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>the only good thread on this board
tourist pls go

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>>4325783
Fuck you I've been here before you were old enough to read probably and I stand by it, everything else is just one anon infinitely bumping their own thread with the same three poorly drawn deviantart images that have been posted ad nauseum since 2012 and no actual discussion.

>>4325783
This.

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This released a few months ago. Might read it sometime in the next couple of weeks. Sounds cute.

>>4325831
>football
Bleh

recc me some angsty friends to lovers trash

>>4325794
Been here since 2005, not surprised you're the kind of anon to gloat over how bothered you are by the mere existence of image dumps on an image board despite there being plenty of discussions

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Saw this on a lesfic review site and I just ran into some of the worst dialogue I've ever read.

>“Fire!” exclaimed Mardis Gras hair.

>“No cap!” added the young Black woman, who snatched the book out of her companion’s hand to read the blurb.

>I beamed, proud I could pull off such a tough assignment as that book had been. “Where are y’all from?” I asked.

>“Oh, I’m Demi, from N’awlins, and you’re my all-time favorite author. Hey, one of your MCs in this one is a POC like me!” Her effervesce spilled out as her feet did a rendition of the Snoopy dance.

>>4327438
>“Oh, I’m Demi, from N’awlins, and you’re my all-time favorite author. Hey, one of your MCs in this one is a POC like me!” Her effervesce spilled out as her feet did a rendition of the Snoopy dance.
You can't fool me into thinking this isn't a parody story anon.

How is "This is How You Lose the Time War"?
Might buy it tomorrow if it isn't shit.

Any novels where cute mormons/religious bishes get perverted?
Or even a sweet but sacrilegious romance?
Yeah, i just watched Heretic.

>>4327695
It's good.

>>4327760
Oh and i also watched You Can Live Forever, it was kino but the ending was...

>>4327762
Alright. If it turns out to be shit or have bisluts in it, I will track you down and personally beat your ass.

>>4327784
Oh dear

>>4326345
I liked In the Long Run by Haley Cass

>>4327695
It's good but it has a surprise het part. The sci-fi elements are weaker than the prose but it's still enjoyable just for the flowery language. It has one of the strongest opening paragraphs I've seen

>>4327844
Okay, thank you for actually giving valuable information, I know not to get it now.

>>4327806
Prepare for an ass beating in approximately 3 to 5 business days, motherfucker. Can't trust /u/ for shit too many freaks here have a bislut fetish.

>>4327760
Taking Flight by Siera Maley is kinda like that, but not really. LI is religious, repressed gay.

>>4328074
Will check, thanks anon.

>>4327438
This is not real.

>>4327844
>surprise het part
Did I miss this? I do not remember.

>>4325794
>YKK
>/m/echa
I mean, that's kind of disingenuous, but I guess it's not wrong.

>>4328496
Blue gets married and has a child as part of a spy mission iirc

>>4328887
They simply can't help themselves...can't Them?

Any half-sisters or even sisters novels running around?
If they have sexy stuff happening even better

>>4328956
into the forest by jean hegland.
it's a miserable read though. het rape and all. proceed at your own risk. there's also a movie adaptation but I heard it skipped the relationship between the sisters ; didn't watch it so idk.

also wtf is that fucking 15 minutes timer to post now ? I swear this shithole turns shittier every year

>>4329375
NTA. How good is the relationship in the book? I liked the movie for its post-apocalypse vibes but there was nothing going on between the sisters.

Buy a 4chan pass or wait 15 minutes. No idea what is going on. Let's hope it is temporary.

>>4329413
>>4329375
15 minute timer is a new anti-spam measure tourist san tachi. just wait the 15 minutes or verify your email if you want hiroshimoot to sell your information to recoup the losses on his horrible investment.

The 15 minutes wait is only if you're posting for the first time or if you cleared your cache and cookies. After you make your first post it doesn't apply anymore.

Give me lesbian punks

>>4329413
yeah I'm not surprised they didn't have the balls to put it in the movie.

I read it a few years ago so I can't recall precisely, but I do remember not expecting it. like, you see them bonding here and there over little things (like the ballerina shoes) and sometimes having a bit of a fight, but it feels natural for two sisters going through extreme shit. and then things ramp up pretty quickly : MC becomes kinda overprotective of her sister after the rape and they end up fucking. there's a bit of bs drama after that when the baby is born (like some parenting/jealousy thingy) and the book ends with the sisters leaving the house to live in the forest together with the baby..

I think most of it happens in the last third/last quarter of the book but again it's been a while. YMMV, I didn't really enjoy it because the story felt very miserable, but hey to each their own.

>>4329719
Thanks, for the info. That is good enough for me, I can't be picky when it comes to f/f post-apocalypse stories. I am looking for inspiration in this setting and I know the miserable parts from the movie already, so I will give the book a chance.

>>4329757
>That is good enough for me
The saddest post of the week

>>4329770
It is sad indeed, but what can I do? If you have something better, without het shit please share. I will gladly read it.

>>4329774
Sorry, I've got nothing

>>4329770
like I said, to each their own. the saddest thing is that we were already starving for quality content 10 years ago, and every time I come back to these threads I don't feel like much has changed. except for fucking captchas apparently.

>>4329757
well now that you mention f/f post-ap there's a book called hearing red in my backlog. apparently it's about two girls running away in a zombie apocalypse. haven't read it yet though so can't vouch for it.

>>4329719
I remember that fucking flick and remember the discourse of leaving the worst stuff of the novel but nixing the lesbian incest...
But seriously is that the only mainstream novel with sisterly incest?
Because you can't throw a stone at some parts of the mainstream book community without hiting some straight incest of any flavour...

>>4329847
Sharp Objects ALMOST goes there...its het and chicklitedge but i dug it.
Watch the show before to see if you can invest in it, that said the show ''obscures'' some really terrible rape that happened, which is kinda the point in way...obscuring it to show how the MC deals with trauma thou

>>4329839
>hearing red
from the reviews I've skimmed, it sounds like you'll like this book if you like The Walking Dead.

I liked The Burning Kingdom series

>>4330274
oh thanks this made me look it up again and i didn't realize the last book released recently, i'll read it now. i liked the first two as well so looking forward to it

>>4330274
How much Indian crap does this thing have? Like their clothes, gods, eating with dirty hands...

I desperately need a series as good as the locked tomb. Hoping someone here has some recs. I can tolerate het as long as it doesn't involve the mc otherwise I will avoid it like the plague

>>4330925
There's nothing that compares, I've been searching for years at this point. It's the pinnacle of the lesbian sff genre and nothing else comes close. I desperately want to like another book as much as Harrow but I haven't found it yet.
I read Traitor Baru cause nerds on here kept saying it's better and it was entertaining enough but the quality is not even in the same ballpark. The other big one is Priory which was decent but also kind of generic and with way too many uninteresting side storylines (the prequel was better but still not up to par).

>>4330852
I had to give up on the first book after one chapter because it wasn't very well written and all I could think about was SIRS

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don't read this, it's trash

>>4331536
I remember wanting to enjoy this but I found the main characters family dynamic so weird I ended up dropping it. The social climbing aspect was really offputting to me.

>>4331536
I figured as much from the cover.

Chloe Slate - Prey for Me
Short (kinda) erotic romance about a young woman who feels she doesn't deserve better, and a co-worker belittling her who is secretly a demon.

... given the "dark romance" tag and the fact that she's trying to date a demon I'd have expected something a bit more messed up, but it's very "modern" in that it's quite careful about demonic consent and such. Nonetheless, there's a bit of degradation play and such.

Could have been better. Too fluffy. But fun idea.

GB Baldassari - Amor Fati
I thought this was Brazilian, which would have been interesting, and it is, but only in the sense that's it written by a Brazilian couple. It's set in Canada. Meh.

Clunky romance about a young woman who had to give her child away. One day that child seeks her out, and now she's in contact with the girl's adoptive mother. Romance develops from there. Not too much else going on. Characters are nice enough; it's just very generic in lots of ways.

Writing is also notably translated. Not necessarily awful, but just not quite there.

Nyri Bakkalian - Confluence
You know when people go on about "show, don't tell" and you sorta roll your eyes because, obviously, and who doesn't know by now ... ?

Well.

Taking place in a post-catastrophe Japan, this is about a couple in which one has turned herself into a sorta "cybersoldier" (called "doll"/sword) and her "wielder" (and wife). The concept is allegedly a sorta D/s relationship between human and doll, and they do talk a lot about that.

Talk about it being the key thing here. Don't expect to actually encounter any instance in it being very relevant, or "shown". How a doll is actually different from a human, or why such an arrangement is preferable in that context ... who the fuck knows. It's not like the novel does anything with it.

What little plot there is is by extra characters showing up and just having mysteriously obtained necessary information. We don't know how, we certainly don't see how. It's just there. Then the scene is "cut" and ... everyone talks or thinks about it.

As an additional treat, every Japanese dialogue is first written in Japanese. And then in English. So have fun scrolling through 50% of the dialogues, or reading everything twice, whichever you prefer.

The idea is nice. But the entire thing is so bogged down it just achieves nothing. Read a Machine Mandate novel to see how it's done right.

>>4331536
High school book with poorly drawn cartoon woman on the cover is bad, shocking news.

>>4331832
As opposed to 'adult' smut books with a photo of a woman's lips on the cover.

>>4331815
>Machine Mandate novel
Hmm... Is it /u/?

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>>4335142
They're very /u/. A series of sci-fi novels with lesbian protags, some of the stories are related, some of them can be read without prior knowledge. I've only read pic related but it's excellent, like sci-fi Fate/Stay Night. Prose is very flashy but can be hard to get use to if you don't like flowery prose

The author is a piece of shit tho

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Anyone read this? Sounds interesting but it's the only thing this author has written.

Ruti is Markless. In a society where worth is determined by the mark on your palm and the magic it grants you, this also deems her worthless. Except she’s also a hardened survivor, a protector of the Markless…and the most powerful witch in Somanchi. With a single song, she can pray to the many gods for unimaginable powers.

Dekala’s Mark is strong, a Mark fit for the future queen of Somanchi, but it’s also unstable. She knows the only solution is to be bonded, but she also knows that this would mean relinquishing control over her throne and kingdom. So when she is witness to Ruti’s power, Dekala offers the witch a deal: She can be prosecuted for her crimes…or she can help Dekala ascend to the throne, unbonded.

Dekala is cold and brutal and cares only about getting her way. She is also determined, intelligent, and compassionate. Ruti is torn between wanting her to fail or to emerge victorious. But as the gods are defied, new alliances are forged, and unexpected feelings are unearthed, Ruti realizes the fate of the kingdom––and the survival of the Markless–– lies in her unmarked hands.

>>4335239
Sounds pretty good. Shame only the first book has an audiobook. I rarely buy books so I don't care if the author is a piece of shit.

>>4335239
I've had And Shall Machines Surrender downloaded on my kindle for a while just because the title sounded cool, I didn't know it has /u/. Maybe I'll actually read it finally.

>>4335265
sounds like one of those stories that are more interested in their anime magic system than building convincing character relations

Cassidy Crane - Writ of Love
Younger woman has a one-night stand with an older woman. And, surprise, turns out that older woman is her boss at her new job, who could have ever guessed ...

Well, it's a fun enough setup but that's also all it is. Neither of the characters have anything you could call a personality; not even some token generic ice-queen-ness by the older woman.
At first they don't want to be out at the law firm, but then they decide otherwise, and nobody really cares. Wow. Younger woman has some slightly complicated family things going on but then it turns out it's not so bad after all. Wow wow. And ... that's basically it.

Even for an A-meets-B romance this was crazy bland. I guess they got a bit of a BDSM-y thing in the bedroom going on, but that borderline feels misplaced in this otherwise milktoast romance.

>>4335284
They can be a bit hard to get into since they don't start with an easily digestible plot of some "here's evil guy, go defeat him" type; more like character studies almost. But very recommended if you want scifi that actually feels strange and futuristic and different and isn't just "Murricans in space".

I really need to finish her Pitiless Command series too.

>>4335307
The kind of character study where the events organically reveal new layers of the character's personality, or the aimless navel-gazing kind where nothing actually happens?

>>4335310
A Memory Called Empire they are not. Definitely more interwoven with actual forward momentum plot.

But who can tell these days; to some people anything that's deviating from the simplest adventure story format is already too tedious to bother with ... in the end, just grab one of them and give it a try, I guess.

>>4335336
I'll take your word for it. While some readers do have nonexistent attention span, the opposite is also true, and you often see reviewers painting such a glamorous image of the blandest drivel.

holy fuck, Lauren Groff and her prose. why isn't she more famous?

>no lesbian books in the goodreads award nominations
Dead genre

>>4336811
>>4336811
Would be great if they could fix the tag system at least, if you go to the lesbian tag most of the books in "new releases" are not even /u/ to begin with.

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>>4336811
Picrel counts right? Has anyone read it?

>>4336855
I've read it, it's cute. It's a split POV so /u/ is only in about half the content but I still thought the princess x knight was a good dynamic and the book felt pretty well-executed overall. It's obviously YA but didn't take itself too seriously, though the stakes do raise more and more towards the end

>>4336840
Good reads is fucking awful for finding new books. It's fucking awful in general. It's fucking crazy that there's still no site for finding books, a one with a detailed tag system and filters. I just might create one one day.

>>4336958
That would require the people in charge of the website to read every single book to completion, which is impossible.
On top of that the labels would be down to the employees' criteria and opinion rather than the book's objective content, making said labels worse than useless.

>>4336958
It's called library.

Rebecca K Jones - Steadying the Ark
Young girl runs away from abuse, gets found by the police, and the heroine - an assistant district attorney - is supposed to help build her case. With the main difficulty being that the girl isn't talking.

It's more a procedural than a mystery, but it still nagged at me that it felt like such a stupid case. When you find a naked girl ... surely first thing you check is the area she's found in? And surely, if that's near her home, you might go "ah, it's one of those cases". Especially as according to the parents she's been missing just for a day. But signs of old injuries and malnutrition hardly happen within a few hours ... so, you know, it's all sorts of obvious.

Instead they just hand her back to her dad (at the sight of whom she starts incoherently screaming which clearly doesn't mean anything).

But anyway; as I said, it's not a mystery; the dad is quickly found out. It's more about how you'd build a case from there ... but also not really, because it's also about a random stalker case nobody is doing anything much with ...

And it's all written in a "and then this thing happened and two weeks later the results where returned and then the other thing happened and then ..."

I honestly was a bit shocked that this was published by BellaBooks, with two sequels, and not some self-published thing. Just pretty bad all around.

>>4336958
>>4337038
Someone a long while ago on here wanted to do a yuridb. It was even actually kinda functional. But presumably they gave up on it for one reason or another.

>>4336958
https://www.romance.io/

I use this sometimes. Problem is that there are millions of books, creating a database for all of them is a massive task, let alone getting accurate tagging for all of them. At the end of the day the best way to get recommendations is from other readers who enjoy what you enjoy.

>>4336931
Thanks I might check it out. I have no problem with /y/ in my /u/ content. I just don't like het in my /u/ content.

>>4337038
There aren't that many books with lesbians that reading them is even a challenge to anyone who actually reads. And there's nothing subjective or useless about tags. Either the book includes the tagged content or it doesn't.

>>4337306
NTA but idk, I do feel it can be pretty subjective. sometimes the /u/ is implied or suggested at best and/or a matter of googles.

Take the locked tomb series for example. Some anon raved a few posts above that it's "the pinnacle of the lesbian sff genre". SFF no problems (is there even an other /u/ book in that category ?).
But lesbian ? well ok, the protag of the first book is a lesbian but... that's just it. there's absolutely no lesbian romance in the series, at least in the 900-ish pages of the first two books (haven't read the third tho so maybe we finally got something ?), just implied tension that goes nowhere. the only (implied) sex scene as far as I remember was a threesome between two guys and girl ?

so how would we tag it in our /u/ db ? "lgbt" I'll agree, but is it f/f ?

>>4337314
>so how would we tag it in our /u/ db ? "lgbt" I'll agree, but is it f/f ?
I haven't read the book, but based on your description, it's clearly not. Almost every fantasy/scifi novel has a lesbian character or two, it's become pretty much part of the genre since the 90s, but nobody would even think to call the majority of those work /u/. I think romance is needed for a book to be considered relevant.

>>4337314
One reason I dropped reading the tomb series, I read for 1/3 of first book and then read spoilers that there's no romance in it of lesbian nature, so hard to keep it reading for /u/ knowing fully there won't be any payoff also reading about author own mindset about the issue (like she is a lesbian but married a guy cause he is her soulmate bullshit rreasoning).
Hard to usupport such thing.
I'm kinda lacking books to read, I read everything from the recomendation chart (only tomb series wasn't worth the effort) and it's really hard to actually find books longer than 1 with some fantasy or sci-fi theme and a lesbian protag in it. Tags don't help cause no offense but majority of works tagged as eithr lgbt or even lesbian tag usage have zero actual lesbian content in them.

>>4337302
in case you want to know, the mc's are engaged and kiss once during the book in terms of het but it was pretty clearly a moment that didn't mean anything and was written more to show their 'solidarity'. but yes i'd still recommend it, i found it a fun break from other books

>>4337315
And still that anon who raves about those books would apply the "/u/" and "romance" tags to said book if they were the one working on Goodread or romance dot io or whatever platform classifies books.
Tags are worthless because at the end they're dependent on the person tagging the book's subjective opinions.

>>4337378
Doing anything is worthless because someone will probably do it wrong.

>>4337314
Just because they didn't fuck doesn't mean it's not f/f don't you remember a decade ago when most yuri series would take 5 volumes to get a single hand holding scene and would end with the confession? The series is very clearly centered around queer female characters and the obviously romantic relationships and tension between them. Gideon/Harrow, Harrow/Ianthe, Harrow/Alecto, etc. are the core of the books. There is an f/f sex scene its the bone arm scene. It's not gonna be one of those erotica romance novels, it's slow burn, but it's obviously very /u/ relevant and more so than half the things that have dedicated threads on here. This is conversation is two people who haven't even read the series apparently.

Despite all that it has no bearing on whether tags work or not. In fact it's the exact use case for tags. If you're looking for something with sex then only read books tagged with sex, if you're looking for a primarily romance focused story then read romance tags. But a lot of the most classic and popular /u/ relevant media aren't focused entirely on those and personally I prefer to read a story with more going on than just romance, the /u/ is a bonus on top of an already good book.

>>4337038
>>4337125
The way I picture it, it would be user-maintained. That's a no brainer. Users would be able to add new books to the database, assign various tags, descriptors and so on to them. The more detailed, the better. Of course there would be a fixed tag/decriptor list created by the admin team, regular users would not be able to create their own tags. There would be an option to suggest a tag though. Every book's page would have a report button that would be used to suggest tag changes, report inaccuratr tags etc to the admins. The number of reports would play a role too. This would hopefully minimize inaccuracies and potential errors.

I'm thinking of a fusion between RYM/Myanimelist/AO3 but for fiction.

>>4337445
>User-mantained
That's not any better; just look at Steam tags (I know it's not /lit/ related): basically platform-approved trolling.

>>4337454
Not really well versed in Steam arcana, besides I don't think it's a valid comparison. Like I said, look instead at RYM for my main source of inspiration. I think it manages pretty well for a community-maintaned database.

>>4337428
>I prefer to read a story with more going on than just romance
So do I, but a book still needs to have at least some recognizable form of romance that isn't purely up to reader interpretation to be considered /u/ relevant. Yuri is about love between two females, not about "one female sometimes looking meaningfully in the general direction of another female, clearly implying". Personal preferences simply don't matter.

>>4337724
Youre both a newfag and clearly haven't read the books youre talking about

>>4337722
I wish there was more good poly yuri

>>4337870
I wish there was good yuri

>>4337866
No shit, I said upfront I haven't read the book. But I'm not talking about the book either, just replying to anon's comment.

>>4325831
I finished this. It was good. Really good. More middle grade kino. The soccer is a very small part of it, mostly it's junior high drama with friends fighting and some coming of age / coming out drama. It was nice. I've found my niche for sure and it's middle grade stuff.

Read The Cybernetic Tea Shop by Meredith Katz. A very nice little story that caught my attention with its interesting premise.

Clara is a traveling machine engineer. Sal is a robot running a tea shop left to her by her long-dead owner. Of course, since this is fiction, the "robot" is functionally just a pretty girl with wi-fi. And it's love at first sight.

The author doesn't seem to know the definitions of "robots" and "androids", which kind of hinders the narrative. But what bothers me most is that the story is very, very short and rushed. You can read it in under an hour. A premise this delicious would've deserved proper novel treatment, with more time to let things cook and explore the setting. Clara and Sal are really cute and you end up wishing you wouldn't have to leave them so soon. But, well, to borrow a line from Marvel, "a thing isn't beautiful because it lasts".

>>4338165
Isn't there an anime like this?

>>4338275
Yep...Yokohama Kaidashi Kikō kino slowburn pre10s yuri mango.
Time to call the lawyers.

>>4338319
>>4338275
There don't seem to be similarities beyond "a robot running a shop", which isn't exactly a unique concept. I'd gladly welcome more with yuri, though.

>>4338275
You mean Time of Eve maybe? It's about androids in a cafe i think. I don't think it had any yuri but I watched it like 15 years ago though so I might be wrong.

Gender is a biological concept so robots can't be lesbians.

>>4338693
Biology is a physical concept, so immaterial fictional characters can't be lesbians. Mods can delete this whole board

>>4338636
nah it was this >>4338319

Any /u/lit with lolis?

>>4338911
The entire middle grade genre

>>4325781

Finished reading the third book in the Jasmine Throne trilogy and I have a feeling that the series got worse as it progressed. The world building from this is amazing but towards the end I felt like the author didn't have a plan for a ending when she started it.

Overall it's a good enough series, mostly for the world building because all the rest is easily forgotten, including the characters.

>>4339539
>it's a good enough series
>mostly for the world building
>all the rest is easily forgotten, including the characters
Anon, that doesn't sound good at all.

>>4339643
The thing is, I've read (and dropped) so many shit /u/-lit that when I can finish a series its good enough for me.

>>4339647
Eating garbage so you don't die of starvation doesn't make that garbage good.

A few weeks ago I posted wondering if anybody remembered a book about a woman and the young girl hanging around her, eventually getting together at the end. I got some details wrong but I think it was Kate Genet's Don't Go There.

It has some old school lesfic tropes, older than a publishing date of 2013 would imply (only lesbians in town, frequent and occasionally violent homophobia), but someone asked that I mention it here if I ever did find it so here I am.

The younger girl is 17, which reviewers are definitely sideeyeing, but I guess age of consent in NZ is 16 so the book itself isn't some illicit porn.

>>4339647
I get it, but please don't lose hope that things could be better

>>4338911
there was some decent stuff on leslita. not sure if that site died though. looks like it.
uncertain magic by nuit du loup was one of my favorites from there (although it was more hebe than loli)

>>4339912
NTA but haven't things gotten worse, if anything? My standards are perhaps lower than some others' here and I liked the Burning Kingdom series (The Jasmine Throne) and Teixcalaan (Memory Called Empire) and remember a time when we had those ongoing and whatever was next in the Priory universe and of course The Locked Tomb.

What have we got like even those now, let alone better?

Has anyone found any good female MC, non-romance (obviously especially het) books recently (or not so recently)?
Had some luck with that question, getting some great (even gogglable) books through asking it.

>>4340244
TLT still hasn't been surpassed.

>>4340311
TLT was surpassed before it even came out (by Baru)

>>4340488
Baru is entertaining but it's very poorly written and the MC is a generational Mary Sue. It's just Code Geass if Lelouch was a closeted lesbian. The only thing is has going for it over TLT is the absolute brass balls of the author to go through with that book one ending.

>>4340530 (me)
there is something refreshing about reading a series where the protagonist is the worst person in the world though.

But so right, we had five fairly solid genuinely mainstream sff f/f series going on, hell, we can include The Unbroken, though I didn't like it myself, but I'm talking about legit books with legit publishers behind them. Do we have anything at all right now? They all finished their normal run, as series do, with nothing at all to replace them?

At the least, Hiyodori is done with the Clem and Wist stuff, right? I dunno if that needed more than a duology, the other one-shots were more fun

>>4340567
>At the least, Hiyodori is done with the Clem and Wist stuff, right?
Why? She can easily make mroe books regarding that couple adding new protags etc.
I'm kinda baffled what to read more, read Lotus Flower, waiting for final Baru book whenever that would show up, other fantasy series finished.
There's really no book left to read with lesbian/bi into females protag set in fantasy/sci-fi setting anymore. Or I can't find anything going by "lesbian" tag anymore.

>>4340568
Oh, I meant more in the sense that she's a productive author and I don't particularly like that series so I'm hoping one of the few f/f things we do get next year are other works from her

>>4340563
Baru and TLT are still ongoing. TOWEM ostensibly has a sequel in production (for the last 5yrs). I have hopes for another Priory novel. Jasmine Throne just wrapped up and I'll get to it eventually.

The Unbroken is hot garbage

It's been a long few years waiting for the last Baru book. No peep from Seth at all.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/04/t-magazine/lesbian-pulp-fiction.html

>>4340867
>Baru and TLT are still ongoing
yeah I went to check on that too.
Lo and behold, goodreads gives alecto the ninth an average 4.43/5 rating with 211 ratings and 114 reviews.

For a book that is not finished writing yet.

lmao

>>4341033
If anything that is low, it will be a 5 please Tamsyn

>>4341014
I wish there was some stuff like Reckless from Brubaker that while playing straight, lol, with pulp rules they are pretty on the money as modern action stories...but lesbionic.
But talking about the less action part of Pulp, Perfume and Pain is 100% a lesPulp but modern and L.A based.

>>4340867
I totally forgot TLT wasn't finished, lmao

Sup, /u/.
I need some books that read like 80s paperback bodice rippers but with lesbians. Unrealistic situations, romanticized abuse, literotica-worthy descriptions of sex, all of it. Doesn't have to be particularly well written as long as the spirit is there. No heterosexualism.

>>4340222
juicysecrets is where they post now

>>4337359
I'm about half way through. I just finished the first Gwen and Bridget kiss scene, it was so good. I was listening to it at work on audio and the lady I worked with asked why I had a huge smile on my face. I need more of this. Looks like this author has another book released this year I might have to check that out as well.

>>4341550
what

>>4341494
Glad to hear you're enjoying it. I actually had no idea the author had a new book but it looks good so i'll read it too. seems like similar vibes

I wonder what happened to Siera Maley, Taking Flight was one of my favorite books when I started reading. Seeing anons talk about newer series here makes me feel nostalgic for the older threads.

>>4342284
Her goodreads was still active in 2023 so I think she just stopped writing. Yeah it's sad, I liked her books as well. even reread taking flight recently

Do you guys have any good Christmas recommendations? I won't be with family this year I need something to get me in the Christmas mood.

>>4342621
a small tree?

Undercurrent by Patricia Evans

It's the classic mystery/thriller where a police team are trying to stop a serial killer but...I've never read a book like this.

This book reads as if there's a prequel and double the chapters. Things happen and characters talk about things that are never mentioned before or after the fact. For example, in one of the first chapters, 2 characters are chased randomly by a bear and this is never mentioned after. Characters talk about their past in bits and pieces and never explain the full thing. Also, one of the characters is a fucking psychic in a not-fantasy book for whatever reason, and the way it's written in the story is out of nowhere and no one even questions it, like its a normal thing to be expected. There are characters with supposedly badass backgrounds and professional abilities and all they do in the story is housework.

The ending is also abrupt and unfulfilling and leaves a lot of questions unanswered.

10/10, wouldn't trade for a mushroom trip.

>>4342284
I loved taking flight too. Anyone read colorblind ? Apparently it's her best book but I'm scared of the ending... I hate bad ends.

>>4342621
in recent recs I read "when you least expect it" by haley cass and loved it. it's not purely a christmas book, but it spans over a year and starts and ends with the holiday season.

also a few threads ago an anon mentioned "make the season bright" by ashley herring blake, but afaik no one has reported back on it since so I dunno.

>>4341777
Finished it. I wasn't that into the final 20% of the book. It felt way too rushed, like a bunch of shit went down, when I just wanted more romance. Feels like we didn't really get any closure at the end, like it was setting up for a sequel. I still enjoyed it for the most part though. I liked the characters, I just wish the author had focused more on the romance.
Also not a fan of making Arthurian characters gay, that was kind of unnecessary if you weren't even really going to do anything about it. Just felt like it was an excuse to call off the wedding and let the gay characters live happily ever after.

>>4342832
>Colorblind
That was the one with the girl who could see when someone would die right? Don't worry, it has a happy ending.

Random stuff ...

Don Hilton - The Quicks, the Deads, and Me
Quite unique story about a female serial killer grooming a "questioning" teen. Obviously rather fucked up. Has a supernatural element which is basically about a ghost-like being watching what's going on with the two (clearly not quite understand what humans are).

I think the supernatural bits kinda just distract instead of adding anything. And you'll also relatively quickly understand where this is going which gives a bit of an uncomfortable "why bother" vibe. But yeah, solidly done and definitely something different.

Sandra Barret - Racing the Dawn
Vampire accidentally kills her shitty neighbor, then tries to get rid of his body. Flirts with a firefighter along the way (or the firefighter with her anyway).

I read this before but couldn't remember what happened beyond the initial premise ... weeeeell, nothing is the answer. So it wasn't that I didn't remember, it's just that it's about hiding the body and once she succeeds that's it, story over. There's a sequel now so maybe that offers something worthwhile but otherwise this simply isn't doing much.

Sophie Whittemore - Catch Lili Too
Immortal siren arrives in a small town where a serial killer is murdering others (mostly monsters but not just?). Of course gets roped into trying to help out ...

... probably had the most potential here but doesn't come together. First of all, the plot loses all weight with the constant quips and carelessness of everyone involved. Eh, someone's murdered, whatever! Second, the romance comes absolutely out of nowhere. I have not often seen a pair with less chemistry. Lastly, the mystery and ending was just random "suddenly we know how to proceed" until arriving at the finale, no interesting plot progression at all.

Bit of a Christian slant to the ending didn't exactly make me like that any more either. Still kiiiinda messily entertaining, but could have been much better.

>>4325781
Motion to update this image to drop the cringy Avatar novelizations and add Hiyodori instead.

>>4325779
what are must read yuri/lesbian books ?

>>4344968
motion to add Criers War/Iron Heart

>>4325781
Also speaking of this image, is Nevernight actually worth it? The second book is always extremely highly rated but is it worth suffering through the het in book one?

>>4345005
The Locked Tomb

>>4344968
the avatar novelizations are fantastic

Hiyodori's stuff reads like a webnovel

>>4345029
arguable, different people will have different degrees of tolerance. Just read the first chapter, it literally starts with MC losing her virginity to a male prostitute, if you can stomach that everything else is peanuts. For what it's worth, it's a good fantasy series in general

>>4345050
>Hiyodori's stuff reads like a webnovel
In the sense that the fantasy world is vaguely anime-influenced, yes. In all other ways, no.

>>4344968
The Avatar novels are genuinely well written, well paced fantasy action with central f/f.

The Hiyodori books are also well written, albeit very often following similar relationship dynamics, but good scifi all the same.

They're both good.

>>4345087
In the sense of being rushed, heavily plot-driven, with barebones description and characterization and no attention for secondary characters.

Reverence by Milena McKay

I really liked this book. It's a rivals to lovers kinda book where two ballerinas in the 80's are fighting for a position. My only complaint about this book is that in the last arc I had to apply a huge suspension of disbelief because the things that happen are really not what you expect from reading the rest of the book.

Also, another really good book by this author is A Whisper of Solace, I didn't realize it at first when I was reading the latest one but It makes sense because the author writing is really nice.

>>4344968
> 3 of the series on the chart include het, including the whole (100%) first nevernight book. In case it wasn't clear enough : a FULL HET book is on the top /u/ fantasy sticky.
> one of the series feature exactly zero (0) romance
> two (2) will never be finished (thanks seth and casey !)

> motion to drop one of the very few good,
purely /u/ and actually complete fantasy series out of the rec list.

sasuga /u/.

Finally gave that Locked Tomb series a try cause there's really nothing else to read anymore as fanatsy goes, and it was so hard to get into first book, but over time it hooked me up and now I'm at 3/4 and liking it.
Only minus for me is sticking to it fully knowing after reading spoilers it has zero girl x girl on-screen romance in it in any released books so far. There is some teasing and Gideon clearly is into girls, but that is so little. I don't really understand why her and Harrow didn't kiss yet with all that tension between the two.

>>4345263
Idk why this narrative exists, it does have romance. Obviously it does, you identify the tension. The entire series is in many ways centered around the (explicitly romantic not platonic) relationships between women and one of the biggest themes is different types of dysfunctional love and how they drive the characters to act in certain ways. What it doesn't have is on screen sexuality. It's more along the lines of old school yuri manga slow burn when no one kisses until the final chapter. And that's no even fully true because book two has an f/f sex scene, it's the bone arm scene it's downright pornographic. The author even confirmed it was intended to be read that way. Listen to Moira Quirk voice act it in the audiobook ffs it's undeniably pure smut

It's like saying Madoka (one of the biggest /u/ relevant works of the decade when it released) doesn't have /u/ in it because Homura and Madoka don't fuck despite one of the central pillars of the story being Homura's unhealthy obsession with Madoka and her toxic self destructive love making her do extreme things.

Anyway, just stick with it, it's totally worth it even regardless of /u/ content. Book 2 is by far the best it's so good. I didn't get into book 1 right away either, I wasn't sure if I loved it or hated it until after reading book 2 and rereading book 1 with foresight, now it's my favorite series ever its not even close.

>>4345029
No, it's pretty shit. The writing is maximum edgelord tier, and there's these annoying footnotes all throughout the books.

>>4344968
how about replacing nevernight instead? even ignoring the het it's incredibly cringe writing. seriously don't know why that was added to the list

I also said in the last thread that Nevernight should've never been included in the list, it it is there then series like The Grave of Empires should be considered too.

The Hyodori books are superior in every sense.

I greatly enjoyed Nevernight. It's edgelord as fuck and the prose can be excessive, but it's all very purposeful. It has character.

>>4345087
in the sense it feels clumsy and amateurish. Nothing against webnovels (I love APGTE) but it doesn't belong up there. I might give it another shot when I have time but it just wasn't fun to read. First person does it no favors

>>4345362
>>4345374
Shut the fuck up. Its yuri content is excellent and the ending is completely /u/. I'd take that over some garbage with "lesbian charcters" but absolutely no romance

>>4345029
it's super edgy but surprisingly fun
the surprise yuri was the cherry on top

>>4345487
Can you read it by completely skipping first not/u/ book?

>>4345293
>it does have romance...if you read it in a certain way
>you identify the tension
lmao

>It's like saying Madoka doesn't have /u/ in it
Madoka has a direct, blunt, on-screen love confession, love is the whole core of the story, everything revolves around it, it's not just some tension in the background of otherwise unrelated genre slop.

>>4345522
I can't help you if you're unable to comprehend anything more subtle than a jackhammer. You clearly didn't understand even 20% of what you read if you unironically believe the nonsense you're writing. Love is very obviously the whole core of TLT's story too you illiterate baboon, just as much as Madoka if not moreso.

>>4345511
I suppose you could. Just read a summary of the first one. The story is not terribly complicated. Iirc there's a characters list in every tome, so that should be helpful.

Anyone read Hearing Red by Nicole Maser?
Worth it?

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Started reading this. p good so far. I was getting red flags early because one of the girls is a multimillionaire Hollywood actor but she gets brought down a few pegs pretty early. Typical fake dating YA but it's pretty comfy so far.

>>4345511
i wouldn't recommend skipping the first book

>>4345393
>First person does it no favors
You have some kind of problem with first-person stories?

>>4345487
Does the writing improve in the second and third books? I started reading book 1 but only got about half way because I was really losing motivation to get through it. Normally I can read something with only het to get to /u/ but I think the aggressive amount of het combined with the edgy writing was putting me off. the sex scenes just felt like the authors weird sexual fantasies and i honestly can't imagine the /u/ being written that well even if it's there

>>4345802
writing quality is about the same although I remember prose getting better in the second book. That might be because the 2nd book is honestly excellent and when the /u/ starts so I might be biased there. Then again I enjoyed all the footnotes and worldbuillding in book 1.

>>4345597
>i wouldn't recommend skipping the first book
After reading first paragraph I don't see a single reason why to bother with it.

>>4345747
First person is generally worse and more amateurish than third person. This is a fact. This is not to say first person can never be good, but my expectations are already lower the moment I see "I"

It's amazing to me how anons ITT will vigorously shill and defend a series that opens with a het sex scene but then turn around and shit on the locked tomb I can only understand it as pure contrarianism

>>4346031
>This is a fact
X

Has anyone read Benjamin Medrano stuff? Seems like he's quite prolific but I've never heard of him. Is it all trash or is there anything worth reading?

Starting reading Harrow book 2, is the Body in Harrow mind Gideon soul? Or it's someone else? Cause in that one chapter set before events of the first book some entity is already present in Harrow mind.

>>4346214
He always writes the same story dressed up slightly differently, essentially.

You got an OP flawless heroine, a harem of interested lesbians, and the evil guys are about sexually corrupting someone (who then reluctantly accepts that they are now really horny and corrupt).

I found his original Ancient Dreams interesting. A lot of it was about potential, and not so much about what was actually realized, but at leas that's something.
Beesong Chronicles is the one that stands out a bit in that it's a lighter comedy and (at least as I remember) not doing the usual stuff, so that wasn't too bad either.
Nothing else I have of his I've taken a look at I can remotely justify recommending.

>>4346385
Do you want the actual answer? It will become a little more clear as it goes on but The Body is referring to the woman frozen inside the locked tomb that Harrow is in love with if you remember from the pool scene in book 1. Is she really there? Is Harrow crazy? Is something else going on? Read further and figure it out yourself.

>>4345293
>has an f/f sex scene, it's the bone arm scene it's downright pornographic
for anyone wondering, it's a scene where the MC severs the arm of a character and regrows its bones and nerves. that's it. I mean yeah, it's definitely written with an erotic/BDSM lexicon because the characters are into it (they're necromancers), but don't go in there expecting an actual sex scene.

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Metal From Heaven - by August Clarke

Follows Marney, a child working in a factory. Her entire family gets killed in a riot. She's adopted by bandits and turns out to have the power to manipulate ichorite, the titular magic metal. The book follows her revenge quest to kill the factory owner that killed her parents. First half follows her childhood and her upbringing with the bandits, second half switches gears into a political marriage/intrigue/courtship game subplot.

Main theme is class warfare. The book is huge on socialism. All the factory workers are oppressed, all the factory owners are capitalists who only care about making money. The bandits are Robin Hood-types who redistribute wealth to the poor.

Whether you'll like this book depends 100% on whether you like the prose. It's incredibly flowery and poetic. Think This is How You Lose the Time War but not as good. It frequently delves into stream-of-consciousness (the book is first person and actually goes into second person often). I like flashy prose so I enjoyed it, but I am admittedly most likely in the minority.

Overall, the book is alright. The world-building is poor. All the secrecy surrounding ichorite is never fully explored. The characters are mediocre. Marney herself is likeable, but the side cast is bloated and none of the side characters have enough screentime to endear yourself to them. In fact I'm struggling to think of even one noteworthy side character. The plot is fine but ending is atrocious.

Overall, if you don't love the prose, it's not worth reading.

There is no het at all. In fact, there's even a plot contrivance to explain why every single important character is a lesbian. The book starts off tame but gets into a fair number of casual sex scenes towards the end with hints of BDSM and polyamory.

>>4345561
Finished this. It was a lot better than I thought it would be. Good character development, comfy Christmas vibes, some good drama. Highschool romance where one of the girls is a super famous hollywood actress. I wasn't a huge fan of her early on. She was kind of a mess mentally and it was implied early on that she was sleeping with a new girl every night which was a nope from me but she grew on me. I recommend it, good Christmas romance.

>>4347766
Ive been wanting to read this one, very sad to hear its first person.

>>4348013
>very sad to hear its first person.
Wait until you find out how much of the literary canon is written in first person, you might kill yourself.

>>4348322
I just don't like it, 9 times out of 10 its insufferable.

>>4345555
Just finished it. I personally loved it, but be warned, its a slow burn. The character POVs from the blind girl's perspective were interesting. One hell of an ending though, goddamn.
I'm going to read her other book next.

Are there any other literary or modernist lesbian novels besides Nightwood and Notes of a Crocodile?

>>4346527
I read the 2nd book and I know less than I knew before starting it.
So Gideon is daughter of some Wake woman and God? Or the old Gideon who was a soul of dead woman cavalier?
The woman who is asleep in tomb is Alecto meaning God cavalier?
Where the hell Harrow soul landed in? Did Gideon and Harrow souls joined as one being in the end epiloque?
I started readin book 3 but it seems to be not connected much to first 2 at all.
Also Ianthe needs a gf or her sister back to fuck.

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Anyone has read this?

>>4351961
That's a beautiful cover.

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>>4352358
Just read pic related from them (it was more my cup of tea than toxic relationships and I did not find the rotting hound onlline), I thought it was pretty okay to good. Mainly a goddess falls in love with a female human while doing miracles until the plot kicks in. Though the dialogue read more like a play than anything, and, if I were to hazard a guess, many would find Avery (human female lead) pretty annoying (I didn't).

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>>4352374
sam farren sure does tend to write weird/atypical shit. only read pic related. nice prose, cool worldbuilding and I liked the unreliable narrator, but it's overall a weird experience. also a lot of trans/non binary stuff if I recall correctly, which might put some people off.

got good taste in covers too.

>>4345555
Also just finished it. I think it's worth a read.

>>4351817
It's so chaotic that it's hard to understand everything on the first pass for sure. If you ever get around to rereading the first two books it's like an entirely different book seriously, with hindsight you're able to notice so many things and actually understand what's going on much better. The audiobooks are god tier, worth just going back and listening to them at some point. Some of your questions will be expanded on more in book 3 (it is related it ties back in) but brief overview:
Gideon was the daughter of God and Wake who was the leader of Blood of Eden (a terrorist group). Mercy stole God's cum and they tired to use it to artificially grow a baby but they all died so Wake used herself. They needed the blood of God to open the tomb wards, she was going to just kill baby Gideon at the door and use the blood but she was hunted down and killed by Gideon the lyctor before getting to the ninth house. In book 1 remember Gideon's mom fell from the upper atmosphere in a haz suit with the baby and it was a mystery where she came from, and the ghost just yelled Gideon when contacted. That's not her name she was saying who killed her. + Harrow was able to open the tomb that day because she had just fought with Gideon and had her blood under her fingernails from clawing her face. + Gideon's longsword is originally Gideon the Lyctor's, Wake's revenant was haunting it because it was the murder weapon and she was able to transfer to Cytherea's corpse when she was stabbed.
Yes it's basically impossible to get all that on the first pass.
Yes the woman in the tomb is Alecto, God's cavalier(?). Who is she? You can figure it out from hints in books one and two but it is a major plot point in book 3 at which point it is explicitly spelled out.
The location of Gideon and Harrow's souls is currently tbd. This is also a major plot thread in book 3. The epilogue is a hint but also a red herring.

>>4352631
Damn, can't wait for 4th Alecto book to fuck it up even more.

>>4352632
Also I will add, have you read the short story As Yet Unsent that is at the end of book 2? It includes some important plot information

Anyone read The Mask of Mirrors by M.A. Carrick?
Seems some pseudo fantasy series with femMC and LGBT tag, anyone knows something more if its safe girl x girl wise or it's more similiar to have explict bi MC?

>>4345213
Sounds kinda interesting, but from the looks of it seems like another le Soviet Union bad propaganda piece.

>>4353095
I had the same thoughts while reading it and it's clearly writing that way but the author comments in the end her personal experience (well, her grandma experience) with that so it felt more personal than political.

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Finished reading The Lotus Empire by Tasha Suri and it did not disappoint. The ending was a bit of an asspull, but I forgive it because I liked the main characters that much. The author even managed to make the side character chapters interesting this time. Definitely best book I read 2024 (which admittedly isn't a long list).

>>4347766
I'm not surprised the author cites End of Evangelion as one of her inspirations, that ending sure was someting.

>>4353260
good to know, I've been meaning to get around to this

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Peace, anons! I was wonder about /u/ related stuff which take place in Eastern Europe in Cold War or after Soviet Union collapsing (90s). Any recs? I love this setting in literature since I lived in Poland for several years.

Did something happen to ebooks drm recently? There's been a drought of uploads on mobilism/annas-archive.

>>4353537
you know how we end this book? if we make the MC unconscious during all of it then narrate it later

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What the fuck is this?

>>4355008
lmao she doesnt know about chuck tingle already
loool

>>4339903
I was the anon who asked, thank you!!

Where is the outlander /u/? Without all the rape shit.

Any books with culture clash? Preferably set in the real world.

>It’s not Baru 4, and it’s not Exordia 2 (if such a beast ever comes to pass), and in fact it’s work for hire for an IP. It also wasn’t supposed to be a novel — the contract was for a novella, I just went badly over the word count.

>But this is still a big deal for me. I wrote this book in just a few months, while holding down a full time job, at a steady sustainable pace, without any great suffering or psychic distress. I did engage in some of my worst habits (throwing everything out and starting over; going very long) but they did not stop me from hitting the deadline. It’s really rebuilt some of my confidence. I feel more certain I can finish the books I owe you all, and less afraid that I’ll vanish into a hole of self-punishment for years like I did with Baru 2 and 3.

>I know it’s disappointing and frustrating that I haven’t had firm news on Baru 4, but I promise that I fully intend and hope to deliver a good book. And this is some evidence that I will succeed.


Our Lord and Savior Seth Dickinson is cooking. Hype train leaving the station

>>4340530
>It's just Code Geass if Lelouch was a closeted lesbian
I would absolutely 100% read the FUCK out of that. In fact that's my dream novel right there

>The only thing is has going for it over TLT is the absolute brass balls of the author to go through with that book one ending.
It's a 10/10 ending, don't deny it. The other thing it has going for it is that it has actually explicit on-text lesbian romance, which TLT does not

>>4356699
while I agree and liked both books, I find it appaling that two of the biggest /u/ series had to rely on the fucking bury your gays trope to sell their first book.

I guess it's a controversial opinion, but while I agree baru book 1 has an excellent ending, it would have been perfect for a stand alone or maybe a two part tragedy.
But having such a "strong" character killed off in such an intense scene right at the end of book 1 pretty much killed my hype. Like, how do you top that ? How do you lead your series to a climax even more intense ? Feels like death note after L's death, it was bland and pointless, he should have had the balls to stop there.

At least TLT has necromancers and shit so you can cling on the hope for characters to return, so I guess there's that.

Does anyone know where I could find "Stolen or Saved" by S.W. Brew? I read it a few months ago and it was the hottest thing ever. But it's not on amazon anymore :(

>>4356736
>I guess it's a controversial opinion, but while I agree baru book 1 has an excellent ending, it would have been perfect for a stand alone or maybe a two part tragedy.
Pretty much everyone agrees the first Baru book is the best and way better than everything else that came after it. An example of wider scope not always being better.

>>4356699
It is a great ending, exceptional even. But that's really the main thing it has going for it, the writing quality is mediocre at best and the only actual "romance" is the worst woman in the world fucking prostitutes to forget about how much of a bad person she is, TLT unironically has more romance elements than Baru.

Don't get me wrong the series is very entertaining as junk food reading but the quality and polish is just not on the same level at all. The characters except Baru aren't at all memorable or interesting and the actual prose borders on straight up bad. TLT did a lot of the same things Baru did but just better across the board. The best thing about the series is Baru being unrepentantly awful and too egotistical to even realize it, it's a really fun dynamic

>>4357153
>the writing quality is mediocre at best
>the actual prose borders on straight up bad

I cannot fathom how caveman you have to be to believe this. Baru's greatest draw is the beauty of its prose. Lush, evocative, powerful, filled with excellent turns of phrase, without being excessive. It's fucking poetry. It has hands-down the greatest prose of any /u/ novel (it actually has my favorite prose of all time) and I will fight you for it. Muir's prose is good - maybe even great - but it's comparing a student to a master.

>>4325779
Links update.

ZLibrary
>https://z-library.sk/
Library Genesis
>https://libgen.li/index.php

>>4357164
It just randomly changes tense and person constantly mid chapter, it doesn't work at all. Every time I got suddenly thrown into a Xate Yawa or that other crazy bitch POV section I just wanted to put the book down. And its painfully repetitive at times, nonstop telling instead of showing and exposition dumps. The first like 4 chapters of each sequel are like beat for beat recap episodes of the previous book. It's very noticeable when reading them back to back instead of as they released. Like I don't even think it's stylistically bad necessarily, but it's the rare book that's poorly written on a fundamental technical level, I don't know how it got past a professional editor.

Like I said I still enjoyed the series and am looking forward to the ending, but it's just not on the same level. And for what it's worth, Harrow the Ninth is pretty good as far as prose is concerned but the other couple books I wouldn't necessarily rate as S tier in that department either.

>>4357258
The sequels yeah I'll give you that. But the prose in the first Baru book is pristine. It's laser-tight, nothing wasted, very much like the plot. The prose in the sequels still have Seth Dickinson's signature flair but don't have that pristine quality. The switch from first and 3rd person POV also does annoy me.

Comparing prose between Baru and TLT is honestly impossible. Maybe Gideon can be compared since that's the most straight-forward of the series, but after that Muir's writing goes into absurd territory. She tells a complicated plot in the most most complicated way possible and purposely tries to make things more confusing. Harrow is nigh incomprehensible. Nona is slightly more comprehensible but for 70% of the way through it you're scratching your head wondering WTF is going on.

>>4327760
The Conquering of Tate the Pious, by Sierra Simone. A historical romance about an English nun and a French invader.
The Secret Chord, by Virginia Hale. Two teachers working in the small Catholic school where they were raised.
This Above All, by Nicole Pyland. One of the mains is a pastor's daughter and religion plays a pretty big part in her life.

>>4342832
>a few threads ago an anon mentioned "make the season bright" by ashley herring blake, but afaik no one has reported back on it since so I dunno.
It's definitely a ymmv. The characters are messy and make less than mature decisions, the drama is dramatic. It's also a second chance romance, which is not everyone's cup of tea. I happen to like that kind of heightened drama, but again, ymmv. I think if you liked Delilah Green or any of the sequels you'll probably have a good time. It's more of what AHB likes to write, but with the dial turned up.

>>4357164
>It has hands-down the greatest prose of any /u/ novel

That's like being the worlds tallest midget.

>>4357409
I've read a lot of sci-fi/fantasy even outside of /u/ and Seth Dickinson's prose blows all of them out of the water. Compared to popular authors like GRRM, Stephen King, Brandon Sanderson, etc. it's not even close. Even the more well-regarded author like NK Jemisin's 5th season, I prefer Dickinson's prose (although that might be I just didn't like fifth season).

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The Duke's Sister and I by Emma-Claire Sunday

Really nice historical romance book. The characters are interesting and the slow burn romance is a great read.
I was afraid of the ending considering the setting but it actually has a good one. No het also (besides the arranged marriage plot).

Can someone recommend lit that's not written originally in English? Nothing against it, but 99% of recs are from British or American writers it seems. Or sometimes Japanese authors. If you have something written originally in German, French, Dutch, etc I'd love to hear recs

>>4359746
I can only remember the Engelsfors trilogy...

I need something good to read or I'm gonna freak.

>>4361096
Otherside Picnic.
I know this isn't the light novel thread but I'm recommending it anyway if you haven't read it and if anyone has a problem, I don't care, fuck you.

>>4361096
Read Hegel.

>>4361809
The Phenomenology of Yuri

>>4361096
alright fuck you here we go

fingersmith, gearbreakers, bitterthorn, not my problem, I kissed shara wheeler, malice book 1, alpennia series book 1, taking flight, tipping the velvet, 6 times we almost kissed, and playing the role of herself, both avatar books, gideon the ninth, baru 1st book, her name in the sky, the last true poets of the sea, colorblind, when you least expect it, delilah green doesn't care, into the forest, the abyss surrounds us, this is how you lose the time war, bloody rose, last night at the telegraph club, the goodmans, poppy jenkins and other clare ashton books, interference, backwards to oregon, most of robin alexander's diabetes inducing romances.

and I'm not even sorry for that list, fuck y'all.