Fan Service is a love letter to fandom – and werewolves. The first few chapters are busy with the premise and there’s a lot to process if you are new to fanfiction, but once that was sorted, I became immersed in the world of Devin and Alex.

Devin is a washed-up actor in his forties who, some years earlier, starred in a supernatural TV show called The Arcane Files, in which he played a detective – who was also a werewolf. While the show’s storylines were fictional, the showrunner based them on old family legends about a distant relative who was hanged after being found ‘feral’ and covered in chicken blood in the woods. His career in tatters, Devin is a bit of a mess, and is dealing with issues stemming from a toxic childhood, a mixed career where he’s trying to stay relevant, and a life alone with nobody to keep him grounded. To make things even worse, Devin is actually becoming a werewolf himself, and the process is mimicking how it happened in the TV show. Desperate for help, he reaches out to Alex, who was the moderator of a fan site back when the show was running.

Alex is defensive and lonely, but has made herself a life, however small. She works as a veterinary nurse, looks after her father and mentors at a community centre, but she’s an outsider in her hometown. She had an awful fan-based interaction with Devin years ago, which ruined her self-confidence and soured her crush on him.

Even though she’s conflicted, Alex agrees to try to help Devin, and between them they concoct a series of trials and routines to help him harness his inner wolf so that he won’t let it loose at the next full moon. This gives Alex and Devin a month to learn the wolf and in doing so they get to know each other and Devin becomes immersed in Alex’s Florida community. He surprises himself by being helpful and standing up for her – I loved this! Everything comes to a head when they go back to Hollywood for a celebrity appearance at the full moon.

That all sounds very serious, and it is, but it’s also great fun. What I loved most is how funny and horny and sexy it is – Devin rocks the werewolf’s senses, he’s attuned to Alex’s scent, her body language, her arousal and this makes for some serious chemistry. Devin has to contain his lust and stay in human form around her and there’s some steamy primal play and power exchange. The only reason this book isn’t a DIK is the complexity of the fandom set up – and one important thing to know is that it isn’t a fully-fledged paranormal romance in that there are no other supernatural creatures or shifters, the story isn’t set in an alternate world, and Devin becoming a werewolf isn’t really explained. All he and Alex know is that it’s happening and they have to work out how to deal with it. I loved how this ridiculous premise played out, I felt the growing connection between the pair and I loved how the werewolf storyline is resolved. Enjoy!