Category: Queer Lit

Fantastical News!

Posted 21st August 2020 by Sia in Book News, Queer Lit / 0 Comments

A deal announcement, a sequel available, and a cover reveal!

These Books Will Carve You Open: Hollow Folk series by Gregory Ashe

Posted 13th August 2020 by Sia in Crescent Classics, Fantasy Reviews, Queer Lit, Reviews / 0 Comments

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.

Pure Perfection: The Dark Tide by Alicia Jasinska

Posted 4th August 2020 by Sia in Crescent Classics, Fantasy Reviews, Queer Lit, Reviews / 0 Comments

The Dark Tide is perfect in every way.

That’s it. That’s the review.

Be the Cog That Breaks the Machine: The First Sister by Linden A. Lewis

Posted 4th July 2020 by Sia in Queer Lit, Reviews, Sci-Fi Reviews / 0 Comments

If you’re looking for a book where there’s a clear Dark Side and no question who the heroes are, this is not the book for you. If you want an adventure, a heist, capers and shenanigans, this is not the book for you. If you’re looking for a comfort read, a quick read, a fun […]

Take My Breath Away: Analysing (Some of the) Beautiful Covers We’ve Been Blessed With Lately!

Posted 2nd July 2020 by Sia in Let's Dig In: Thoughts, Analysis, Essays, Queer Lit / 1 Comment

We have had some ridiculously gorgeous cover reveals in the last little while – so pretty I just had to showcase them! It doesn’t hurt that these are all from my most-anticipated list, as well! Once I picked my jaw up off the floor, I realised that A Dark and Hollow Star‘s cover reminded me […]

Pride Doesn’t End With June: Queer Fantasy+SciFi Books for the rest of 2020

Posted 30th June 2020 by Sia in Lists, Queer Lit / 0 Comments

Pride Month’s coming to an end, but that doesn’t mean the pride stops!

Your Gender Binary Is Imaginary; Non-Binary Characters in Fantasy (+ Bonus SciFi)

Posted 29th June 2020 by Sia in Lists, Queer Lit, Recommendations / 2 Comments

More and more, we’re having an easier time finding cis queer characters in Fantasy – not an easy time; there’s still not enough of them, and publishers often don’t advertise the fact that a book is queer. But there’s more than there used to be, and the number’s steadily increasing. It’s much harder to find […]

Raise Your Flag Up High: Pride Flag Fantasy Book Recs

Posted 14th June 2020 by Sia in Lists, Queer Lit, Recommendations / 0 Comments

Shamelessly nabbing the idea from Rainbow Reads (which is a fantastic book blog for queer fiction, and if you’re not subscribed to their posts, you should be!) I’m going to rec a Fantasy book for each of the stripes of the Pride flag. Rainbow Reads used the original Gilbert Baker flag + the new brown […]

Why Do I Want My Fantasy to be Queer?

Posted 8th June 2020 by Sia in Let's Dig In: Thoughts, Analysis, Essays, Queer Lit / 0 Comments

If you pitch me two similar-sounding books, but one is queer? Then that’s the one I’m picking. And I can’t figure out why. Of course, it’s a given that representation matters in fiction – I’m not here to debate that; as far as I’m concerned, it’s a fact, not an opinion. This post isn’t about […]