#shadow life

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Queer Adult SFF Books Bracket: Preliminary Round

Book summaries below:

Shadow Life by Hiromi Goto (illustrated by Ann Xu)

Poet and novelist Hiromi Goto effortlessly blends wry, observational slice-of-life literary fiction with poetic magical realism in the tender and surprising graphic novel Shadow Life , with haunting art from debut artist Ann Xu.

When Kumiko’s well-meaning adult daughters place her in an assisted living home, the seventy-six-year-old widow gives it a try, but it’s not where she wants to be. She goes on the lam and finds a cozy bachelor apartment, keeping the location secret even while communicating online with her eldest daughter. Kumiko revels in the small, daily decorating as she pleases, eating what she wants, and swimming in the community pool. But something has followed her from her former residence―Death’s shadow.

Kumiko’s sweet life is shattered when Death’s shadow swoops in to collect her. With her quick mind and sense of humor, Kumiko, with the help of friends new and old, is prepared for the fight of her life. But how long can an old woman thwart fate?

Graphic novel, fantasy, magical realism, literary fiction, slice-of-life, adult

Hunger Pangs series (True Love Bites) by Joy Demorra

In a world of dwindling hope, love has never mattered more...

Captain Nathan J. Northland had no idea what to expect when he returned home to Lorehaven injured from war, but it certainly wasn't to find himself posted on an island full of vampires. An island whose local vampire dandy lord causes Nathan to feel strange things he'd never felt before. Particularly about fangs.

When Vlad Blutstein agreed to hire Nathan as Captain of the Eyrie Guard, he hadn't been sure what to expect either, but it certainly hadn't been to fall in love with a disabled werewolf. However Vlad has fallen and fallen hard, and that's the problem.

Torn by their allegiances--to family, to duty, and the age-old enmity between vampires and werewolves--the pair find themselves in a difficult situation: to love where the heart wants or to follow where expectation demands.

The situation is complicated further when a mysterious and beguiling figure known only as Lady Ursula crashes into their lives, bringing with her dark omens of death, doom, and destruction in her wake.

And a desperate plea for help neither of them can ignore.

Thrown together in uncertain times and struggling to find their place amidst the rising human empire, the unlikely trio must decide how to face the coming darkness: united as one or divided and alone. One thing is for certain, none of them will ever be the same.

Fantasy, romance, paranormal, series, adult

[jeypawlik]

TCAF HAUL

Hey TCAF was great but Max and I bought way too much so we had to dip out early. There's too many to @ but please support some cool artists this weekend

[ofliterarynature]

no, no, I definitely haven’t been buying more books :D

[nevinslibrary]

Comic Book Saturday

This was such a cute book. I know, I know, it’s about Kumiko as she’s trying to avoid Death, oh, and also sorta avoiding her adult daughters because she’s recently broken out of the assisted living place she’d been living in. (It’s early in the book, but, my favorite pages were when she finds some pretty darn good looking wood that someone got rid of and needs to get it home so she can make some shelves).

The story was great, and hilarious (a vacuum cleaner. Heh…) but, it was the art that really caught my attention. The characters were so, real. Not in a photo sort of way, instead when reading it, they just sort of seemed real. I’m not describing it exactly right, so… just go read this fun graphic novel, you won’t regret it.

You may like this book If you Liked: Talk To My Back by Murasaki Yamada, Ish by Adam De Souza, or Wrinkles by Paco Roca

Shadow Life by Hiromi Goto

[moonracer11]

the ultimate rockstar

[starcrossedandstupid]

This is what true love is. Just btw

[majindoodles]

fallen angel

[redpapercraness]

to lose you

[bl00doodle]

Off they go!

[bluerainbowart]

Team Hydrogen Bomb & Coughing Baby

[hazardousarin]

more reposts from my twt :)

shadow and his sisters

[mi-ch-ito]

[aliveko]

Shadows pose has leftovers from the fetal position he’d have flashbacks in

[huariqueje]

Outdoors Breakfast   -   Elena Climent , 2022.

Mexican, b. 1955-

Oil on linen on bord, 17 3/4 x 11 in.

[galina]

Autumn golden hour in Regent's Park 🍁🍂🥮

[ghosted-jazz]

I like to think breaking the canary curse via dying in the void had some effects on Lizzie