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Christmas Bear Brothers #1
Santa Paws
Are you ready for some Christmas magic?
All Dermot wants for Christmas is a mate. Because a mate will lead to cubs, and a family to spend the holidays with.
But since Dermot, a paramedic, hasn't met his special lady yet, he agrees, as he always does, to work Christmas so others can enjoy time with their families.
However, fate is about to step in and give him just what he needs.
Vicky is a reindeer shifter who has lost her Christmas spirit. Can Dermot help her find it before it's too late?
Too late for what? You'll have to read Santa Paws to find out...
Contains two sexy shifters and scorching hot sexual scenes, meant for adults only.
All Dermot wants for Christmas is a mate. Because a mate will lead to cubs, and a family to spend the holidays with.
But since Dermot, a paramedic, hasn't met his special lady yet, he agrees, as he always does, to work Christmas so others can enjoy time with their families.
However, fate is about to step in and give him just what he needs.
Vicky is a reindeer shifter who has lost her Christmas spirit. Can Dermot help her find it before it's too late?
Too late for what? You'll have to read Santa Paws to find out...
Contains two sexy shifters and scorching hot sexual scenes, meant for adults only.
72 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 21, 2015
About the author
Harmony Raines
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December 14, 2015
DNF@50%.
Three things:
1. This has got to be the most ridiculous story I've ever read my entire life. I can summarise the book as follows (at least up to the point where I DNF-ed it):
2. The writing was barely tolerable, and the dialogue was painful to read through.
3. Everything was just so corny. Please, as if having a place named "Bear Bluff" wasn't horrible enough, the heroine had to be named "Vicky Vixen". Plus, why did the characters have to crack so many bear-related jokes???????????
Sorry, but I'd rather eat my hand than read this. Or watch Donald Trump on CNN. Blech.
Three things:
1. This has got to be the most ridiculous story I've ever read my entire life. I can summarise the book as follows (at least up to the point where I DNF-ed it):
-Hero and heroine meet for first time.
-They instantly realise that they're life mates.
-A few hours later, they decide to have unprotected sex, because you know, that's what mates do. Of course it doesn't matter that they barely know each other. Pfft.
-After having sex, the hero discovers the heroine's real identity: Rudolph. Yes, Rudolph the fucking red nosed reindeer. Apparently she has to save Christmas or something.
2. The writing was barely tolerable, and the dialogue was painful to read through.
3. Everything was just so corny. Please, as if having a place named "Bear Bluff" wasn't horrible enough, the heroine had to be named "Vicky Vixen". Plus, why did the characters have to crack so many bear-related jokes???????????
Sorry, but I'd rather eat my hand than read this. Or watch Donald Trump on CNN. Blech.
December 4, 2015
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This was a cute holiday shifter romance. Not exactly what I was expecting but enjoyable nonetheless. Definitely got me in the Christmas spirit :)
This was a cute holiday shifter romance. Not exactly what I was expecting but enjoyable nonetheless. Definitely got me in the Christmas spirit :)
February 11, 2016
Cutesy
It was an OK book about shifters and finding the Christmas magic. I thought it was a bit cornet,but not a bad read. Good thing it was part of KU.
It was an OK book about shifters and finding the Christmas magic. I thought it was a bit cornet,but not a bad read. Good thing it was part of KU.
September 21, 2018
The heroine is a reindeer.
A.
Rein.
Deer.
Named Vicky Vixen. Ahhh!
Yall! I can't! lol I do love me a little Christmas quickie and Santa Paws was just that. A reindeer who's lost her Christmas Spirit. And a sexy bear who knows instantly she's the mate he's been searching for and he's gonna help her find her way back to Christmas. It was cute. They're fated mates so there's an instant heat and sexy times. Then a race to find Vicky's Christmas spirit and save Christmas. *cue the Christmas warm fuzzies*
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All in all, I enjoyed all three novellas. They were slightly simplistic and there were some editing issues, though. If you read them all in one go there's a lot of repetition from one to the next since they all happen at the same time and scenes overlap. But for a steamy shot of Christmas fun...they're an entertaining trio.
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A.
Rein.
Deer.
Named Vicky Vixen. Ahhh!
Yall! I can't! lol I do love me a little Christmas quickie and Santa Paws was just that. A reindeer who's lost her Christmas Spirit. And a sexy bear who knows instantly she's the mate he's been searching for and he's gonna help her find her way back to Christmas. It was cute. They're fated mates so there's an instant heat and sexy times. Then a race to find Vicky's Christmas spirit and save Christmas. *cue the Christmas warm fuzzies*
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All in all, I enjoyed all three novellas. They were slightly simplistic and there were some editing issues, though. If you read them all in one go there's a lot of repetition from one to the next since they all happen at the same time and scenes overlap. But for a steamy shot of Christmas fun...they're an entertaining trio.
Amazon: https://amzn.to/2xDz8wF
December 9, 2015
This may have been my first story by this author, but I enjoyed it and will be reading the second one soon. Santa Paws is cute with a good-natured bear shifter as the hero and a female shifter (different animal) hiding from her failings as Christmas Eve approaches. The story is sweet and silly at times, and generally light. I found their acceptance of their instant-mate status interesting as they accept their attraction and commitment to each other even as they admit they are strangers.
Did Not Finish
June 29, 2017Yeah, no, not gonna happen!
I'll take the unprotected sex within hours of meeting because, dude, mates!
BUT, I draw my line at fucking reindeers and I'll build a whole wall on that line at the "phone call from Rudolph"!
Even for shifter reader I have SOME standards!
Nope!
I'll take the unprotected sex within hours of meeting because, dude, mates!
BUT, I draw my line at fucking reindeers and I'll build a whole wall on that line at the "phone call from Rudolph"!
Even for shifter reader I have SOME standards!
Nope!
December 10, 2022
It was just alright
One of my pet peeves is a book that is stuffed. The book is short enough and then add that it ends at 83% that makes it even shorter.
Now I must say for bein a short book I had to force myself to finish it, it was just always missing something.
One of my pet peeves is a book that is stuffed. The book is short enough and then add that it ends at 83% that makes it even shorter.
Now I must say for bein a short book I had to force myself to finish it, it was just always missing something.
November 23, 2016
"Santa Paws" Christmas Bear Brothers #1 is written by author Harmony Raines.
Published: November 21, 2015
Book 1 of 3
My Rating: Between 3 - 3.5 Stars
I thought this story was cute. I liked the characters, main and secondary. Also this was very short at about 75 pages. I enjoyed it enough that I also read the other two books in the series which I will review separately. What I had a bit of trouble with was reading about sex, Santa Claus and Rudolph in the same book, which were all part of the story. NOTE...Santa did not have sex. Let me just make that clear right now. The premise was a bit strange, different.
Dermot is a bear shifter, a paramedic in the small town of Bear Bluff. Dermot deeply longs for a mate. I loved Dermot. He was sexy and sweet. As with nearly all of the shifter stories I have read, there is instalove. This was LITERALLY love at first sight! There was no getting to know each other prior to intimacy, no build up or relationship development. But Dermot was so happy to have found Vicky. His wonderment and excitement endeared me further to him.
Vicky was a shifter as well. A reindeer. I liked her but didn't love her. It was nothing she said or did. I just didn't connect with her as well as I did Dermot. Her relationship to this story was peculiar; not what I expected at all. At one point it was very predictable. But at the same time it was silly enough to be entertaining.
Overall, I liked this book for what it is: a fun, sometimes funny, unrealistic, silly, sexy story.
Published: November 21, 2015
Book 1 of 3
My Rating: Between 3 - 3.5 Stars
I thought this story was cute. I liked the characters, main and secondary. Also this was very short at about 75 pages. I enjoyed it enough that I also read the other two books in the series which I will review separately. What I had a bit of trouble with was reading about sex, Santa Claus and Rudolph in the same book, which were all part of the story. NOTE...Santa did not have sex. Let me just make that clear right now. The premise was a bit strange, different.
Dermot is a bear shifter, a paramedic in the small town of Bear Bluff. Dermot deeply longs for a mate. I loved Dermot. He was sexy and sweet. As with nearly all of the shifter stories I have read, there is instalove. This was LITERALLY love at first sight! There was no getting to know each other prior to intimacy, no build up or relationship development. But Dermot was so happy to have found Vicky. His wonderment and excitement endeared me further to him.
Vicky was a shifter as well. A reindeer. I liked her but didn't love her. It was nothing she said or did. I just didn't connect with her as well as I did Dermot. Her relationship to this story was peculiar; not what I expected at all. At one point it was very predictable. But at the same time it was silly enough to be entertaining.
Overall, I liked this book for what it is: a fun, sometimes funny, unrealistic, silly, sexy story.
December 22, 2022
Vicky is a shifter whose animal form is a reindeer. She runs away to Bear Bluff because she lost something precious to her that she needs. Dermot has lived in Bear Bluff his whole life. He is a paramedic and is used to working the holidays due to his single status. He is ready to meet his mate. This changes when he sights Vicky while working.
This is a fated mates so "love" happens very quickly. I did like the twist regarding Vicky. I liked Dermot, but felt Vicky was too "woe is me" and that made her hard to like.
This is a fated mates so "love" happens very quickly. I did like the twist regarding Vicky. I liked Dermot, but felt Vicky was too "woe is me" and that made her hard to like.
December 22, 2023
This was pretty boring. Especially as a short romance. I just was a little meh about it.
I think it started off OK a little cringe but ok and just got worse and worse.
Usually enjoy this author but not this one.
I think it started off OK a little cringe but ok and just got worse and worse.
Usually enjoy this author but not this one.
November 29, 2015
A bear, a reindeer and Christmas.
I love Christmas and Christmas romances and while I've come across a couple of really bad ones this year it's not diminished my feelings.
Surely I'm onto a winner with this one how can a book called 'Santa Paws' possibly not be good and if the name alone isn't enough then it's about a bear shifter and a special reindeer who's lost her Christmas spirit.
Dermot is one of three bear shifter brothers, all are down because Christmas signals yet another year without them finding their mates, could this year possibly be different?
Vicky has rented a cabin in Bear Bluff to escape, no one knows where she's gone, she doesn't deserve to be happy this year.
This is, as you'd expect a light quick read it ends at around 75% and it's full of Christmas spirit.
November 29, 2015
Not the best by her. It got slow a little and I had to skim a little. Vicky was not likable at times. Sorta woe is me kind of attitude. I dunno for a holiday tale it wasn't all that great or sweet or fun. A lot confusing. They got together like hours after meeting and finding out they were mates. It was really too rushed in my opinion. She was a virgin too so I dunno just something was off about the book. Will we get stories about his brothers too? Dunno. I might read those but I am not sure. I got this free and I am kinda glad. Sorry, but just sorta disappointing to me.
December 5, 2015
It was just bad...the author tried too hard and it showed.
December 23, 2016
Dermot is tired of spending the holiday's working for everyone else while they get to spend time with their mates and families. Volunteering to work every holiday is starting to wear this bear down. He's ready to settle down and have cubs running around during the Christmas holiday.
Making a pact with his brother's during their annual sit down at the bar and drink before their holiday shifts begin, he knows it will take a Christmas miracle for all 3 of these brothers to find their mates.
Vicky is a reindeer shifter who has just lost her Christmas spirit. She knows she's letting everyone down, but she can't fly without her magic! Going to Bear Bluff where nobody knows her and she can spend the holidays with her own misery, she never expected to meet the person who completes her.
But Dermot has a tough challenge. He must help Vicky find her Christmas spirit before it's too late and the magic of Christmas is ruined for all those desperate to hold onto a little bit of magic.
Making a pact with his brother's during their annual sit down at the bar and drink before their holiday shifts begin, he knows it will take a Christmas miracle for all 3 of these brothers to find their mates.
Vicky is a reindeer shifter who has just lost her Christmas spirit. She knows she's letting everyone down, but she can't fly without her magic! Going to Bear Bluff where nobody knows her and she can spend the holidays with her own misery, she never expected to meet the person who completes her.
But Dermot has a tough challenge. He must help Vicky find her Christmas spirit before it's too late and the magic of Christmas is ruined for all those desperate to hold onto a little bit of magic.
August 3, 2021
**********Contains Spoilers**********
I thought this was a good book. Fate or maybe Santa knew what it/he was doing pairing Dermot and Vicky together, when Vicky had lost her Christmas Spirit so was in Bear Bluff basically hiding as she’s one of Santa’s Reindeers’ and she can’t fly/pull the sleigh. Her mate Dermot can help her find her Christmas spirit and get her to the North Pole in time to deliver all the gifts around the world. I’m looking forward to reading Damon’s story next and seeing how much sh*t his mate gives him for rescuing her Cougar from up a tree. I’d definitely recommend this book, series, universe and author to everyone.
I thought this was a good book. Fate or maybe Santa knew what it/he was doing pairing Dermot and Vicky together, when Vicky had lost her Christmas Spirit so was in Bear Bluff basically hiding as she’s one of Santa’s Reindeers’ and she can’t fly/pull the sleigh. Her mate Dermot can help her find her Christmas spirit and get her to the North Pole in time to deliver all the gifts around the world. I’m looking forward to reading Damon’s story next and seeing how much sh*t his mate gives him for rescuing her Cougar from up a tree. I’d definitely recommend this book, series, universe and author to everyone.
January 27, 2026
Dermot has just found his mate, but she’s hiding something from him. Turns out she’s a reindeer who lost her Christmas spirit and Dermot is going to do his best to bring it back.
He has the worst ideas for this
It’s very insta, which makes sense as both the characters are shifters, and very cheesy. It’s got Christmas magic (beyond them taking a three hour flight to the North Pole on a small aircraft. Are these guys in Greenland?) and we get hints dropped for the other brothers.
He has the worst ideas for this
It’s very insta, which makes sense as both the characters are shifters, and very cheesy. It’s got Christmas magic (beyond them taking a three hour flight to the North Pole on a small aircraft. Are these guys in Greenland?) and we get hints dropped for the other brothers.
December 11, 2016
Hey, reindeer, this is crazy
This bear just met you
Now let's have babies.
Vicky Vixen, as in one of Santa's famed reindeer, THAT Vixen, has ennui. She's hiding out in a town of bear shape shifters to mope and hope Santa, who sees all, won't find her and make her get over herself. Just as she settles in for a good pity party, she meets her destined mate, who is a bear.
She and her bear do the horizontal tango, big that's not enough to....
You know what. ...this was so bad getting through the first time, I don't even want to finish recapping it.
This bear just met you
Now let's have babies.
Vicky Vixen, as in one of Santa's famed reindeer, THAT Vixen, has ennui. She's hiding out in a town of bear shape shifters to mope and hope Santa, who sees all, won't find her and make her get over herself. Just as she settles in for a good pity party, she meets her destined mate, who is a bear.
She and her bear do the horizontal tango, big that's not enough to....
You know what. ...this was so bad getting through the first time, I don't even want to finish recapping it.
June 5, 2018
Vicky & Dermot
Dermot is a bear shifter and a paramedic in Bear Bluff when one night he meets his true mate, Vicky. She is a reindeer that has lost her Christmas magic spirit for some reason ( the reason is not clear ). But Vicky is a special reindeer, she is one of Father Christmas reindeer and if she doesn't get her Christmas magic spirit soon, this year children around the world will go with no presents🤔🙄. This is a ok read but it's just way to much for me to believe this plot. A bit corny I am afraid to say.
Dermot is a bear shifter and a paramedic in Bear Bluff when one night he meets his true mate, Vicky. She is a reindeer that has lost her Christmas magic spirit for some reason ( the reason is not clear ). But Vicky is a special reindeer, she is one of Father Christmas reindeer and if she doesn't get her Christmas magic spirit soon, this year children around the world will go with no presents🤔🙄. This is a ok read but it's just way to much for me to believe this plot. A bit corny I am afraid to say.
December 24, 2017
If you skip past the erotica at the beginning, you'll find a really nice story about a bear shifter paramedic and a reindeer shifter who feels that she has lost her Christmas magic and will be responsible for the failure of Santa to deliver the presents. Add in a little girl who has been hospitalized for months, appearances by Rudolph and Santa, and the other shifter brothers, and you have a great feel good story! Simply suspend disbelief.
April 9, 2025
Brilliant Series
Santa Paws (Christmas Bear Brothers Book 1) by Harmony Raines. Bear shifter Dermot meets reindeer shifter Vicky and they both immediately know they are mates but Vicky has a secret. She is one of Santa’s reindeer but she’s lost her Christmas sparkle and if she can’t find it again Santa will not be able to deliver all the presents. Dermot sets out to find it for her.
Santa Paws (Christmas Bear Brothers Book 1) by Harmony Raines. Bear shifter Dermot meets reindeer shifter Vicky and they both immediately know they are mates but Vicky has a secret. She is one of Santa’s reindeer but she’s lost her Christmas sparkle and if she can’t find it again Santa will not be able to deliver all the presents. Dermot sets out to find it for her.
December 14, 2021
"Santa Paws" is very short, very silly and very Christmassy.
Bear Shifter Dermot, meets his mate, Vicki Vixen, who just happens to be one of Santa's reindeer.
But she's lost her Christmas spirit - will he be able to restore it?
Of course he will.
There's a couple of fun scenes but it is a basically a ball of festive fluff.
2 Stars.
Bear Shifter Dermot, meets his mate, Vicki Vixen, who just happens to be one of Santa's reindeer.
But she's lost her Christmas spirit - will he be able to restore it?
Of course he will.
There's a couple of fun scenes but it is a basically a ball of festive fluff.
2 Stars.
February 5, 2026
Miracle
Never say never always believe,, this is.a great book let loose and.read you want be disappointed, the way she writes this book is special thanks a great book now next. To the next one
Never say never always believe,, this is.a great book let loose and.read you want be disappointed, the way she writes this book is special thanks a great book now next. To the next one
August 20, 2018
I may never have believed in Santa but I fucking LOVE magical Santa or Santa adjacent christmas stories
November 20, 2018
Cute
The story was cute and just what I needed this holiday season. It’s only two days until Thanksgiving and I was not yet in the holiday spirit.
The story was cute and just what I needed this holiday season. It’s only two days until Thanksgiving and I was not yet in the holiday spirit.
December 14, 2018
Well, it's a insta love/lust..and well...the guy was kinda sexy. hey it's a corny Christmas story. I might even read the brother's books to see how bad...I mean good they are.
March 14, 2019
it was cute
November 12, 2019
Good read
Really good story Relaxing intriguing and suspenseful Enjoyed every minute of it Different twist to each story Kept me enthralled and riveted
Really good story Relaxing intriguing and suspenseful Enjoyed every minute of it Different twist to each story Kept me enthralled and riveted
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January 25, 2023
Santa Paws
Dermont Walker a Bear Shifter had found his Fated Mate Vicky Vixon a Reindeer Shifter. Christmas is in for a beautiful surprise when these two match up!
Dermont Walker a Bear Shifter had found his Fated Mate Vicky Vixon a Reindeer Shifter. Christmas is in for a beautiful surprise when these two match up!
July 1, 2024
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