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[sovay]

Hey! Internet! I've just been talking about how much it sucks when a novel kills off its queer characters. Especially when there's, like, one of them and they're the one who doesn't make it. Can someone point me toward a list of books where that doesn't happen? Spoilers, whatever.

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[skygiants]

The Quarters books are my FAVORITE nineties idfic. I'm still not over the scene in which Bannon comes up with a complex ploy to get his body back, which is then revealed just to be a complex ploy to have sex with himself. And all the INCREDIBLY CREEPY SAD ZOMBIES. ;___; Did you ever read the fourth one? I also reread the first books recently, but I never read the fourth and I'm wavering on whether it's worth it for completionism...

Yep, The Summer Prince is year-kings -- it's about the intersection of art and politics, and the impact that can be made with short-term power. I highly recommend it.

I also super enjoyed the Finnikin books, but for the record the gay characters don't appear until Book 2, which is coincidentally the same time that the trilogy takes a left-turn from Serious Second-World Fantasy About National Trauma into something more akin to the unholy offspring of Gormenghast and a Wes Anderson movie...which is of course when I love it best, it's AMAZING.

[sovay]

I also reread the first books recently, but I never read the fourth and I'm wavering on whether it's worth it for completionism...

rosefox hated it for what sounded like very good reasons, so I don't plan to.

the intersection of art and politics, and the impact that can be made with short-term power. I highly recommend it.

Awesome. Thank you!

the trilogy takes a left-turn from Serious Second-World Fantasy About National Trauma into something more akin to the unholy offspring of Gormenghast and a Wes Anderson movie...

Whaaaaaaaaa.

I'll try to read that, then.