Queership

And sometimes holes want to get bigger, but Baz was wrong—sometimes they just want to be filled.

 Character Posters: Hans (Chameleon Moon)

We Are The Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson

”crows are highly intelligent creatures”

Beneath the Sugar Sky, Seanan McGuire

you’re so alive, simon snow. you got my share of it.

“I didn’t even need to check my phone to know that the universe had shrunk again, and the stars had vanished… No. They hadn’t vanished. I’d given them away to someone who hadn’t deserved them, and I’d never get them back.”

—Witchsong #5, Book of Cantos

Try RUNEBINDER by Alex Kahler, or if you want books that have an ensemble with m/m pairings in them, check out SIX OF CROWS by Leigh Bardugo and THE GIRL AT MIDNIGHT by Melissa Grey.

WHEN THE MOON WAS OURS by Anna-Marie McLemore is more stunningly beautiful than cute, but I still have to mention it! NOT YOUR VILLAIN by CB Lee is probably the cutest, though it’s not A Romance, just FYI. I think JAYA AND RASA by Sonia Patel is a very intense one, but there aren’t a ton of transboy/cis f YAs, so I figure it’s worth a mention too. There’s also an *extremely* cute YA coming up that’s a cis f/genderqueer (he/him) romance that I definitely have to rec called THE BRIGHTSIDERS by Jen Wilde.

I haven’t read MISTBORN but based on that I definitely rec OTHERBOUND by Corinne Duyvis, LABYRINTH LOST by Zoraida Cordova, THE SEAFARER’S KISS by Julia Ember, and THE CURSED QUEEN by Sarah Fine!

No worries! The Cursed Queen by Sarah Fine is a great one, though it works better if you read the m/f (but still bi) The Impostor Queen first. I also love love love Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust. And for some reason I cannot remember if there’s magic in Of Fire and Stars by Audrey Coulthurst? But read it anyway ;)

If you have not already read Timekeeper by Tara Sim, you are gonna loooooooooooooooove it. And Seven Tears at High Tide by CB Lee, too!

we notice the silence of men. we depend upon the silence of women.

∟  “It is remarkable how much courage it takes to kiss someone, even when you are almost certain that person would very much like to be kissed by you. Doubt will knock you from the sky every time.”

Tock.