#paladin's hope

[thereadingchallengechallenge]

umm hi hello was anyone gonna tell me about these insane new covers for The Saint of Steel series by T Kingfisher? 😱

they're so gorgeous! they release July 8th in Australia, idk about the rest of the world, but I am so fling-flangin excited!!!!!

[queereads-bracket]

Queer Adult SFF Books Bracket: Round 1

Book summaries below:

Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire (Wayward Children series)

Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children No Solicitations No Visitors No Guests

Children have always disappeared under the right conditions; slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe, tumbling down rabbit holes and into old wells, and emerging somewhere... else.

But magical lands have little need for used-up miracle children.

Nancy tumbled once, but now she’s back. The things she’s experienced... they change a person. The children under Miss West’s care understand all too well. And each of them is seeking a way back to their own fantasy world.

But Nancy’s arrival marks a change at the Home. There’s a darkness just around each corner, and when tragedy strikes, it’s up to Nancy and her new-found schoolmates to get to the heart of the matter.

No matter the cost.

Fantasy, portal fantasy, mystery, magical realism, boarding school, novella, series, adult

Paladin's Hope by T. Kingfisher (The Saint of Steel series)

Piper is a lich-doctor, a physician who works among the dead, determining causes of death for the city guard's investigations. It's a peaceful, if solitary profession…until the day when he's called to the river to examine the latest in a series of mysterious bodies, mangled by some unknown force.

Galen is a paladin of a dead god, lost to holiness and no longer entirely sane. He has long since given up on any hope of love. But when the two men and a brave gnole constable are drawn into the web of the mysterious killer, it's Galen's job to protect Piper from the traps that await them.

He's just not sure if he can protect Piper from the most dangerous threat of all…

Fantasy, romance, mystery, secondary world, standalone-ish within series, adult

[kneesntoess]

the white rat priests about the saint of steel paladins: if you can't get organic, home grown paladins, store bought is fine

[goodgrammaritan]

I never used to find competence so arousing. Probably because there’s so little of it in the world.

Paladin's Hope by T. Kingfisher

[emberr-art]

some Galen Saint of Steel sketches,,, character of all time

picked up Paladin's Hope thinking I'd just read it as a stand alone, read it through twice in three days, and have since read all three other books in the series for Galen scraps. shaking him in a jar in my mind he is such a guy

[tovetar]

“My god, man, great love poems aren’t written about how lovers get eight hours of sleep a night and no one steals the covers."

T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Hope (The Saint of Steel Book 3)

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Character, book, and author names under the cut

Li Shimin- Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

Wenren È- Devil Venerable Also Wants To Know by Cyan Wings

Renly Baratheon- A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin

Doctor Piper- Paladin's Hope by T. Kingfisher

[ninsiana0]

Read PALADIN'S HOPE by T. Kingfisher if you love doctor dramas, *buddy-cop narratives, mysterious corpses, secret powers, vegetarians, being trapped in a maze, definitely not kissing your hook-ups, cross-cultural exchanges of knowledge, deadly obstacle courses, pretty men & apples.

*A gnole definitely says ACAB, tho

[chadots]

Series I wish were 200 books long, at least:

Saint of Steel by T. Kingfisher

You?

[ub-sessed]

I am listening to T. Kingfisher's Paladin series, and in my mind Galen looks just like Paul Bullion.

[mosswolf]

GALEN SPINS WOOL FOR STEPHAN TO KNIT WITH? HELP THATS SO SWEET

[triceratopper]

You can’t ask people to pour themselves out for something that doesn’t care and can’t be fixed and at the end they’re empty and nothing changes.

- T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Hope

[queereads-bracket]

Queer Adult SFF Books Bracket: Preliminary Round

Book summaries below:

Paladin's Hope by T. Kingfisher (The Saint of Steel series)

Piper is a lich-doctor, a physician who works among the dead, determining causes of death for the city guard's investigations. It's a peaceful, if solitary profession…until the day when he's called to the river to examine the latest in a series of mysterious bodies, mangled by some unknown force.

Galen is a paladin of a dead god, lost to holiness and no longer entirely sane. He has long since given up on any hope of love. But when the two men and a brave gnole constable are drawn into the web of the mysterious killer, it's Galen's job to protect Piper from the traps that await them.

He's just not sure if he can protect Piper from the most dangerous threat of all…

Fantasy, romance, mystery, secondary world, standalone-ish within series, adult

Godfell: The Complete Series by Christopher Sebela, Ben Hennessy (Illustrator), Vittorio Astone (Colorist), Triona Farrell (Colorist), Jim Campbell (Letterer)

God is dead. Who’s next?

One sunny day in the land of Kerethim, God falls dead from the sky. The impact sends out shockwaves that draw in royal families at war, shadowy creatures of the dark, and armies of the dispossessed, all coming to lay claim to parts of God’s body. Into this power struggle wanders Zanzi Vuiline, a soldier and berserker trying to get home from a years-long war. Forced to fight her way through the strange landscapes in and on God’s corpse, from the soles of its feet through the top of its head, Zanzi will acquire a mysterious traveling companion on her own pilgrimage.

The Complete Series tells the story of a fierce warrior woman tired of war and her traveling companion with her own reasons for war weariness – and revenge. These two forces of nature are on a journey to find their way back home – and to themselves.

Graphic novel, fantasy, epic fantasy, adventure, secondary world, adult

[fredicia]

Paladin's Hope by T. Kingfisher

[goodgrammaritan]

"I’m sorry about your sword, though. Did it have a name?”

Galen looked blank. “Did what?”

“Your sword.”

“Why would it have a name?”

“Don’t warriors name their swords?”

The paladin stared at him. “Is that a euphemism?”

Piper felt a flush starting. “I didn’t think it was, no. You know, the pointy metal thing?”

“…you know they don’t come when called, right?”

“Neither do cats, but people name those.” His flush was definitely growing.

“Yes, but that’s so you have something to yell when they knock things off the table.”

Paladin's Hope by T. Kingfisher

[denimshortsdean]

grown adult men communicate using words challenge (impossible)