BEARLY CHRISTMAS by Becca Fanning

Title:  BEARLY CHRISTMAS

Series:  N/A

Author:  Becca Fanning

Publisher:  Becca Fanning

Publish Date:   12.21.2016

Category /Genre:  Paranormal Romance; Short story

Recommended for:  18+ due to sexual content

Grammar/editing:  book received as an unedited ARC / errors excused

Received from:  Becca Fanning (as an ARC gifted copy)

Goodreads link: Bearly Christmas

Date completed: 11.18.2016; 04.24.2018

Description from the publisher:

Fresh out of med school, Bear Shifter Tye expected to face adversity in joining a top hospital residency program. But feisty little Melanie might be more competition than he can handle, and a terrible rumor about his past catches up with him. Will there be a Shifter Christmas Miracle?

This 20,000+ word story contains plenty of heat and a HEA.

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BEARLY CHRISTMAS is listed as a stand-alone, holiday, paranormal romance, but the ending screams for a follow-up story featuring Tye’s brother, Jake, and his mate.

Sometimes you just need a little Christmas, and I’ve been feeling it this week.  So, I hope you’ll excuse the odd-timing of these reviews.  On the other hand, maybe you too are needing a little hope in a world that seems to have gone mad.

Tye and Melanie provided a little hope.  They are young and have just finished medical school.  They are ready for residency and they both want to prove they have what it takes.  Melanie is trying to prove herself to her father, who would have rather had a son and Tye is trying to prove himself to the world just because he is a shifter.

I love the microscope placed on the treatment of the shifters as secondary citizens – prejudices are one constant in our world.  I also love when the reason for the prejudice becomes a “so what.”  So what if he is ____ (black, gay,…, a shifter).  In the end, all that matters is love.  The love of a mate, a brother, your neighbor, and your fellow man.  That is the true meaning of a Christmas romance.

Now as for that ending, it suggests that this was going to be a series, but it has been two years.  Has Jake found her?

Note:  while I was given this book as a gifted ARC, my opinions are my own and are given freely.

Also from Becca Fanning:

·         Battle Scarred

·         Bear Fallout

·         Bearly Christmas

·         Between Two Werewolves

·         The Honey Pot

·         Hunting for a Mate (4 parts)

·         Kiss of the Bear

·         Made Bear

·         Mounted in the Boardroom

·         Mounted in the Stable

·         My Secret to Bear

·         The Pirate and the Alpha

·         Shared by the Werewolves

·         Taken the Babysitter

·         A Voice Like Honey

·         Werewolf in the Trenches

·         Werewolves at the Lake House

·         Werewolf Next Door

·         The Witch and the Werewolf

120 Proof Honey Series:

1.      Daxton

2.      Knox

3.      Amir

4.      Beck

5.      Slade

BBW and the Firemen Series:

1.      Brock

2.      Ivan

3.      Jason

4.      Craig

Bear Dating Agency Series:

1.      Dietrich

2.      Ben

3.      Kurt

4.      Hart

5.      Reinicke

Bear Fitness Series:

1.      Yoga Bear Ménage

2.      Between Two Bears

Bear Ranchers Series:

1.      Riding Bearback

2.      Saddled Bearback

3.      Dancing Bearback

4.      Spurred Bearback

5.      Bucking Bearback

Bearly Saints Series:

1.      Matthew

2.      Mark

3.      Luke

4.      John

5.      Bartholomew

Big Bear Easy series:

0.      Politics

1.      Brock

2.      Jules

3.      Jane

4.      Remy

5.      Phillipe

Big Paw Security Series:

1.      Bearly Tamed

2.      Bearly Protected

3.      Bearly Sheltered

4.      Bearly Mended

5.      Bearly Apart

6.      Bearly Together

FisherBears Series:

1.      Hook, Line, and Sinker

2.      Bear Anchor

3.      Leeward Bear

Grit and Growl Series:

1.      Road Bears

2.      Bear Patches

3.      Bear Leather

4.      Bear Chopper

5.      Bear Burnout

Grizzly Groomsmen Series:

1.      Adam

2.      Sam

3.      Winston

4.      Ian

5.      Joel

MC Bear Mates series:

1.      Mars

2.      Mundo

3.      Kiko

4.      Justiss & Graver

5.      Major

6.      Chris

7.      Spyder

8.      Jarvis

9.      Jayden

Rodeo Bears Series:

1.      Edward

2.      Owen

3.      Colby

4.      Jacob

5.      Holden

Secret Baby Bears Series:

1.      Alec

2.      Rock

3.      Jackson

4.      Clay

5.      Rust

Shifter Football League Series:

1.      Gabriel

2.      Kenny

3.      Dustin

Shifter Royal Dynasty Series:

0.      Dynasty

1.      Legacy

2.      Prophecy

3.      Destiny

Star Bears Series:

1.      Breakwater:  Leo

2.      Breakwater:  Rick

3.      Breakwater:  Custer

4.      Breakwater: Hyde

5.      Breakwater:  Dom

Taming the Rapper Series:

1.      Sandy Meets the Dragon

2.      Jetsetter

3.      In the Club

 

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