#A.J. Lancaster

[orchid-merryweather]

Currently reading the Sariel series (currently on The King Of Faerie) and it is seriously UNFAIR that nobody knows this series. There's not even other freaks on Tumblr foaming at the mouth over it. You can't find fans for this ANYWHERE. Bro I'm SOBBING fucking hyperventilating about Rakken and Marius and I haven't even gotten to their book yet it's NOT FAIR because these books are so good and I can't find any fandom material about it!! God, do I have to make all the fandom shitposts about these books myself? Because I'll fucking do it. A fandom comprising of me myself and I. At this point I'm starting to wonder if me and myself hallucinated this book when I wasn't looking

Anyway take this as a book recommendation I need people to talk to about these books or else I'll actually go insane thanks

[stariel-posting]

I simply cannot stop making side blogs, it seems. My main is @orchid-merryweather so you can call me Orchid!

I won't cease to post about the Stariel quartet on my main, (quite the contrary), but any post I make about the books on my main will be reblogged to here. A place for all three people in this fandom to discuss the books!

Feel free to send me an ask, or a message though I would prefer an ask, to chat with me about the books!

(Asks and tags stuff, lists and ect. Below the cut 👇)

Send me asks! Anything! PLEASE! Ask me my opinion on any ship, tell me about your headcannons, anything, I'd be glad to receive it! Also, request me ANY fic ideas you come up with and I'll write at least a chapter about it to post to my AO3. My writing may not be good, but I try my best.

(any ask games I reblog in the near future I will link here)

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shadowcatsmere: the ship name I invented for Catsmere x Sunnika, (see this post)

It's a tragic thing that there exists so little a fandom for this series! It's seriously amazing and I need more people to know about it. While I have you here, let me recommend you the few (litteraly only two in existence that I could find) fics people have written for these amazing books:

Stormcrow, Shepherd Us by Rikku on AO3, an amazing fic of Irokoi x Penharrow. I didn't understand the appeal of the ship before, but I sure did after I read the fic. I'm still crying over it.

And uhm. I'm writing a very normal definitely not mpreg fic about Marius and Rakken that currently has three chapters posted as I'm writing this, it's called Yet Another Half Faerie Child and my AO3 handle is Orchid_Merryweather.

[wonder-worker]

"The late medieval nobility were not always gleefully ganging up on the king. On the contrary, a lord with pretensions of dominance would find his severest critics among his fellow nobles, who seem on the whole to have considered an inept king infinitely preferable to a colleague wielding excessive power. The isolation of Richard of York in the 1450s can be paralleled in the fourteenth century by Thomas of Lancaster, whose assumption of dominance in opposition to Edward II was much disliked, in spite of the king's own unpopularity."

-Rosemary Horrox, "Personalities and Politics", The Wars of the Roses (Problems in Focus), edited by A.J Pollard

[bookishmeow]

I do fanart for not dragon age things sometimes. This is for a book I read recently. The Lord of Stariel by A.J Lancaster was the perfect cozy fantasy romance I needed. Life has been a bit stressful recently and Hetta being just as stressed but doing her best really hit me when I needed it.

I am trying some new art nouveau/tarot card styles(ala dragon age >_>) so I had this idea in my head about a piece for this book. The main character is basically trapped between two worlds (metaphysically and mentally) and burdened with a choice. So I wanted to represent two sides she has to choose from in this piece with the purple and green. Also she's can use magic, specifically fire! So of course I had to add that in. Also featuring the star of Stariel haha

I really enjoyed it and have a few more in the series to work through!

[annabanannabeth]

A Rake of His Own by A.J. Lancaster: Just finished this book and fell in love with it!! Gaslamp fantasy with incredible atmosphere, main character is a botany doctoral student, m/m romance with a fae prince he finds infuriating as they investigate a murder. (technically part of a series since it’s set in the same universe, but can easily be read as a standalone, which is what i did, but then i loved it so much im gonna read the others now too lol)

listen I ended up regretting saying anything about this on my old blog because people will interpret literally any and every statement maliciously on this hellsite but I want to start like. a helpline for people who are like “hey I pretty much only read YA but I’m like 22 now and don’t relate to teenagers as much, it’s such a shame that there are no fun books written for adults :(” because boy HOWDY are there some fun books for adults 

[looosey]

Literary London: A Brief History of Britain

Literary London is a month intensive on all of English (english meaning british) literature, and I thought that I would've benefitted from a better historical understanding of the place first and foremost. Because I suggested it myself, this journal entry will be my notes on the youtube video: "History of Britain in 20 Minutes" by A.J. Merrick. Feel free to follow along!

UK: England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland

2500 BCE pre-Celtic Beaker Culture (ceramics), Stonehenge calendar

500 BCE Celtic tribes from the continent come and spread over entire island

40 CE Romans invade England and Wales and establish "Caledonia," and add "Britannia" to Roman Empire

410 CE, Romans leave and Germanic tribes (Anglos, Saxons, etc) invade and establish seven kingdoms

800 CE: battles and break up the kingdom + Vikings come and conquer, and battle and conquer

900 CE: Anglo-saxons beat the last of Vikings and establish first king

1000 CE: Danish briefly takeover (Norse language), then the Welsh Kingdom takes over, but Welsh king was killed

1066 CE: Battle of Hastings

1100 CE: Henry the II starts beef with france

1200 CE: Magna Carta, even the king are subject to the law

1300 CE: Scotland struggles but maintains independence, scotland king becomes ruler of france?

1300 CE: Britain claims france in 100 years war?

1377 CE: King Edward dies and House of York and Lancaster beef for the throne

1450 CE: War of roses between the two houses

1480 CE: Tudor England,

1530 CE: Henry VIII splits with the church for his Divorce, gave Wales representation, controls some of Ireland, kills 100s of people in paranoia

1580 CE: During Queen Elizabeth I's rule, the most powerful kingdom is Spanish Kingdom, and Spanish and England start battling, William Shakespeare is born

1603 CE: James I of England from Scotland takes over after Elizabeth dies

1607 CE: Jamestown, and other colonies, and start of Translantic Slave trade (for three hundred years)

1640 CE: Charles I, Ireland land just given to rich owners, English Civil War, Charles is killed and Oliver Cromwell dissolves monarchy

1645 CE: Charles II restores monarchy, wife introduces tea

1680 CE: Glorious Revolution, protestant William III invades and takes throne from unpopular catholic king James II

1700 CE: United Kingdom, union of England and Scotland, end of the House of Stuarts as King George I takes throne

1760 CE: Several European wars (War of Spanish Succession, 7 years), got more land in America, and debt (taxes the colonies)

1776 CE: American War of Independence

East Indian Company, high trade, and growing opium in Bengal

1770 CE: James Cooke colonizes Australia, sends convicts

1810 CE: Napoleon Bonaparte tries to invade Britain and fails

Victorian Era

1845 CE: potato famine in Ireland, which had joined England but were forced to export all they had

1860 CE: Revolt of workers in Company fail in India, thus England takes over the company at Queen Victoria's rule

Industrial Revolution: train, steam engine, telegraph, sewage

Education and industry company

Fish and Chips on the rise

1880 CE: Europeans try to divide Africa amongst themselves, and Britain uses concentration camps against the women and children in South African Dutch settlers who resisted

1914 CE: early player of First World War

1921 CE: height of English empire, and Ireland became free

1942 CE: Second World War II, Winston Churchill led to Allied victory, Alan Turing decoded scripts, India declared Independence (Mahatma Gandhi), Commonwealth of Nations for 53 members of the old colonized nations

1997 CE: Hong Kong was their last colony, returned to China

2016: 52% voted and left the European Union

[storyxonline]

A Rake of His Own by A.J. Lancaster – AudioGals

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[megsbooklr]

Monthly Reading Plans: May 2023

read The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle ✅

read The Hands of Revenge by J.F. Lee ✅

read Stormbringer by Kafka Asagiri ✅

read 55 Minutes by Kafka Asagiri ✅

read The Lord of Stariel by A.J. Lancaster ✅

re-read Moriarty the Patriot volumes 1-14 ✅

read Aoharu x Kikanjuu vol. 1-2 by NAOE ✅

read Tokyo Aliens vol. 1 by NAOE ✅

read Bungou Stray Dogs BEAST vol. 1-4 ✅

read Into the Riverlands by Nghi Vo ▶️

keep reading The Snake and the Crane by Chichi (webnovel) ❌

keep reading Lore Olympus by Rachel Smythe (webtoon) ✅

finish reading Reprise II by Elfpen (fanfiction) ✅

[the-dust-jacket]

Since you've got Demon's Lexicon I'm guessing the Lynburn Legacy is already on your radar but if not please check it out posthaste!

Shadowshaper by Daniel José Older

The Curseworkers trilogy and The Folk of the Air series by Holly Black

The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater

So many books by Anna-Marie McLemore

The Brooklyn Brujas series by by Zoraida Cordova

These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong

Blood Debts and Blood Justice by Terry Benton-Walker

A Skinful of Shadows by Frances Hardinge

The Cecelia and Kate books by Patrica C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer

Descendant of the Crane by Joan He

A little farther from the brief:

The Court of Fives by Kate Elliot

The Darkness Outside Us and The Brightness Between Us by Eliot Schrefer

The Dark Lord of Derkholm by Diana Wynne Jones

So Let Them Burn by Kamilah Cole

Throwing in a few mainstream SFF titles:

The Goblin Emperor, by Katherine Addison (messy family drama on a dynastic level)

Lois McMaster Bujold's sprawling Vorkosigan Saga is deeply interested in familial drama and intergenerational history and historicizing, and definitely popular with younger readers; The Warrior's Apprentice is one of several good starting points and reads the most YA, but feel free to tag or DM for specific content warnings

The Lord of Stariel by A.J. Lancaster (super cute and doing fun things with big family drama)

Hey there's like 600 more of you than there were than the last time I asked so...anybody recommend me some fantasy or scifi YA books that feature a lot of family drama?

Specifically, I mean like multi-generational, established families. Usually when I get asked this I get a lot of recs about establishing a found family consisting of several peers. and those are great and I love them, but not what I'm looking for with this ask.

So far I have Liberty's Daughter and Demon's Lexicon.

Any thoughts?

[the-dust-jacket]

[howlsmovinglibrary]

The Lord of Stariel by A.J. Lancaster

Look, there is nothing deep about this book rec, it’s just such fucking good fun.

This is a gaslamp fantasy set in a turn-of-the-century pseudo-England with manor houses! and picnics! and judgemental relatives! oh, AND FAIRY PRINCES! Hetta Valstar - the disgraced daughter of the late Lord of Stariel, who got kicked out because she wanted to study illusion magic and wanted to wear trousers - returns to her ancestral seat to see who shall be magically selected as the heir to the mansion. Spoilers!! It’s her!!

If you like whimsical fantasies with practical heroines, this is definitely a fun read. Combines the writing style of the Howl’s Moving Castle book with the aesthetics of the Howl’s Moving Castle film.

Disgraced female heroine who ran away to the capital to pal around with her scandalous theatre friends who like, didn’t really want to inherit all the wealth, please and thank you.

Childhood-best-friend-turned-butler and - OH NO HE’S HOT NOW?!?!!!

Manor house mysteries! Inheritance intrigue! Magical succession hijinks! Also, just like... party planning?

Magic and electricity!

FAIRIES!!!

[aroaessidhe]

2020 reads // twitter

The Lord of Stariel

A girl returns to her family's estate after her father dies to partake in the magical ceremony to select the new Lord 

delightful and fun 

a mystery! 

faeries!!

[thereaderandthechef]

What will you be reading this weekend? 😍📚 . Today we’re excited to reveal the stunning cover of A RAKE OF HIS OWN by A.J. Lancaster! 🍂 This is a steamy m/m gaslamp fantasy featuring a melodramatic fae prince, a beleaguered botanist, and an enemies-to-lovers romance. It occurs chronologically after the events of The Stariel Quartet, but can be read as a standalone. Out on October 28th, 2022 from Camberion Press! . Author's note: I worked with a fantastic designer– Jenny Zemanek – for my Stariel Quartet, so it was a no-brainer to ask Jenny to do the cover for this spinoff novel too. My human lead, Marius, is a botanist, and large chunks of the book are set in and around the greenhouses of his university, so that was where the Victorian greenhouse and plant motif came from. The dandelions also feature in an important fae spell we get to see in this book. 📚  . 🍂INTL BOOKGIVE-AWAY!🍂 Win a paperback copy of The Lord of Stariel (book 1 in the Stariel quartet) to anywhere that Book Depository ships to.
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[courageous-pages]

How dare her father be dead when she was still so very angry at him?

The Lord of Stariel, A.J. Lancaster

[readingbooksinisrael]

Top 5 Wednesday: Judge a Book by its Cover

Everyone says not to judge a book by its cover, but what if you did? For this week’s prompt, go through your TBR and find the five most stunning covers you can!

Anna and the Swallow Man/Gavriel Savit

The Watchmaker of Filigree Street/Natasha Pulley

The Distance to Home/Jean Bishop

The Lord of Stariel/A.J. Lancaster

Before the Ever After/Jacqueline Woodson

[dashreads]

2021 Reading List

1. Radiance- Grace Draven ***

2. Eidolon- Grace Draven ***

3. Ippos King- Grace Draven ***

4. Dragon Tamer- Ophelia Silk **

5. Girl's Weekend- CM Nascosta ***

6. Cruel Prince- Holly Black *

7. Dark Wizard- Jeffe Kennedy **

8. Bright Familiar- Jeffe Kennedy **

9. Lover of Thorns & Holy Gods- Grace Draven *

10. The Martian- Andy Weir ***

11. That Time I got drunk and saved a Demon- Kimberly Lemming **

12. Project Hail Mary- Andy Weir ****

13. The Silmarillion- J.R.R. Tolkien *

14. The Lord of Stariel- A.J. Lancaster ****

15. The Prince of Secrets- A.J. Lancaster ****

16. The Court of Mortals- A.J. Lancaster ****

17. The King of Faerie- A.J. Lancaster ****

18. The Mabon Feast- CM Nascosta *

19. You Sexy Thing- Cat Rambo X

20. The Orc Wife- S.J. Sanders **

21. How to claim a Human mate- S.J. Sanders **

22. Trick or Orc- S.J. Sanders **

23. There Arose such a Clatter- CM Nascosta **

24. Sunday's Child- Grace Draven ***

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Favorites:

* it was good

** loved it

*** would read again and again

**** Can't stop thinking about it, won't stop thinking about it

Not a fan: X

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Top Reads of 2021:

The Lord of Stariel series and Project Hail Mary- I couldn't get enough of Stariel and I hope there will be more by AJ Lancaster because the series is amazing! Project Hail Mary is probably my favorite sci-fi right now. The story is amazing and I would just read through it again just for Rocky.

Didn't care for:

You Sexy Thing- it was alright but I felt lost a little bit half the time. It was interesting for sure but it sort of came off as rushed.

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2021 Guilty Pleasure Books:

Books I've read by S.J. Sanders and CM Nascosta

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2021 Favorite Authors:

AJ Lancaster

Grace Draven

Andy Weir

CM Nascosta

S.J. Sanders

Kimberly Lemming

Jeffe Kennedy

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Favorite Series:

The Wraith Kings Series by Grace Drave

The Lord of Stariel Series by AJ Lancaster