#what we devour

[linseymiller]

Please be aware of your local aces this week!

This week, make sure you're aware of your local ace characters! I love all of my ace children equally, but y'all are allowed to play favorites.

Do you like reading about ace girls who choose to be kind when the world isn't? Ace girls who decide to hurt those in power as much as they've been hurt? Ace girls who use assumptions about aceness to their advantage?

And if none of these stories are right for you, please check out some other ace books this week, like Fire Becomes Her, Aces Wild, Beyond the Black Door, Silver in the Mist, Elatsoe, The Last Eight, ACE, The Sound of Stars, or So Let Them Burn.

Annette by @fictograph Lorena by @nicole.deal.art Euphemia (to-be-revealed) by @dianasousaart

[aroaessidhe]

Aro & Ace books: Dark YA high fantasy

(in this instance by dark I mean spooky or gothic vibes, dark aesthetic, supernatural elements related to death)

Beneath The Citadel - one of the 5 MC's is an ace girl

Vespertine - MC is word-of-god aroacespec (no romance in the story)

Beyond The Black Door - demi girl MC, ace boy LI, ace trans man SC (see also In The Ravenous Dark - major side character is ace & nonbinary)

Clariel - aroace coded girl MC

What We Devour - ace girl MC (f, m/f)

This Dark Descent - demidemi girl MC (m/f) and questioning aroacespec girl MC (latter only vague so far)

#aspec books / aspec database

[logarithmicpanda]

What We Devour (Linsey Miller)

Ngl I had very low expectations when I picked up this book. I have grown steadily less patient with YA, and I'm in a reading slump on top of that - I kinda expected to DNF this book after a week

What happened instead is that I finished it in two days lmao

The good:

A very interesting representation of aceness in the main character and others' reactions to her. I feel like by now I've seen several sex repulsed and sex positive aces in books, but Lorena is the first sex indifferent one I read and it was very relatable when touched upon

Kept me engaged despite my current lack of focus

Anti capitalist message interestingly woven into a fantasy setting

The bad:

Sometimes the narration just skips over things in a way that makes it hard to follow

A couple predictable twists treated as big reveals

No falling action and as far as I know no sequel planned

A weird lack of emotions after certain supposedly very dark plot points which removes a lot of their impact, including the conclusion

I still don't know if I'd recommend it, but I'm definitely glad I read it, it was an interesting book. I've seen a few reviewer say it felt like a raw draft and I kinda agree, the potential was there but it might have benefited from more editing ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[thereadingchallengechallenge]

JOMP BPC - Jan 30 - Freebie

I’ve decided 2023 is gonna be the year I give Linsey Miller’s books another go 👀

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Title: What We Devour

Author: Linsey Miller

Series or standalone: standalone

Publication year: 2021

Genres: fiction, fantasy, LGBT+, horror, romance

Blurb: Lorena Adler has a secret: she holds the power of the banished gods, the Noble and the Vile, inside her. She has spent her entire life hiding from the world and her past. She’s content to spend her days as an undertaker in a small town, marry her best friend Julian, and live an unfulfilling life, so long as no one uncovers her true nature...but when the notoriously bloodthirsty and equally Vile crown prince comes to arrest Julian’s father, he immediately recognises Lorena for what she is, so she makes a deal: a fair trial for her betrothed’s father, in exchange for her service to the crown. The prince is desperate for help. He’s spent years trying to repair the weakening Door that holds back the Vile...and he’s losing the battle. As Lorena learns more about the Door and the horrifying price it takes to keep it closed, she’ll have to embrace both parts of herself to survive.

[qbdatabase]

What We Devour by Linsey Miller Lorena Adler has a secret—she holds the power of the banished gods, the Noble and the Vile, inside her. She’s content to hide from the world, but when notoriously bloodthirsty Vile crown prince recognizes her for what she is, she makes a deal--her betrothed's life in exchange for her service to the crown. View the full summary and rep info on wordpress!

[platoapproved]

The building had been crawling with gentle humans who noticed not a thing as they’d stolen the clothes they now wore, uniforms of the young, and left by a broken door into an alley. Not my brothers and sisters anymore. — QUEEN OF THE DAMNED

[abirddogmoment]

wow what a privilege to live a life that 12yo me dreamed of

[theeminentlyimpractical]

Michael Sheen playing Aziraphale so much more markedly effervescent in GO2 is delightful, and campy, and perfect in the narrative arc, but damn, it’s also a very cruel way to set up the contrast of how stiff and restrained he will have to be in GO3, like putting a geode back together to hide all its color.

[cybertron-smash-or-pass]

Bonus! Rescue Bots Academy Ratchet

[linseymiller]

my terrible nerds have officially sold over 10k copies and i can't believe it

thank you all for continuing to read and love Lorena's story! this book meant a lot to me for a lot of different reasons, and it makes me so happy that a lot of you loved it too 🖤💀🖤

[rustytrident]

seeing all these mixed opinions ab nightbringer and here i am giggling and kicking my feet cause we get to rizz up the demons all over again

[mythalism]

im probably being insane and reading too much into this but is it common for andraste to be referred to as maferaths "heart"???? you know. maferath the BETRAYER. calling his lover his HEART. because uhhhhhhhh i can think of another very significant great betrayer who also calls his lover, the herald of andraste, his heart...

im not even sure what this metaphor is supposed to mean or if "his heart" even refers to andraste, it could definitely just be a way of saying maferath had become heartless and "devoured" by jealousy and thats why he did nothing to save her, but the language is so familiar? genuine question if this is done in other places in the lore because it seems a little bit of a suspicious parallel???

[jennifersminds]

1k follower celebration 🧚🏻‍♀️ → fav outfit from (tvd) KATHERINE’S 1864 WARDROBE

[pooksbedamned]

Ok.

Just hear me out

[flickerintwilights]

on the road to hell