The Big Bad Bunny series is just totally awesome. Chasing His Squirrel is a relatively light and easy read. Yeah, there's angst and conflict and bad guys, but you have to have at least some of those things to make a story good. But, what this book has more of is love and devotion and the experience of watching a relationship build over time. That's awesome.
Brady Bunson spent many years trapped in a laboratory with his siblings, being experimented on by a mad scientist who turned them into shifter hybrids. Now that he's free, he's been trying to catch up on everything he can, including dating, in the time-honored bunny method. But, when he meets Jesse, everything changes.
Jesse, her aunt, and her younger brother are squirrels. They are fighting off a disease called the Torch. They have come to Lakewood to get the cure. The thing is, that the cure was created by that mad scientist, and it will change them. While they are waiting to see if Jesse and Daniel can even take the cure, Brady sits with Jesse and they talk every day. She catches him up on pop culture, especially Harry Potter.
One thing I really like about this book is that it doesn't appear that Brady and Jesse are fated mates the way that Brady's sister Bethany and her mate Steele are. That means instead of having to mate immediately or be forced to it by their inner animals, Brady and Jesse have the luxury of time to date, court, and build a relationship before they go through the whole mating thing. You don't see that in a lot of shifter stories. They tend to be heavily fated mates. I'm not knocking fated mates, but it's nice to have a change.
I can't wait to read the next one and to see what's going to happen to the rest of the family.