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rmc28Books on pre-order:
- Son of the Storm (The Nameless Republic 1) by Suyi Davies Okungbowa (11 May)
- How to Find a Princess (Runaway Royals 2) by Alyssa Cole (25 May)
- One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston (1 Jun)
- The Queer Principles of Kit Webb by Cat Sebastian (8 Jun)
- In The Heights: Finding Home by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Quiara Alegría
Hudes and Jeremy McCarter (
2215 Jun) - For the Love of April French by Penny Aimes (31 Aug)
- Peter Cabot Gets Lost (The Cabots 2) by Cat Sebastian (13 Sep)
Books acquired in April
- and read:
- Ink and Ice by Erin McRae and Racheline Maltese
- Tempest (Love's Labours 3) by Erin McRae and Racheline Maltese
- The Devil Comes Courting (Worth Saga 3) by Courtney Milan [1]
- Fugitive Telemetry (Murderbot 6) by Martha Wells [1]
- FIYAH #18, Spring 2021 edited by DaVaun Sanders
- Mermaids Monthly Issue #4, April 2021 edited by Julia Rios and Ashley Deng [4]
- Shoreline of Infinity 21 edited by Noel Chidwick
- and previously read:
- In The Middle of Somewhere (Middle of Somewhere 1) by Roan Parrish
- The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials 2) by Phillip Pullman
For the second month running I read all the books I bought! Plus I got some other reading in too:
Books acquired previously and read in April:
- The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Inheritance Trilogy 1) by N.K. Jemisin [Jan]
- The Ruin of Kings (Chorus of Dragons 1) by Jenn Lyons [Feb]
- Midsummer (Love's Labours 1) by Erin McRae and Racheline Maltese [Sep 2019]
- Twelfth Night (Love's Labours 2) by Erin McRae and Racheline Maltese [Sep 2019]
- Defying Doomsday edited by Tsana Dolichva & Holly Kench [Nov 2020]
Borrowed books read in April:
- The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black [3]
- Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas [3]
Rereads in April:
- Any Old Diamonds by KJ Charles
- The Rat-Catcher's Daughter by KJ Charles
- Gilded Cage by KJ Charles
- A Queen From The North by Erin McRae and Racheline Maltese
- After the Gold by Erin McRae and Racheline Maltese
[1] Pre-order
[2] Audiobook
[3] Physical book
[4] Crowdfunding
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Date: 2021-05-01 11:33 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-05-01 13:53 (UTC)The Love's Labours trilogy is a set of short books (novellas?) about the same m/m couple, who are actors meeting at a summer outdoor theatre programme. Warning that the middle one has a plot which is basically "huge social embarrassment caused by failure to communicate; this asshole is lucky his family is forgiving".
A Queen From The North has a het couple at the centre but some queer minor characters. (It's also contemporary AU Britain with a big dose of obsession with the Wars of the Roses, which I rolled with but might frustrate people who know more about said Wars than I do.)
After the Gold has a het couple and Ink and Ice has an m/m couple; they're both set in figure-skating with a side-plot of "building community through ice-hockey" in the second one.
All of them have a bit of magic in them, some more obviously than others. My favourites are probably A Queen From The North and Ink and Ice but I've yet to find one of their books I haven't enjoyed, even the one with the massive social embarrassment plot.
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Date: 2021-05-01 15:04 (UTC)The War of the Roses is not my period and I'm quite fond of AU settings with historical influences so I might well try A Queen From the North first.