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[lumarisart]

SGC 1-6

Six out of nine are out! This season is almost done - started writing in 2020 off a random idea, and had so much fun with this. I hope readers enjoy. I know it won't be everyone's cuppa tea, but it was hella fun to write, and I love revisiting it every time I work on editing the next episode lol #7 is almost done - it's with betas now, then a couple more rounds of editing before I finalize and publish it. <3

[wornoutspines]

Danger and deceit abound in this soulmate high fantasy romance by Katy Haye!

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In this fourth volume in the series that began with Assassin, join our heroes as they face Sudharain's darkest hour. In Heir, friendships old and new are tested to their limits while Kit and Talal face dangers and deceit from near and far.

Connect with the author: FB @katyhayewriter | X @katyhaye

[jennifercodymm]

This is from The Ashes of Ackonir. I'm about 29k into it and I'm not sure what to say about this one. Sparrow isn't like any character I've ever written. He's reserved, but also generally resigned to the awfulness of his life. He's not pessimistic, he doesn't eschew good things, he just doesn't generally expect them. However, I don't think anyone is going to be surprised that his character arc isn't about teaching him to be joyful, but rather to find meaning for his life, and I'm looking forward to seeing him bloom. #mmromance #mmfantasy #mmromanceauthor #bookstagram #romancebooks https://www.instagram.com/p/CoXpo5_uxwA/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[valerieullmerromanceauthor]

Unforgiving Dreams (D’Vaire, Book 35) by Jessamyn Kingley

RELEASE BLITZ Book Title: Unforgiving Dreams (D’Vaire, Book 35) Author and Publisher: Jessamyn Kingley Cover Artist: LJ Anderson of Mayhem Cover Creations Release Date: March 9, 2023 Genres: MM Fantasy/Paranormal Romance Tropes: Fated mates Themes: Love, overcoming the past Heat Rating: 3 flames Goodreads Series Link Buy Links Amazon US | Amazon UK Two mates from opposite worlds must discover…

[chrisbannor]

M/M Fantasy Reads!

Available here on tumblr, or you can read ahead on my Ream page! Just follow me for this cozy fantasy with epic aspirations! Series updates twice a week!

https://reamstories.com/chrisbannor?storyKey=lj0ylstbfk #tbr #cozyfantasy #MMfantasy #mmauthor #mmreaders

[sethhaddonsblog]

Hello! I am Seth Haddon, author of REFORGED and I guess I am on tumblr again

I am writing queer fiction! My next novel is a spiritual sequel to REFORGED, set in the same universe with different characters!

It follows Oren Radek, a merchant lord looking to make his name, and Izra Dziove, a witchy goth with visions of Radek, in an empire with a crumbling hold.

It's currently in editing stages!!

[hewhofragments]

The Captive Prince: An Unfavorable Review of C.S. Pacat’s Gay Fantasy

TW: Violence, Sexual Violence, Racism, Slavery, Sex

Two years ago (2019), I read through roughly 35 books--35 isn’t the most impressive number, but it was a lot of reading for someone that had stopped reading as a leisure activity for five years. But last year, with the start of the pandemic, I found myself unable to pick up a book. 

Maybe it was all the terrible news hitting us each and every day, or maybe it was just being trapped at home all the time, but in any case, that reading slump lasted until summer 2021. This summer, I decided I would try to reignite my love for reading by picking up some gay sci-fi/fantasy.

Unfortunately, it’s harder than you think to find queer fantasy/scifi! And even when you do find it, it’s even more difficult to find well written scifi/fantasy books with M-M romances! I searched through a TON of articles online, and eventually I found a few books considered “Classic Gay Fantasy” including The Captive Prince.

Several online reviewers described the book as gay dark fantasy; the book features terrible conditions for humans typical to dark fantasy, and I typically enjoy books with difficult subject matter so it seemed fine thus far. Then I read the description.

The back of the book reads, “Damen is a warrior hero to his people, and the rightful heir to the throne of Akeilos. But when his half brother seizes power, Damen is captured, stripped of his identity, and sent to serve the prince of an enemy nation as a pleasure slave.”

I was a bit worried when I read the words “pleasure slave,” but I figured I like dark fantasy, and I’m gay, so I should at least give this Classic Gay Fantasy a try! So I took the leap, got the book (along with a few others), and gave it a read.

Let’s begin with the positives. First, the book isn’t very long, so if you’re reading it to experiment, then at least it isn’t too much of a time sink. And second, the book does an excellent job of exploring a world where sexuality is treated VERY different from Western society today. Homophobia isn’t really a thing in C.S. Pacat’s world (which is refreshing to say the least), and some heterosexual relationships (those that would produce bastard children in this world) are treated as taboo.

While I enjoyed the author’s general take on sexuality, the way the author handles homosexuality, sexual violence, and sexual slavery is VERY problematic. For example, the trilogy is marketed as a Romance (you won’t see any romance in book 1, so don’t hold your breath) between the main character Damen, and his captor Laurent. 

Here’s just a few of the horrible things Laurent does to Damen in book 1: Laurent tries to have Damen raped (Laurent drugs Damen and puts him in a risky situation), Laurent has Damen flogged (and encourages the flogger to try to kill Damen with the whip), Laurent has Damen raped (I will spare you the details), and Laurent treats Damen like an animal.

I have not read book 2, nor will I, but it should be IMPOSSIBLE for Damen to form a healthy relationship with Laurent after all that he has been through. I know plenty of people end up in unhealthy relationships with their torturers, and were that the author’s take on their relationship, I might accept it as a mechanic for storytelling, but please don’t tell me there’s any way to turn this background into a positive relationship (there isn’t)!

That’s not even to mention the repeated racism included in the book with the author’s descriptions of Laurent’s white, blonde, blue-eyed beauty. Over and over again, you’re forced to read about how fair-skinned he is and how everybody loves him and that he would just be so amazing if he wasn’t just a shitty person. I don’t know how many times other white people need to hear this, blonde hair and blue eyes do not make a person beautiful!

And finally, just about every portrayal of sexual slaves in the book is filled with problematic ideas. All of it is really bad, but just to start somewhere, one slave is still a child, and although the author repeatedly has the main character point out that his abuse is unacceptable and immoral, she also repeatedly refers to his beauty and goes as far as describing specific features that are attractive, which is just so YUCK!

Other passages describe certain slaves as obedient to the extreme, and while those passages call out the physical harming/abuse of those slaves as problematic, the author never just straight out calls slavery bad. In one section, the main character thinks about not how another slave deserves freedom, but rather how he deserves a master that treats him better (implying that he needs a strong, manly man to handle his perfect obedience). Again, this is only one instance of many, many problematic passages, and I’m sparing you most of the details.

The only way I can spin all the problems with The Captive Prince as a positive is if I consider the book a mirror-reflection of problematic straight fantasy. Maybe, just maybe, C.S. Pacat is so clever that she is turning straight fantasy, where women are treated just as poorly as the men in her book, on it’s head. I think she does turn straight fantasy on its head to an extent, especially with regards to her take on sexuality discussed earlier. But mostly, it just seems like she’s enjoying exploring sexual fantasies in the book regardless of the morality/consequences of her writing. 

Unfortunately, all this talk of subject matter leaves little room to discuss the actual writing quality. Briefly, I would say the writing is decent (neither great nor terrible). But it doesn’t make up for the book’s shortcomings.

If you consider reading C.S. Pacat’s The Captive Prince, be warned that you will be exposed to many, many problematic ideas without any payoff in terms of character growth, narration, or even romance.

Let me know what you think of the book and of the trilogy as a whole! I’m curious if other readers loved the book or hated it like me!

[enedhil]

📖 I personaggi di "QUALCOSA IN CUI CREDERE" 📖 I personaggi di questa storia sono tanti, uniti e divisi da ciò che sono per natura e dalle scelte che sono portati a fare. Le Stagioni: Riw (Inverno), Lar (Estate), Etil (Primavera) e Iava (Autunno). Gli Spiriti degli Elementi: Alair (Acqua), Rhune (Fuoco), Serina (Aria) e Elan (Terra) E infine Fabien, il fabbro che entra per caso nel tendone de “Il Giardino di Ghiaccio”, al Parco Giochi, dal quale dipende il fato del Tempo. Vi siete affezionati a qualcuno di loro in particolare? #romanzi #fantasy #mm #mmfantasy #romance #mmromance #libri #librifantasy #stagioni #elementi https://www.instagram.com/p/CAKiMu2HsKn/?igshid=1pnsndior5clz

[bestwishes86]

Letting You Go - A scene from Magical Misconduct

The door opened and King almost died from the sight of the clad in only a large dark green toweled man before him. Tobin was rubbing at his red eyes looking like an upset child to King. King felt his smile light up his face as he watches Tobin’s face grow into a frown from the still annoying pain in his eyes. King’s eyes memorized every portion of the man before him. The two lines of surgical scars where the two arms of different shades of skin were attached by magic and sutures. He follows the lines of the long torso with their brown curls that surrounded the small pink nipples and the small belly beneath. King knew he shouldn’t be staring but if Tobin was going to go after that Wizard. He wanted to remember all of this while he could..

“...King….hello?” Tobin asked for the third time. Having the taller man gawking at him smelling like a pub was not what he expected right now. But honestly what has he expecting? Finally he reached out and popped the man on the back of his head. This snapped King out of his revelry as he exclaimed “Oye!”

“What is it?” Tobin asked perturbed by King’s stupid smile and blinks as he came back to himself. It wasn’t fair how fine he seemed while Tobin felt like his heart had gone nine rounds with Mike Tyson, at this point his patience is at an end.

“Can I come in? It’s cold out here,” King said rubbing his arms through his navy blue thread knit sweater frantically as if he were in the Arctic. Tobin raised an eyebrow and said, “You’re in the hallway of your tower? How could you be freezing when you control the thermostat?”

“Just let me in, ya?” King said as he brushed past Tobin without waiting for an answer. Tobin swallowed hard as he closed the door and counted to ten. As he counted he felt that space on his arm where king had brushed by him tingle with warmth, was it the same for him? Turning he looked at King who walked circles in the living room. Occasionally he would look at Tobin but he mostly paced.

“What do you want?” Tobin asked, his voice heavy with a mixture of emotions. King flinched at the tone but just shook his head. Tobin folded his arms over his chest and prayed to the Gods the towel held as seconds turned to minutes.

“So, no talking just pacing, alright, well it’s time for bed. Could you do that in your own room?” Tobin asked as he began to walk towards the bedroom.

“I came to let you go,” King said to the open air causing Tobin to freeze in place. One foot frozen in step as panic streaked across his mind as he slowly turned to look at King. King stood facing away from him with an arm outstretched. Held in the hand at the end of it was an ornate golden key.

“Stop and C’mere so I can unlock your collar and you’re free of me,” King said in a low pitiful voice quoting Tobin back to him. It was the saddest voice Tobin had ever heard from the man. It was on autopilot that Tobin moved back towards King. Stopping a few inches away from the key. Tobin tilted his head to the left. His heart beating in his chest as if it were going to burst out of his ribs at any moment. King took the two steps putting himself in Tobin’s space, he could drown in the smell of cherry and sandalwood and cinnamon that was the natural scent of the man. He breathed deep for just a few seconds til Tobin squirmed and stepped away from him.

“Are you sure this is what you want?” Tobin asked, his eyes on the key as if it was a knife meant to kill him. King’s eyes welled with tears as his lips trembled. He took a deep breath, choosing not to answer. King moved with that preternatural speed that was quicker than Tobin could follow as he gripped one of Tobin’s wrist and yanked him into an embrace. He stabbed the key into the back of Tobin’s neck piercing skin and bone as Tobin cried out. The collar of prisoner was there inside of his neck magically. The collar wrapped not around flesh, but around his very soul. Tobin didn’t feel the tears falling onto his bare back as he struggled instinctually to get away from the pain as King held him in place and turned the key. Instantly all pain vanished as the lock was released. Tobin let out a shuddering breath as the intense feeling of ripping ceased. King’s face crumpled as the golden stem of the key sunk into the skin there vanishing into Tobin’s soul.

“It’s not about what I want, it’s about me releasing you so you can be happy with whoever...,” King explained slowly. As King explained it, Tobin felt realization dawn on him and he turned, wrenching himself loose from King’s grasp.

[somberillusorysoda]

A #WIP of my project with @jkhoganbooks link in bio. - - #OC #vampire #cyprian #stray #sodadraws #comic #illustration #clipstudiopaint #mmromance #mmfantasy #mmparanormal #gayfiction #eyes

[officialjkhogan]

Hey folks! I've finally launched my #Patreon story, an #mm #dystopian #fantasy #romance saga with all kinds of cool stuff like shifters and vampires and magic, and artist @somberillusorysoda will be providing exclusive #illustrations and character profiles. This story will only be on Patreon until it's finished. Patrons will be able to share input and effect the outcomes of the characters. Sound like fun? Go to the link in my bio! - - #mmfantasy #mmromance #gayromance #gayfantasy #shifters #vampires #supernatural

[mirrigold]

New Release Blitz: The Fairy Pond by Jason Black

New Release Blitz: The Fairy Pond by Jason Black

The Fairy Pond |  Jason Black

Release Date: 19/12/2018

Heat Level: 1 – No Sex

Pairing: No Romance

Length: 29 pages

Genre: Fantasy, Horror, historical

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Synopsis

Nevan lives a simple life. He works hard in the fields with his brothers and his grandpa, and adores his mother wholeheartedly. He’s a good boy who usually stays out of trouble, but even when Grandpa…

[thequille]

THE WICKED STEPBROTHER AND OTHER STORIES

Verdict: A comfort keeper for those dark times. If you never imagined queer characters all over your favorite fairytale, this more than makes up for it as love triumphs every single time!

[valerieullmerromanceauthor]

Lich Reaper’s Lament (D’Vaire, Book 33) by Jessamyn Kingley

Lich Reaper’s Lament (D’Vaire, Book 33) by Jessamyn Kingley

RELEASE BLITZ Book Title: Lich Reaper’s Lament (D’Vaire, Book 33) Author and Publisher: Jessamyn Kingley Cover Artist: LJ Anderson of Mayhem Cover Creations Release Date: December 8, 2022 Genres: MM Fantasy/Paranormal Romance Tropes: Fated mates Themes: Love, confronting the past Heat Rating: 3 flames Length: 122 568 words It is not a standalone story but does not end on a cliffhanger. Goodreads…

[heartsonfirereviews-blog]

AUDIO REVIEW: Rhys Ford – Dim Sum Asylum Narrator: Greg Tremblay Author: Rhys Ford Reviewer: Barb Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Genre: Urban Fantasy Rating: ★★★★½ #mm #reading #gayromance #mmromance #LGBTQ #LGBT #ebook #bookreview #booksofinstagram #readersofinstagram #bookblogger #bookstagram #gayfiction #amazon #kindle #bookshelf #books #bookstagrammer #dreamspinnerpress #audiobook #mmfantasy #fantasy #gayfantasy #fantasybooks