Queer Reads: Eliot Grayson
For rec 15, we have more werewolves! And also a very salty were-bobcat.
First off, I love Eliot Grayson. Seriously. I have devoured everything she’s written, and she’s written a lot. Featured in the little graphic are the Mismatched Mates books, of which there are 10 total books. The first three follow the Armitage Pack, then we get vampires (First Blood), and werewolf academics (The Werewolf Experiment), and then we get into darker waters, following some characters who have escaped from a lab run by evil warlocks doing nasty magical experiments on people (Lost and Bound and Lost Touch). And then we finish up with two very different brothers from the Castelli pack, with another vampire book thrown in there.
I should say, these books deal with alpha weres, the most common of which are alpha werewolves, but this is not omegaverse. There's no mpreg, and no omegas in these books, though there is lots of knotting, and if you need to google that, uh, I'd recommend you don't.
Grayson is currently working on another series, The Twilight Mages, set in a fantasy world where magic is a gift from the gods, unless you’re born at dawn or dusk, when the magic is far more of a curse than a gift. I read a review about these books that called them indescribably horny, and that’s very accurate. There is a plot, but it is 100% centered around banging. Luckily, all this horniness is surrounded by feisty characters, laugh-out-loud banter, and spicy chemistry resulting in well-earned HEAs.
Grayson’s writing has been described as having too much graphic sex, so if you like your romantasy to be heavier on the plot than the porn, Grayson is probably not for you. But if you like any excuse for sex as a plot device, check her out.