4th Blogiversary = Pride Flag Book Recs!
Happy 4th birthday to Every Book a Doorway!!!
Obviously the best way to celebrate is with queer SFF recs!
Category: Crescent Classics
Intimate Majesty: Witch King by Martha Wells
It’s been six years since Martha Wells’ last fantasy novel, and folx, it was so worth the wait.
A Dragon-Rider Book Like No Other: To Shape a Dragon’s Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose
QUEER
NATIVE-AMERICAN
DRAGON-RIDERS!!!
A Myth-Making Masterpiece: Rituals by Roz Kaveney
This is a tale of a woman who hunts gods and another who makes magic come undone, and absolutely everything about it is perfect.
(Well. Except for that cover. Sigh.)
Gonna Be Legends, Already Legendary: The Eidolon by K.D. Edwards
An eidolon is ‘an idealised person or thing’, and I am here to tell you that The Eidolon is perfectly named; it is ideal in every possible way.
A Roadmap to a Future I Can Believe In: Everything For Everyone by M.E. O’Brien & Eman Abdelhadi
I’ve read a lot of books with their own takes on a ‘better future’.
But this is the first one I’ve ever seen that actually shows us how to make that future.
Run, Don’t Walk: Fractured Infinity by Nathan Tavares
What do you do when it’s a choice between someone you love and the lives of billions?
You grab your person and you run.
Gender Euphoria and Wrathful Witchery: The Scratch Daughters by H. A. Clarke
The best teen witches in print right now get even queerer and fiercer and more magical.
Wrings Your Heart Out and Leaves It Glowing: The Heretic’s Guide to Homecoming: Practice by Sienna Tristen
An optimistic fantasy that asks, how do we love the world when it stops being easy?
A Dazzling Dynamite Debut: Notorious Sorcerer by Davinia Evans
Alchemy of the streets.
Then make it queer, make it magic, make it gods-damn brilliant.