Book Reviews

Book Blurb

Sero eats dried figs when he’s sad and rearranges his fruit drawer when he’s happy. He’s a blackjack dealer, and a fruit bat whose dating history reads like a cautionary tale. He goes to Kinky Kritters because it’s the one place in Vegas where nobody asks him to pretend.

Then a house cat with a god complex and a custom-built sex machine cracks him open in ways he didn’t know he could break. The good news: the space Trevor finds inside him is extraordinary. The bad news: Trevor’s been bottling it.

Depression figs. Angler fish documentaries. A bartender who was born wise. And a house cat who has to choose between selling what he stole and deserving the man he stole it from.

 

M/M paranormal shifter romance. Explicit. BDSM. Book 2 of Kinky Kritters: Las Vegas. HEA.

First edition published at eXtasy Books under the title Branding the Bat (Kinky Holidays 1), October 2016.

Book Review

I have had so much fun with the 'Kinky Kritters' series so I was delighted to realize the authors were going to add some holiday stories. Since the theme of 'Branding the Bat' is Halloween it made perfect sense to me that a bat shifter be involved. Believe me when I say that Sero won my heart and Trevor's too.

Sero is adorable and as a bat he's kind of rare. Trevor is a black cat, a housecat, but he's far from harmless. When Trevor propositions Sero on Halloween at the Kinky Kritters costume party, Sero is tempted; but he can smell two distinct other men on Trevor, and Sero isn't about to be just a notch on a belt. Trevor isn't used to being rejected so easily and he definitely has a bit of a childish pout when he stomps off just making Sero laugh.

Of course, it doesn't take long for Sero to consent to a session at KK with Trevor. Unfortunately, Trevor has more than one reason for getting as many orgasms out of shifters as he can, and his reasons aren't exactly pure, but his interest in Sero goes beyond what he expected. Sero isn't about to have his heart broken by a man he views as a player so these two are in a tough spot unless they come clean. Or, the sharks get a hold of Trevor and bring Sero along for some torture.

I definitely didn't anticipate the ending which always makes a book more fun. I really liked Sero but I was a little ho-hum about Trevor. However, all in all, this was a super cute, slightly kinky, story that I enjoyed.

 

 

 

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Additional Information

Format	ebook
Length	Novella, 161 pages
Heat Level
Publication Date	14-May-2026
Price	$2.99 ebook
Buy Link	https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0GX2C6TM9