Everything is a joke to an easygoing shifter like Ryder Croy. At least on the outside, because inside, he’s on the hunt for a mate and is beginning to feel like he’s not meant for a bond. He’s on the tail end of a slew of bad decisions, but he’s determined to turn it around and get his life back on track. When Sexy Lexi Porter stumbles into his life, she’s nothing that he expected, and everything he didn’t know he wanted. She’s beautiful, sassy, a professional, and seven levels out of his league, but he’s going for it. Now all he has to do is convince Lexi that he’s the one who can make her happy.
Lexi Porter isn’t looking for love. She’s been burned and is building a life in the small town she grew up in. The last thing she expects is to attract the interest of a rare snowy owl shifter famous for his family ties, online presence, and wit. He attracts attention wherever he goes but he has his sights set on her and she has to admit, the attention is flattering. And when she gets a peek at the real Air Ryder, she’s stunned by what she finds. This smokin' hot shifter is not what he seems, and now he’s working his way straight into her heart. Too bad for Lexi, Air Ryder’s past has followed him to the serene mountains outside of Bryson City, and if she isn’t careful, she could find herself in deep danger and changed forever.
Content Warning: Explicit love scenes, naughty language, and piles of sexy shifter secrets. Intended for mature audiences.
T.S. Joyce is devoted to bringing hot shifter romances to readers. Hungry alpha males are her calling card, and the wilder the men, the more she'll make them pour their hearts out. She werebear swears there'll be no swooning heroines in her books. It takes tough-as-nails women to handle the shifters of Bear Valley.
She lives in a tiny town, outside of a tiny city, and devotes her life to writing big stories. Foodie, bear whisperer, ninja, thief of tiny bottles of awesome smelling hotel shampoo, nap connoisseur, movie fanatic, and zombie slayer, and most of this bio is true.
Bear Shifters? Check Smoldering Alpha Hotness? Double Check Sexy Scenes? Fasten up your girdles, ladies and gents, it's gonna to be a wild ride.
I've been anxious to get to Ryder's story and it DID NOT DISAPPOINT. I think this is my favorite one so far, and that's saying something. Absolutely heartbreaking but also a wonderfully satisfying HEA. 5 stars wasn't enough. 💗
I fell in love with Ryder from the minute i heard him arguing with his ex over his baby"dog" lottie!! He was so funny and very naughty!! His nicknames for everything cracked me up and his need to wind people up amused me to no end. But underneath the humor he really is super sweet and ohh so loving!! He was also very broken and hiding a dark start at life that no child should ever endure. I broke my heart hearing was he endured as a child from his father.
Lexi was super cute, very witty and smart and a all round great heroine. Her patients and acceptance of Ryder is what really had me loving her. She was loyal to a fault and so great for Ryder they honestly made me melt.
This is one of the two favourite books in this series!! Definetly a must read.
Also a shout of to the whole because they all bounce of eachother and are a pleasure to read.
Ryder was such a cute kid, that it’s interesting to see him as an adult. At the start he drove me nuts with how needy he was. I hated to see how he was treated by his ex, hated all the childish remarks he had when he first met Lexi. But as things went on you realized his behavior all stemmed from what happened to him as a kid and how he buried things. By the end of the book he was in a much better place, he put the past firmly in the past and is ready to start a new life with Lexi. I especially liked how Lexi was able to turn something bad into something into something to be proud of remember how much she was cared for.
Sweet couple, funny H uses humour to cover the damage caused by his awful father. He also struggles with guilt as he knows his stepfather loved him. It was insta love for the h, and she's a great character. But there were hidden danger around and they have to fight to survive. Loved this one.
Ryder's a fun loving, sweet, caring, joking pervert and I love him to pieces. So far I've read the entire series in order and the books keep getting better. There is a definite formula to the stories, but I don't even care. It's the characters that I adore.
WAITTTT I READ THIS SO LONG AGO, I DIDN'T EVEN REALIZE THIS IS THE SAME AUTHOR AS THE PROMISE FALLS SERIES !!! omg need to reread. I remember loving it the first time around.
The love story of Ryder and Lexi. All his life Ryder has hidden a bad secret about his father and an it's now coming out. Lexi is a chef who has fall for a shifter and her life is in danger. Can Ryder save his mate? Will love win or will his past destroyed everything? Great story.
Ok so I laughed and maybe had a few small tears. But damn I laughed a lot. I love when a hero can be manly, sexy, rough and at times funny as hell. Now, seriously I wish Ryder would have made an appearance in Son of the Cursed Bear. Ryder and Nox had so many similar traits. The funny Clinton messed up stuff. If you’ve read the series you know what I’m talking about. And if you haven’t then you need to!!!
Ryder is the beautiful soul that with everything he’s been through he should be angry all the time. He’s beautifully broken but and been damaged. He never hurts others and finds his soulmate. She’s damaged but he’s blinded to that he can’t see her damaged just her. 5 stars
Now if you ever throw Nox & Nevada along with Ryder & Lexi I mean I can see funny. Family get together. Vyr annoyed!!! Lol
Ryder Croy is snarky, funny and says whatever comes to his mind and he is an owl shifter. Lexi Porter didn't expect to attract a man like Ryder. Due to Ryder's terrible childhood with his real father, Ryder never felt he deserved a mate. Ryder's stepfather Mason believed that Ryder would eventually find the "right woman". He did with Lexi. After dealing with his personal issues, Ryder realizes his feelings for Lexi and wants to make her his mate. This especially becomes evident when Lexi is kidnapped by a wolf pack who wants to take over the land the crew owns. I enjoyed the humor in this story. More than once I shook my head at what came out of Ryder's mouth. This was my first book by T.S. Joyce and I can't wait to read more of the books in this series.
There isn't a book by this author that I have read that I have not fell in love with the main Male character. I was pull straight into the story right from the beginning and stayed there until I had finished the book. All the while I was watching it play out in my head like a mini movie. There are surprises all the way through, some you will see coming others you won't. Some are large and others are small, but all help to make the book the awesome story it is. These books are so worth reading if you are into shifter books.
I'm giving it two stars just because Ryder is funny but WTF? Being in the middle of a backwards road with your dick hanging out and waiting for some chick to take a pic is not funny, is weird and pervi as hell...There were actually a LOT of WTF moments in this book. Perhaps that was what it made it more interesting than the others because well, the pervi dude at least was funny...But still, plain, predictable story, one dimensional characters, as usual.
Air Ryder (Harper's Mountains Book 3) Rating: 5 ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
Ok so I laughed and maybe had a few small tears. But damn I laughed a lot.
Ryder Croy is snarky, funny and says whatever comes to his mind and he is an owl shifter. Lexi Porter didn't expect to attract a man like Ryder. Due to Ryder's terrible childhood with his real father, Ryder never felt he deserved a mate. Ryder's stepfather Mason believed that Ryder would eventually find the "right woman". He did with Lexi. After dealing with his personal issues, Ryder realizes his feelings for Lexi and wants to make her his mate. This especially becomes evident when Lexi is kidnapped by a wolf pack who wants to take over the land the crew owns.
So far I've read the entire series in order and the books keep getting better. There is a definite formula to the stories, but I don't even care. It's the characters that I adore.
Here are some of my favorite lines,
“I’m pretty sure I’m drawing the crowd on Tuesdays so the town can watch my chronic emasculation.”
He's such a lover that getting rid of that ex girlfriend took some work.
“I’m the exact type of woman a man can avoid getting attached to. Literally everyone I’ve ever dated gets bored and finds their wife immediately following a break-up with me.”
“I like the way you’re staring at my dick, but you’re making the customers uncomfortable. Did you hear anything I said? Should I talk through my pener hole to keep your attention?”
This is the third book in this series and I couldn’t wait to read it. Ryder wants nothing more than to find his mate and form a bond. He is funny and such a great guy. He has a habit of clinging on to tight because he wants to bond. After yet another bad relationship he is finding his place in the Blackwing crew. Lexi is back in the small town she grew up in and trying to make a life for herself. She is a personal chef through a local cabin rental company. She isn’t looking for love. She is completely taken by surprise that she catches the interest on Ryder. Ryder isn’t who he seems. There is a lot more to him than he lets most people see. When he lets Lexi get a peak at who he really is Lexi can’t wait to get to know more about him. There are still people after the Blackwing crew and Lexi maybe their next target to get the to the crew. Will the Blackwings be able to protect Lexi? I couldn’t wait to read about the great Air Ryder, Beast Boar’s son. This was a cute book with a bit of angst. I laughed so much while reading this book and I can’t wait to read the next book in the series.
I totally loved these light hearted characters. The MMC is a charmer even though he had a terribly abusive bio dad.
Here are some of my favorite lines,
“I’m pretty sure I’m drawing the crowd on Tuesdays so the town can watch my chronic emasculation.”
He's such a lover that getting rid of that ex girlfriend took some work.
“I planned on stopping by Alana’s café on Tuesday to watch the train wreck that is your love life and possibly sit with you to offer my support while your ex reams you.”
And the MFC doesn't have much luck in love before him either,
“I’m the exact type of woman a man can avoid getting attached to. Literally everyone I’ve ever dated gets bored and finds their wife immediately following a break-up with me.”
I always appreciate that Goodreads doesn't censor us so I can paste gloriously crass quotes like this,
“I like the way you’re staring at my dick, but you’re making the customers uncomfortable. Did you hear anything I said? Should I talk through my pener hole to keep your attention?”
funniest book hands down! ryder lack of seriousness truly was excellent in every previous book but seeing him in this light was just a treat.
he might be a jockster but his want for a mate, for the love of his life, for his future was just heartbreaking at time. especially when we see him holding on to someone that was so obviously toxic to him and yet he didn't want to let go because he truly thought she could give him what he truly fully desired.
Lexi walked in and just shifted his entire life.. I love that he found his perfect match, the woman that wants what he wants, someone that match his goofiness, that is just as weird as him, someone that gets attached as fiercely as he does and that truly loves him as he is and isn't trying to change him and even support his level of craziness.
the fact that people, enemies, thought of him as the weakest link truly was baffling. him being a clown doesn't make him any less powerful. I loved him so dearly that's unfair.
What I like about this story is Ryder. On th outside he is all humor and outrageous comments. Inside he is soft, mushy and romantic. I was so excited to learn more about this guy. He is so annoying to his crew, says crude things and always gets a laugh. The best thing is that in this book I am inside his head and he THINKS exactly like he speaks! The author did an amazing job keeping that going. This boy makes me laugh with his insanely crazy thoughts and comments. Like his second best friend comments to Alana or interviewing Lexi for his third best friend position that’s open. I mean those questions he asked? Ri-dunk-ulois! But they were all completely Ryder!
Another outstanding story from TS Joyce! I need to read the previous series because these seem like the kids from the Boarlander Series. I love to laugh and this book makes me very happy!
The first two books of the Bloodrunner series are comparatively dull instalments, but the remaining three books save the series. The irony is that Harper, Alana, and Aaron are better in the latter books than they are as protagonists featured in their own books. Ryder is less silly here than he is in any of the other books with Ms. Joyce making an effort to show how his early experiences with his abusive father impacted him throughout his life. Lexi is a great match both in temperament and in tone. What adds depth and interest to this book is that Alana and Harper are great friends to both Ryder and Lexi and Aaron is funny in ways that weren’t explored in their stories. Luckily Wyatt takes a distant backseat in the remaining books barely appearing as an afterthought to Harper.
Air Ryder is the third book in the Harper’s Mountains series and is Ryder’s and Lexi’s story. Ryder is Mason’s and Beck’s son from the Boarlander Bear series.
Ryder is a snowy white owl and the comic of the group. He’s always joking around and laughing and has a great personality and sense of humor. At the same time he’s tender and vulnerable and allows Lexi to see a side of him that he hides from everyone else. Lexi is a sweetheart and just adores Ryder. Both of these characters want to be loved and be happy, and both have been hurt in the past by previous relationships. Together they were perfect.
I think this is one of my favorite books by this author - and I’ve read a lot of her books. Next up is Weston and I can’t wait to read his story.
I liked Ryder's romance. Hes the Dennison of this pack or crew. I found myself kind of annoyed by him. I liked him but the constant jokes made him irritating and almost creepy. I didn't want to think that as I thought it was more a coping mechanism, still kind of annoying.
I found myself interested that this was showing shifter wolves in such a negative light. Usually wolves are portrayed as good people but they're not in this. Its almost like they're all jerks. Interesting.
I liked their romance, I thought they were sweet and I found them very easy to like. The romance was good as well, didn't even feel too quick.
Absolutely loved Air Ryder. Air Ryder Croy son of the Beast Boar is a great addition to this series. This story gave me everything I enjoy in a story an emotional roller coaster. Lexi and Air Ryder our my favorite couple this far. The author does pair her characters well together. I highly recommend this story and series but I suggest starting at the beginning of Damon's Mountain with Saw Bears series and working your way to Air Ryder because you have read where Air Ryder, Weston Novak, Harper, Wyatt and Aaron Keller started. It makes this story so much more enjoyable. Happy Reading!!!
This is about Air Ryder, a rare white owl shifter. It continues on the story of the Bloodrunner crew, but can be read as a standalone book. There's a lot of action, drama and romance. The struggle of Ryder to overcome his early upbringing with an abusive birth father is evident in this story and everything he lived through comes out. In other books he's portrayed as charismatic and fun loving, but now we see the dark side. Fortunately it has a happy ending and is a very good book.
I loved this! I loved their story and I'm so glad I finally decided to read it. I don't know what took me so long. He was a lot funnier than I thought he would be. I just kept imagining this really buff Ron Weasley the entire time lol. The way they interacted with each other was perfect and the fact that she helped him get over his jerk of an ex made it even better. She didn't do because she wanted him, she did it because she recognized a toxic relationship and tried to help him understand that's what it was. One thing I wish was he had a little more charm to balance out the jokes.
Ryder is portrayed as this funny and charismatic person. He grew up in a family who loved him and helped him grow into being the man that he is. However, not everything in Ryder's life has been easygoing and it still impacts him now. There is pain behind his teasing and laughter but he's not willing to let it show. Ryder is desperate to find his mate and pushes that to an extreme.
I really enjoyed the scene by the side of the road, it was Ryder in all his glory.
Just love these books. Such sweet love stories that break all kinds of melancholy. These words make laugh out loud and tear up and smile until your cheeks hurt. The witty repartee between all the characters are fun and completely unexpected. Characters are fun, easy to love. Aaron an owl shifter that's quick witted, dirty talking and endearing finds love in the most unexpected place. Lexi is just enamoured from the moment she lays her eyes on him.
❤️❤️AIR RYDER❤️❤️😍 Finally got to read Air Ryder’s story and it was as great as expected. In each of the book series so far there’s one character that makes you laugh more than the rest and that was Ryder for this group. Ryder cracked me up and I LOVED that he was finally able to put the past behind him. I also love when we get glimpses of our past main characters like Bash Bear, Crazy Clinton & Beast Boar Mason. It’s also great to see what it was like for the kids growing up on Damon’s Mtn and all the trouble they got up to. Love love love this book series and Air Ryder is just awesome!