What an enjoyable story! I loved the characters, their connection and the story that they go through in this book. Shockingly this is my first read from E.J. Russell but I cannot wait for the next in this series and will be looking into her other work.
Ted is a lonely bear living in the woods. He's been causing a bit of trouble so in order to help settle his life and move forward he's signed up to Supernatural Selections to find him a husband. He's looking forward to their arrival but unexpectedly, Quentin, an incubus, turns up looking for his new husband, who is not Ted!
The two men try to sort out the whole mix up but the time it takes allows a friendship to grow for the men from very different backgrounds.
The supernatural element of this story is great! I love when we have all different supernatural creatures come together and this series involves several different kinds. We have a shifter and incubus relationship here and it's entertaining, enjoyable and heart warming to see what happens to our MC's.
I love our characters! Ted is just so adorable, you can't help by want to hug him and make him happy. He's shunned by his kind as he's weirdly sociable for a bear and loves being around people and his eagerness comes across really well. Quentin was brought up in upper society but doesn't fit in as an incubus. A past near death experience for a donor leads him to near enough stave himself of "food" but his meeting with Ted shows him what else can be found in life.
The connection between them shines through in the author's writing. I was drawn in right from the start, eager for their HEA and interested to see how they would make it through everything. The setting of the story, in the woods by a lake for Ted's home with a trek down to the local town of Dewton, is wonderfully described. I found it so easy to imagine myself in the location and definitely is a place I'd love to visit.
We have some great secondary characters, both supportive friends and one or two people we love to hate.
I highly recommend this book! I'm really looking forward to the next book in the series to see what happened to our missing spouses.
I received an ARC from NetGalley and am happily giving a review.

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Single White Incubus is a sweet arranged marriage mix up that I just adored. Ted is a grizzly shifter and a good ol country boy. Quentin is an incubus from a prominent Boston family. As different as day and night neither was expecting the other. Watching them grow together despite their differences was serious fun.
This book is filled with moments that will make you say aww.

Ahhh, I really enjoyed this! I’d been looking forward to it from the moment I saw the title - I mean, supernatural mating agency? Yes! I also really enjoyed revisiting the Kendrick brothers, sorta, from EJ Russell’s Fae out of Water series.

Ted is a grizzly shifter who isn’t like other beats, preferring to spend time with humans and have friends nearby rather than keep to himself. Unfortunately this gets him into trouble as he creates “Bigfoot sightings” and has a friend capture them, threatening the secrecy of the supernatural community. In an effort to change his ways, Ted signs up for Supernatural Selection and purchases a lodge to fix-up.

Quentin is an incubus who has had himself on suppressants for several decades after he nearly killed his partner during sex. He’s so afraid that something like that will happen again that he goes behind his grandmother’s back and signs up for Supernatural Selection and gets paired with a vampire; he figures if his partner is already dead, he doesn’t have to worry about draining them.

Somehow, Ted and Quentin end up signing contracts that mate them to each other rather than who the drafts of the contracts all claimed would be their perfect match. Their response is to decide to enact the Escape Clause so they can mate who they believe was their perfect match.

I really liked the way the found their way together and made things work. There’s really great scenes of domesticity and I like how they help each other work on the lodge. I also really like how Ted feeds Quentin and in some ways that shows their affection to me. While the story takes place over only a few weeks, it didn’t feel like insta-love and I liked how they had to work to see how, sometimes, mistakes are just the best way to the correct ending.