Review: My Kind of Town by Shelly Laurenston 

Rating: 3.5⭐️

My Kind of Town by Shelly Laurenston  is a paranormal shifter romance that was previously written for and published in another anthology. I didn’t read that one. And it was the cover and the author’s fantastic honey badger series that drew me here.

I liked this but found that it’s the promise of its elements for future books the most intriguing. The main couple is engaging if not fully explored. 

Thats primarily the issue with this story. Great ideas, an interesting storyline with fascinating magical characters and elements but none of those are really explained or given any meaningful foundation here. A coven with their powerful dark magic and found family ? Absolutely to know more. 

A dying coven with different powers and magical abilities? Ok, so what happened to them? 

The story offers up more questions than answers about the characters and never answers the original story plot about what brought Emma Luchessi, the Long Island witch down to the southern town of Smithville. 

That gets forgotten totally. 

So yes, I enjoyed it. Saw so much promise, and hope that the author ventures back to Smithville to finish what this story begins. 

Pretty much instant sex, instant lust, well, you get it. 

Cover design by Cynthia Lucas.

Buy link

Amazon.comhttps://www.amazon.comMy Kind of Town eBook : Laurenston, Shelly: Kindle Store

Blurb

Emma Luchessi may be a witch from Long Island but she is used to her life being quiet. Some may even say boring. She doesn’t mind boring. Boring is safe. Calm. Peaceful. Like beige. One doesn’t get into trouble with beige. But a wrong turn off a southern highway is about to turn Emma’s beige life into everything but boring.

Kyle Treharne’s a good ol’ boy with a sheriff’s badge and a difficult population to manage. He wishes he had to worry about gangs and drugs and car-jackings. Instead, he has to worry about big cats fighting with wolves, bears fighting over honey, and hyenas fighting with everyone. And now, out of nowhere, he’s got a human outsider riling up all the locals by asking too many questions. She’s just so paranoid. And doesn’t trust Kyle a lick. These city gals. They just don’t know how to relax, do they?

Of course, Kyle is a big cat. He knows how to relax and he’d be more than willing to help Emma learn how. He’d be willing to help Emma do all sorts of things if she’d just give him half a chance. 

But it turns out Emma coming to Smithville isn’t a simple accident. She’s been brought here and she’s bringing change and danger right along with her. Lucky for Emma, Kyle and the rest of the town like a bit of danger…

This story was previously available in the Sun, Sand and Sex anthology.

• Publisher: Ethan Ellenberg Literary Agency
• Publication date: April 26, 2020
• Edition: 2nd
• Language: English
• Print length: 122 pages