A review by tessisreading2
Bears Behaving Badly by MaryJanice Davidson

3.0

I would classify this more as urban fantasy with a romance subplot than paranormal romance; the hero and heroine have crushes on each other as the book opens but haven't acted on them, and don't actually hook up until the very, very end of the book. Otherwise, a pleasant book but in some respects not for me - the disjointed style of writing (with thoughts or dialogue coming mid-sentence, and the sentence breaking the paragraph to accommodate it) felt really weird to read and, more fundamentally, the glib, dialogue-heavy tone didn't quite match the subject matter. We learn fairly early that our heroes are investigating a child trafficking ring in which shifter children are horrifically abused, so all the wackiness feels... I don't know, a little uncomfortable. Davidson takes some of the weight off by not giving us any information on any children victimized by the traffickers other than the two currently in the heroes' care (no names, descriptions, "little Tommy went missing!") but at the same time we know those children exist and

Spoiler

are not rescued at the end of the book

, so...