The Final Strife (The Ending Fire Trilogy #1)

by Saara El-Arifi

They were a musawa, neither man nor woman, like the God Anyme. Sylah recollected this Ghosting preferred the pronoun “they,” though some musawa went by “she” or “he.”

Pretty cool to see canonical nonbinary genders in fantasy!

jade-colored eru. Fifty handspans long and at least ten handspans wide, the large lizards were the main mode of transport in the empire. The more experienced riders could saddle the big animals and ride them,

How nice it is to be so blinded by your own riches that you can’t see whose back your home is built upon,

Turin’s dress was as voluptuous as what was in it. It was richly woven, with waterfalls of fabric echoing the Ember court fashion. “Nice boobies.”

She was beautiful too, she knew that from what she saw in the mirror, though she recognized that she had too many sharp edges and not enough filling. She slipped a limb into the pockets of her coat and felt the packet of the hormone herbs there. Hassa had been taking them for years, transitioning into the body that felt right for her.

HRT lore

Ghostings believed that musawa were born with two spirits, both man and woman,