#ocean’s echo

[iphigeniarising]

Everina Maxwell, Ocean’s Echo

[tanoraqui]

Ocean’s Echo is great because it’s like, in order to have love you must have trust. You must understand and let yourself be understood. You must help and let yourself be helped. And if you go hard enough on all of the above, you can fuse into a galaxy-spanning psychic undead space entity and fight another galaxy-spanning psychic undead space entity—you shouldn’t, you should not do this, but you can.

[jenyifer]

Hum I realized I haven’t shared any of my book recs on here. I know I should watch new bl. I plan on finding something in June.

Since I got broken up I’ve been reading lgbt books. My ex gf had been showing me things about being lgbt that I had never imagined before and without her I still wanted to learn to experience different stories. So I used my love of fantasy and sci-fi and started listening and reading as much as I could. I don’t really care for overly spicy things but I like when the characters are realistic adults. So keep that in mind with this list.

1. The House in the Cerulean Sea 10/10 Fantasy great characters and mc growth. Found family always gets me. The ending was perfect. I’ve listened to it 15 times and forced my parents and uncle to read it. I’m excited for book 2.

2. The Darkness Outside of Us. 10/10 Sci-fi Space. This book made me feel so much. Surprised me. Had me gasping for air in my cube to the point people had to ask if I was okay. Had me running to the car to cry as I listened to the last part. Go in blind and enjoy the space and gay of it all.

3. Dark Rise 10/10 Classic Fantasy It is incredibly rare any book surprises me. Most of the time I can guess the plot a mile away. Dark Rise hit me over the head a couple times had me crying. But it was so epic and adventurous reminded of the feeling I had reading David Eddings as a child. (Not that lgbt as I would have liked but… it was there I assume book 2 a lot more)

4. Iron Widow 10/10 Sci-fi Mechs Fantasy Post Apocalypse I adore a mechs and history. It was extremely exciting. I adore the main couple even though main girl is actually mentally unstable but you love her anyways.

5. The Extraordinaries 9/10 Superhero. The main character is lovably stupid aside from his ADHD which I can relate on. I loved the lesbian side couple. The story was fun felt like it was written for the early college me who loved superheroes.

5. Adam Binder Series White Trash Warlock 9/10. Urban Fantasy. It gives me flash backs to Harry Dresden and Iron Druid but not in the obvious way just in vibe. I love main characters being country. I’m from Mississippi not Oklahoma but I can relate to being a gay in a small town moving to a big city. I love the main couple. The mystery magic system was interesting. I wish it had a bit more romance actually. Just because I love the main couple and side characters a lot and want happiness. I wish I could get more people to read this one it’s wonderful a lot better than a lot of urban str8 fantasy I’ve read and it was my main category for years. The mystery element was decent. I need to start book 3.

6. Ocean’s Echo 8.5/10 sci-fi mystery the main characters are… so wonderful. They are extreme but I love them so much. I’ll protect them to the end of days. I have this book over it’s… I guess in the same universe book Winter’s Orbit because I think the mystery suspense is more intense in Ocean’s echo also much more spacey sci-fi. Romance is also arranged marriage but is VERY different from winters orbit. I wish… I wish this book wasn’t associated with the other because it gets unfairly compared because the narrator is the same etc but Ocean’s Echo is great in its own right and is definitely not a copy

7. Winter’s Orbit 8.5/10 MYSTERY sci-fi edging on fantasy. Arranged marriage. Slow burn. These characters are also 10/10 I love them. I have experienced an abusive relationship before and appreciated seeing a character with the scars a similar past. Often if a character is portrayed as in an abusive relationship they focus on the event but it effects Everything in your world. Even now I have these scars after 8 years. I loved the mystery it was the main focus which I liked. The romance felt natural.

8. Fragile Remedy 8/10 one of the first books I read it made me cry and was a good single dystopian gem. Had a real… divergent hunger games kind of vibe to the world from what I remember.

9. Lightning struck heart 7/10 classic fantasy this is what I said on my insta at the time “It is an extremely comedic fantasy adventure with wizards, unicorns, knights, and dragons. Right up my alley! However the ending was disappointing. I'll listen to the next book in the series and hope it improves. Just found character arch unbelievable in last chapters.”

10. A wish upon a star by tj klune ^follow up books I read like 4 of them 5/10 I did stop listening to it this is what I said on my insta “Well I continued listening the tales of verania series and made it to the original end of the series. I'd say if you want a gay fantasy comedy without too much thinking Listen to the audio. Narrator is the biggest part of why I didn't quit. Idk if I'll read the other books though it is very friendship is magic smooth brain ideas I've read”

Unable to finish (been desperately trying to find a lesbian story and finding nothing)

Girl, Serpent, Thorn 4/10 my review from insta “Unable to finish it. The world is interesting. The first 3rd seemed promising but after major conflict the writing goes way down. But the MC doesn't grow. The f/f is so shallow it made me roll my.eyes until I had to stop listening. Wanted the bad guy to win and kill everyone”

The Midnight Girls. So intensely annoying and childish. I couldn’t do it I think I made it to chapter 3 but it was a struggle.

In the ravenous dark. I got to one third of the audio book and had to stop. The universe was okay but main girl was very annoying. Was kind of hoping her and the ghost would be together not… not the weird bullshit that was going on. Idk what the end of the book was going to be but it was not for me.

I’ll post another with my current to read list. I’m really going through them now because I have to drive two hours a day to and from work. Give me your suggestions though please thank you.

[franticvampirereads]

I can’t believe it’s November already! I’m so excited to get into the holidays this year (and all the holiday reads ☺️). So here’s what I’m planning to read this month:

Vespertine (not pictured) -currently reading

Sunshine - currently reading

The Sunshine Court

Given vol 2

Rare Vigilance

Ocean’s Echo

Bone To Pick

The Dragon’s Betrothed vol 2

You Can Count On Me

I’m really looking forward to all the cozy reads this month!

And a little bonus for you, today is Moose’s gotcha day! She’s 11-years-old and just as cute and funny and grumpy as the day we brought her home. Happy gotcha day bug! ☺️❤️

[oblivionsdream]

Tennal and Surit from Ocean’a Echo by Everina Maxwell!

I finished this book recently and absolutely loved it so I couldn’t resist doing some art. 😄

[menoasmess]

(Last one for the pride rec🫡)

[jolionio]

The whole second half of Ocean’s Echo by Everina Maxwell is just like, “you hate yourself and can’t stand being yourself but there is someone you deeply love and think the world of and you have the opportunity to be that person even though it will erode both of your and that person’s humanity and individuality but would you still do it if you could be a version of yourself you could love?”

[yourfavebooklrsfavebooklr]

The thing with Ocean’s Echo is that if Luc was your favorite part of Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall, you’d probably love Tennal, but it’s impossible to recommend the book based on that bc apart from that, tone (somewhat), the genre of romance, and something similar to fake dating, the two books have very little in common.

[swordsswordsswords]

Orshan military labs creating readers and architects like

[tennalhin-halkana]

Istara’s been in my closet again 🙄

[thesebooksaremytherapy]

The way the military works in Ocean’s Echo would absolutely drive real life military members crazy. They are all in the army but then they’re divided into Pilot, Cavalry, Archer, etc. but that does not reflect their job. They all do the same things as far as I can tell and their division is more like a faction team name, so they can fight each other.

But as someone just married into US military and with a fair amount of disdain for the organizational structure, I am a little bit delighted by that thought. And I’m sure Tennal would be too.

Anyway, I freaking love this book.

[tanoraqui]

still kinda insane about Tennel Oceansecho’s relationship with his aunt. He believes without hesitation that she’d send him into under-the-table nonconsensual lifelong military mind control enslavement, as a last-ditch effort to make him, if not publicly reformed, at least useful. When she’s killed in front of him, his immediate response is to walk unflinchingly into the middle of a firefight with a single-minded determination to kill the woman who did it. The first emotionally honest thing she ever says is that it’s been painful to watch him self-destruct for years; the most emotionally, uncomplicatedly honest thing she says is that she wouldn’t hesitate to kill someone in order to do whatever small thing she could to improve his mental state, with malice aforethought and as part of a complex secret scheme, because he’s her nephew. He wouldn’t have agreed to that, which is why she didn’t tell him. He’s the only person we see repeatedly keep up with her backhanded ploys. She’s only ever referred to in narration as “his aunt” or sometimes “the legislator.”

[preliminary-gayeties]

I want to write a story where Tennal is injured from leaving his body while reading and Surit has to smuggle him back to his home village to take care of him while being in hiding, and Elvi is just like…that is the legislator’s nephew

(Except this exact dynamic happens in an enjoltaire fic I wrote so do I really need to write it again? Lol)

[franticvampirereads]

Hello December! This month’s tbr is filled with holiday ebooks and plenty of other fun wintery reads. Here’s what I’m planning to read:

The Sunshine Court (not pictured) -currently reading

You Can Count On Me (not pictured) -currently reading

Ocean’s Echo

Delayed For The Holidays

Merry In Spite

Hockey Girl Loves Drama Boy

Ice Palace Prince

A Holly Jolly Mess

The Boyfriend Subscription

Time To Shine

Cosmoknights vol 2

Cold Fire

There are a few book releases happening this month that may or may not throw this whole tbr out the window. But we’ll have to wait and see! 😊

[highladyluck]

So far Ocean’s Echo is pleasantly reminding me of Diane Duane’s My Enemy, My Ally, at least in terms of broad theme/plot strokes. My Enemy, My Ally is structurally flawless and a favorite comfort read, so I’m excited about these, uh, echoes.

[lazylaughtertime]

I love Everina Maxwell's books so much!

I am super excited to share my redesigned covers of both Winter’s Orbit and Ocean’s Echo by Everina Maxwell!

These are both going to be available in @//dazzlingbookishshop on Insta! 😉