Bear Necessities (Bad Boy Alphas): A Post-Apocalyptic Bear Shifter Romance

Bear NecessitiesBad Boy Alphas: A Post-Apocalyptic Bear Shifter RomanceBy Selena Kitt I received this ARC copy with the promise of a honest review.I love reading Selena Kitt's books and I have never read one and been disappointed. Selena is one of my favorite authors, she has set the bar higher with this book . I fell in love with this book and it's now one of my favorite and what a story! Once I started reading, I couldn't put it down, that's how awesome it is! This well-written novel is a perfect example of entertainment at its best! It's a action packed, must read, romantic, suspense, sci-fi, shifters and fantasy all in here. This is a storyline that has twists and turns that will keep you compelled to keep turning the pages until you finished. The descriptions are very vivid with details that pulls you the reader right into the story. The characters are well developed and the dialogue is fantastic and entertaining!OMG! I have to say it again, what a absolutely fantastic book! Ivy and Caleb both find themselves alone in a world that neither of them ever thought it would happen. Ivy lives alone in the woods after her beloved father's death she has a college degree but nothing to do with it.Caleb is a bear shifter who is a ex marine and he is searching for his brother.Both of them were eating berries when they saw each other, only he was a bear. This scared Ivy so she runs she wanted to shoot but she felt there was something familiar about the bear. What does a bear do when someone run from him well he chases them. This is the start of a life altering relationship. There is danger for them both in the woods. They don't know they have a enemy, but the attraction between them is scorching hot. But Ivy has trust issues because she is a big girl and her ex-boyfriend humiliated her by sleeping with his landlord the entire time they were together. Caleb has a secret and he doesn't think she can handle his secret.This story has drama, suspence, intrigue, twist that you would never believe and always, great sex.This story line wad absolutely one of the best. One of my favorite parts of Bear Necessities is that there was an absence of the usual insta love that drives me nuts in what I affectionately call "shifter crack". There is an awareness that there are bonds but the tension between the characters is drawn out a bit before they are hopping in bed. I really liked the backstory. I would love to read more about them and some of the other characters introduced in this story.I love that Ms Kitt always has some surprise and even though I expect something, she still manage to give that surprise. I am a fan of both her erotica and romance stories for life. This is a fantastic book to add to your TBR list . If you believe in the world of paranormal romance, the possibilities are endless and fascinating!

After surviving the end of the world, Ivy Sullivan finds herself alone on the homestead her father built. He prepared for the apocalypse but died before it happened. Brian made sure to teach his daughter how to hunt, grow her own food and how to shoot a rifle.Upon encountering a bear, Ivy runs from it after deciding not to kill it. She injured her ankle and comes across Caleb, who seems to own keys to an okd shack of her father's.Caleb nurses her back to health inside the bunker her father created. While walking one day, they come upon a bear mauling a man. Caleb tells her to run and hide as he approaches the bear. In her peripheral vision she swears he morphed into a bear. Deciding that can not be possible she continues to run.Ivy is held hostage by her ex-boyfriend, Vaughn, as he waits to slay Caleb. There is a huge battle as Caleb's brother has brought more shifters to the rescue. As her fear grows, Ivy suddenly shifts into a bear! How is this possible? She never knew shifters existed let alone is one.A great shifter story. I only wish more was written about her parents and how she came to be adopted. All in all a great adventure ~

I was not expecting much from this book when I started to read it. I was just looking for something to fill the time. I actually liked the concept of the world having basically ended and this chick is surviving because her father had foreseen the need to be "off the grid". Ivy is all by herself and doing fine due to her father's preparations. She goes off to pick strawberries, like these just grow wild all over the place (I know small ones do, but I don't think that is what she is picking. Maybe blackberries would have been a better choice.) She sees a bear and is freaked out enough to take aim with her rifle. but stops when she notices the bear has blue eyes. Apparently, her father won an award for his pictures of a blue-eyed bear and she can't bring herself to kill it, so she runs. He chases.Of course Caleb is a shifter who is pretty sure he has found his mate. Unfortunately, there are people after him and he brings this danger down on Ivy. Hmm. wonder what will happen next? You should read it and find out.

I was little confused when I first started reading this story, but by the time the next chapter came, I was able to understand where Selena was going with the story. By the end I was totally blown away. What a fantastic story. You have a silver girl all by her self in a world that was basically destroyed of any man kind, who stubbles across a bear that ends up chasing her, she was saved by Caleb who happens to be a bear. There is so many twist turns. My emotions were all over the place, I think I hit everyone. I do highly recommend this story, if you want something different then your ordinary shifter story. Very refreshing. I was given this story for a honest review. But I also bought too.

Not my usual but I did enjoy reading it, the stories get into your head and you forget their shifters and just live for the romance and drama

You were always meant to be mine. YABBA DABBA DOOOOO!! This GRRRREAT story starts off with so much humor, but the intensity quickly amps up, taking Ivy & Caleb - and us - on one helluva ride! It is such a unique story - or at least to me it is! - that had so many intriguing features I don't know where to start. It is an interesting world that they live in, as there is no electricity, internet, phones, etc. In fact, some people have gone crazy and yes, there is even cannibalism! I will admit, that I was completely creeped out/grossed out a couple times, even gagging & crying at one part in particular. I know that I am sensitive to certain things, but this story found my biggest one! There is definitely a darker tone to this story, which completely surprised me given the humorous start! But then again, the humor & romance do offset the darker parts almost perfectly, but I was surprised at all of the various highs & lows! However, it doesn't stop the story from being a BEARY good one! But with 'by Selena Kitt' on the cover, what else could you possibly expect?!? Just take note that it says it's a "A Post-Apocalyptic Bear Shifter" book. Besides that, I enjoyed the story, reading it all in one go, no stops, just immersed completely into the story. I have never heard so many interesting - and hilarious - curses before, and I can't wait to try some out. Caleb cracked me up, but oh how I envied Ivy! Stuck in a bunker with a BEARY delectable hunk-o-man meat?!? Sign me up!! No wait, don't! I'm claustrophobic and I don't think that even Caleb could keep my mind off of it for a whole week! But I wouldn't mind trying! ;) Ivy is a FURRIFIC character who had me smiling & laughing throughout the story, but that also meant that I felt her pain & heartbreak too! Which of course is yet one more example of just how talented Selena truly is!! Too be able to keep me fully ensconced into a story while hitting upon the one horror I can't accept, THAT takes a phenomenally talented & genuinely gifted author, and Selena is THAT author! I have loved every single book of hers! She has this magical way to crafting stories that reach out and touch me emotionally, even soul deep, regardless the kind of story it is! Yes I do LOVE her paranormal books - The Divine Vampire series are my ABSO-FREAKIN'-LUTELY favorite, FANGS DOWN - but I have also read a few of her non-paranormal stories and loved those as well! All in all I do recommend reading this FURRY entertaining book for anyone who is looking for a Bear that can think outside the shack! (Reviewer's Note: the horrors that I mention are NOT detailed, nor do they happen in the story for us to live through as it happens, it is the characters talk about those parts, leaving my imagination to run rampant. Which it did! LOL I would like to say that because of this one incident, I am not sure I COULD read the story again, but I think I NEED to read this story again! If only to see if this part really is as horrific as I think it is, or was I just so absorbed into the story the my mind got carried away! It’s been known to happen, especially when I am completely submersed into the story, as I was with this one!)

i bought it i read it it was great.

I liked it. I thought it was a bit short though. I really like the plot with the zombies but I wished there had been more of them in the story. This was a solid read and I would definitely read more from this Author