Koalafied for Love by Zoe Chant
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
Koalafied for Love is even less believable in relationship terms than the other books. I know romance books thrive on this stuff, but still!
Tiffany is the owner and operator of her own construction company, a thriving business despite the fact that construction is a man’s world. She’s got a contract to build a new playground1the one from the fundraiser in book eight on the town green in Virtue, and to get it done on time, construction needs to start on a certain date. However, she arrives in Virtue to find people decorating the gazebo that’s right next to the intended construction site for a wedding. Try as she might, she can’t convince them to stop and understand that she’s got a contract and the green will shortly be less-than-photogenic. The hot guy doing most of the talking is distracting, with a sexy Australian accent, but not so distracting that she forgets the reason she’s in this lovely little town.
Accountant Oliver has traveled halfway around the world for his cousin Steven’s2the guy from book four/five wedding. He’s spent his entire life learning to stay calm in all situations, because his inner koala is eager to throw down with anything and everything, including his grizzly bear cousins. When his fated mate walks up to him during the wedding preparations, he nearly loses his cool. She’s everything he never even knew he wanted.
Tiffany and Steven have to overcome small-town bureaucracy and a construction mishap to save Steven and Charlee’s wedding plans and more before they can get together.
I didn’t buy the strained explanation of why Oliver and Steven are different types of shifters, and the extreme speed of this relationship’s acceleration was way too much for me.
