Review: Great Reading
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 24, 2014
Ryan Williams knew that Glory Walsh with her soft blue curls and sky blue eyes was his mate.  Getting her to accept him and his bear was entirely another matter. He knew she had been hurt, abused and abandoned by her family, so he had to prove to her that he would always be there and that she would always be protected. He had to do this fast because his mate dreams were becoming more and more vivid.Glory Walsh didn’t believe that Ryan would not leave her.  After all he did once although he came back — the fact still remained that he left. She was however starting to soften towards him but something was still keeping her from becoming his mate.Bear Naked is a very enjoyable story, one that is filled with humor, sarcasm, shifters and mystery. It will keep you engaged from beginning to end and you will find yourself chuckling throughout the book. The first book I read by this author was Bear Necessities which is the first book in the Halle Shifter series. That book was about Ryan’s cousin Alex “Bunny” Bunsun and Tabitha Garwood. I was so entertained by that book that I read the second in the series, and was left wanting more.Bear Naked was not just about Ryan getting Glory to accept him as a mate, but it involved the disappearance of her twin sister Hope, and the search for her brother Temp and younger sister Faith. As this mystery unraveled this reader became more and more invested in the characters.Dana Marie Bell has a way of drawing you into her books; you immediately love the characters because they talk to each other the way you would speak to your friends and family. Her characters are down to earth they just happen to have been a little quirky and they can change into Bears, Foxes, Wolves and Pumas.This can be read as a standalone, but I would suggest that you start with the first book because most of the characters are introduced and it makes it easier to know all the players. So the question is whether I would recommend this book, and the answer is a resounding yes. I would recommend all the books in this series thus far, and I look forward to reading Hope’s story which I know is going to be a good one.originally posted at long and short reviews