Series: Leviathan Fitness, Book 1
Publisher: Berkley
Genre: Monster Romance
Release Date: February 10, 2026
Source: Publisher
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After a wedding cake catastrophe on the street, local baker Tegan lands in the most unexpected place—a solid wall of fur and fangs named Atlas. She’s never met anyone like him and finds herself enamored by his wolfish charm. After their sweet encounter, Atlas invites her to his gym anytime she needs his cake-lifting services.
However, Tegan is through with being a damsel in distress. She signs up for a membership with Leviathan Fitness, determined to build her strength…and if she sees the handsome wolven again, it’s a win-win scenario.
Atlas can’t believe his eyes when Tegan walks through the doors of his gym, and nearly goes snout-over-paw to offer her personal training. Shared glances over the barbell and accidental touches at the water fountain set Atlas’s heart racing in a way he swore it couldn’t again.
Primal desires emerge as Atlas and Tegan test just how much their new love can lift. Could Tegan be the unexpected mate of Atlas’s dreams?
Muscles & Monsters is a fast-paced and fluffy monster romcom. Ashley Bennett first Leviathan Fitness story is an instalove romance between a human baker and a wolven gym owner.
Let’s start with the positive: I liked that curvy Tegan was confident in her body and decided to join the gym to get stronger not lose weight. Atlas is the one with body image issues thanks to his toxic, abusive ex. My heart broke a bit for Atlas and I liked that Tegan helped him heal his relationship with food over the course of the story. Although their romance was incredibly speedy they did have potential to fit each other well.
I wanted to like this story and there was promise to the premise. However, the book overall was a little too silly for my taste. Atlas and Tegan behaved more like teens than thirty-somethings and so many things in this book made me cringe from the texts to the dialogue to some of Atlas’s behavior that was more puppy than adult wolven. I like light and fluffy stories but oof, Muscles & Monsters was just too much tooth-aching sweetness mixed with awkward sex scenes for me. The overall result was an awkward story I don’t plan on revisiting. That being said, I was interested enough in Atlas’s friend Cyrus that I will be giving Tentacles & Triathlons a try to see if the series improves.
Disclosure: I received the revised and expanded version of this book for free from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.
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