HONEYED NUT by Jodi Kendrick

Title:  HONEYED NUT
Series:  FUC Academy #27
Author:  Jodi Kendrick
Publisher:  EveL Worlds
Publish Date:   02.15.2022
Category /Genre:  Paranormal Romance, Rom-Com
Recommended for:  18+ due to sexual content.
Grammar/editing:  received as an unedited ARC / errors excused.
Received from:  Jodi Kendrick
Goodreads link: Honeyed Nut
Date completed: 02.12.2022
 
Description from the publisher:
A kid. A mission. A second chance.

Minutes after Bear gets a news-bomb dropped in his lap during breakfast, The Furry United Coalition give him a mission to Hong Kong to help a lost groundhog shifter find his way home. And maybe find academy recruits while he’s there.

Maggie Lam returns home after a long day at work, wanting nothing more than a bath and a book. Instead, she finds a second chance seated in her living room, watching re-runs with her aging mother.

The little groundhog proves to be on a mission of his own. Things get a little complicated when they pursue his elusive mystery chicken, digging up their past in the process.

Time and distance haven’t been able to fully extinguish the desire between Maggie and Bear. But how can they overcome the past and get the groundhog home, as per FUC’s instructions if he refuses to go until they find his chicken?

This book is part of Eve Langlais' Furry United Coalition ‘F.U.C.’ EveL Worlds.
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HONEYED NUT is the twenty-eighth book in the multi-author FUC Academy series.  Each is a stand-alone, paranormal, romantic suspense story set in the FUC world created by Eve Langlais.  You do not need to have read any of those books to start this series – I haven’t, though I wish now that I had.  On the other hand, I have read many in the FUC’A series and it is wonderful.  Honeyed Nut is the third in the Pedigree subseries from Jodi Kendrick and I have read all of them, though each will stand on its own.
 
I love puns and playing with words in general.  That’s the best part of the FUC’A stories.  From the different acronyms used at the school to the nicknames of the villains, the authors are allowed to play with their words.  This time we have a bear shifter named Bear.  A whole family of squirrel shifters involved in their version of the mafia called the Bloody Nuts.  The villain is a chicken shifter with a penchant for orange shoes. And a second chance at love with an odd groundhog shifter trying to play cupid in his own way.
 
I love reading the books in this series, and this one was no exception.  Guaranteed to have me laughing and I never put it down until the end. 
 
The story was terrific, funny, and had just the right amount of danger and suspense.  The romance was perfectly thought out and delivered.  Family, humor, action, romance, and whimsy make this a wonderful afternoon escape.
 
Note:  While I received this book as a gifted ARC via Booksprout, my opinions are my own and are given freely.
 
FUC Academy Series:
1.      FUCN’A Introduction (Eve Langlais)
2.      I’ll Be Dammed (Mandy Rosko)
3.      Goose and the Ocelot (Renee Hewett)
4.      Bat and the Bone (Alexa Gregory)
5.      Panda and the Kitty (Eve Langlais) 
6.      Jumping the Bull (Jenn Burke)
7.      Pawsitively ImPurrfect (Lucy Farago)
8.      Chinchilla and the Devil (C.D. Gorri)  06.16.2020
9.      Tiger and the Unicorn (Susan Hays)
10.  Tough Nut (Jodi Kendrick)
11.  The Turtle and the Hare (Amanda Kimberley)
12.  Tabby and the Den (T.B. Mann)
13.  Trash Queen (Mandy Rosko)
14.  The Siberian’s Winter (Lucy Farago)
15.  A Tree and Her Honey Badger (Julie Mills)
16.  Diamond in the Ruff (Jodi Kendrick)
17.  Moose and the Narwhal (Renee Hewett)
18.  Chillin’ Out (Mandy Rosko)
19.  The Turtle and the Rock (Amanda Kimberley)
20.  Doc and Her Dragon (Julia Mills)
21.  Taming the Tiger (Scarlet Fox)
22.  Sammi and the Jersey Bull (C.D. Gorri)
23.  Bat and the Jack (Alexa Gregory)
24.  Bits and Bobs (Mandy Rosko)
25.  Bat and the Blitz (Alexa Gregory)
26.  The Lion and the Mouse (Samantha Allard)
27.  Honeyed Nut (Jodi Kendrick)
28.  Dusty and Her Dino (Julia Mills) (releases 03.15.2022)
 
Also from Jodi Kendrick:
·         Wish (Paranormal Dating Agency)
Aqua-terrestrial Task Force (Federal Paranormal Unit) Series:
1.      Awakened
2.      Surfacing
3.      Prowler
Dragon Island Series:
1.      Dragon Heat (Sassy Ever After)
Pedigree Series:
1.      Tough Nut (FUCN’A #9)
2.      Diamond in the Rough (FUCN’A #15)
Soaring Dragons Chronicles Series:
1.      Return Flight
 

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