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thistlechaser ([personal profile] thistlechaser) wrote2014-05-09 09:31 am

So it turns out animal-shifter romance novels are a thing!

So it turns out there's a whole genre of this random animal-shifter romance novel thing! And they all look so amusingly bad!

Educating the Platypus is book #17 of a series!

There are books like Compromises for His Moose with a description of: When Adam Kingston decides to enjoy a cat nap in tiger form, he never thought he’d be woken by the cries of young moose shifters, nor did he expect to need to save them from a douchy wolf shifter and his buddies.

Mutegi's Sweet One: Warthog shifter (how romantic?).

Accepting His Animal: An elephant shifter finds his mate: A tiger shifter.

Texas Longhorn Surprise: The surprise is that he's a Texas longhorn bull shifter.

Spider Sense: No surprise, the main character is a spider shifter.

In the Eyes of Crazy: Hyena shifters.

Hope for a Buffalo: The haunting eyes in the picture capture Caleb Belikov’s attention, and he knows he has to confirm whether the white buffalo is really just an animal, or a shifter trapped at a zoo near Albuquerque. Caleb talks his alpha and a few friends into accompanying him and discovers not only is the buffalo a shifter, but he’s his mate.

The Platypus author wrote another series which is described as "a motorcycle gang made up of different types of gay shapeshifters trying to find their mates".

I might just spend the rest of the year reading these books. I hope they're as amusing as they seem.

[identity profile] ani-mama.livejournal.com 2014-05-09 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
I...I don't even know what to say to this. XD XD XD

"a motorcycle gang made up of different types of gay shapeshifters trying to find their mates". That sounds like some spectacularly bad fan fiction.

[identity profile] thistle-chaser.livejournal.com 2014-05-09 05:39 pm (UTC)(link)
It's got all the fanfic tropes. "One True Mate" for everyone, and they recognize their mate at first sight. Every animal species has an Alpha, too. (Alpha buffalo!) I guess Herdleader is less sexy. :P

[identity profile] ghost-light.livejournal.com 2014-05-09 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)
...what?

[identity profile] thistle-chaser.livejournal.com 2014-05-10 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
I can't explain it!

[identity profile] spike7451.livejournal.com 2014-05-10 01:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Am speechless!!

[identity profile] adam-0oo.livejournal.com 2014-05-13 10:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Wild

[identity profile] thistle-chaser.livejournal.com 2014-05-14 01:46 am (UTC)(link)
*snorts!* :D