10 best fantasy books with lesbians, ranked
Sappho would be pleased.
https://www.themarysue.com/10-best-fantasy-books-with-lesbians-ranked/
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10 best fantasy books with lesbians, ranked
Sappho would be pleased.
https://www.themarysue.com/10-best-fantasy-books-with-lesbians-ranked/
#Books #HideFromHomepage #shewhobecamethesun #Spear #TheJasmineThrone
@indieauthors
10 best fantasy books with romance subplots
Isn't love the most powerful sorcery of all?…
https://www.themarysue.com/best-fantasy-books-with-romance-subplots/
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The latest read in my campaign to catch up with some of the last decade’s best-regarded fantasy was Tasha Suri’s ‘The Jasmine Throne’. I found it highly entertaining and profoundly thoughtful, with colourful, immersive worldbuilding.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6651342961
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4/5: Although I can't comment on its authenticity, Tasha Suri's The Jasmine throne gives the impression that its worldbuilding is built on a solid historical basis. It's set in an invented world built from South Asian cultural materials, with characters largely bearing Hindi names (as far as I can tell, from a position of profound ignorance!) I have noticed that fantasy fiction set in either a modified historical milieu, or in ones derived from real-world cultures other than the genre baseline of medieval Europe, tend to be a lot more convincing. I like to feel that the characters are formed and...
I migrated my reading data from #Goodreads to #Bookwyrm! 📖 🐛
I also want to start writing short reviews of the books I've read. Haven't done that since high school, but it really helps me to process my thoughts and hopefully also to better remember the stories I've read.
First one up is be Tasha Suri's #TheJasmineThrone, which I finished earlier this week.
“I know Priya. Every inch of her heart.” The way Malini said heart, so savagely—it was as if she were truly talking of the muscle pulsing in Priya’s chest, and it made the breath seize in Priya’s throat. “She won’t touch me. She could snap my hand clean, but she won’t do it.”
#Spoilers, but #TheJasmineThrone had me absolutely hooting here, oh my God. #MastoArt