Eliot Grayson
Author of The Alpha's Warlock
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Works by Eliot Grayson
Demon Next Door 4 copies
The Yuletide Runaway 1 copy
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- Canonical name
- Grayson, Eliot
- Occupations
- author
editor - Short biography
- I’m an editor by day and a romance writer by night, at least on a good day. I’m more of a procrastinator by day and despairing eater of chocolate by night when inspiration doesn’t flow and my day-job clients are driving me to insanity. Go ahead and guess which of these is more common.
My steady childhood diet of pulp science fiction, classic tales of adventure, and romance novels surreptitiously borrowed from my grandmother eventually led me to writing; I picked up my first M/M romance a few years ago and I’ve been enjoying the genre as a reader and an author ever since.
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oh my gosh i love these gay dumbasses so much.
so yeah this is the obligatory gay werewolf smut that i had to read when i was reading all these werewolf books for halloween, and this is also kind of the first one of these i’ve ever read? like… ever? so i think this is the start of a beautiful new phase in my smut reading.
the narrator in this is this awesome self-described twink human witch (they keep calling him a warlock but this is another example of no one knowing what the fuck that show more word means, and yes i’m going to be precious about this because i’m tired of boy witches not being called witches) and he opens the book crawling through the mud to escape his werewolf kidnappers into the waiting arms of a rival werewolf pack.
due to some plot convenience he has no choice but to mate with an alpha werewolf. the werewolf boy clearly has a massive crush on the witch boy that he thinks is unrequited because he’s a dumbass, but the witch boy thinks the werewolf boy hates him because he’s an even bigger dumbass, and all of this is pretty obvious on like page 5 and doesn’t get resolved until like the second to last chapter i think and yeah that sounds like something i’d normally find infuriating but it’s actually delightful here?
also like, yeah you’re mostly here for the smut and the smut is quite good if a little too vanilla for my tastes. (while reading it i described it as “kink-aware but not kinky” and i think i stand by that.) but i just love all the characters and there’s some great action and great situational comedy and yeah this just has a lot going for it. and also the protagonist is in acute recovery from being emotionally abused by his father, and his new lover & new friends do a great job of helping with that recovery.
but i think the biggest draw is that i just fucking love this author’s narrative voice, i’m really looking forward to reading the rest of this series because this first book kicked serious ass. show less
so yeah this is the obligatory gay werewolf smut that i had to read when i was reading all these werewolf books for halloween, and this is also kind of the first one of these i’ve ever read? like… ever? so i think this is the start of a beautiful new phase in my smut reading.
the narrator in this is this awesome self-described twink human witch (they keep calling him a warlock but this is another example of no one knowing what the fuck that show more word means, and yes i’m going to be precious about this because i’m tired of boy witches not being called witches) and he opens the book crawling through the mud to escape his werewolf kidnappers into the waiting arms of a rival werewolf pack.
due to some plot convenience he has no choice but to mate with an alpha werewolf. the werewolf boy clearly has a massive crush on the witch boy that he thinks is unrequited because he’s a dumbass, but the witch boy thinks the werewolf boy hates him because he’s an even bigger dumbass, and all of this is pretty obvious on like page 5 and doesn’t get resolved until like the second to last chapter i think and yeah that sounds like something i’d normally find infuriating but it’s actually delightful here?
also like, yeah you’re mostly here for the smut and the smut is quite good if a little too vanilla for my tastes. (while reading it i described it as “kink-aware but not kinky” and i think i stand by that.) but i just love all the characters and there’s some great action and great situational comedy and yeah this just has a lot going for it. and also the protagonist is in acute recovery from being emotionally abused by his father, and his new lover & new friends do a great job of helping with that recovery.
but i think the biggest draw is that i just fucking love this author’s narrative voice, i’m really looking forward to reading the rest of this series because this first book kicked serious ass. show less
“Don’t apologize.” He gazed up at me, licking his shiny, reddened lips. His voice went so deep it rumbled through me as he said, “Don’t ever apologize for taking what you need from me.”
What you'll get:
Friends to lovers
Wolf shifter x human
Primal play
Bisexual rep
Setting: Oregon
Newt (Newton) is a scientist who is being blackmailed for his research a tiny bit and calls his distant best friend for advice. Colin rolls in two hours later because he'd do anything for Newt. They try to show more work on Newt's experiment which delightfully for me involved banging each other for science. Newt's theory was that under the right circumstances being chased after by an alpha werewolf will cause biological changes to your body. Weird way to ask for primal play but go off, science king.
This was my favorite of the series so far. show less
What you'll get:
Friends to lovers
Wolf shifter x human
Primal play
Bisexual rep
Setting: Oregon
Newt (Newton) is a scientist who is being blackmailed for his research a tiny bit and calls his distant best friend for advice. Colin rolls in two hours later because he'd do anything for Newt. They try to show more work on Newt's experiment which delightfully for me involved banging each other for science. Newt's theory was that under the right circumstances being chased after by an alpha werewolf will cause biological changes to your body. Weird way to ask for primal play but go off, science king.
This was my favorite of the series so far. show less
This was a really fun entry in the series. I read it in one sitting, partly because it’s fairly short and partly because it moved the story forward so well on every page. The book is interesting from start to finish, and you just have to see where the two guys are in their budding relationship that you want so badly to happen for them. It follows Gabe and Alec. Gabe is a rich, former party-boy who got kicked out of his Ph.D. program because he got in with the wrong crowd and got show more distracted. And now he feels a bit aimless. He also has serious self-esteem issues. Alec, on the other hand, is a grumpy FBI agent who’s currently working undercover. The two of them meet via Vino & Veritas, and there are lies involved. Like Alec’s real identity and his suspicion that Gabe might be related to the case. The book is equal parts the case and the romance. And I think both of those were executed and balanced well. I liked Gabe and Alec together. And I liked that, even though Alec didn’t tell Gabe about being an FBI agent, there was never any doubt that his feels toward Gabe were genuine. I also like that there was a real, justifiable reason for Alec to keep his job a secret, as it would’ve gotten very frustrating otherwise. I don't usually like conflict in my romance books but the conflict toward the end was done very well and was soon worked out with the "what" and "why" making perfect sense. I respected Gabe more as a character. I really enjoyed this book. It wasn’t the most memorable of the series but it was well-paced, well-written, had a good plot. I thoroughly enjoyed it. show less
"Being chained up in a basement wasn’t as bad as being chained up in a cave, an outhouse, or a condemned poultry-processing plant. What did it say about my life that I could draw that comparison? Some might’ve pointed out that I ought to stop doing the shit that led me to be chained up, period. I disagreed. That was victim-blaming, if you asked me."
What you'll get:
Wolf shifters
Shifters that aren't wolves - he's a bobcat
Magic
Kidnapping but make it sexy
Morally grey main show more character
Knotting
Gay rep
TW/CW: SA in past and threats from the baddies. It's never far from his mind and his mental dialogue goes there all the time.
Setting: Pennsylvania
Arik was one of the baddies from book 1 but nah. He was taken prisoner at the end and the book opens with him being tied up in the basement and just so exceedingly bored by the whole turn of events. He was really resigned to the abuse he expected to go through. I wanted to give him a hug but he would probably hiss like a literal cat and take a swipe at me.
If I was chained up in a gross basement on shag carpeting, I don't know that I would bang the person who had the keys but that's probably why I work in a bank and these people get to have adventures. show less
What you'll get:
Wolf shifters
Shifters that aren't wolves - he's a bobcat
Magic
Kidnapping but make it sexy
Morally grey main show more character
Knotting
Gay rep
TW/CW: SA in past and threats from the baddies. It's never far from his mind and his mental dialogue goes there all the time.
Setting: Pennsylvania
Arik was one of the baddies from book 1 but nah. He was taken prisoner at the end and the book opens with him being tied up in the basement and just so exceedingly bored by the whole turn of events. He was really resigned to the abuse he expected to go through. I wanted to give him a hug but he would probably hiss like a literal cat and take a swipe at me.
If I was chained up in a gross basement on shag carpeting, I don't know that I would bang the person who had the keys but that's probably why I work in a bank and these people get to have adventures. show less
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