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lgbtqreads · 24 days

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Happy (Upcoming) International Asexuality Day 2024!

April 6 marks International Asexuality Day, and we’re celebrating by championing books all over the ace spectrum. For even more recs, check past years’ International Asexuality Day/Ace Week posts! To Read Now Middle Grade Just Lizzie by Karen Wilfrid There’s the part of me that doesn’t understand kissing or cuteness or attraction, and then there’s the part of me that feels so lonely. How do I…

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#Ace #Ace-Spec #Ann Zhao #Asexual #Christine Calella #Dear Wendy #Demi #demisexual #Easy Does It #Ivy Fairbanks #Just Lizzie #K.M. Neuhold #Kamilah Cole #Karen Wilfrid #Morbidly Yours #So Let Them Burn #The Final Curse of Ophelia Cray #Upside Down

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aroaessidhe · 1 year

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2023 ACE & ARO books - part 3

A DAY OF FALLEN NIGHT - Feb 23 - aroacespec MC

THE STONES STAY SILENT - April 14 - aroace MC

PAPER PLANES - May 16 - aroace MC

WANDER THE NIGHT - June 6 - aroace MC

RIDE OR DIE - June 6 - ace-spec (unsure of details)

HE WHO DROWNED THE WORLD - Aug 22 - acespec MC

ONE WORLD - Oct 24 - ace & demi MCs

JUST LIZZIE - Nov 14 - ace MC

WREN MARTIN RUINS IT ALL - Nov 7 - ace MC

REEL LOVE - no cover, no date - ace MC

part 1 / part 2 / part 4

#asexual books #ace books #this has been sitting in my drafts waiting for enough cover reveals to make a post HAHA #aroace books #A DAY OF FALLEN NIGHT #THE STONES STAY SILENT #HE WHO DROWNED THE WORLD #THE SIREN THE SONG AND THE SPY #FOURTH WORLD #IAMOS TRILOGY #JUST LIZZIE #WREN MARTIN RUINS IT ALL #WANDER THE NIGHT #asexual #2023 aspec books

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magicalyaku · 4 months

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Happy new year! After the slump of the previous months and my last artist alley of the year, I finally had a lot to read in December! I bought so many books in November, I had to get at least through a few in order to include them in my yearly awards. xD Work was still shit but reading was fun again. :D

Dark Heir (Dark Rise 2) (C.S. Pacat): This was my last book of 2023 and easily my most anticipated. And did it deliver! Left me emotionally devastated for days! xD Seriously, I don't want to know what my neighbors thought what was going on, in case they heard me going "Aaah! No! No no no nooooo! Kya! NOOOO!!" during two certain scenes. /D The nice thing about this series is that I have absolute faith in Pacat's ability to write it well und give me an outcome I am satisfied with. I mean, go look at Captive Prince. The way the relationship between Damen and Laurent develops (even after MAJOR shit going on between them!), the political threads and all that, it's just done very well. And now, here's the Dark Rise series and I sit and watch the spiral of doom the characters are caught up in it and apart from maybe Sinclair not a single one of them is fully good or bad. And it's sooo interesting (and emotionally devastating)!! Hng!! I would actually like to write much more about what I loved and suffered through, like the whole thing with the Visander situation and how Sarcean made all of his worst enemies because he just couldn't keep it in his pants. And James. James. And Cyprian! And everything. But I can't because whenever I try I still feel the excited giggles in my brain and can't have a coherent thought. It's great, but also ... Hnggg!!

The First and Last Adventure of Kit Sawyer (S.E. Harmon): This was fun! At some point early on I looked up what other books the author has written and it's more than ten and I thought "Yes! It feels like being written by someone with a lot of writing experience!" There's just something about the liveliness of the characters and the dialogues. Also so much adventure with a slightly different flavor than usual being set in the jungle and all, I loved it.

By any other Name (Erin Cotter): I wonder why all of my historical fiction books are set in England. This is another highly adventurous story. I was a bit surprised as one thing that's mentioned in the summary already only appears like after half the book. But other than that it was pretty good. It has spies and theatre and pretty nice characters. And I did not anticipate everything that happened which is good!

Wren Martin Ruins it all (Amanda deWitt): The author's previous book Aces Wild: A Heist was one of my top books in 2022, this one does not quite reach those heights but it was still very good and very enjoyable. Wren is such a messy and fun character. As reader I absolutely knew what was going on and who was writing with whom but it was nice to follow the characters' path to awareness. In a way Wren's aceness is not as heavy as in other books (see the next one for instance) but at the same time it deals with a few of the social issues a_spec people are faced with which was nice.

Just Lizzie (Karen Wilfrid): This is a middle grade book about a girl coming to terms with being ace. The heroine has a really nice character arc. And the other characters are sometimes what you expect them to be and sometimes they are not. And maybe … that's ok, right? And I loved it and I cried through half of the book. I guess, it hit home a little more heavily than I expected. :'D (Like that one time where Lizzie is wondering how she will spent Christmas when her parents aren't around anymore? Haaa. It had just been Christmas when I read this and I'm in my 30ies and my Dad is above 70 now so that is a concern I actually have, you know. It's not nice to be reminded. :'D) It's a really good book, I think, thoughtful and well put together and empowering, too.

A Hundred Vicious Turns (The Broken Tower 1) (Lee Page O'brien): Now this was difficult. The cover is gorgeous. Easily my favorite one this year. I only lament that there's no real gold printed. The wasted opportunity. yAy The content is … difficult. I like the story on a whole. The premise and the magic system are really interesting. The characters … were interesting as well? They're fine, their motivations are not easily seen which, in a plot full of mysteries, is actually quite okay. I just didn't build the emotional connection. There's also a lot of anxiety, especially on Rat's part. There was one bit in the writing style that irked me a little. The overuse of pronouns. Because Rat was the only one with 'they' and in most scenes it was only one other person with them, so there often really long stretches where only the pronouns would be used instead of the names. It wa snot confusing because you could easily tell the characters apart, but it felt weird. I'm very used to reading the names a lot. Oh well. It's not a fun read, but it is intruiging and I will read the next volume to see where it goes.

A Magic Steeped in Poison (The Book of Tea 1) (Judy I. Lin): I managed to squeeze in a YA heroine inbetween all the gay boys! And I liked it better than most other female-led YA fantasies I read recently. Doesn't mean I loved it, but Ning was pretty okay as a heroine. The thing is, the circumstances under which I started this book weren't the best and that probabbly reflected on the whole experience. I picked up the German audiobook for a very long bus trip, but listened to it only later while doing some hours of very boring tedious work. The audiobook itself was okay, except that the reader could not decide how to pronounce some names. For instance, Kang was Kong first, then Kuang before she settled on Kang. And that kind of thing drives me mad. How am I to connect with a character when I am left this uncertain how their name is?! The German translation also decided to leave some of the names in English (especially the teas) which in my opinion doesn't make sense because why would the teas in Fantasy-China have English names when everything else is either translated into German or left Chinese? D: I couldn't stand it and finally switched to my printed edition (in English). /D It got better from there, but it's hard to forget the echo. As for the story, I don't really like court intrigues. Cruelty and injustice are just things I really struggle with to read about. (They make me angry and I don't want to be angry at my books.) But it never tipped over the edge into annoying area. I have the sequel at home as well, so I'll it. The covers are beautiful after all.

That was 2023! Next up is my big Best and Worst award ceremony! uAu~

#yaku reads #books #queer books #lgbtq books #queer lit #bookblr #the first and last adventure of kit sawyer #dark heir #a hundred vicious turns #just lizzie #wren martin ruins it all #a magic steeped in poison #by any other name #look at all these pretty covers

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staliaatreides · 6 months

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A good friend of mine just published her first book! Out today!

So proud of you, my friend! :)

#just lizzie

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the-final-sentence · 1 year

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Maybe I’ll just be like me.

Karen Wilfrid, from Just Lizzie

#Just Lizzie #Karen Wilfrid

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aspeccharactersoftheday · 11 months

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Lizzie from Just Lizzie is asexual!

#lizzie #just lizzie #canon aspec #asexual

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dio7r · 7 months

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#this is what makes us girls #girlblog #hyper feminine #girl interrupted syndrome #lizzy grant #black swan #divine feminine #female hysteria #girlblogging #tumblr girls #2014 tumblr #just girly things #gaslight gatekeep girlboss #hell is a teenage girl #just girly thoughts #girlhood #just girly posts

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fleuvien · 5 months

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izzy444angel · 11 months

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this is me all day

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lgbtqreads · 1 year

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Happy International Asexuality Day 2023!

Happy International Asexuality Day! Today we’re celebrating books with main characters all along the ace spectrum, so check out these titles and find your perfect next read! As usual, all links are affiliate and earn a percentage of income for the site, so please use them if you can! Please note this roundup only features titles that were not previously featured [with covers] in past…