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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 Mirador�M�lusine�s citadel of power and magic�Felix believed he was free of his abusive former master, a wizard who (…more)
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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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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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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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