I am looking for beta readers for a NA coming of age fantasy with strong LGBT elements and a focus on found families. I prefer to swap beta reading since my MS is ~146000 words completed and that is a lot to ask of anyone for nothing. The first act is only ~51000 and I would be more than happy to just have feedback on that much if you are willing. Lucas has dreams of being a hero of song and story, but as a thief and a liar he couldn't be less qualified. So when he meets Aimara, a seemingly helpless girl on her own, he is more than ready to be the hero she needs. But Aimara is neither alone nor helpless and his ideas of how heroic stories work begin crumbling one by one in her presence. Aimara is married and being hunted by an Imperial patrol that forces her to change into a mythical and powerful dragonborn to single handedly destroy the patrol. Seeing her true form means Lucas has seen too much, so the couple take him captive and bring him along on their journey to guarantee his silence. Lucas is happy to follow because he has fallen in love with the empathic Aimara and traveling with her allows him more time to try to win her away from her husband. Along the way he discovers that real families are the people you can rely on, love takes many forms, and being a hero isn’t always about heroic acts.
Lucas has dreams of being a hero of song and story, but as a thief and a liar he couldn't be less qualified. So when he meets Aimara, a seemingly helpless girl on her own, he is more than ready to be the hero she needs. But Aimara is neither alone nor helpless and his ideas of how heroic stories work begin crumbling one by one in her presence. Aimara is married and being hunted by an Imperial patrol that forces her to change into a mythical and powerful dragonborn to single handedly destroy the patrol. Seeing her true form means Lucas has seen too much, so the couple take him captive and bring him along on their journey to guarantee his silence. Lucas is happy to follow because he has fallen in love with the empathic Aimara and traveling with her allows him more time to try to win her away from her husband. Along the way he discovers that real families are the people you can rely on, love takes many forms, and being a hero isn’t always about heroic acts.