters. Ella is human. She works two jobs as well as being maid at home, lives in the attic and is verbally abused by those she lives with.

The Asher Ball is coming up, Ella will be there. Not as a guest, as an employee for the catering company she works for. Upon getting to the Asher Mansion, Ella is told she will be working for Mrs. Asher who wants her to dress as a guest and keep an eye on things. If anything goes wrong she is to get with Mrs. Ashers son, Aspen Asher, who happens to be a handsome eligible bachelor, and have him get a hold of his mother. This is how they meet. Well, as far as Ella knows anyway.

Asher has been waiting for his fated mate. Now he is sure he has found her, but he has to convince her of that. He first found her at the lake feeding geese. Unfortunately he scared her in his bear form. Now he has to hold his bear back so as not to scare her again.

What could be more exciting then feeling like a princess? Being the cause of a multiple shifter fight.

Read and find out if Ella gets her prince or if she goes back to the attic and her step family.

*ARC given for an honest review*

Little Red Riding Bears (Bear-y Spicy Fairy Tales, #2)
by Sable Sylvan

On July 4th, 20 years ago, Meredith Baxter got lost in the woods. She was found by a bear shifter couple and returned safely to the celebration. That night she met 3 young shifter boys and they all asked her to marry them. Time goes by and and that night is forgotten.

Meredith goes to visit her Grandmother in Port Jameson, OR. She becomes very angry when she is told that her grandmother's rent/lease is being raised, to almost twice the amount. How is her grandmother suppose to pay that? So, Meredith goes to have a talk with the landlord. Brandon Joyce is a bit more then she expected. Upon finding out that he didn't change the lease, but they have a new in their posession, he strikes a deal. Meredith is to be the housekeeper for the next few weeks, for him and his 2 friends. When spring arrives and their hibernation is over, then the lease will go back to the original amount and never be changed.

Brandon has alterior motives when making the deal with Meredith, he does want the house cleaned, but more then that.....he wants Meredith in their home. Hopefully for good.

Over the next few weeks Meredith, now called "Red", meets the other two men/bear shifters. Each is so different , but she is attracted to all of them. All them also have the same mate mark, which is strange. After one night spent with all three it is discovered that Red could be the fated mate to each of them. How can she choose just one? She has fallen for each one of them and she can't choose one and leave the others behind or hurt them. So,she leaves. It is all she can do.

*ARC given for an honest review*

Goldilocks and the Three Bear Shifters
by Sable Sylvan

Goldilocks Evans, aka Goldi, was friends with and in love with 3 bear shifters in high school. Then their mate marks showed up and they were all the same. That meant that Goldi could choose any of them to mate with. She is human though and doesn't feel the pull to one of them in particular. They all believe they are her mate and want her to choose, but she can't, so she leaves.

Five years later she goes back home for her high school reunion. She is wishing that she hadn't and almost leaves again, but she knows she has to do this. She hasn't been able to get any of the guys out of her head or her heart. Not that she hasn't tried, but she just can't. She needs to end things on a better note.

Each bear shifter, Brian, Glen and Cliff still want Goldi to choose. She doesn't know how to tell if she is the mate to one of them, she is human and doesn't have a mate mark to let her know. She either needs to find out or go back to Seattle.....alone.

*ARC given for an honest review*