The reveal about Darby’s boyfriend, Abe, was also fun, though I did kinda have a suspicion it was something like that. Characters are good, but we never feel like we know enough about Darby and Nik, as the story focuses so much on Tyler and his clique. There's lots of interesting parts of the book exploring queerness, like excessive heterosexuality of the people Brian meets through Tyler (and the ways in which Brian has to navigate the gender and sexual stereotypes that arise when he's around these people) and the various jokes about coming out as a werewolf, and it was nice to see a non-binary friend character in adult fiction who, yes, is a bit notably quirky, but is also a rounded person. His work colleagues Nik and Darby try to look after him but obviously he can’t tell them what is going on so when he meets Tyler, another werewolf who completely has a handle on the werewolf side of life, he is glad to have found another like him.

Admittedly, I like to think I hold life to a higher standard than Brian's fairly flippant "oopsie-daisies", but than again, I'm not a werewolf.As Brian delves deeper into Tyler's worldview, darker motivations emerge, and he must use everything he's learned and everyone he knows to escape it. I've encountered, at least, three or four real-life 'Tylers', but that might be because I work in tech lol. While I'd be excited to follow Brian, Nick, and Darby as they kick mythological-ass, the shift caught me off guard. He just happened to sprout fur every full moon and have strong senses and extra strength and healing abilities, but he was still, mostly, just a person existing in the world, trying to figure life out. I had the pleasure of reading this captivating book in May 2023, spending almost an entire day engrossed in its pages.

Tyler is one of Those Guys™: an entrepreneur tech bro that exploits men's insecurities, by offering a seemingly foolproof formula for success. Struggling with the aftermath of his transformation, he finds himself back at his parents' suburban home, contending with secretive shifts and awkward nighttime encounters.As someone who ticks two of those boxes (I’ll let you decide which), I knew I had to read this book as soon as I saw it, but I was not prepared for how much I would love it. I also never thought I'd relate so much to this character but as someone who worked as a waiter and lost their direction in my twenties? Integrating lupine insights with my professional life and then lending my mentorship and business acumen to the mystical. Because of the title, I expected a fun, playful book and in parts it achieved that, however what confused me was its ever-changing tone.

There were a few issues towards the end where the POVs were flippity-flopped and it started reading like a description of a film, but overall it was extremely enjoyable and an amazing debut. However, he often forgets to take care of his personal space and has monthly transformations into a werewolf.Bored Gay Werewolf by Tony Santorella is a fun and reflective queer fantasy about the service industry, capitalism, toxic masculinity and being a bored gay werewolf in your 20s. When he’s not writing novels about werewolves, he’s spending time with his husband Robert and their cat Fannie Mae. Brian, an aimless slacker in his twenties, works double shifts at his waiter job, never cleans his apartment and gets black-out drunk with his restaurant comrades, Nik and Darby. I think that the attention to detail made the world feel real and allows us as readers to fully engage with the story.