Zoe Chant’s Books Are Weird as Hell

Zoe Chant has finally won me over. Then again, this is the first book of hers I’ve read that didn’t have some disgusting underhanded misogynistic message and some r/notliketheothergirls shit.

Maybe it was just too short for that.

Either way, I judge every book independently. I might believe Zoe Chant hates all other women and hates being a woman herself and tries to work through that self-hatred right there on the page in front of god and everyone, but since she didn’t do it in THIS book, I’m not gonna hold it against her.

This book was incredibly cute. I really loved the main character Hester. Her relationship with her mom was so sweet. She was adorably prickly and this was very fitting for a porcupine shifter.

Then there was Mauro. He’s an Argentinian guy who turns into an Argentinian weasel! I couldn’t stand how cute that was.

The setting was great and really made the story for me. They get to insta-love in a remote, yet luxurious cabin. The WW1 plane hanging from wires in the lobby was an interesting detail that I appreciated.

No smut in this story, but I actually didn’t think the story called for it. Clean fits the vibe more. As prickly as Hester is, she and Mauro had a very wholesome energy together.

They truly insta-loved, but screw it, I can take some insta-love. We don’t always need everything to be angsty. Sometimes a book can just be gooey and cute, and oh boy, is this gooey and cute.

The scene where both Hester and Mauro shift and then play in the snow was absolutely adorable. I loved watching them frolic in the snow as their animal selves.

All in all, this was an incredibly cute and sweet story. The premise is super weird (who does a super weird premise like Zoe Chant?) but Chant pulls it off.

All of Chant’s books have an add contemporary/cozy vibe, which is a strange tonal choice for the shifter subgenre, but somehow Chant makes it work.

Really, if the lady would stop calling women who flirt with men “vultures” and slut-shaming and doing so much not-the-other-girls cringey shit in her books, I’d have no complaints at all. Her books are weird as hell and I’m living for it.

Next up on my Zoe Chant TBR…

This is a Christmas romance….where the man shifts into a reindeer XD I fucking can’t. Chant is just fucking hilarious

My favorite thing about this cover is how mildly confused that cat looks XD Okay, okay, this guy is a firefighter and a dragon. Why do all Zoe Chant heroes sound like something a five-year-old boy would say if you asked him what he wants to be when he grows up?

See what I mean? “Timmy what do you want to be when you grow up?” “A unicorn veterinarian!”

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