#Hunger Pangs: True Love Bites

[queereads-bracket]

Queer Adult SFF Books Bracket: Round 1

Book summaries and submitted endorsements below:

The Murderbot Diaries series (All Systems Red, Artificial Condition, Rogue Protocol, Exit Strategy, Network Effect, Fugitive Telemetry, System Collapse, and other stories) by Martha Wells

Endorsement from submitter: "Asexual and agender main character. In later books side characters are revealed to be in poly relationship."

"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."

In a corporate-dominated space-faring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. For their own safety, exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids. But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn’t a primary concern.

On a distant planet, a team of scientists is conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied ‘droid--a self-aware SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module and refers to itself (though never out loud) as “Murderbot.” Scornful of humans, Murderbot wants is to be left alone long enough to figure out who it is, but when a neighboring mission goes dark, it's up to the scientists and Murderbot to get to the truth.

Science fiction, novella, series, adult

Hunger Pangs series (True Love Bites) by Joy Demorra

In a world of dwindling hope, love has never mattered more...

Captain Nathan J. Northland had no idea what to expect when he returned home to Lorehaven injured from war, but it certainly wasn't to find himself posted on an island full of vampires. An island whose local vampire dandy lord causes Nathan to feel strange things he'd never felt before. Particularly about fangs.

When Vlad Blutstein agreed to hire Nathan as Captain of the Eyrie Guard, he hadn't been sure what to expect either, but it certainly hadn't been to fall in love with a disabled werewolf. However Vlad has fallen and fallen hard, and that's the problem.

Torn by their allegiances--to family, to duty, and the age-old enmity between vampires and werewolves--the pair find themselves in a difficult situation: to love where the heart wants or to follow where expectation demands.

The situation is complicated further when a mysterious and beguiling figure known only as Lady Ursula crashes into their lives, bringing with her dark omens of death, doom, and destruction in her wake.

And a desperate plea for help neither of them can ignore.

Thrown together in uncertain times and struggling to find their place amidst the rising human empire, the unlikely trio must decide how to face the coming darkness: united as one or divided and alone. One thing is for certain, none of them will ever be the same.

Fantasy, romance, paranormal, series, adult

[ebonyheartnet]

@thebibliosphere Why do I get the feeling that Sugar Vladdy!Ursula would put Nathan in the penny dress to break Vlad’s hyperfocus?

Sure, she could wear it, but Vlad would expect that.

A Cocktail Dress Made Out of 2,652 Pennies

[mothman-etd]

Made a Hunger Pangs community, who wants an invite? I haven't even asked Joy to join yet >,>

[raspbrrytea]

I finally got around to reading Hunger Pangs by @thebibliosphere and I couldn’t not make fanart!

[throuple-tournament]

Nathan/Vlad/Ursula created by @thebibliosphere.

Description provided by @powerpolyculeshowdown.

Nathan/Vlad/Ursula: For most of the book it's about two of the characters' romance (Vlad and Nathan) and Ursula meets them closer to the end. Their relationship, I think, is supposed to be continued in the next book. They all kiss each other and it's clear from the book that they like each other, and are all open to polyamory.

Description provided by @powerpolyculeshowdown.

Zagreus and Megaera are exes, while Zagreus and Thanatos have very obvious romantic feelings for each other. As part of the story, you can romance both of them at the same time, and it is made clear that neither of them minds it. There's also a scene implying Meg and Than had something in the past.

Description provided by @leverage-ot3.

leverage ot3 description: three good robinhood-esque criminals that fuck over corporations and give back to the people that were hurt by them. ultra competent. hardison is a geeky hacker, eliot is a grumpy hitter, and parker is the best thief in the world (also canon autistic). eliot ended the og series saying that he would protect the other two till his dying day (directly after their parent figures got engaged. marriage proposal who?)

[thebibliosphere]

Yeah. It’s weekly at this point lmao.

I feel like I say this ad nauseam, but every time I worry I'm too annoying about promoting my work, someone always comments something along the lines of "I've been following you for over a decade, what do you mean you wrote an international bestselling book?"

And I'm like, welp, time to reblog some stuff, I guess ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

[nerdvanauniverse]

@thebibliosphere I'm finally reading Hunger Pangs and I when I just read the line "the new streets and buildings imposing themselves onto the landscape with a rigid perpendicularity that spoke of an architect involved in a protracted love affair with their slide ruler", it was like reading a Pratchett book.

As in I read it, laughed at that image, read a few more sentences, then went, "wait. That was a PUN".

[fantasticwhovian]

@thebibliosphere I know life has been hard on you lately, and though I'm not much of an artist, I still wanted to do something to help cheer you up. I hope this makes your day a little brighter.

[hello-copter]

I've just finished reading Hunger Pangs: True Love Bites (Fluff and Fangs edition), and it was sososo good! Highly recommend

[queer-book-character-tournament]

*it’s the finals for tournament 2 but don’t forget the winner has to face the tournament 1 winner

Character, book, and author names under the cut

Nathaniel J. Northland- Hunger Pangs: True Love Bites by Joy Demorra

Lady Ursula- Hunger Pangs: True Love Bites by Joy Demorra

Wei Wuxian- Mo Dao Zu Shi/Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

[onyxbird]

I decided to re-"read" @thebibliosphere's Hunger Pangs: True Love Bites via audiobook this time, but I can never just listen to something for long without something to do with my hands and I am also working on a Stardew Valley replay to try version 1.6, so I decided to see if SV on mute was low-enough story bandwidth to be compatible with an audiobook.

The good news: For me, mostly yes. Paused the audiobook occasionally when a cutscene or something required more story-focus than usual gameplay, but otherwise worked great and I finished the book and significantly advanced my game.

The bad news: I am now consumed by visions of Hunger Pangs/Stardew Valley crossover pixel art, to the point of actually looking into how to use modding tools to extract the stock sprites to use as a basis. 😔🤦 Send help.

"Ah, the new farmer werewolf we've all been expecting… and whose arrival has sparked many a conversation!"

(Note: I am aware that simple swapping out of sprites is reportedly a fairly entry-level mod, but my vision wouldn't work without substantial modification of the layout/setting, etc., and doesn't really fit actual gameplay. I just think it would be neat...)

[doyouknowthisdisabledcharacter]

Do You Know This Disabled Character?

Nathan J. Northland is Hard of Hearing and has a permanently injured arm.

Edit- from Hunger Pangs: True Love Bites

[evienchantress]

Had a good friend turn me onto the Hunger Pangs novel and lemme tell y'all, dang is it SO good👏. Had to sketch out these three (a bit also based on the modern aus that @thebibliosphere's posted as well, I just love this trio!). Super excited for more content in Joy's wonderful world, def gonna do more beats of the drama that happens cause the boys are dramatic and that's my JAM👏

[generouslyandrogynousdragon]

Since Joy (@thebibliosphere) thinks Destiel will win, I want to be scientific about this.

Now whichever you pick, y'all be kind to each other in my notes, y'hear?

(And yes, I'm fully aware that this is likely going to kill my notifications. But isn't that half the fun?)

[throuple-tournament]

Nathan/Vlad/Ursula created by @thebibliosphere.

Description provided by @wanderingandfound.

Trevor: the born and bred monster slayer, whose noble family was all killed by a village mob when he was a child, and he is the lone survivor of that massacre. Alucard: the half-vampire son of Dracula who lived a very happy life until the church killed his human mom and his vampire dad went mad from grief. And Sypha: the magician from a travelling people known as Speakers who have a prophecy that basically says the three of them are to team up to kill Dracula.

Description provided by @powerpolyculeshowdown.

Nathan/Vlad/Ursula: For most of the book it's about two of the characters' romance (Vlad and Nathan) and Ursula meets them closer to the end. Their relationship, I think, is supposed to be continued in the next book. They all kiss each other and it's clear from the book that they like each other, and are all open to polyamory.

[godzilla-reads]

Guess who got their copy of Hunger Pangs: True Love Bites by @thebibliosphere .