DELICIOUSLY CUTE AND DELIGHTFULLY ENTERTAINING !!!
Title: Shiftr: Swipe Left for Love (Andrea)
Designation: Book Four of Series, Standalone Novella, NO Cliffhanger
Series: Hope Valley BBW Online Dating App Romance
Author: Ariana Hawkes
Platform: Kindle Unlimited
My Rating: FIVE ROARING STARS *****
Wow! I love it! I totally fell in love with this series after reading the first three books and could hardly wait to get my hands on the fourth. Well, it's HERE and it was totally worth the wait! The story is cute, sweet, humorous, fast-paced, light-hearted, fun, romantic, arousing and sexy as sin. Va..Va..Voom! The narrative is well written in the third person with multiple points of view. The dialogue is smart, sassy, well executed and flows effortlessly. The characters are funny, captivating, relatable and engaging. Hawkes skillfully combines these elements into a deliciously cute, delectably sweet and delightfully entertaining love story. The Hope Valley Online Dating App Series is a totally new and original concept that I found to be innovative, unique and modern with a fresh take on paranormal romance. Each book is a standalone novella featuring a different couple with their happily ever after. They are just the cutest books ever and quite apropos considering the popularity of today's online dating scene. Online dating sites have quickly become the Mecca for the forlorn, love-lost souls seeking love or in this case, a BBW human woman seeking a smexy shifter mate! Yowza!
Dina, Lauren, Kristen and Melissa are all now very happily mated to hot, hunky shifters Logan, Connor, Roman and Harley, all thanks to Tamika Montefiore, developer and owner of the Shiftr App and website. Shiftr is the secret dating app that connects curvy human women with shifter men. Once a woman is mated she has the opportunity to share the secret with one friend. Lauren started the ball rolling after she met bear-shifter Connor by sharing the secret with Dina. Once Dina mated with bear-shifter Logan, she shared the secret with Kristin. It didn't take Kristin long to find her perfect match and after mating tiger-shifter Roman, she shared the secret with sweet Melissa. Melissa found her true love with wolf shifter, Doc Harley and now it's her turn to pay it forward and share the Shiftr secret. And the lucky girl this time is Andrea Bianco, Kristin and Melissa's college friend. Andrea was a journalism major same as Kristin but unlike Kristin, she was ruthlessly ambitious and determined to become a big-time reporter in The Big Apple. She has always mocked Kristin for settling for less by choosing to work at their small-time, hometown paper, The Hope Valley Echo. It's been twelve years since their college graduation and Kristin nor Melissa have heard much from Andrea other than some group emails boasting about her amazing job and the even more amazing guys she's dating. But it seems that everything wasn't as amazing as Andrea made everyone to believe. As a matter of fact, the girls are beginning to suspect her fabulous career and wealthy Wall Street Banker boyfriend are nothing but fiction. Sadly, as it turns out, they would be right! Huh? That's right! It was all lies! None of it was true - no amazing boyfriend and even worse, she was fired from her job! What? Thirty four year old Andrea was jobless, broke and alone and has come back home to lick her wounds and try to get her life back on track and thanks to Kristin who is editor of the local paper, she at least now has a job as a subeditor. And she's about to blow that as well by not appreciating her job nor her friends. Now on the verge of losing her last chance for a happy life in Hope Valley, Andrea realizes she's been not only a poor employee but also an egotistical jerk and a very poor friend obsessed with only appearances and boasting. With everything on the line, she's begged for another chance and the girls now must decide whether they will trust her. Kristin and Melissa have their doubts until they discuss it with Tamika who volunteers to share the secret with Andrea and invite her to join Shiftr. Andrea is skeptical that anyone, much less the handsome, hot shifters she saw on the App would ever find her curvy body attractive but she decides to put it all on the line and take the plunge but her hopes are quickly crushed along with her heart when a handsome lion-shifter who turns out to be a 100% match rejects her. Oh my! She's so hurt that she immediately deletes her profile from the site. Oh no! What's a girl to do???
Lion-shifter Magnus Adams has made his fortune and is done traveling the world on business. He's more than ready to enjoy the fruits of his labor and that includes finding his mate. That's the main reason he has moved to Hope Valley and at the recommendation of his friend, Tamika Montefiore owner of Shiftr, he has agreed to sign up for App in hopes of finding his true mate. He's had dates with five of the women from the dating app but none of them have turned out to be his true mate. He hasn't found a single profile for anyone above an 82% match - until now. A beautiful woman who is a 100% match just contacted him but he made a snap judgement based solely on her hair style and just erased her from his feed. What? Oh no! He's made a terrible mistake! He's accustomed to making swift business decisions but mating and love are nothing like business. Once again he's let his hasty superficial impulses guide him. When would he ever learn? What's a lion to do? Contact Tamika, of course, but unfortunately, Tamika can be of no help because the woman in question has completely deleted her profile from the site and she's bound by privacy laws! Oh my! How would he ever find her??? No spoilers from me but I will say this....Beautiful curvaceous and sometimes superficial human journalist-check! Handsome, wealthy and often rash and superficial lion shifter-check! A wonderful cast of characters-check! A crisis of conscience-check! Two honest confessions-check! A secret dating app and four of the most wonderful friends a girl could ever have-check! Heated attraction, fiery passion, heartwarming romance, a little heartbreaking angst and some steamy dreamy sex-you bet! That and a whole lot more! Buckle up my lovelies and climb aboard the Shiftr train! You'll love it! It's a fun filled ride! It's just so dreamy....Sigh.... Deliciously cute, sinfully sexy, completely captivating and delightfully entertaining!
This is a standalone short story with NO cliffhanger and a wonderfully sweet happy-ever-after ending.