What a fun read!

Special thanks to PRH Audio for the gifted audiobook and to Berkley Romance for the finished copy!

I had a lot of fun reading and listening to this book! It combined some things I really liked... fandom, Hollywood, teenage angst, and a random once in a lifetime werewolf. I enjoyed all the dorky parts of these characters, and how dramatic and vulnerable the characters were.

Alex met her hero, Devin Ashwood, and it sucked. Then, years later, Devin Ashwood showed up needing her help. And it... sucked again? Turns out, Devin was actually becoming a werewolf and his wolf loved Alex's scent enough to track her down. She's a vet tech and an expert on the subject, given she was obsessed with the show where Devin was the star, and also a werewolf, in her teen years. Her knowledge of the show and Devin's desire to get his tv show a reboot lead these two on a pretty hilarious adventure.

Read/listen if you love:
- The wolf falls first
- Dual narration
- Some LOL moments
- Online fandoms
- The nerdy girl finally getting what she always wanted
- Representation
- A MMC who needed someone to show up for, someone who also shows up for him
- A FMC who always cares about everybody else
- Drama
- Hollywood Celebrity x Normal Person

4 solid stars! Out March 11th!

I loved Danan’s The Roommate, so I was really excited to read her take on fandoms in Fan Service. Plus, who doesn’t love a good werewolf tale?! Alex and Devin didn’t disappoint – this book was everything that I hoped it would be. Alex is the moderator of a fandom wiki that is all about the show Devin is the start of, or, was the start a decade before when the book is set. Now he’s a washed up actor who is being made fun of online. When his life goes so out of control that it lands him in Alex’s orbit, he knows that she’s the only one with the knowledge that can help him.

Alex and Devin’s chemistry pops off the page and the writing is so much fun! I laughed out loud several times throughout the book, especially at Alex and Devin’s banter. I think my favorite part of the book, though, is Alex’s growth as she comes to understand her worth. She starts out in the story as a grumpy vet tech who thinks she doesn’t need anyone and as the story moves along she comes to realize that people have been making efforts to befriend her, that people around her care about her, and that she is cared for by more people than she realized, and it makes a huge impact on how she sees herself. Her character growth is really powerful and shines through in ways I didn’t expect. This was such a beautiful take on fandom and friendship.

LOVED IT. ATE IT UP. PLEASE GIVE ME MORE. Rosie Danan always eats and this book is no exception. This was a fun take on a popular trope and I think she really stood out with the plot.

A fun romp through fangirls and werewolves, fandom and finding yourself.

Rosie Danan's latest book packs a punch of nerdiness, romance, and sudden werwolf-ication when long time actor starts displaying frightening lycanthrope symptoms. When he turns to a person only known the fandom as The Mod, he isn't expecting a mid thirties woman/ part time vet tech. Neither one is expecting sparks to fly as they test theories and trials.

Overall, this was such a fun, light romp through the woods. Absolutely recommend.

Fan Service
By: Rosie Danan
5 stars

Did you too fall in love with teenage werewolves thanks to Teen Wolf? Well, look no further than Fan Service to scratch that itch!

Thank you @berkleyromance for the finished copy & @prhaudio for the ALC!

This was so fun! I was immediately obsessed with the concept of a former TV show actor who played a werewolf for years actually turning into a werewolf in real life. This is a great book for people who like the concept of a paranormal/werewolf book without all the deep dive stuff. It’s really a clapback to fanfic girlies/tumbler babes and your teenage years obsessing over your favorite character. Rosie does a great job of exploring fan communities, highlighting their influence on media and the industry as a whole and props to her because it really is all about the fans! Also love that the main characters are in their mid 30’s & early 40’s. We need more romances with older characters please and thank you.

Alex Lawson is a vet tech in Florida who was Devin Ashwood’s biggest fan as a teen and she even ran an online fan forum built around his werewolf/vampire TV show, Arcane. It’s been 15 years since the show went off air and Devin hasn’t seen much success after his longtime role. He wants to bring the show back for a reboot but faces opposition from everyone. During a once-in-a-century Wolf Blood Moon, Devin winds up in the media for “faking” being a werewolf. Desperate for answers on what’s happening to him, Devin seeks out Alex after stumbling upon her forum and believes she’s the closest thing to an expert he will find.

The dialogue was hilarious. The tension and angst was to die for! We get “trials” in this one to help Devin become a stable werewolf and it’s where we see these two really heat it up! In typical Rosie fashion this one is SPICY! Devin is OBSESSED with Alex and we see him a little feral at times over here. He stands up for her against her small town bully and even helps her dad! UGH he was a sweetie!

Overall this was such a fun low stakes book with some great emotional moments that left me so satisfied!

Synopsis: Devin Ashwood, former star of teen werewolf detective drama, Arcane, begins to shift into a werewolf for real in a shockingly similar way to the show. The only person he can turn to for help is Alex Lawson, the woman who ran the fan forum for the show.

Thoughts: This book is honestly so much fun! I have a couple minor complaints (mainly about the MMC, though I do appreciate his character growth) but overall the vibes are 👩🏻‍🍳💋. If you grew up watching teen dramas or reading fan fiction, this book is for you. The nostalgia is top notch, the romance is steamy, and the banter is fantastic and funny. There is just enough of a paranormal element without making this story inaccessible to people who may not be into a full on monster romance.

Read this if you like:
🐺 werewolves
🐺 The CW/The WB (specifically Supernatural)
🐺 Hollywood romance
🐺 tv fandoms
🐺 fan fic

DNF'd at 25%. I can't ever see myself liking the MMC Devin. The premise is up my alley, I love a paranormal romance and fan fiction was such a big part of my younger awkward years. but I've put this down so many times that it just wasn't worth continuing for me.

I’m not much of a fanfic person, but I would consider myself fanfic-tolerant, if not curious. There’s a lot of inside references here that I had to Google, including the title, but that lack of familiarity didn’t decrease my enjoyment of this book.

I love a good black cat/golden retriever romance, and this delivered that trope wonderfully. Devin was a total dreamboat and Alex was just prickly enough to be endearing. There was plenty of character depth here, paired with the author’s trademark super-spicy scenes. I loved The Roommate and The Intimacy Experiment, and Do Your Worst just got bumped way up my TBR.

Thank you to the publisher - I received a complimentary eARC of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

I wasn't sure anything could ever top The Roommate for me, but this might be my favorite Rosie Danan book. If you're a millennial who tuned into Buffy religiously, this book is for you. I loved every freaking second of it.

This was personally so hard to get through , I just didn’t feel engaged with the book enough for me to not put it down . There was some good parts but overall to me was just boring .. I was so excited to read this one but I don’t think it was for me ..

werewolf girlies rise!!! this book is for 'teen wolf' and werewolf fanfic girls (me)

i had such a great time!!!! it was so fun and silly and HOT (oh jesus!) i loved the werewolf lore and the bits of multimedia between chapters. it felt so meta and it reminded me of when i used to look up fandom wikis and scroll through tumblr lmao. truly a time capsule of the golden age of fandom and fanfic!

never have i ever been so jealous of a fmc in a book bc alex was out here living MY dream! her teenage heartthrob crush from her fave paranormal tv show shows up on her doorstep and needs her help bc he's turning into a werewolf??? OH and they fall in love??? when will it be my turn!!

if you were obsessed with paranormal shows in the 2010s, read werewolf fanfic and/or ever engaged in fandom culture in your life, this is the book for you!

thank you Berkley Romance for the ARC, it comes out 3/11!!

I am really on the fence if I liked Rosie Danan’s books in general or not. This one was a mostly yes for me. The concept was fun and a little silly. I liked the characters for the most part. Like a 3.5/5 for me. Not bad but not amazing.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5
🌶️🌶️🌶️.5

I knew right as soon as I read the dedication that this book was for me (literally): “this one goes out to all the fangirls (gender neutral)— the real unsung heroes.”

(Hi, it’s me, I’m fangirls.)

But seriously, the premise of this book is just so good! A washed up actor from a CW-esque werewolf show suddenly turns into a werewolf and the only person he can turn to is the woman who used to run the fan archive for the show.

While the plot is fun, I actually may have enjoyed the characters more. The growth that both Alex and Devin experience over the course of the book is *chef’s kiss*.

And the spice 🥵 it just hits different in a Rosie Danan book! It’s always somehow hotter than I expect.

I also really liked the snippets between chapters of excerpts from the archive, articles or discord messages from Alex’s friends. It really took it to the next level for me.

Read if you like:
- Paranormal Romance
- Golden Retriever MMC x Black Cat FMC
- Werewolves
- Age Gap
- Celebrity Romance
- AO3/Tumblr/Fandom

Thank you to Berkley Publishing and Netgalley for the free book.

Thank you Netgalley and Berkley for the earc. All opinions are my own.

This is my first Rosie Danan book and I really enjoyed it. It was such an odd concept, but super fun. We have Alex and Devin. Alex who has always been an outsider, found peace through running the archive page for The Arcane Files. Devin played the main character Colby for years. I am not new to fan spaces and I really liked how it talked about fan culture. I know that can be cringey for a lot of people, especially with mentions of cosplay, AO3, etc, but I found those mentions to be nostalgic and I think it made Alex more relatable to me.

Alex was by far my favorite character in this story. I think she is so clever, but she is also so kind, and I really like her icy exterior even though it came about due to the nasty people in her town. Either way, I really enjoy her thought process and watching her stand up for things she believes in despite what others say. I also really enjoyed her online friendship and wish we got to see more of that. Devin we learn is a bit of an asshole early on. While we get to know him better, there are times where I was shaking my head due to the choice of the words that come out of his mouth. I would like to think he just didn’t know what he was saying, but he is also in his fourties and media trained so I would hope he would be able to pick his choice of words better. No matter, I really like how obsessed his wolf becomes. It made me giggle so much. I think he has a good heart, he has just been let down by too many people. I think these two are very cute together. I really enjoyed watching their friendship and relationship grow.

The wolf aspect was honestly so fun to me. It is kind of weird to think about. I just picture the partial shift I think of teen wolf. This book is bringing me back to my roots. Anyways, I really enjoyed the trials that were done. I think the woods scene was one of my favorites of the whole book. I also really like the ending of this book. I thought it tied up nicely. I honestly had so much fun with this, it made me giggle and I like that it put a twist on the normal type of rom coms we get. This was like if one of their fics came to life and I loved it.

"The truth is stranger than fan fiction in the next sexy paranormal rom-com from the beloved author of The Roommate.

The only place small-town outcast Alex Lawson fits in is the online fan forum she built for The Arcane Files, a long-running werewolf detective show. Her dedication to archiving fictional supernatural lore made her Internet-famous, even if she harbors a secret disdain for the show's star, Devin Ashwood. (Never meet your heroes - sometimes they turn out to be The Worst.)

Ever since his show went off the air, Devin and his career have spiraled, but waking up naked in the woods outside his LA home with no memory of the night before is a new low. It must have been a coincidence that the once-in-a-century Wolf Blood Moon crested last night. The claws, fangs, and howling are a little more difficult to explain away. Desperate for answers, Devin finds Alex - the closest thing to an expert that exists. If only he could convince her to stop hating his guts long enough to help....

Once he makes her an offer she can't refuse, these reluctant allies lower their guards trying to wrangle his inner beast. Unfortunately, getting up close and personal quickly comes back to bite them."

I mean, this book was written for me, and has me totally fantasizing about Seth Green turning into a werewolf...

Paranormal romance is my new favourite thing and I loved how this book had such a refreshing take. I felt like that I was back in my teen Wolf era. I laughed a bunch, and finished the book in one sitting. It checked all the boxes for me. The woods scene, hypothermia scene, and Devin’s MOUTH (iykyk). Such a fun read, definitely recommend.

Unfortunately, this wasn't really an enjoyable read for me. I found the conflict to be lacking, the pacing to be inconsistent, the characters flat, and the tension/chemistry built up to nothing. Devin was a really frustrating character and exhibited no growth. It was unfortunate how Alex just worshipped the ground he walked on no matter how he acted or what he said to her. He was incredibly emotionally immature and obtuse the entire time. I also found the fantasy elements to be underdeveloped. The reasoning for the supernatural happenings felt pointless, and I think the story would have benefitted from some other fantasy/external conflict, such as the appearance of a villain from the show. Devin was so concerned with being more than a washed up actor, but his realization that he was ok retiring from the spotlight didn't feel believable.

Thank you very much for the eARC--all opinions are my own.

One of my favorite things about Rosie Danan books is the fact that I truly never know what to expect. I went into Fan Service blind and was absolutely delighted by it. The plot, the romance, the humor, I enjoyed it all. It’s perfect for anyone deep in a fandom (especially CW shows) or anyone that enjoys a bit of paranormal in their contemporary books.

4.5⭐️ rounded up. This had me kicking my feet and physically cackling, I had such a good time!!!

Fan Service is a contemporary romance (heavy on the contemporary given all of the mainstream media references) with a splash of paranormal elements. It is an homage to the fanfic girlies who stayed up until 3am in their teenage years searching tags on Ao3 for the perfect fic.
This book is perfect for those who don’t like to dive too deep in the realm of paranormal but want to take a chance at seeing it tie in to a real life premise. That was exactly what I was hoping for in this one and it exceeded my expectations.

We meet Alex and Devin, in their mid-30s and early 40s, respectively which was refreshing to given the majority of the contemporary romance genre tending toward main characters in their 20s. However, I did feel at times that the characters didn’t always read as their age.

Devin was giving golden retriever energy (figuratively and literally) and I ate it up! I loved how we got to explore his journey of reclaiming his sense of purpose and life outside of his entire value being wrapped up in being a one time wonder celebrity. Oftentimes authors fail to focus enough on developing their MMCs and I thought Rosie Danan did a fantastic job making Devin feal earnest, albeit flawed. We got to know who he was through childhood, as he made his way through becoming an overnight sensation, and when everything fall apart for him and he had to pick up the pieces of his life. His character arc was super well rounded and played in very well to the paranormal elements.

The author also did such a fantastic job of exploring fan communities, highlighting their influence on storytelling and the industry. Honestly, where would some of the biggest books, shows, movies etc be if it wasn't for the fans?
Also - the subtle inclusion of real life issues (shout out to the book banning commentary) was A++++!!!!!

The dialogue in this novel was my absolute favorite part of this read. It is very hard to get me to genuinely laugh out loud while reading because jokes can sometimes come across as forceful or cliche, but when I tell. you. I. could. not. stop. laughing. I was sick while reading this book and picking it up brought me so, so much joy.

And can we just talk about the tension and angst of this romance!!!! Rosie is a master of utilizing well known tropes to her advantage and giving them their perfect unique twist. I loved the "trials" ideas that lead to steamy only one bed and chasing scenes. I was addicted once I was pulled into their connections.

The only reason I feel this cant get a full five stars from me is because the ending felt jarring and out of character for both Devin and Alex. There was something missing about the resolution that made me think, will these character's relationship actually survive?

Ultimately, if you need a good laugh and an escape from your day to day stress this one is the perfect antidote. 🫶

<b> Favorite quotes: </b>

<i>”Relying on critiques of the show felt safe, familiar. Artists, at least in theory, knew art once shared belonged to the audience to interpret and interrogate.”

“That was the trouble with fandom. Spend enough time thinking about a fictional character and you started to believe that your version of them was real. That they belonged to you in some small, private way.”

“I don’t know if it was the moon or fate or the universe that made me a werewolf, but, baby, you made me human.” </i>

I adored Rosie Danan's Do You Worst last year and was so excited for this paranormal romance / love letter to fandoms!

Alex was the moderator of a fan board for a show about a werewolf in her teens. When the star of the show believes he is becoming an actual werewolf, he turns to Alex to help him figure things out. Through a series of trials, the pair get to know one another and face their chemistry.

This was definitely a love letter to the fandoms, to fan fic, to fans in general! It was a campy and entertaining read, particularly the trials that Alex puts Devin through along the way. Their personalities are such opposites that balance each other out well, and their chemistry is obvious from the start.

Read if you like:
-Age gap
-Fake dating
-Paranormal romance
-Black cat / golden retriever
- Celebrity dating

Thank you to Berkley for the ARC! All opinions are my own.