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Whyborne & Griffin #1-11
Whyborne & Griffin: The Complete Series
This mega-bundle of the best-selling Whyborne & Griffin series includes all eleven novels, three short stories, and a novella. Over 837,000 words for less than half the price of buying separately!
A gay Victorian wizard fights eldritch monsters and finds true love with a dashing detective.
Includes:
Widdershins
Eidolon (short story)
Threshold
Stormhaven
Carousel (short story)
Necropolis
Bloodline
Harmony (short story)
Hoarfrost
Maelstrom
Fallow
Undertow (f/f novella)
Draakenwood
Balefire
Deosil
A gay Victorian wizard fights eldritch monsters and finds true love with a dashing detective.
Includes:
Widdershins
Eidolon (short story)
Threshold
Stormhaven
Carousel (short story)
Necropolis
Bloodline
Harmony (short story)
Hoarfrost
Maelstrom
Fallow
Undertow (f/f novella)
Draakenwood
Balefire
Deosil
3433 pages, ebook
First published February 7, 2021
3 people are currently reading
51 people want to read
About the author
Jordan L. Hawk
85 books2,647 followersJordan L. Hawk is a trans author from North Carolina. Childhood tales of mountain ghosts and mysterious creatures gave him a life-long love of things that go bump in the night. When he isn’t writing, he brews his own beer and tries to keep the cats from destroying the house. His best-selling Whyborne & Griffin series (beginning with Widdershins) can be found in print, ebook, and audiobook.
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November 7, 2021
Let me be clear, I had ABSOLUTELY no idea what I was getting myself into when I picked this up. To the point that what I knew about this book was that there was history and romance and possibly magic.
Which is not, like, wrong, so much as it is, to borrow a line from Captain Vorpatril's Alliance, a charming understatement.
There's a lot of eldritch horror. What Hawk does here is take the Lovecraftian mythos and find some queer heroes and, having done that and apparently started a massive series in the process, dissects and critiques Lovecraft's idea of monstrosity and evil to the point where he revisits the monsters from earlier in the series and asks us to reevaluate what we know about them It's a series about not fitting in and making homes with the other weirdos and also Whyborne and Griffin banging like a screen door in a wind spell.
There is less sex as the books go on, which makes sense—at a certain point, the drama is not will-they/won't-they anymore because we've gone through all of Elizabeth Kubler-Ross's five stages of queer romance: denial, fear of inadequacy, distrust of partner's motives, fear of loss, and acceptance, at which point the relationship is pretty solid and the sex no longer advances the plot and so, by nature of the fact that 11 books is an epic horror series, it happens less.
The question of whether this is a romance series where the plot cthulhu escaped or a fantasy horror series that takes relationships and the erotic seriously is honestly a good one. I don't know. Maybe both? It feels like the kind of series that can only exist post-fanfiction precisely because it is not beholden to genre form. Or because the genre that it is was one invented by fanfiction in the first place: the evolving story that was originally character-focused, but then grew to encompass a grand plot. This series, especially when you attempt to read it basically in one go, has big "this was supposed to be a one-shot" energy to it and I kind of love it. I also appreciate fanfiction for making this kind of narrative more familiar to readers and creating a mode for the romance series that isn't "one couple per book". I like those too, but variety is delightful.
I have absolutely no idea how much of my experience was colored by read the series in...umm, nine days? Probably a fair amount. I debated whether to put this in to goodreads as one book or 11, but since I do not remember what day I finished each of the other books on and while I can probably make a guess at what happened in each book, thanks to Hawk's convenient approach of naming the book after the location of the narrative, I definitely cannot make intelligent commentary about them on their own. Also, people notice when you read 11 books in a row, for some reason.
Cool cool. Off to read Rath and Rune, since that was why I picked this series up in the first place. *lolsob*
Which is not, like, wrong, so much as it is, to borrow a line from Captain Vorpatril's Alliance, a charming understatement.
There's a lot of eldritch horror. What Hawk does here is take the Lovecraftian mythos and find some queer heroes and, having done that and apparently started a massive series in the process, dissects and critiques Lovecraft's idea of monstrosity and evil to the point where he revisits the monsters from earlier in the series and asks us to reevaluate what we know about them It's a series about not fitting in and making homes with the other weirdos and also Whyborne and Griffin banging like a screen door in a wind spell.
There is less sex as the books go on, which makes sense—at a certain point, the drama is not will-they/won't-they anymore because we've gone through all of Elizabeth Kubler-Ross's five stages of queer romance: denial, fear of inadequacy, distrust of partner's motives, fear of loss, and acceptance, at which point the relationship is pretty solid and the sex no longer advances the plot and so, by nature of the fact that 11 books is an epic horror series, it happens less.
The question of whether this is a romance series where the plot cthulhu escaped or a fantasy horror series that takes relationships and the erotic seriously is honestly a good one. I don't know. Maybe both? It feels like the kind of series that can only exist post-fanfiction precisely because it is not beholden to genre form. Or because the genre that it is was one invented by fanfiction in the first place: the evolving story that was originally character-focused, but then grew to encompass a grand plot. This series, especially when you attempt to read it basically in one go, has big "this was supposed to be a one-shot" energy to it and I kind of love it. I also appreciate fanfiction for making this kind of narrative more familiar to readers and creating a mode for the romance series that isn't "one couple per book". I like those too, but variety is delightful.
I have absolutely no idea how much of my experience was colored by read the series in...umm, nine days? Probably a fair amount. I debated whether to put this in to goodreads as one book or 11, but since I do not remember what day I finished each of the other books on and while I can probably make a guess at what happened in each book, thanks to Hawk's convenient approach of naming the book after the location of the narrative, I definitely cannot make intelligent commentary about them on their own. Also, people notice when you read 11 books in a row, for some reason.
Cool cool. Off to read Rath and Rune, since that was why I picked this series up in the first place. *lolsob*
August 30, 2024
Finally I’va made it through all of this series!!! It took a while, not because it is bad - because it’s good! - but because too much of the same sometimes becomes too much. Even so, i thouroughly recommend reading it, in whatever pace suits you.
I started with raiting all of the different books in my comments to myself and might add them in later. As a whole it lands on about 4 stars, but I will say that I enjoyed the beginning of the series the most, maybe the first 3-4 books . Of which some were 5 star reads in my opinion.
The world of Widdershins is absurdly enjoyable. Supernatural, occult and with strange, interesting characters. They truly do have their own view on the world and life in WIddershins and I enjoyed beeing there with them.
Widdershins, and especially the Librarians with Mr Quinn at the lead, inspired character-spin-offs and setting ideas to use while gamemastering roleplayinggames at home. So yeah, it sticks with you, in the best possible way.
Thank you Whyborn, Mr. Quinn and Christine - My favs.
I started with raiting all of the different books in my comments to myself and might add them in later. As a whole it lands on about 4 stars, but I will say that I enjoyed the beginning of the series the most, maybe the first 3-4 books . Of which some were 5 star reads in my opinion.
The world of Widdershins is absurdly enjoyable. Supernatural, occult and with strange, interesting characters. They truly do have their own view on the world and life in WIddershins and I enjoyed beeing there with them.
Widdershins, and especially the Librarians with Mr Quinn at the lead, inspired character-spin-offs and setting ideas to use while gamemastering roleplayinggames at home. So yeah, it sticks with you, in the best possible way.
Thank you Whyborn, Mr. Quinn and Christine - My favs.
November 15, 2024
So so so so good.
This is not my usual genre to read. In fact, it isn’t. I was just looking for some good queer fiction and came across this do I thought “why not?”
I’m glad I did. I wasn’t sure what “horror” means here but turns out it’s fantasy horror in the sense of monsters and mutants.
Overall, really love the entire series. It gets better as it goes on. Love Whyborne and Griffin and the subsequent characters they’ve collected. The series started with a lot more romance and then beers off into more fantasy as the characters’ relationship grew stronger, which makes sense.
Series also touched upon the struggles with LGBTQIA+ community and the legalities of that (just a bit, not much) and found families. Well, quite heavily in the latter.
The body count is quite high unfortunately. It can get a bit heavy at times and also moments that made me teary eyed.
***spoiler alert*** The only qualms I had was Asia was missing (complete continent not even mentioned) and I wished more time was spent finding Griffin’s other brother.
This is not my usual genre to read. In fact, it isn’t. I was just looking for some good queer fiction and came across this do I thought “why not?”
I’m glad I did. I wasn’t sure what “horror” means here but turns out it’s fantasy horror in the sense of monsters and mutants.
Overall, really love the entire series. It gets better as it goes on. Love Whyborne and Griffin and the subsequent characters they’ve collected. The series started with a lot more romance and then beers off into more fantasy as the characters’ relationship grew stronger, which makes sense.
Series also touched upon the struggles with LGBTQIA+ community and the legalities of that (just a bit, not much) and found families. Well, quite heavily in the latter.
The body count is quite high unfortunately. It can get a bit heavy at times and also moments that made me teary eyed.
***spoiler alert*** The only qualms I had was Asia was missing (complete continent not even mentioned) and I wished more time was spent finding Griffin’s other brother.
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December 16, 2023I stopped short of the last part, but still, enjoyed the ride a lot. Plenty of weird supernatural murders, and since the two main characters get togther in book 1, the relationship develops into married life over time, with a lot of sweet everyday moments and settling into grooves, to the point where Griffin can exchange meaningful eyerolls with his father in law when Whyborne starts bitching about hating electricity again. I'll come back to finish this series sometime!
February 23, 2022
Looking for something to binge. Wyborne and Griffin: The Complete Series ( 1-11) is the perfect read. MM romance filled with true love, romance, mystery, family drama, tragedy and a whole lot of humour. Whyborne and Griffin's love story will keep you enthralled until the very end. A must read!
January 13, 2022
I LOVED this series. I hope the author feels inspired to write a side story or two.
August 4, 2025
Quite intriguing in a technical sense. I could watch the various individual arcs developing across the series' overarching storyline.
Also a fun read.
Also a fun read.
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