Bears in Mind by Sam Hall

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

My ex-husband broke my heart by asking for an open marriage.

Then I found out he had already been sleeping with someone else. So I dumped his butt and moved out.

In the process, I found myself in the arms of four smoking-hot strangers. They pull out all the stops, lavishing me with all of the attention I’d been missing out on. But these guys have a secret.

Am I going to be able to cope with the truth when it comes out, or is it going to be too much to bear?

Bears in Mind is a bear-shifter paranormal romance where the girl is hurting, and the guys pull out all the stops to try and make her feel loved again.

Bears in Mind

Getting out of a bad marriage and into four hot bear shifters!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💚💜💙❤️🤎
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌏
Character development: 😒🥺🙂😂🥰
Narrator(s): 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration type: Dual Narration

The heroine: Natalie Bailey – her husband Paul told her that he wanted an open marriage, and she was so hurt, she ended up alone at a bar drinking tequila with her wedding ring off the night he first went out with another woman. They live in the small town of Langston in Australia and most people in town know her and her husband. He left that evening dressed to the nines, and she didn’t know where he was, who he was with, or when he would return.

The Heroes: Alaric, Coda, Thorne, Lars – Their team is in town to do some restoration work on the clock tower of the old town hall. They know that Natalie Granger is their fated mate, and they took the job in Langston to be near her. What they couldn’t get their minds around was the fact that her name is now Natalie Bailey and she is married.

The Story: Natalie works for the city and was responsible for hiring Alaric Burns and his crew to restore the clock tower. When she meets Ric at the bar and finds that he and his team came to town a day early, she offers her place for them to stay until their suite at the bed and breakfast is ready. She thinks it might just be good payback for her husband, and a good way to show him that she isn’t the lonely girl he expects. Though Ric turned into a good guy and dropped her off at home alone.

One thing I didn’t like about this book was the time it took for Natalie to leave her husband. If I were her, I would have walked out the minute the guy suggested an open marriage. She waits way too long, miserable the entire time. Over the next few days Natalie got to know the guys one at a time in different ways. The guys were great at protecting her and comforting her when her husband was being a jerk as well.

Many bear shifter stories I have come across in the past for some reason are novella length, so I was glad that this one was longer, also I loved the fact that Natalie is described as fit. Bear shifters tend to be really large even in their human form, so most stories about them include a curvy woman. I tend to stay away as much as possible from stories about BBW, because the woman always seems to have low self esteem about their weight and it is focused on too much. I was glad to have a heroine that was happy with her body. Though Natalie did have low self-esteem resulting from her years with Paul, who was controlling, not to mention the fact that he cheated.

This audiobook was told in multiple points of view via dual narration and was narrated by Sofia Lette and Dorje Swallow. Sofia Lette has a nice voice with a great Australian accent. I am not sure why, but I like an Australian accent much better than a British one. Maybe it is because I once dated an Austrailian, but either way, I really like her voice. Dorje Swallow also has an Australian accent, so this book was definitely a nice change of pace from all the American and British that normally narrate romance books.

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