Fluffy & Fun Stories for Adults

 We are looking at stories that don't require a lot of deep thinking & you can just dive into and enjoy.  Feel free to listen to the podcast if you're interested on your favorite format (Spotify, etc).

Clean Sweep is the first book in the Innkeeper Chronicles series, and this is kind of an awesome series.  You have a magical alien house with doors to other worlds that can adjust to accommodate any need and aliens who pop in & out?  You also have an innkeeper who runs the inn, is magically connected to it, is knowledgeable about all kinds of alien societies, and, oh yeah, falls for a sexy werewolf?  Yup.  This is a fun and entertaining series to read with lots of action and romance to go around.

What's a gal to do when you can't find a good job in your field, and you're broke but need to pay back all the loans you took out to go to school?  Well, if you're Violet, you go for an unconventional job in Cambric Creek (where most of the nonhuman businesses are).  What's the job?  Well, it's working at the Milking Farm, but you'll be milking male minotaurs because minotaur semen is a key ingredient in many male enhancement products.  Violet figures she can do anything for a short time, especially when it pays as well as this job does....and it will let her pay her bills and not force her to move into her mom's basement (a definite bonus!).  What she isn't expecting is to be good at this unconventional job.  Or to make friends with so many nonhumans.  Or to fall for one very special minotaur, who may like her too.

This is a very fun, light-hearted story that was much more enjoyable than I expected.

Thanks to the tv series, lots of people know about this book, but I also think it's the perfect "turn off your brain & just enjoy" book.  A demon and an angel determined to stave off the apocalypse by protecting and redirecting the anti-christ....except they have the wrong child....yup.  Awesome and highly recommended.  

The Incryptid series is another favorite, especially as it introduces various family members, allowing for some intrigue, a bit of romance and a lot of humor and a lot of world building and in-depth character studies.  

Imagine if non-humans were real and right under everyone's noses....but hidden for their safety.  Now imagine a secret war (call it the "we hate all nonhumans" vs "everyone is welcome") and that there is a family caught in the crossfire between the warring factions, just trying to make sure that the non-humans are kept safe.    This first book features Verity, a parkour/free running gal who is also a ballroom dancer looking to make a life for herself (and win a championship tv show) who falls for a Covenant of St. George guy who wants her dead...until he meets her.   Pure fun.  

The series is called Guild Codex: Spellbound, and this is the first book of that series.  It follows a woman with anger issues who need a job, because she keeps losing them, who tries for a particular bartending job.  It turns out that the bar is actually a magical guild hall and no one minds her sass, if she doesn't mind all the magic and magical creatures.  I love the fun and sassy main character and watching her character growth as the series continues, and learning more about the magical community alongside her.  The other nice thing is that while there are three very hot guys prominently featured, and she briefly considers dating them (on & off throughout the series), this is purely an adventure story and not a romance.  No sex, no angsty romantic scenes just fun and rollicking fantastical adventures.

Cameron and Lucas are advertising executives who have 65 hours to pull together the campaign of their careers....and along the way, they perhaps discover that they don't actually despise each other, but actually are falling for each other.  This is a perfect, fun and fluffy romantic story that is well developed and a quick read.

Devon Marks loves books more than anything.  He meets Brand Drake at an auction and gladly accepts the offer to come and value his extensive collection at his mansion.  Brand, though, is a dragon....and he really wants to keep Devon--though to prove dragons exist is a large hurdle to have to cross in order to date, so he ignores it.  Then Devon turns up pregnant, and lots of explaining is now required.

This is a fun and silly story (and the series, Dragon Hoard features other dragons finding their mates as well).  Lots of dragons and sexy times with clueless humans.

Clutch is first in the "Forbidden Desires" series, another one featuring dragons and male pregnancy.  Nate meets Alistair through a Grindr hookup and then unexpectedly (and in spite of birth control) winds up not only pregnant, but ....laying eggs?  Turns out Alistair is a dragon and while he wants to raise his children, he also wants to woo Nate to stay, even is his entire dragon society is against the idea.  

This is another fun and light-hearted romp but with some intrigue and danger to add spice to the romance.

Luc, son of famous parents, needs a break after a scandal.  Oliver is the perfect gay man; a barrister, vegetarian and untarnished by scandal.  They agree to fake date but of course they start to fall for real...(not a spoiler, it's a romance, so you know it's coming).  This is a fun, flirty book.  I don't usually enjoy books with a fake dating premise, but this one works well.

Is there anything more adorable than a meet-cute over a lost dog?  I don't think so.  This book is set in Australia, but it is quite fun and you won't notice the small differences except in references to geography & town names.  Walker writes a fun, sweet romance that just makes you melt.

Kyra is a pest controller (of other worldly pests) with a soft heart.  She ends up housing or helping a lot of the "pests" she is called out for.  She finds a baby dragon and in trying to find him a home and track down the people killing dragons, Kyra ends up in hot water.  

This is a strong adventure story but works with the fluffy theme as it doesn't require a lot of background to understand nor do you need deep thoughts to enjoy.

Tribulations is a book told in a series of episodes from the point of view of Ross Young.  He is a young man introduced into the world of supernaturals through his overnight shift at a gas station and then employed as a personal assistant to a vampire and his assorted clan of misfit supers.  Sherwood has written a quick, funny story with a bit of romance.

The Ballsy Boys series is a fluffy (but very naughty) series featuring porn stars (the titular Ballsy Boys) falling in love.  Each story features a different actor with all of them interacting as friends and costars, and also exploring the different reasons they got into porn, how they like it and what happens when love gets into the mix.  Every character is different and varied and Neuhold writes nuanced characters within a very fun and sexy series.

This manga series with an assassin "mom", a spy "dad" and a telepathic "daughter" is engaging and fun.  They are brought together for the sake of a mission but as the series goes on, they find themselves beginning to actually function like a real family.

The Fairytale Mates series (this is the first in the series) features an "mpreg" universe where men (specifically omegas) give birth.  Ryan is a single omega dad (the alpha father took off rather than deal with the responsibilities).  He makes a silly wish for a happily ever after of his own and stumbles upon Ulysses--who is a unicorn shifter.  Ulysses really likes Ryan and adores his son....could fairy tales really come true?  

This is one of the fun, silly series that feels like it was custom made for the "fluffy" definition...so much fun!

The Chosen One series is a fun gay "harem" romance fantasy (Harem = many partners).  In the series the "chosen one" need mates from different species (all shifters or supernaturals) in order to find the answer, fulfill the prophesy and save the world.  This one is a bit lighter on plot and heavy on the sexy times, but it is fun story idea nonetheless, and enjoyable to read.

Scout is a retired WNBA star, and "lavender girl" is Evie, a curvy, talented chef with lots of bad luck hitting all at once.  Scout isn't in a good place emotionally due to a bad breakup and definitely isn't sure she trusts falling for yet another bi-girl.  Evie is determined to be herself and not compromise but she really likes Scout.

This is a really sweet book and has really well-defined and diverse characters.

The Mageverse series is amazing as a "fluffy, turn off your brain and read" idea.  The men are all vampires (of a sort) but are also knights of the round table (yes, Arthur & all of his men) and the sorceresses are tied in by the need to "be with" the knights for reasons of magic, blood and sex.  

These are not stories with a lot of depth, but they are fun.

This is a fun, stand alone story (but technically part of a series if you want to read all of them).  The title gives you the basic premise, but there is a key misunderstanding of what a dungeon master means....to the barista, it's the person who runs D&D role playing games....to the other, it means running his BDSM club and playing dominant & sub games......and let the fun ensue!

Such a delightful and satisfying premise and a sexy fun romance.

When Serena goes to Trangor for a First Hunt (a chance for a huge bounty in a controlled hunt on a new unexplored planet).  She violates the rules of the Hunt in order to save a family from a runaway beastie and the only way out of the mandated death sentence is to marry an Oredosian.  Oredosians are naga, meaning human snake people.  Szaro is one of the Oredosian leaders and is fascinated with the human female, agreeing to marry her.

Can the these two very different species find a way to make this work?

I found this to be a very interesting and more thoughtfully written than I expected.  Abel provides lots of very cool details of how a snake person and a snake-like society might work; furniture, food, sanitary practices and societal constructs.  I enjoyed this fun book a lot more than expected....yeah, not a serious book, but not stupid and definitely different.

The Nevermore Bookshop series is centered around a magical bookshop which occasionally brings fictional characters to life.  Sounds awesome, sign me up!   Add in three sexy men (Moriarty, Heathcliff and Raven/Poe), who are all obsessed with a girl who is smart, doesn't know her own worth and is struggling with a recent health crisis which has changed her life....and I am not only excited to read it but am going to actively be pretending I am the protagonist.  =)

Holmes has written a fun book with moments of suspense (there is a mystery in each volume).  It's not often you find a literary based mystery with magic AND fun sexy times.  Highly recommended!

Jayne Castle is a pseudonym for Jayne Ann Krentz & Amanda Quick, and I have been reading her books since I was a teenager.  When writing as Castle she focuses on writes fluffy, silly sf/romance books (warning, the sf crust is VERY thin) but the stories are always enjoyable.   Illusion town is a Vegas-like town in Harmony (a planet far away).  Hannah and Elias wake up married with no memory of doing it but somehow remembering they need to keep running....from....something.  They, of course, like each other more and more each day and the danger is increasing as they work to unravel the mystery of what happened and who is chasing them.  A perfect story to read with a cup of hot cocoa on a cold night.

Violet is a producer of various programs on the Food Channel.  Determined to lose some weight, she tries various fitness options, but thus far all make her feel worse about herself or hurt her, or both.  She decides to try a personal trainer, and Grant is taken with Violet immediately.  He knows he really shouldn't be taking a job as her personal trainer if he really wants to date her but he can't help himself.  The other bad idea?  Using his BDSM-Dominant experience to turn "following orders" into something much sexier than most gyms endorse for their clients....but again, he can't stop himself and Violet seems very into it.   Eventually, of course, they work out the particulars and fall madly in love, but this book showing a fit man falling for a plus sized girl and NOT wanting to change her?  Totally awesome.  The BDSM stuff is also carefully and thoughtfully handled.  Such a fun & sweet story (and very sexy!)  And if you like it, there are two more books in the Fit trilogy, following the other two trainers from the gym.  Score!

Fox Hollow is an idyllic town deep in the Adirondack Forest in New York.  The town is a safe haven for shifters who don't have to hide what they are, and for psychics who can work without censure or disbelief.  Huntsman is the first book in the Fox Hollow Zodiac series.  It has a Hunter invading the town chasing a fox shifter who finds his fated mate, a wolf shifter.  While trying to figure out life and love, danger comes for them both and the town as well.  

Brice is amazing at writing fun stories with believable characters with fun, tense and satisfying stories.

I was taken aback by this book and the series (Alaskan Pebble Gifters).  I decided to try it but was sure it would be dumb, I mean, a penguin shifter falling for a polar bear shifter?  A whole series about "gifting pebbles" to show love?  Really?  Unexpectedly, Bellows writes a believable back story to the romance and the taboos against it.  This is an mpreg/alpha/omega style story, but is also about a town in Alaska where things are supposed to follows specific rules......and what happens when people ignore the rules and fall in love anyway.  

This book was my favorite, but the entire series is very fluffy and very fun with well defined characters and thoughtful world building.

Tristal is an alien.  Specifically, a Galoi which means he is a tiny (like not much more than 5 feet tall), with purple skin and hair that is more like tendrils from an anemone than human hair.  His species has five genders, but only one kind go out into the world, actually exiled from their people and not allowed to return to their planet until their death.  Tristal is happily adapting to life with humans and other alien inhabitants on a space station.  Dre is a Detective with the Security force of the space station and he likes Tris but isn't sure they are compatible, given how little is known about the Galoi.  They begin to explore the possibilities of a relationship just as a crisis forces them to work together to solve a murder....of a Galoi, on a Galoi ship....which never happens (they don't even have a word for it).  Figuring it out will force both of them closer and will reveal many hidden facts about the xenophobic alien species.  This is a sweet and interesting story with an original alien species.  I wish there were more, as it's supposed to be part of a series, but they have yet to be written.

Phule's Company are military rejects that no one wanted but Phule is determined to make shine.  When an alien enemy attacks, Phule and his soldiers are sent to a distant planet.....and they won't stop until all is won....or everyone is gone.  

This is a fun military adventure with some comedic moments and a whole underdog vibe.  The first book is my favorite, but the series is fun as well.

This is the first book in the Dragonlance Chronicles series, which is a fluffy yet serious fantasy adventure.  This series rides the line between being fluffy and thrilling.  It is an entire series that is set in a D&D universe with war and betrayals......and is pure escapism, which for me is exactly what I want in a story.  It isn't technically fluffy....more like a pet crocodile?  Awesome, not serious and fun.

Raine is a sorceress of moderate powers, from an extended family of smugglers and thieves.  She is a mix of street smarts and magical ability and can usually take care of herself.  When her friend Quentin, a not-quite-reformed thief, steals an amulet from the home of a powerful necromancer, Raine finds herself wrapped up in more trouble than she cares for, or can easily handle.  Such a fun, magical romp with a sassy street smart character!