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“Nothing you can do about that.”
(i) Lianyu Tan, The Wicked and the Willing, (ii) Anaïs Nin, Nearer the Moon: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1937-1939
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“You stole my heart, and now it beats, fragile and weeping, within your fist. I should despise you for that.”
Lianyu Tan, Captive in the Underworld
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A lot of awful things happen in this book (some awful in a sexy way, some emphatically not.) But along the way it gets so much of the tricky stuff we’ve tackled in this podcast right - from colonialism and revolution to gender and sexual politics - that reading it felt like a breath of fresh air. Add to that a nuanced and sympathetic take on BDSM and this one gets a hearty recommendation, if you’re cool with the laundry list of content warnings.
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This week we have an interview for you! Chloe and Val sit down with Lianyu Tan, author of The Wicked and the Willing, a dark f/f vampire novel which we LOVED.
Check out the interview at inmediales.com or wherever you get your podcasts!
https://inmediales.com/episode/de8f52e0/interview-with-lianyu-tan
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Love demands sacrifice. Her blood. Her body. Even her life....
Singapore, 1927. Verity Edevane needs blood. And not just anyone's blood. She craves the sweet, salty rush from a young woman's veins, the heady swirl of desire mixed with fealty—such a rarity in this foreign colony. It’s a lot to ask, but doesn't she deserve the best?
Gean Choo needs money. Mrs. Edevane makes her an offer Gean Choo can't refuse. But who is her strange, alluring new mistress? What is she? And what will Gean Choo sacrifice to earn her love?
Po Lam needs absolution. After decades of faithfully serving Mrs. Edevane, Po Lam can no longer excuse a life of bondage and murder. She needs a fresh start. A clean conscience. More than anything, she needs to save Gean Choo from a love that will destroy them all.
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A destitute maidservant must choose whom to love: her vampire mistress, or the woman trying to save her life in The Wicked and the Willing, a standalone, F/F steamy historical gothic horror vampire novel with a love triangle, a choice of endings and no cliffhangers. This novel contains two mutually exclusive endings, although most of the story is not interactive. Due to the mature content and dark themes, it is intended for adult listeners only. It contains potentially disturbing scenes and an abusive romantic relationship between two women. Further content information is available from the author’s website. This audiobook is performed by Emily Woo Zeller, an AudioFile Golden Voice and an Audie, Earphones, and SOVAS award-winning narrator.
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Gean Choo: I’m taking a job. The Edevane house.
Bee Leng: The cursed house?
Verity: You don’t know how long I’ve been waiting for you.
Po Lam: Remember the rules. No blood in the house.
Gean Choo: No blood in the house…
Verity: I’m going to take care of you. And you’ll take care of me. Won’t you, dear?
Po Lam: Don’t pity her. She’s not like you or I, understand?
Gean Choo: What are you, Mem?
Verity: … Hungry.
BLOOD.
LUST.
MURDER.
LESBIANS.
The Wicked and the Willing
Spring 2023
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#the wicked and the willing#emily woo zeller#lianyu tan#sapphic#lesbian fiction#chinese lesbians#gothic horror#gothic romance#butch#femme#singapore#1920s#horror#horror romance#romantic horror
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Fave Five: New Queer Adult Horror
Fave Five: New Queer Adult Horror
What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
No Gods for Drowning by Hailey Piper
Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin
The Wicked and the Willing by Lianyu Tan
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
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#Gretchen Felker-Martin#Hailey Piper#Julia Armfield#Lianyu Tan#Manhunt#No Gods For Drowning#Our Wives Under the Sea#T. Kingfisher#The Wicked and the WIlling#What Moves the Dead
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Review: The Wicked and the Willing, by Lianyu Tan
I was honoured to be given an advance copy of The Wicked and the Willing by Lianyu Tan. I'd already pre-ordered it, as its premise - vampires and a love triangle in 1920s Singapore - sounded exactly like what I wanted right then.
Well, I was right. It *was* exactly what I wanted. I read it over the past two weeks, savouring it in small pieces and then devouring whole chunks at once. It's dark and violent, with exquisite tension and beautiful attention to details. Lianyu is a veritable wizard at ratcheting up sexual tension over multiple scenes - an early scene involving the vampire Mrs Edevane being granted permission to drink from Gean Choo's wrist packs as much of an erotic punch as a full sex scene in the hands of a less skilled author.
Readers of delicate constitution should observe the content warnings - none of it was a problem for me (and the length of the list had me concerned it might be, so do with that what you will), but if you know there are things you absolutely cannot abide, the author has made the full list available to any reader before purchase. There was violence throughout the story - it *is* gothic horror, after all - but the author kept the level at the sweet spot where it makes an impact but doesn't leave you feeling sickened and overwhelmed. (There is one notable exception - the climax of the violent arc is everything you would expect, beautifully executed in every sense of the word.)
I'm not sure how I feel about the choice of endings. It's always tempting to go and see "what could have been", but I found the choice difficult to make; the longest I put the book down was while mulling over that decision. In a way I almost would have liked to have had the choice made for me - knowing a "canon" ending, from the author's perspective at least, with the opportunity to reject cannon and go a different way. As it turned out I needn't have fretted; the horror ending is dark and a little sad but not in the way that feeds my own nightmares. And the happily-ever-after ending is *excellent* in ways I will not spoil here. I have not read the "bonus ending" - Save Yourself. I think I'm happy with the endings I've read and will leave it at that.
Overall, I loved this book. It's a slight departure from my usual lesfic read, but in a direction I wanted right now. It's a beautifully written example of the dark fantasy/gothic horror subgenre, and I wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone even slightly interested. You won't be disappointed.
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#book review#lesbian fiction#lesbian romance#gothic horror#vampire#wlw#lesbian#lesfic#sapphic#queer books#fantasy romance#lesbians#arc#advance copy#The Wicked and the Willing#Lianyu Tan
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#captive in the underworld#lianyu tan#lesfic#troubled lesbian romance#wlw books#mylesficfavs#it's not that dark#it's hot though#greek mythology#retelling of Hades and Persephone
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Hi there! First of all, thank you for this blog, I have found numerous amazing sapphic stories because of it 🌸💗
And I wanted to ask if you have any greek mythology inspired sapphic novel recs (e.g. the lies we sing to the sea)?
Thank you for the kind words! Always happy to hear my posts helped someone find a book they loved. And for sure I got a few recs for you!
Besides already mentioned Lies We Sing to the Sea by Sarah Underwood, there's Outrun the Wind by Elizabeth Tammi and Coils by Barbara Ann Wright, there's also Hades and Persephone retellings like The Dark Wife by Sarah Diemer and Captive in the Underworld by Lianyu Tan.
And if you enjoy longer series, you can check out Thermopylae Bound by Belinda Harrison which is a 6 book series about Greek warriors.
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Lianyu Tan // Anaïs Nin // Natalie Young
#warrior nun#ava silva#sister beatrice#avatrice#ava x beatrice#wlwsource#wlwgif#dailynetflix#alba baptista#kristina tonteri young#usergif#userbecca#userjoss#userdorksinlove#tusereva#tuserpris#tuserdee#userhella#spilled ink#L.edits#these quotes fit them so well#but god do they hurt
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i sent my muse off to a war with his mind, and he never came back.
[claire c. holland, from jess: black christmas (1974), i am not your final girl / fatima aamer bilal, from my heart has claws / lianyu tan, from the wicked and the willing / anaïs nin / fatima aamer bilal, from all that is damaging / title, from my heart has claws / paintings by jeffrey t. larson]
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BOOK ROUND UP: VAMPIRES VS WITCHES
In honor of the season, we have compiled a round up of wlw witch and vampire books! Sapphic witches and vampires are tropes as old as time, which do you all prefer?
The Vampire books pictured are:
House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson
The Lost Girls by Sonia Hartl
A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson
Even Though I Knew the End by C.L. Polk
The Wicked and the Willing by Lianyu Tan
The Witch books pictured are:
Her Majesty's Royal Coven by Juno Dawson
Wild and Wicked Things by Francesca May
Payback's a Witch by Lana Harper
Sweet & Bitter Magic by Adrienne Tooley
The Scapegracers by H.A. Clarke
#books#book round up#book recommendations#wlw books#bookblr#litedit#yalitedit#storyseekers#booksociety#dailylitgfx#lgbtqialitdaily#sapphic literature#sapphic lit#wlw literature#wlw lit#novelsnet#fictionnet
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rec the horror books pls
YA
His Hideous Heart (anthology) ed. by Dahlia Adler
*Camp Mirror Lake by Kalynn Bayron (Slasher)
Not Good For Maidens by Tori Bovalino
My Dearest Darkest by Kayla Cottingham
*This Delicious Death by Kayla Cottingham
*The Pledge by Cale Dietrich (Slasher)
The Taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass
A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee
Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand
Extasia by Claire Legrand
Rules for Vanishing by Kate Alice Marshall
The City Beautiful by Aden Polydoros
Wilder Girls by Rory Power
Bleeding Earth by Kaitlin Ward
The River Has Teeth by Erica Waters
*The Restless Dark by Erica Waters
Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White
Adult
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite
The Monster of Elendhaven by Jennifer Giesbrecht
Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
The Drowning Girl by Caitlín R. Kiernan
What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
The Blade Between by Sam J. Miller (Cosmic) (Bks)
The Lights by Carrie Pack
The Worm and His Kings by Hailey Piper (Cosmic)
Queen of Teeth by Hailey Piper (Body)
The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling
Yellow Jessamine by Caitlin Starling
The Wicked and the Willing by Lianyu Tan
Elegy for the Undead by Matthew Vesely
Catfish Lullaby by AC Wise (Cosmic)
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I never posted a list of my favorite books I read last year, so here's something brief (with links to posts I made about the books, if I did):
Fiction:
Bloom by Delilah S Dawson: An F/F horror romance that I would describe as "An Eroguro Yuri Yandere Visual Novel Bad End In Western Book Form." A woman coming out of a terrible break-up, and cutting her mother out of her life before uprooting to a town where she knows no one, falls head-over-heels for a beautiful and eccentric woman at the farmer's market. A downward spiral into obsessive love ensues. Short, sweet, perfect build-up, would recommend for an easy fun grotesque read. (Major CW warnings: short but graphic descriptions of past CSA and violent animal death.)
Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh: a young human girl growing up on a space station of the remainder of human separatists, waging a fruitless war against the alien empire that decimated humanity years ago, suddenly has to confront the fact her entire upbringing and understanding of the universe and its politics and the foundation upholding her beliefs and ideals was a lie. There's F/F and M/M romance but they're not the focus (and tbh not very satisfying. The story is satisfying.) has one of the most artfully written explorations of the horror of incestuous grooming that I've ever seen written.
Major CW: Characters facing racism, Incest and ever-present threats of sexual violence and forced pregnancy.
The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling: F/F SF horror fiction: a woman lies about her credentials to take on a very dangerous, but lucrative, cave diving job in order to escape her backwater mining planet has the slow realization that her employer and handler does NOT have her best interests at heart. A terrifying visceral psychological horror that spirals out of control into an emotionally and mentally abusive romantic relationship. What's better than this, two women becoming unhealthily and abusively condependent as they face the horrors of deep caves, isolation and family trauma together.
Walking Practice by Dolki Min, tl. Victoria Caudle: A South Korean self-published novel translated into English, about a carnivorous, shapeshifting alien trapped on Earth who uses dating apps to find its prey amongst the lonely citizens of a major city. A very harrowing exploration of social isiolation and ostracization of people who fall outside the majority norms, with a definite focus on disability, sexuality and transgressive gender.
The Wicked and the Willing An F/F Gothic Horror Vampire Novel by Lianyu Tan: What the title says lol. This takes place in colonial-era Singapore, where our heroine Gean Choo takes on a job as working as a live-in housekeeper for wealthy white European Verity Edevane, who she's drawn to and desires despite every single warning flag, and is introduced to Po Lam, Edevane's faithful and most trusted employee. And then Gean Choo realizes her new employer is a vampire and handsome Po Lam, who has been murdering young women for her to feed off for years, is determined to protect her.
This novel does not go the way you will think it might go. There is a lot going on it that I LOVED and really recommend it.
Major CW: Characters facing Racism throughout and descriptive discussion of past CSA that comes up several times.
Nonfiction & Poetry:
Wanting: Women Writing About Desire: A nonfiction anthology of short memoir pieces where women from a very diverse background and of diverse identities, write about their relationships to sex, their bodies, and the act of desiring. I really, really am glad I read this. There is some of the most thoughtful and truthful, uncensored, writing on the complicated sides of being a CSA survivor, that I've ever read, in this book. Many women also write about the intersections of sexual desire and race and culture, transgender status, non-straight sexuality, disability.
Cartographies of Desire: Male-male Sexuality in Japanese Discourse, 1600-1950 by Pflugfelder: A very comprehensive overview of the history of sexual and romantic relationships between men in Japan from the Edo Period through to the post-WW2 period, as well as government efforts to control and repress such relationships. I really appreciate this book because it heavily cites Japanese-language sources to show that the repression of homosexual relationships between men was not purely a part of Meiji-era Japan's process of "modernization" via adopting many Western moral and political concerns- control and repression of male-male sexual relationships has happened all throughout Japanese history, but for more complicated reasons than disgust and moral disapproval of men fucking.
Major CW: A lot of the text is about historical pederasty (that is, sexual relations between men over the age of 18 and boys under the age of 18) and sexual violence is a major element of what is examined.
I'm gonna add to this when I come home but I'll just post this for now since it's pretty long.
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