#UNSUNG HEROINE BY SARAH KUHN

[lgbtqreads]

I was wondering if you have any sapphic or queer books about superheroes or villains. I finished reading Super Adjacent by Cestari Crystal which got me into queer superhero’s.

Absolutely! Julie Murphy's got the Faith duology, and CB Lee's Sidekick Squad series is really fun. TJ Klune has one called The Extraordinaries, and actually I have a whole list of them on the site so I can just share that:

Superheroes and Super Villains

Female

Harley Quinn: Reckoning by Rachael Allen – B

Super Adjacent by Crystal Cestari

The Nemesis Series by April Daniels – T

Cinnamon Blade: Knife in Shining Armor by Shira Glassman (f/f)

Unsung Heroine by Sarah Kuhn

Not Your Sidekick (Sidekick Squad #1) by CB Lee (f/f) – B

Not Your Backup (Sidekick Squad #3) by CB Lee – A

Faith Herbert Origin Story by Julie Murphy – B

Girl Reporter by Tansy Rayner Roberts

Cute Mutants by S.J. Whitby (Graphic novels)

Shattered by Lee Winter

Male

The Extraordinaries by T.J. Klune

Superior by Jessica Lack

Not Your Villain (Sidekick Squad #2) by CB Lee – T

You First by J.C. Lillis (m/m)

Hero by Perry Moore (YA) – G

Junior Hero Blues by J.K. Pendragon

Infinity Son by Adam Silvera – G, B

Rise of Heroes by Hayden Thorne

Non-Binary

Baker Thief by Claudie Arseneault – Aro

[profmorbius]

Posted a review of Heroine Complex #3.5: Unsung Heroine by Sarah Kuhn on my blog. Read it here.

tl;dr – Good

[mydarlinginej]

check out my review of UNSUNG HEROINE by Sarah Kuhn!!

[risingshadownet]

Unsung Heroine by Sarah Kuhn https://www.risingshadow.net/library/book/58185-unsung-heroine https://www.risingshadow.net/library/book/58185-unsung-heroine

[rhetoricandlogic]

Sleeps With Monsters: Forthcoming (Queer) Novels Starring (Queer) Women (by Liz Bourke on tor.com)

A few days before I sat down to write this post, I asked a wide range of my acquaintance on the hellsite known as Twitter whether there were any novels or novellas featuring f/f relationships or starring queer women that they knew and were looking forward to in the second half of 2019 or definitely earmarked for 2020. It turns out that there are quite a few—forty-odd, in fact.

Progress is a fine thing.

Some of these novels were personally recommended to me by people who’ve previously had good form on telling if I’d like something. Some of them are sequels to novels that I deeply enjoyed, or from authors with a track record of writing things I enjoy. And some of them I know almost nothing about, besides their cover copy and the news that they’re queer. A handful I’ve already read. I’ll make it clear which is which, as I list them below.

Max Gladstone’s Empress of Forever (July 2019) is among the ones I’ve already read, and it is fantastic. Big and thinky and vastly full of space operatic madness. I’ve read The Hound of Justice by Claire O’Dell (July 2019) as well—it’s a satisfying sequel to A Study in Honor, her near-future Sherlock reimagining. And Fran Wilde’s The Fire Opal Mechanism (June 2019) is also a sequel of sorts, standing alone in the world of The Jewel and Her Lapidary, exploring love and growth, power and the tension between knowledge’s specificity and its accessibility, in a world threatened by totalitarianism. And Aliette de Bodard’s delightfully queer collection Of War, and Memories, and Starlight (September 2019) is a glittering group of stories that have a lot of queer women in them.

From friends who have been right before when they recommended me things comes word of A.K. Larkwood’s The Unspoken Name (February 2020) and Tamsyn Muir’s Gideon the Ninth (September 2019), space opera Seven Devils by Laura Lam and Elizabeth May (June 2020) and fantasy The Library of the Unwritten by A.J. Hackwith (September 2019), The Outside by Ada Hoffman (June 2019) and Steel Crow Saga by Paul Krueger (September 2019).

Sequels or new works from authors I’ve enjoyed before is a longer list. Of course I’m deeply eager for C.L. Polk’s Stormsong (February 2020) and Arkady Martine’s A Desolation Called Peace (March 2020), sequels to Witchmark and A Memory Called Empire respectively. K.A. Doore’s The Impossible Contract (November 2019) and The Warrior Moon by K. Arsenault Rivera (September 2019); The House of Sundering Flames by Aliette de Bodard (July 2019) and Floodtide by Heather Rose Jones (November 2019). But this list also includes Girls of Storm and Shadow by Natasha Ngan (November 2019), City of Stone and Silence by Django Wexler (January 2020), The Forbidden Stars by Tim Pratt (October 2019), Alex White’s The Worst of All Possible Worlds (January 2020), Moontangled by Stephanie Burgis (February 2020), Unsung Heroine by Sarah Kuhn (July 2019), Lost Boys, the new Laundry novel by Charles Stross (late 2020), Down Among the Dead by K.B. Wagers (December 2019), and A Pale Light in the Black, also by K.B. Wagers (March 2020), which will start a new series in a different setting.

There remain fifteen titles of which I know almost nothing beyond title, cover copy, and a promise that it fits the criteria. Here they are, in (alleged: we all know the 2020 titles, at least, may yet move around) publication order:

The Affair of the Mysterious Letter by Alexis Hall (June 2019);

Shatter the Sky by Rebecca Kim Wells (July 2019);

A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker (September 2019);

Crier’s War by Nina Varelas (October 2019);

Tarnished Are the Stars by Rosiee Thor (October 2019);

The Never-Tilting World by Rin Chupeco (October 2019);

Sisters of the Vast Black by Lina Rather (October 2019);

Lady Hotspur by Tessa Gratton (January 2020);

Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire (January 2020);

Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey (February 2020);

Queen of Coin and Whispers by Helen Corcoran (2020);

The Dark Tide by Alicia Jasinska (2020);

Belle Révolte by Linsey Miller (2020);

When We Were Magic by Sarah Gailey (2020);

Witches of Ash and Ruin by E. Latimer (2020).

So tell me. What have I missed? Who else should be on this list? What are you most looking forward to?

[bookcoversonly]

Title: Unsung Heroine | Author: Sarah Kuhn | Publisher: DAW (2019)

[lgbtqreads]

Do you have a list of superhero novels? I've already read the Sidekick Squad series by CB Lee and the Nemesis trilogy by April Daniels, and I'd love to read something similar!

Sure do! You can find them under Superheroes here: https://lgbtqreads.com/sff/paranormal-sff-by-protags/ Here's what's currently there:

Superheroes and Super Villains

Female

Harley Quinn: Reckoning by Rachael Allen – B

Super Adjacent by Crystal Cestari

The Nemesis Series by April Daniels – T

Cinnamon Blade: Knife in Shining Armor by Shira Glassman (f/f)

Unsung Heroine by Sarah Kuhn

Not Your Sidekick (Sidekick Squad #1) by CB Lee (f/f) – B

Not Your Backup (Sidekick Squad #3) by CB Lee – A

Faith Herbert Origin Story by Julie Murphy – B

Girl Reporter by Tansy Rayner Roberts

Cute Mutants by S.J. Whitby (Graphic novels)

Shattered by Lee Winter

Male

The Extraordinaries by T.J. Klune

Superior by Jessica Lack

Not Your Villain (Sidekick Squad #2) by CB Lee – T

You First by J.C. Lillis (m/m)

Hero by Perry Moore (YA) – G

Junior Hero Blues by J.K. Pendragon

Infinity Son by Adam Silvera – G, B

Rise of Heroes by Hayden Thorne

Non-Binary

Baker Thief by Claudie Arseneault – Aro

[lgbtqreads]

do you know any series with queer superheros?

Lots - this is def not exhaustive:

Superheroes and Super Villains

Female

Harley Quinn: Reckoning by Rachael Allen - B

Super Adjacent by Crystal Cestari

The Nemesis Series by April Daniels - T

Cinnamon Blade: Knife in Shining Armor by Shira Glassman (f/f)

Unsung Heroine by Sarah Kuhn

Not Your Sidekick (Sidekick Squad #1) by CB Lee - B

Not Your Backup (Sidekick Squad #3) by CB Lee - A

Faith Herbert Origin Story by Julie Murphy - B

Girl Reporter by Tansy Rayner Roberts

Shattered by Lee Winter

Male

The Extraordinaries by T.J. Klune

Superior by Jessica Lack

Not Your Villain (Sidekick Squad #2) by CB Lee (YA) - T

You First by J.C. Lillis (m/m)

Hero by Perry Moore - G

Junior Hero Blues by J.K.Pendragon

Infinity Son by Adam Silvera - G, B

Rise of Heroes by Hayden Thorne

You can bookmark this page to find them again: https://lgbtqreads.com/sff/paranormal-sff-by-protags/

[mydarlinginej]

do u have any good recs (preferrabely new) for sci-fi/fantasy f/f?? and/or gnc wlw???

jsyk, i have a whole list of all the ya lgbtq+ 2019 releases here

sff f/f:

ya:

girls of paper and fire by natasha ngan (tw: sexual assault, violence)

summer of salt by katrina leno (tw: rape)

we set the dark on fire by tehlor kay meija

ruse by cindy pon

wilder girls by rory power (out july 9)

shatter the sky by rebecca kim wells (out july 30)

crier’s war by nina varela (out october 1)

tarnished are the stars by rosiee thor (out october 15)

adult:

unsung heroine by sarah kuhn (out tomorrow!)

this is how the time war ends by amal el-mohtar and max gladstone

gnc wlw:

never contented things by sarah porter