{"id":216,"date":"2016-03-07T08:35:59","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T13:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/?p=216"},"modified":"2016-02-27T17:28:15","modified_gmt":"2016-02-27T22:28:15","slug":"the-bbw-and-the-beast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/?p=216","title":{"rendered":"The BBW and the Beast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B017C2Y37Y\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B017C2Y37Y&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=thewaleff-20&amp;linkId=X2H7BUA2BD4GGZ5Z\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-217\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-217\" src=\"http:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/hea.jpg\" alt=\"Happily Ever Alpha\" width=\"800\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"http:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/hea.jpg 800w, http:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/hea-300x157.jpg 300w, http:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/hea-768x402.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the exclusive offerings in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B017C2Y37Y\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B017C2Y37Y&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=thewaleff-20&amp;linkId=X2H7BUA2BD4GGZ5Z\">Happily Ever Alpha box set<\/a> is Sylvia Frost&#8217;s The BBW and the Prince. I&#8217;ll admit that I almost didn&#8217;t start on this story because the abbreviation BBW (big, beautiful woman) in the title made me think it was going to be erotica &#8212; all sex, no story. But then I read a teaser for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B01ADL8LZ6\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B01ADL8LZ6&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=thewaleff-20&amp;linkId=4CHHDTWYLDW7YA2P\">second book in the series<\/a>\u00a0and was immediately hooked. I&#8217;m a sucker for a good fairy-tale retelling, so I immediately turned back to the box set and flipped to The BBW and the Prince.<\/p>\n<p>I was instantly drawn into the interesting world-building, which was painted with a very light but elegant hand (no infodumps here!). The author&#8217;s writing is a notch above most paranormal romances and I ended up thoroughly enjoying the story. I don&#8217;t want to spoil anything, but suffice it to say that &#8220;Beauty&#8221; is legally blind and the beast is a werewolf. Expected and unexpected antics occur, the pages turned awfully darn fast, and I was ready for the sequel before I knew it.<\/p>\n<p>Now I just have 19 more novels to enjoy in this high-value box set!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the exclusive offerings in the Happily Ever Alpha box set is Sylvia Frost&#8217;s The BBW and the Prince. I&#8217;ll admit that I almost didn&#8217;t start on this story because the abbreviation BBW (big, beautiful woman) in the title made me think it was going to be erotica &#8212; all sex, no story. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,21],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-box-sets","category-urban-fantasy-paranormal-romance-fantasy-romance-reviews","tag-shifter-books","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218,"href":"http:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions\/218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}