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December 3, 2017
Ace Recs: 3 Books with Asexual Characters Associated with Death
As is undoubtedly no surprise to anyone who’s heard of me, I really really love giving recommendations for books featuring asexual characters. As a reader and writer on the asexual spectrum, this is a topic near and dear to my heart. I’ve seen plenty of recommendations lists that are about asexual characters or that include asexual […]
December 1, 2017
Book Talk: All Note Long
All Note Long by Annabeth Albert. This book. Oh, this book. I picked it up because it promised to have (explicit) demisexual representation. Also I’m a sucker for books about music. Less so dancing, but the combination? Oh, yes. TW: All the homomisia. There are some slurs early on and some disparaging comments about sex […]
November 29, 2017
Book Talk: Daughter of Smoke and Bone
Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor is the first book in a bestselling trilogy that… I have studiously been avoiding because I don’t usually get along well with bestselling books, except then I learned that it was supposed to have asexual representation in the shape of Liraz and… Yeah. Onto the TBR pile […]
November 25, 2017
Book Talk: Extraction
Extraction by B R Sanders is the first book in the A Tale of Rebellion series and set in the same world as Rebellion and Ariah. If you’ve read Rebellion, you’ll encounter a few familiar characters, though most of the narrative follows other characters and you don’t have to have read it in order to […]
November 22, 2017
Book Talk: Storm Rising
Storm Rising by Becca Lusher is the second book in the Dragonlands series and it picks up more or less after the first book leaves off. It’s not necessary to read A Courtship of Dragons, though I do recommend it because I remember the romance between Estenarven and Mastekh being very subtle and it may […]
November 15, 2017
Book Talk: The White Renegade
The White Renegade by Claudie Arseneault is a prequel novella to Viral Airwaves. It details how Seraphin wound up leading the resistance, his relationship with Alex (which was briefly mentioned in Viral Airwaves), and, perhaps most importantly of all, exactly why he killed Hans Vermen’s brother. TW: war crimes, violence, ableism and misgendering So! Let’s […]
November 8, 2017
Book Talk: The Lifeline Signal
The Lifeline Signal by RoAnna Sylver is the second book in the Chameleon Moon set. As the book covers a wholly new set of protagonists, you can read it without having read the first book. I’m half-tempted to recommend it because The Lifeline Signal answers many of my questions about the clarity of the place […]
November 1, 2017
Upcoming Plans November 2017
I Want to Read: 2 books featuring asexual characters I Want to Write: NANOWRIMO Nope. I think I’m just going to leave this at “NaNoWriMo”. Okay, no. I will probably be working on DemiPrincess2 and just seeing how far along I can get with that in November, which means reading is going to take a bit […]
October 31, 2017
Goal Review October 2017
I Want to Read: 2 books with asexual characters I Want to Edit: 5,000 words of fiction Oh, hey. You know how I’ve been struggling with my goals, like, for most of the year to the point where I’m making super-undetailed lists like this just to keep me motivated because this is a list I […]
October 27, 2017
Happy Aces in Fiction
Did someone say “Stories with happy asexual characters not in any way associated with death?” Hi! Let’s make a list! It’ll be relatively short, but that’s partially because I’m taking a veeeeeery broad view on “associated with death”, which basically means “Does death play a big part in the ace’s life over the course of […]
