#Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan

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Another crosspost from my bookstagram! Full titles under the cut!

This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone -> The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson

Finna by Nino Cipri -> Several People Are Typing by Calvin Kasulke

Legendborn by Tracy Deon -> Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko

Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom -> Bad Girls by Camila Sosa Villada translated to English by Kit Maude

We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia -> Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan

The Ghosts of Rose Hill by RM Romero -> Funeral Songs for Dying Girls by Cherie Dimaline

Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon -> Lakewood by Megan Giddings

The Unbroken by CL Clark -> The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg -> The Gods of Tango by Caro De Robertis

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5 star reads of 2024 ↳ girls of fate and fury by natasha ngan

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Huge list of fantasy and science fiction books with lesbian characters!

Made by Kuropup from Reddit

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I finished Girls of Fate and Fury recently and I love them sm :') 💖

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LGTBQ+ Protagonist Book Recommendations

Mostly young adult, but they're still good and highly recommended. These are all mostly fantasy because that's all I read, so I hope you like fairies, and prince/princesses, and pirates!

Please feel to add your favorite recs to the list!

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

Captive Prince by C.S Pacat

Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

Sweet & Bitter Magic by Adriene Tooley

Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan

Huntress by Malinda Lo

Of Fire and Stars by Audrey Colthurst

Breaking Legacies by Zoe Reed

A Song of Silver and Gold by Melissa Karibian

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forgotten, unposted graphics series

Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan

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Round 2, Bracket 7

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Girls of Paper and Fire – Every year, eight girls are brought to serve the king and these girls are known as the paper girls. But Lei is the first ever nineth, and she is a girl of fire. When Lei was a girl, her mother was snatched by the castle and they came back for her, as her golden eyes piqued the interest of the king, as only monsters can have golden eyes, yet she is human. While learning how to serve the king in all sorts of ways, Lei falls in love with another Paper girl, a forbidden love in more ways than one.

Heaven’s Official Blessing – Crown prince of Heaven, Xie Lian is famous for his beauty, strength, and purity. After being banished from the Heaven’s once more, eight hundred years after his mortal life, Xie Lian has ascended to Godhood a third time, angering many. He is sent to the mortal realm to hunt demons and spirits, where he meets Hua Cheng and falls in love, without fully knowing him.

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Adding a his book into my currently reading rotation

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Why tf is there no girls of paper and fire and fandom im about to finish fate and fury and there’s no one to scream with pls

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Who do you want a valentine from?

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✨ SERIES REVIEW ✨

Girls of Paper and Fire series by Natasha Ngan

Girls of Paper and Fire: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Girls of Storm and Shadow: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Girls of Fate and Fury: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (not pictured because I borrowed an e-copy from the library)

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This series is so good!!! I was absolutely hooked and I devoured the whole series over three days.

Female rage, sapphics with swords, revenge and romance and friendship and love in all its complexities. What more could you want from a series?

Lei is such a headstrong, sweet, compassionate, fierce character. She’s so flawed, she makes so many mistakes, she often leads with her heart and not her head, and it’s absolutely impossible not to root for her. Everything she goes through only makes her stronger and the fact that the King can’t understand that is really his ultimate undoing.

I adored Wren as a love interest. She’s so flawed, shaped by her father and the role he’s prepared her to play. She does some truly awful things because they’re what he expects of her, but you can’t help but forgive her and love her anyway. Just like Lei. And getting Wren’s POV in the third book made me love her even more.

This book honestly has so many incredible characters that worm their way into your heart. We lose a few of those gems along the way and they absolutely broke my heart. These characters made me laugh and cry and roll my eyes. Bo, Lova, Chenna, Zhin, Zhen, Blue, Aoki, Lill, Merrin, Nitta…all of them were so varied and were given so much depth and I loved every moment spent with them.

Nitta being the kind of asexual who loves flirting and sex jokes but doesn’t actually want sex made me grin like a fool. Me! That’s me! I knew Nitta was my fave for a reason!

This series tackles some pretty heavy topics and I definitely recommend you check out the trigger warnings first.

But I seriously can’t recommend it enough. Go read it! Now!

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Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan

Title: Girls of Paper and FireAuthor: Natasha NganSeries: Girls of Paper and Fire #1Rating Out of 5: 4.5 (Amazing, but not quite perfect)My Bookshelves: Fantasy, LGBTQI, Young adultPace: FastFormat: NovelYear: 2018 This novel was extremely fucking brilliant. It took me a few chapters to truly want to know what was going to happen next, but then it felt like Girls of Paper and Fire was in my head…

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OMG I LOVE HER!!!!

Some more Girls of Paper and Fire art - I couldn’t not draw Wren like this…..

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We Set The Dark On Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia-

At the Medio School for Girls, distinguished young women are trained for one of two roles in their polarized society. Depending on her specialization, a graduate will one day run a husband’s household or raise his children, but both are promised a life of comfort and luxury, far from the frequent political uprisings of the lower class. Daniela Vargas is the school’s top student, but her bright future depends upon no one discovering her darkest secret—that her pedigree is a lie. Her parents sacrificed everything to obtain forged identification papers so Dani could rise above her station. Now that her marriage to an important politico’s son is fast approaching, she must keep the truth hidden or be sent back to the fringes of society, where famine and poverty rule supreme.

On her graduation night, Dani seems to be in the clear, despite the surprises that unfold. But nothing prepares her for all the difficult choices she must make, especially when she is asked to spy for a resistance group desperately fighting to bring equality to Medio. Will Dani cling to the privilege her parents fought to win for her, or to give up everything she’s strived for in pursuit of a free Medio—and a chance at a forbidden love?

Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan-

Each year, eight beautiful girls are chosen as Paper Girls to serve the king. It's the highest honor they could hope for...and the most demeaning. This year, there's a ninth. And instead of paper, she's made of fire.

In this richly developed fantasy, Lei is a member of the Paper caste, the lowest and most persecuted class of people in Ikhara. She lives in a remote village with her father, where the decade-old trauma of watching her mother snatched by royal guards for an unknown fate still haunts her. Now, the guards are back and this time it's Lei they're after -- the girl with the golden eyes whose rumored beauty has piqued the king's interest.

Over weeks of training in the opulent but oppressive palace, Lei and eight other girls learns the skills and charm that befit a king's consort. There, she does the unthinkable -- she falls in love. Her forbidden romance becomes enmeshed with an explosive plot that threatens her world's entire way of life. Lei, still the wide-eyed country girl at heart, must decide how far she's willing to go for justice and revenge.