{"id":26742,"date":"2021-03-08T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=26742"},"modified":"2021-02-25T18:28:47","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T00:28:47","slug":"wotr21-paranormal-series-novellas-throwbackreview-standalones-honey-bear-a-kinship-cove-fun-flirty-romance-mates-macarons-by-ellis-leigh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=26742","title":{"rendered":"#WOTR21 #Paranormal #Series #Novellas #ThrowbackReview #Standalones &#8211; Honey Bear: A Kinship Cove Fun &#038; Flirty Romance (Mates &#038; Macarons) by Ellis Leigh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/wotr-aa.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-25687\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/wotr-aa.png?resize=300%2C169\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/wotr-aa.png?resize=300%2C169 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/wotr-aa.png?resize=1024%2C576 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/wotr-aa.png?resize=768%2C432 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/wotr-aa.png?resize=1536%2C864 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/wotr-aa.png?w=1600 1600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/wotr-aa.png?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/wotr-aa.png?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.gr-assets.com\/images\/S\/compressed.photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1596500363l\/54804144._SY475_.jpg?w=474&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Honey Bear (Mates &amp; Macarons #3)\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/synopsis.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-25369\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/synopsis.jpg?resize=300%2C100\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/synopsis.jpg?resize=300%2C100 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/synopsis.jpg?resize=768%2C256 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/synopsis.jpg?w=900 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Sometimes the happy in happily ever after is relative. Or related. Sort of. The third slice of sweetness from the Cake-ily Ever After bakery in Kinship Cove will definitely satisfy your sweet tooth.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m supposed to be the nice sister. The good one. The girl everyone can count on and who rallies the troops whenever one of us needs a little boost. I\u2019m not supposed to be anything other than sweet. I\u2019m not the one secretly pining for a man twice my age. A man who shifts into a bear at whim and runs the whole darn town with a calm sort of confidence never before seen in Kinship Cove. But I do pine. I pine hard.<\/p>\n<p>And when I make bad decisions because of that, I become the sister with a burden bigger than she can carry.<\/p>\n<p>And a secret.<\/p>\n<p>What would you do if you needed money fast? What wouldn\u2019t you do?<\/p>\n<p>I won\u2019t sell my body. So instead, I\u2019ll sell the closest thing I can\u2014to whoever has the right amount of cash.<\/p>\n<p>And I\u2019ll cross my fingers and hope the bear shifter who refuses to see me as anything other than sweet never finds out.<\/p>\n<p><i>HONEY BEAR is the latest paranormal romance from USA Today bestselling author Ellis Leigh. The story is part of the Shifters In Love: Fun &amp; Flirty world but is a standalone romance with wit, snark, and more than just flirting.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/goodreads.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-25373\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/goodreads.jpg?resize=300%2C100\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/goodreads.jpg?resize=300%2C100 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/goodreads.jpg?resize=768%2C256 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/goodreads.jpg?w=900 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/42335529-honey-bear?from_search=true\">Goodreads<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/buylinks.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-25625\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/buylinks.jpg?resize=300%2C100\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/buylinks.jpg?resize=300%2C100 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/buylinks.jpg?resize=768%2C256 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/buylinks.jpg?w=900 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ss&amp;ref=as_ss_li_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=twintalk-20&amp;language=en_US&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=B07JFF3LRD&amp;asins=B07JFF3LRD&amp;linkId=13a3822bbd8b9fd148367cb09ff2e6c9&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/angie.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-25377\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/angie.jpg?resize=300%2C100\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/angie.jpg?resize=300%2C100 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/angie.jpg?resize=768%2C256 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/angie.jpg?w=900 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Honey Bear: A Kinship Cove Fun &amp; Flirty Romance (Mates &amp; Macarons #3) by Ellis Leigh<\/p>\n<p>I purchased this book from Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>I love love love the paranormal world that Elis creates in all of her stories.\u00a0 She makes me laugh and love each and every characer.<\/p>\n<p>This book is about sweet human Madeline\/Maddy who is crazy in love with the town mayor and bear shifter Jericho.\u00a0 The history of the two is long and intertwined to the point that Jericho calls himself Maddy\u2019s uncle\u2026ewwwww.\u00a0 However, when Maddy grows up Jericho no longer wants to her uncle but her lover because the fates have made her is mate.<\/p>\n<p>Jericho needed to a good kick in the pants because he was being an idiot and I loved the naughty Fox who helped him see he was missing a good thing by denying is mate, Maddy.<\/p>\n<p>Maddy has given up on Jericho and also started a side business that \u2026.welll\u2026..isn\u2019t traditional but a girls gotta do what a girls gotta do right???<\/p>\n<p>I loved the scene when Jericho finds out about Maddy\u2019s little side business, but I really loved seeing Maddy stand up to Jericho\u2019s enemy and let everyone know this little human is not so sweet after all!!<\/p>\n<p>I so want to read the rest of the books in the series because all the characters cracked me up so I imagine their books are just as funny.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/abouttheauthor.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-25626\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/abouttheauthor.jpg?resize=300%2C100\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/abouttheauthor.jpg?resize=300%2C100 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/abouttheauthor.jpg?resize=768%2C256 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/abouttheauthor.jpg?w=900 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A storyteller from the time she could talk,\u00a0<i>USA Today<\/i>\u00a0bestselling author Ellis Leigh grew up among family legends of hauntings, psychics, and love spanning decades. Those stories didn\u2019t always have the happiest of endings, so they inspired her to write about real life, real love, and the difficulties therein. From farmers to werewolves, store clerks to witches\u2014if there\u2019s love to be found, she\u2019ll write about it. Ellis lives in the Chicago area with her husband, daughters, and a German Shepherd that refuses to leave her side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes the happy in happily ever after is relative. Or related. Sort of. The third slice of sweetness from the Cake-ily Ever After bakery in Kinship Cove will definitely satisfy your sweet tooth. I\u2019m supposed to be the nice sister. The good one. The girl everyone can count on and who rallies the troops whenever &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=26742\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">#WOTR21 #Paranormal #Series #Novellas #ThrowbackReview #Standalones &#8211; Honey Bear: A Kinship Cove Fun &#038; Flirty Romance (Mates &#038; Macarons) by Ellis Leigh<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30,53],"tags":[992],"class_list":["post-26742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-novella","category-paranormal","tag-ellis-leigh"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/wotr21banner2.jpg?fit=2048%2C1069","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSW8H-6Xk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26743,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26742\/revisions\/26743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}