"you know, i get it..."

Cut to Ilya Rozanov hundreds of miles away up at 3 in the morning almost breaking his phone screen from how hard he's gripping it after replaying the 7 second clip for the 200th time and he's never been more hard in his life.

And he's the only one who knows where Shane Hollander learned to ride.

BABY HAVE I GOT A SERIES FOR YOU! *rubs hands*

I actually wanted to come on here and start rambling about these books before I got this ask but this is a good motivator to get me to ACTUALLY do that!

Anyway, the Big Bad Wolf series by Charlie Adhara is one of my new favorites of all time. It stars a former FBI agent who now works for an agency who handles werewolf crime and is partnered with one!

I know this premise might sound cringe, but it's by far one of the greatest series I've read in a long time! It's got great character development, mystery/crime solving, werewolves, really well-written gay sex, snark and banter, a love story, a slightly evil cat, and a human who doesn't think he deserves love getting it!

Like fuck. The author sneaks in foreshadowing so you COULD figure out the 'bad guys' of each novel if you really tried but you don't really realize what's a clue and what's not until Cooper (our human agent) figures it out. I don't know if that makes sense but I'm pretty scrambly right now and can't explain better.

Basically the author weaves the story together VERY well and keeps you on your toes! And I just love everything about it. It's just so well done. Every book was phenomenal. My only complaint is that there's not ten more. TWT

Though there is a spin off series starring one of the side characters of the latter half of the series. (I accidentally read book one of that before the main series, because I didn't realize they went together. TwT Don't do what I did. Starting the spin off first meant I was thrown into a strange werewolf-y world that I didn't get yet. And also had some spoilers for the main series. TwT)

Ahh because I really find the covers charming I'm gonna show you them as well! Like in the age of bland, nondescript blob people... I was so endeared by these! They're just so pretty to me and they MATCH THE TONES OF THE STORIES?!

Pack Of Lies is the first of the spin off series I mentioned. Adding it because I think it's pretty too! :D

Also! A side note: it's been marketed as a 'enemies to lovers', but that's... Bad marketing. It's more of a 'dubious coworkers to lovers' situation. But their relationship develops so prettily and I love them. God I miss them. Might have to re-read it really soon because damn. No books have grabbed me this hard in a longggg time.

I found this one really interesting! Has a mystery element that I can't explain without spoiling stuff, cool magic, broody fae man plus chronically bored and traumatized clerk in 1840s (iirc) England.

AND if you REALLY like WHUMP, this book by the same author.

There's SO much in this book that it's hard to unpack in a silly tumblr post so I must insist you check it out for yourself. But do be warned, there's... so much pain in this. :')

Something like Breaking Bad, for example, has low squiggability (that’s what I’m calling this quality). It’s tightly written, the characters are consistent, there’s little left to interpolate or extrapolate. Obviously, people DO write fanfic of Breaking Bad, but it still has a low squiggability score. Whereas something like Supernatural has a high squiggability score. Fantasy and science fiction often have high squiggability scores. This suggests squiggability could also be related to worldbuilding and potential for people to borrow a premise or setting.