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.
Tag: genderqueer
Rhapsodic Prose and a Queer Cast You’ll Adore: The All-Consuming World by Cassandra Khaw
Before this, I had never read Khaw’s work before. They mostly write horror, and I am a total whimp about horror.
I don’t care. After reading The All-Consuming World, I will read anything Khaw writes.
Epic in Scope and Intimate at Heart: The Black Coast by Mike Brooks
In which I lose my mind over how awesome this book is and use far too much caps-lock
Fantasy Featuring Fabulous Trans Leads
Five wonderful fantasy books with transgender main characters!
Move Over, Howl, There’s a New Heart-Eater In Town: Night Shine by Tessa Gratton
Queer, magical, utterly stunning.
A Map to Tomorrow: Master of Poisons by Andrea Hairston
“Impossible is a word for yesterday, not tomorrow.”
Your Gender Binary Is Imaginary; Non-Binary Characters in Fantasy (+ Bonus SciFi)
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 […]
Could have been perfect: The Girl of Hawthorn and Glass
This book was so beautiful…and so messy. I went in wanting to love it so badly; it sounded like it had been written for me! But it ended up being a serious struggle to finish, and to be honest if it had been any other book I would have DNF-ed it. I gave this one […]
Vampires, Pocket-watches, and Magical Baked Goods; The Burial Club by Parker Foye
The second in the Love Has Claws series, Burial Club is set in the same world as Nine Years of Silver, but slightly earlier in the timeline, in a different place and with different characters. None of this disappointed me, since Nine perfectly encapsulated Briar and Quinn’s story; a direct sequel, or any other continuation […]
Review: The Fifth Gender by G.L. Carriger
This is a wonderful little book – I pre-ordered it on a whim, mainly because I’ve found Carriger’s writing entertaining before and I’m always interested to see takes on alien gender and sexuality. I didn’t expect it to be as sweet and adorable as it in fact was, and despite a few tragic revelations it […]