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Melusine
Melusine | Sarah Monette
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A dashing and highly respected wizard, Felix Harrowgate thought he had eluded his dark past. Within the walls of the MiradorMlusines citadel of power and magicFelix believed he was free of his abusive former master, a wizard who had enslaved him, body and soul, and trained him to pass as a nobleman. He was wrong. Raised as a kept-thief and trained as an assassin, Mildmay the Fox is used to being hunted. Having slipped his Keeper long ago, he survives as a cat burglaruntil hes caught by a mysterious magician using a powerful calling charm. And yet the magician was looking not for Mildmaybut for Felix Harrowgate... Bound by fate, the broken wizard Felix and the wanted killer Mildmay will journey far from Mlusine through lands thick with strange magics and terrible demons of darknessbut it is the secret from their pasts that will either save them or destroy them...
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hissingpotatoes
Melusine | Sarah Monette
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4.5/5⭐ It starts out with rough content but evens out into a darker fantasy I couldn't put down. The author throws you into the worldbuilding without holding your hand, but it isn't difficult to make sense of everything. And Mildmay...oh, Mildmay! What a memorable character! I adore the relationship between Mildmay & Felix, especially toward the end when their words & actions reflect months of journeying together.

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xicanti
Melusine | Sarah Monette
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Here‘s #ManicMonday on a Tuesday, because yesterday was busy. Among other things, I visited a McDonald‘s near a high school at lunch time: ie, I experienced true horror on Halloween.

Teenagers scream a lot more than I remembered.

Book: Mélusine by Sarah Monette

Author: Sarah Monette

Show: My Only Love Song

Band: Mumford & Sons

Song: Make You Feel Better - Red Hot Chili Peppers (honourable mention: Muhammad My Friend - Tori Amos)

CBee You‘re a brave soul - I hope you came away from the McDonald‘s crazy teenager experience mostly unscathed 😂😂 2y
xicanti @CBee the restaurant looked perfectly normal from outside, but inside? CHAOS. 😱 2y
CBee @xicanti looks can be deceiving 😂😂 I‘d probably need a hot bath and a stiff drink (if I drank) after that experience 😳😳😂😂 2y
xicanti @CBee I went to the nearby bookstore and drowned my sorrows with some browsing. 2y
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xicanti
Melusine | Sarah Monette
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SFF was the very hardest Gay May recs grid to build. I had to leave out so many faves due to space constraints. It HURT.

But yeah; here‘re 12 SFF titles I recommend to everyone who wants to read all/mostly/more queer stuff in May. Individual books highlighted in the comments. The tagged book is for mad gay wizards with random half-brothers. It‘s also the start of MY FAVOURITE SERIES EVER OMG. #gaymay

xicanti For Eurovision IN SPACE: 3y
xicanti For pseudo-Edwardian magical medicine and fraught sibling relationships: 3y
xicanti For flying ships and princes: 3y
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xicanti For “Beauty and the Beast, but make it super dark and queer:” 3y
xicanti For gleefully bisexual swordspeople: 3y
xicanti For teenage soldiers in space: 3y
xicanti For angels in the 19th century French countryside: 3y
xicanti For vampire detectives and forensic sorceresses: 3y
xicanti For ancient Chinese wizard boys doing good stuff with dark magic: 3y
xicanti For trope subversion: 3y
xicanti For “ANGEL, but make it super queer and Canadian:” 3y
thegirlwiththelibrarybag Well, my tbr just expanded 👀 these sound amazing! 3y
xicanti @thegirlwiththelibrarybag I‘m always happy to help expand people‘s wishlists! 3y
Nutmegnc Omg So. so. Good. 3y
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xicanti
Melusine | Sarah Monette
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On to Celebratory Reread #2! I‘ve been trying to squeeze MÉLUSINE into my reading schedule since April, but I‘m pretty sure I‘m gonna want to binge-read the whole series so I couldn‘t manage it until now. Sure enough, I‘ve barely started and I‘m already bummed I‘ve only got 3 and 9/10ths more books with these characters. Mildmay‘s my former Favouritest of Favourites, and Felix sits right at the top of my Queer Assholes list.

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Kenyazero
Melusine | Sarah Monette
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The first #CuriousCovers cover flowers I found on a cover in my collection might not be flowers at all! There's a colorful tattoo on this character's arm and I decided that it has flowers in it 🤔

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Cool!! 📚🙌🏻 4y
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SilverShanica
Melusine | Sarah Monette
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I am posting one book per day from my to-be-read collection. No description and providing no reason for wanting to read it, I just do. Some will be old, some will be new - don‘t judge me I have a lot of books.
Join the fun if you want. This is day 9.
#bookstoread
#tbrpile
#bookstagram

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Kenyazero
Melusine | Sarah Monette
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This book offered a fun storyline and an interesting exploration of anxiety and PTSD (whether on purpose or by coincidence, I don't know). I had some trouble seeing the villain as a character. #lgbt #lgbtfantasy #lgbtq #lgbtliterature #ghost #magic #anxiety #queerbook #queerfantasy #lgbtcharacter #trauma

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xicanti
Melusine | Sarah Monette
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This was HARD, which is why I'm doing it so long after everyone else. My name needs better letters.

M - Mélusine - Monette
E - Echo - Ryan
M - (The) Mistress - Reisz
O - Overture - Gaiman, Williams, & Stewart
R - (The) Raven King - Stiefvater
Y - Yotsuba&! - Azuma

OVERTURE's sort of cheating since I'm pretty sure it's officially called THE SANDMAN OVERTURE, not THE SANDMAN: OVERTURE, but I've made my peace with it. #booknames

dylanisreading What a cool name you have! 7y
xicanti @Bianca thank you! 7y
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JustTrish
Melusine | Sarah Monette
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#bestcharactername ever.
Mild-may-your-sufferings-be-at-the-hands-of-the-wicked Foxe AKA Mildmay the Fox
Ex assassin and brother of Felix the rogue magician and one of my greatest loves ❤
#booktober @RealLifeReading

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xicanti
Melusine | Sarah Monette
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Four of my favourite debut novels: a dark fantasy (and the first book in my favourite series), a military SF offering, an historical family saga, and a picaresque fantasy. #debutnovels #booktober

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