In 2017, I wrote a blog post about disability representation and the "magical cure" trope in books, and I had planned to do another post with more complaints. But some of my opinions have changed, and as a disabled person myself, my feelings about this topic are complex and sometimes contradictory. And I wanted to talk about not just issues with disability rep, but also issues with...
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When Velasin is outed as gay, his political marriage is changed so that he will marry the woman's brother instead. But as soon as he arrives in Tithena, someone tries to kill him, and the threats don't stop there. As he comes to trust his new husband, they work together to figure out what's going...
Solari, stuck between two crime lords she owes debts to, grafts giant moth wings to her back in an act of desperation to escape into one of the mutant enclaves. Once there, she finds an ally in Alcaeus, but the hope of finding her mother leads them back into...
Thibault is a law student, but when a gorgeous divine envoy for the Muses asks him for help finding something that has been stolen from them, he knows it's the right thing to do. This quest creates unexpected difficulties in his life, but the chance to spend time with the envoy might make it all worth...
James, once a dashing, feared pirate captain, is now an old man with an aging body and a well of grief. When something dark slips from Neverland into London looking for him, he ends up entangled with Wendy and Jane, drawn back to Neverland, hoping to finally fix his...
Koré is a male courtesan in a world where men are lesser, but he plans to use his skills and connections to make sure his awful father doesn't get the position of leadership he wants. But when Koré is given dragon magic, starts falling for two people whose love he's not sure he's worthy of, fights against necromancy, and learns of various political secrets, things get even more...
At the beginning of the year, I made a blog post about upcoming queer sci-fi/fantasy books I was excited for, but I only included books set to release in the first half the year. I figured there'd be more I'd learn about later in the year, and what a shame that they wouldn't get to be on lists since they just weren't announced yet. So here we are, Part 2! Once again, there are so many books I...
When Laurence is kidnapped and threatened, Quentin is willing to fly across the world, step out of his comfort zone, and do whatever it takes to save him. But their opponents are powerful with their own psychic abilities and magic, and both Laurence and Quentin will be pushed to their...
Nick and his friends are attacked on the night of graduation from sorcery school, so they spend the next ten years trying to find and defeat the bad guy. Their professor, Byron, was made a vampire that night and has since been abandoned, told to keep watch in Austria. When Nick and friends stumble upon him, Nick and Byron are drawn to each other, and their connection might be what they both...
Freddy wants to figure out the truth behind his mother's death and thinks Quentin's claims that their father killed her could be right, so he heads to the US to talk to Quentin and Laurence and finds some love of his own. This book shows the events of Book 2 from Freddy's...
