Fantasy Featuring Fabulous Trans Leads
Five wonderful fantasy books with transgender main characters!
Category: Queer Lit
Move Over, Howl, There’s a New Heart-Eater In Town: Night Shine by Tessa Gratton
Queer, magical, utterly stunning.
Some Recent Reads (and mini-reviews)
It’s hard to write about books everyone’s talking about: what is there to add to the conversation? Nonetheless, a few comments…
You’ll Never Side With the Superheroes Again: Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots
Her superpower is Powerpoint, and she gets shit DONE.
Also, it is faster to just read the book than to read all my feels about it.
In Music Our Memory: The Chimes by Anna Smaill
A world where music has replaced memories, and two boys who might just save it.
Magic is Here, Queer, and Ready to Fuck You Up: The Scapegracers by Hannah Abigail Clarke
Scapegracers doesn’t need you to love it. It dares you not to.
A Map to Tomorrow: Master of Poisons by Andrea Hairston
“Impossible is a word for yesterday, not tomorrow.”
I Need This to Exist: #OwnVoices Reflection on Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
Magic shapes Yadriel’s world. Stories shape ours.
Fantastical News!
A deal announcement, a sequel available, and a cover reveal!
These Books Will Carve You Open: Hollow Folk series by Gregory Ashe
This series is a phoenix, and it will set your soul on fire and burn your heart to the ground, and it’s so fucking beautiful that the pain of it being over is a thousand times worse than what it puts you through.