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Shattered by Lee Winter

Full and fair warning to the pitchers of this book: I did not like it. I did not care for it at all. I am gonna harsh on it. I will never read anything by this author again. If you go further than this, it’s at your peril. 

The pitch: What happens when superheroes don't want to be superheroes? A departure from the conventions of the genre, this book explores the many facets of humanity. Of life. Of loss. Of discrimination and friendship and equality – and how we, as humans, need different people in our lives at different times and in different ways. When your world is shattered, how can you pick up the pieces? (Includes a butch protagonist.)

Nonspoilery: The seductive idea of “A butch superhero” is utterly undone by the fact that everyone in this novel is insanely self-aware and has not only been to therapy, but may currently be sitting in a session now. Pair this with a hilariously heavy-handed look at social justice and axes of oppression, and I think a gay twelve year old would really get a lot out of this. 

I earlier posted little snippets of this book and I think that really sums it up. 

Spoilers

So I thought the major and compelling problem I was going to have with this book is I have very specific and strong emotional surrounds with the name Lena, as I do with only a handful of names in the world. So a character was always going to struggle a little bit for NOT being her. I was worried about this. 

Boy, do I wish that had been the problem! Mostly it offered up funny asides, but it didn’t really affect my feelings about the book. 

Lena is of course an edgy, closed off bad girl with a tragic anime backstory which in and of itself would not cause me a problem, many such characters, a number of whom I like. It’s a trope, and, you know what? It’s a decent trope! Would that an edgy bad girl who is the best at what she does, which is morally suspect, is a little ‘done’ was my biggest criticism. In a good story, it’s not big deal for me. 

BUT OH. Anyway, she goes to bumfuck nowhere to go track down Shattergirl, who doesn’t play the by the rules and goes into hiding, and Lena is all up in trying to figure out how to lure her back, because she’s the best ever at getting superheroes to come back, even though we learn very early on that maybe governments aren’t nice to superheroes. 

So then we go on a magical world tour, in some latter-day, low budget, Christmas Carol interlude where we have to prove to Lena, I guess, that people are bad and capitalism sucks? I honestly felt this was more a problem of Nyah’s imagination and experience than humanity sucking. Of course there are the horrors, but there is joy and beauty, too, and Lena basically takes all of this shit lying down like, “Hm! I, a fully grown adult who engages with a difficult business, never TRULY understood how someone could consider humanity not worth saving.” Really? NEVER? I fucking love the world, I think humanity is capable of immense kindness and beauty, and even I could see how someone who utterly lacked imagination would consider humanity “not worth saving.” 

And of COURSE Nyah’s planet was perfect and valued science and no one chased wealth and blah blah I’m sure she’s actually just high as fuck on the nostalgia of a place she hasn’t actually been in 100 years, but the narrative doesn’t SEEM to challenge this. It seems to be like, “Oh! If only humanity were not so awful! Le sigh!” and then Nyah offers the one concession to the fact that he planet might NOT have been utter perfection is that they weren’t very creative. Good fucking God. 

And we land on Nyah being the new leader of the superheroes, because of course she used to be the old president of the superheroes, but was replaced with a dude that sucks because, And I quote the fucking book directly: “You mean he’s a straight, white male.” The whole book is this embarrassingly heavy handed. God forbid we have a single thought for ourselves, don’t worry, this book will supply it to you like you are a little baby bird who needs it regurgitated into your mouth. 

Anyway, it was all very fucking YA. I wanted it to be the pitch, and I suppose it was the pitch for a 12 year old lesbian, but it was so on rails, so black and white, that I was nearly insulted by it. This was not pitched to me as YA, but the only difference between this and YA is they suck each other’s clits. This is for adults who only read YA.

I was going to go more into this, but as it turns out, I don’t actually want to think about this book anymore. It MIGHT be my least favorite book of the year, and if it isn’t it’s a close second.

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From time to time, we like to give older books a new look. Here’s the new cover for Shattered by Lee Winter!

https://www.ylva-publishing.com/product/shattered-the-superheroine-collection-by-lee-winter/

Earth’s first black, lesbian superheroine has had enough of humanity and disappeared. In this moving, opposites-attract, science-fiction tale, a stubborn tracker is sent to bring her home…any way she can.

Shattergirl is a brilliant but aloof black, alien superheroine, called a guardian, who can hurl and destroy large objects. The world reveres her and other guardians like her, yet she’s suddenly refusing to save people and has gone off the grid.

Lena Martin, the street-smart human tracker with a silver tongue and a disdain for the rogue guardians she chases, has only days to bring Shattergirl home.

As the pair clash heatedly, masks begin to crack, and brutal secrets are exposed that could shatter them both.

An award-winning, opposites-attract, lesbian science fiction tale embracing the special people who pass through our lives and change us forever.

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Shattered by Lee Winter

Shattergirl, Earth’s first lesbian guardian—a brilliant but aloof alien superheroine who can hurl and destroy large objects—is refusing to save people and has gone off the grid.

Lena Martin, the street-smart tracker with a silver tongue and a disdain for the rogue guardians she chases, has only days to bring her home. As the pair clash heatedly, masks begin to crack and brutal secrets are exposed that could shatter them both.

Genres: superhero, romance

Get the book from The Book Depository here!

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Shattered by Lee Winter [ebook] [print]

Shattergirl, Earth’s first lesbian guardian—a brilliant but aloof alien superheroine who can hurl and destroy large objects—is refusing to save people and has gone off the grid. Lena Martin, the street-smart tracker with a silver tongue and a disdain for the rogue guardians she chases, has only days to bring her home. As the pair clash heatedly, masks begin to crack and brutal secrets are exposed that could shatter them both.

Book Review by TheLesbianReview

“You will never read anything quite like it again. The things that Winter made me feel was quite something. At one point I wanted to give up on humanity altogether. And then through the journey I felt like perhaps there was hope for us after all.”

The Power of Mercy by Fiona Zedde [ebook] [print]

To her family, Mai Redstone is weak. Her shape-shifting power is nowhere near as impressive as their abilities to literally alter the world around them. But when she puts on the costume to become Mercy, a rooftop-climbing chameleon with a thousand disguises and at least nine lives, she feels almost invincible. When a local politician is murdered and the police call Mercy in to help, the stability Mai has built out of past pain threatens to crumble. The dead politician turns out to be her uncle, a man who made her childhood a living hell. Caught between giving a medal to the killer and being forced to find the murderer for her family, Mai must make the difficult choice between family loyalty and self-preservation. Mercy is a blade that can cut both ways.

Book Review on Amazon

“Mai, the main character, is complex and pained without being unlikeable. Although the novel is short, she grows perceptibly by the end of the story. There are clear villains, but the heroes aren’t as clear-cut as they might be in other stories.”

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Shattered (The Superheroine Collection)

I was given this ARC by the publisher in exchange for an Honest Review. Superheroes and Lesbians. Sign me Up!! Of course, the book is written by Lee Winter, so, it's much, much more complicated than that, but, as a one line blurb, I'd go with Superheroes and Lesbians, Woo!! It's the story of Lena. She's a 'tracker' whose job it is to bring back wayward superheroes who have powers. I thought that the world building behind these heroes and the world, in general, was really cool. (And it wasn't just a current world either, it went back into history as well). It's one of the many things in this book world that I'd love to read more about in short stories or other novels. But, in the current world, a superheroine called Shattergirl has been missing for awhile and the previous trackers have not found hide or hair of her. So, Lena, who's the best one, gets sent after the elusive superhero. Her chase and usual tricks used against the heroes don't quite go as they usually do with the other heroes she's convinced to come back to civilization, and that's when the novel gets super awesome interesting. There's also a Cyclone thrown in as well as each of the main characters are explored in awesome detail throughout the book. It probably would have been a five-star novel if I had personally liked the ending more, but, unfortunately, I didn't love it. Still, it was a good book and as I said at the beginning of the review, Lesbians. Superheroes! Woo!!

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A great lesbian science fiction audiobook

Gaby's Review of 'Shattered' by Lee Winter, Audiobook narrated by Abby Craden

Review of ‘Shattered’ by Lee Winter, Audiobook narrated by Abby Craden

What a difference an audiobook makes. When I read this novel in 2017 I liked it but didn’t love it. Now, three years later and thanks to the excellent narration by Abby Craden, I have to say that the written text comes alive thanks to her performance and made me enjoy it much more.

Shattergirl is a (more…)

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Shattered by Lee Winter Read: June 9 2018 Rating: 4.75 Stars I received an ARC of this book from Ylva Publishing in exchange for an honest review. Damn. This is, unexpectedly, one quite good book. I had kept putting this one off because something about it looked vaguely depressing, and, while I tended to like the other works by this author, I didn’t do so at the same level of others – and some of those others seemed less impressed with this book. But then I read Winter’s most recent book, and had been very favorably impressed, so, I finally dove in. One note before I continue: I note above that this is an ‘ARC’. That’s an odd thing to say about a book that’s been published for a while, eh? Did I get the ARC then take forever to read it? Is that what I meant in the first paragraph about ‘finally dove in’? No – when June 2018 ARC’s were offered, I was given the chance to select previously published books, and I selected two of the three current Superhero Collection books (I’d already read the third). So, no, this is not a long delayed read of an ARC I got long ago, nor a long delayed review of a book I‘d read long ago. This is a hard book to write a review about. Many of the things I think of possibly mentioning seem to bounce against possible spoiler territory. So…. This book is specifically about two women. I’ve forgotten the age of one, though I think she’s in her thirties. The other is, if I recall correctly, 142 years old. 142, eh? That’s . . . old. Heh. One of the two women, the younger one, Lena Martin specifically, has the lead point of view for the first, oh, 64 percent of the book (65%?), before Shattergirl, Nyah, got a turn at the POV controls. Once Nyah got her hands on the POV, the point of view alternated between the two until the end of the book, though still favoring Lena’s insights. Roughly around 1916 (or exactly then?), a spaceship flew through the skies (and broke up) and 50 aliens sat down on the lawn outside Parliament in London. The world was at war at the time, and people were on edge. The military marched up and shot at them – that was the first response, not an ‘Arrival’ (the film) type of military turning up, securing things, then sending in scientists to try to communicate, no, just point guns, open fire. Oddly no one died, for, you see, the aliens had certain powers. Powers that would allow them, later, to be ‘Guardians’, or ‘Superheroes’. Long and short: this is an alternate history that branches off from our world in 1916. The alternate history ‘What If?’ question is simply: ‘what if 50 aliens with advanced powers turned up while the world was at war what would have happened next?’ Well, the story doesn’t continue from that point – it leaps ahead to . . . hmm, something like 2017. Specifically to Lena Martin. Tracker. Lena Martin works as Tracker, someone who tracks down ‘runaway’ aliens. She’s shown tracking down ‘Beast Lord’ at the start of the book (in Siberia); before returning home and being given a new assignment: track down Shattergirl. Rumors place her on an island off the coast of Yemen. Superhero prose is a tough genre in a certain way – in the sense that anything might be found. Maybe the story will be light and fluffy, with humor (think Adam West Batman), maybe it will be darker, though with strains of sanity (Michael Keaton Batman with Jack Nicholson as the Joker); or maybe it’ll be out and out insanity (Heath Ledger’s Joker), and/or weirdly dark and insane (Watchman). You can’t really go in thinking ‘well, superheroes, comics, who reads comics? Who is the target audience? Kids? This’ll be light and fluffy’ because you’ll be dead wrong (or right, that’s the part where superhero stories are tricky, maybe it will be light and fluffy). Here? Well, this isn’t light and fluffy. The world is crap, and the superheroes are breaking down. There is one twist, though, that you do not normally see in superhero stories – there are no real supervillains in this story (there are ‘bad guys’, but they aren’t really supervillains, and they don’t act like bad guys). Oh, and another thing: people expect a certain thing from ‘Romances’, as such I’ll say: there’s a romance subplot, but this is not a Romance book. Both main characters are tough to take, and kind of dislikable at the start of the book. Heck, they might have been that way by the middle of the book, but both grew on me and ‘redeemed’ themselves before the end, and I found myself rather enjoying both of them and the story. Unexpectedly, this becomes my second favorite Lee Winter’s book, after ‘Under Your Skin.’ Rating: 4.75 June 9 2018

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Now available exclusively on Amazon and in KU: Shattered by Lee Winter

amazon.com/dp/B071JP4NSZ/ Earth’s first black, lesbian superheroine has had enough of humanity and disappeared. In this moving, opposites-attract, science-fiction tale, a stubborn tracker is sent to bring her home…any way she can. Shattergirl is a brilliant but aloof black, alien superheroine, called a guardian, who can hurl and destroy large objects. The world reveres her and other guardians like her, yet she’s suddenly refusing to save people and has gone off the grid. Lena Martin, the street-smart human tracker with a silver tongue and a disdain for the rogue guardians she chases, has only days to bring Shattergirl home. As the pair clash heatedly, masks begin to crack, and brutal secrets are exposed that could shatter them both. An award-winning, opposites-attract, lesbian science fiction tale embracing the special people who pass through our lives and change us forever.

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wlw Book and Publisher Rec

We all know how hard it can be for queer women to find books that have great and diverse queer characters - who also get their happy ending. There are a lot of posts going around with book recommendations for what we want to read, which I love and want to support.

BUT today I will not only tell you about some awesome wlw books - I will also tell you about a SOURCE where you can actually find new ones every month.

So [ Ylva Publishing ] is managed by a small group of awesome women who love books, all things queer and a lot of geeky stuff. They publish books by women for women and about women loving women. 

But they are also establishing a corner called [ Queer Pack ] to help get better representation for books about matters outside of gay/lesbian/bi. Yes, that means you trans pals. and you non binary pals. and you pan and ace pals. and more. This section is fairly new and doesn’t offer much yet, but I’m sure great things will come out of it.

They do their work because they love the things we love. And have you ever read fanfiction and thought ‘This is what I want to read in novels’ ? Well they did too and also publish some great fanfics as novels!

If you like to read e-books, you can buy them directly at [ their website ]. For the first two weeks after publishing their new books are released there exclusively. But the paperback versions are also available on Amazon.

And now I’ll tell you about some books you might like:

[ Future Leaders of Nowhere ] by Emily O’Beirne

Finn and Willa have been picked as team leaders in the future leader camp game. The usually confident Finn doesn’t know what’s throwing her more, the fact she’s leading a team of highly unenthusiastic overachievers or coming up against fierce, competitive Willa. And Willa doesn’t know which is harder, leaving her responsibilities behind to pursue her goals or opening up to someone.

[ Shattered ] by Lee Winter

Shattergirl, Earth’s first lesbian guardian—a brilliant but aloof alien superheroine who can hurl and destroy large objects—is refusing to save people and has gone off the grid. Lena Martin, the street-smart tracker with a silver tongue and a disdain for the rogue guardians she chases, has only days to bring her home.

[ You’re fired ] by Shaya Crabtree

When poor college student Rose Walsh gives out an inappropriate gag gift at her office Christmas party, it backfires horribly. The gift’s recipient is her boss, the esteemed president of Gio Corp., Vivian Tracey. Instead of firing her, Vivian blackmails math major Rose into joining her on a business trip to New York to investigate an embezzlement. 

[ Popcorn Love ] by KL Hughes

Elena Vega is a successful businesswoman and single mother to an adorable three-year-old son, Lucas. Her love life, however, is lacking, as those closest to her keep pointing out.At the persistent urging of her closest friend, Elena reluctantly agrees to a string of blind dates if she can find a suitable babysitter for Lucas.Enter Allison Sawyer, a free-spirited senior at New York University.Elena is intrigued by Allison’s ability to push her out of her element, and the young woman’s instant and easy connection with a normally shy Lucas quickly earns Allison the job.

[ All the little Moments ] by G Benson

Left responsible for her young niece and nephew, Anna finds herself dumped and alone in Melbourne, a city she doesn’t even like. She tries to navigate the shock of looking after two children battling with their grief while managing her own.Filled with self-doubt, Anna feels as if she’s making a mess of the entire thing, especially when she collides with a long-legged stranger. Anna barely has time to brush her teeth in the morning, let alone to date a woman—least of all one who has no idea about the two kids under her care.