#The Death I Gave Him

[aberfaeth]

okay wtf is tdigh because it sounds directly up my alley

this book is full of evil and wicked spells and potions that make you go insane. it’s kissing the locked tomb on the mouth and the blood they share is fucked up gay body horror. it made me cry and gasp and laugh and gave me a stomach ache. you know the ending and the book knows you know the ending and it manages to break you anyway. there is cybersex joe biden. there is a mixed media format. there is a woman covered in blood. there is a locked room mystery. there is biology nerd shit. there’s even hamlet of hamlet

[libraryleopard]

Adult science fiction retelling of Hamlet

When Hayden Lichfield finds his father murdered in his lab one night, he knows the killer can only be after one thing: the Sisyphus Formula, a possible cure for death

Hoping to lure the killer into the open and avenge his father, Hayden steals their research and sends the lab into lockdown

With Hayden's uncle, a lab assistant, the head of security, and his daughter, Felicia, trapped inside and with only the lab's AI security system as his ally, Hayden must navigate the lab's secrets, uncover his father's lies, and push the boundaries of sanity in search of revenge

Epistolary forms (video transcripts, interviews, footnotes, etc.)

Bi (?) main character with depression; Chinese Canadian main character

[horaitos]

reading reviews for the death I gave him by em x. liu be like

[kazz-brekker]

the death i gave him was so valid for being giving the ophelia character a gun

[lgbtqreads]

Fave Five: Queer Sci-Fi Thrillers

The Last 8 by Laura Pohl (YA) The Salvation Gambit by Emily Skrutskie The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley Bluebird by Ciel Pierlot The Death I Gave Him by Em X. Liu

[le-trash-prince]

screaming screaming screaming

[aroaessidhe]

read in 2023: retellings or reimagining/sequels

Wander The Night - Midsummer Night's Dream

Hamra and the Jungle of Memories - Little Red Riding Hood

The Water Outlaws - Water Margin

My Dear Henry - Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde

Our Hideous Progeny - Frankenstein

Spear - Percival and the Holy Grail

The Death I Gave Him - Hamlet

Teach The Torches to Burn - Romeo & Juliet

Everyone’s Thinking It - Midsummer Night's Dream

A Crown So Cursed - Alice in Wonderland

Angels Before Man - The Bible

The Weight of Blood - Carrie

[haveyoureadthisqueerbook]

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Books of 2024: THE DEATH I GAVE HIM by Em X. Liu.

Up next! Hamlet retelling but make it science + a locked-lab mystery (which is, of course, directly up my alley!). Horatio is the lab's resident AI, and I'm so excited to see how this goes.

[wormwoodandhoney]

hey fellow lovers of genre swaps! em x liu has a queer hamlet retelling coming out- locked room sci fi thriller. check out the death i gave him, in september.

[ignitesthestxrs]

nails this week in honour of @ emdashliu's debut novel THE DEATH I GAVE HIM, a queer sci fi retelling of Hamlet, available now 💚🩷💚

[aberfaeth]

really its like if all those venom fics about the venom jacking him off were 10x more insane bc the venom is also a building that grew up with eddie brock and eddie brock’s father has just been murdered and additionally. ophelia is there

[libraryleopard]

horatio: hayden, do you love me?

hayden: of course. of course i do.

felicia, still holding a loaded gun as part of a tense showdown:

[horaitos]

em x liu set out on a mission to hurt me personally i think

[therealfailwhale]

Horatio finally understands the horror of your body being only a body, a fleshy, visceral thing that you are made up of, this fatigued puppet, this breaking vessel.

The Death I Gave Him by Em X Liu comes out later this year and you bet your fucking boots I’m gonna scream about it even more.

[no-where-new-hero]

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