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evemer and kadou from a taste of gold and iron by @ariaste ! finally got around to reading the book and ogh my god im obsessed…... expect more fanart soon eheh

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My entry to the Scuttle Cove Cake Competition! A basque sourdough cheesecake! 😆 She may look modest but her custardy texture and roasted marshmallow flavor is nothing to sneeze at. One could say luck is on her side, in both victory and surviving seagulls. 😉 And if you happen to be helplessly intrigued as to what this fabulous Scuttle Cove Cake Competition is and why seagulls are involved, go read Alexandra Rowland’s Running Close to the Wind!😆

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Queer Book Character Tournament Round 1

Kadou Mahisti- A Taste of Gold and Iron

Edwin Courcey- The Last Binding trilogy

Leah- Our Wives Under the Sea

Lady Catriona Campbell- The Gentleman's Gambit

Voting ended onSep 28, 2025

Character, book, and author names under the cut

Kadou Mahisti- A Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra Rowland

Edwin Courcey- The Last Binding trilogy by Freya Marske

Leah- Our Wives Under the Sea by Julie Armfield

Lady Catriona Campbell- The Gentleman's Gambit by Evie Dunmore

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Kadou and Evemer from A Taste of Gold and Iron

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he's giving avra helvaçi

[queereads-bracket]

Queer Fiction Free-for-All Book Bracket Tournament: Round 2A

Choose a book:

Carry On (Simon Snow series) by Rainbow Rowell

A Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra Rowland

Voting ended onMar 15, 2025

Book summaries below:

Carry On (Simon Snow series) by Rainbow Rowell

Simon Snow is the worst Chosen One who's ever been chosen.

That's what his roommate, Baz, says. And Baz might be evil and a vampire and a complete git, but he's probably right.

Half the time, Simon can't even make his wand work, and the other half, he starts something on fire. His mentor's avoiding him, his girlfriend broke up with him, and there's a magic-eating monster running around, wearing Simon's face. Baz would be having a field day with all this, if he were here — it's their last year at the Watford School of Magicks, and Simon's infuriating nemesis didn't even bother to show up.

Fantasy, romance, mystery, series, young adult

A Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra Rowland

Kadou, the shy prince of Arasht, finds himself at odds with one of the most powerful ambassadors at court—the body-father of the queen's new child—in an altercation which results in his humiliation.

To prove his loyalty to the queen, his sister, Kadou takes responsibility for the investigation of a break-in at one of their guilds, with the help of his newly appointed bodyguard, the coldly handsome Evemer, who seems to tolerate him at best. In Arasht, where princes can touch-taste precious metals with their fingers and myth runs side by side with history, counterfeiting is heresy, and the conspiracy they discover could cripple the kingdom’s financial standing and bring about its ruin.

Romance, fantasy, romantasy, secondary world, queernorm, adult

[ariaste]

hi!!! I just finished A Taste of Gold and Iron and I’m OBSESSED!! Evemer is my favorite guy in the entire universe rn!! Do you have any headcannons (or facts?? I’m not sure if it counts as a headcannon if it’s from the author) about him that you haven’t shared yet, silly, domestic, angsty or otherwise? I absolutely love your writing and world building and I’m foaming at the mouth for more!!!!

Thanks so much!! :) Good news, there is more! For canon stuff, there is a novella sequel, TADEK AND THE PRINCESS, but all my books are set in the same world and sometimes they cross-reference between each other in interesting ways. I'd suggest RUNNING CLOSE TO THE WIND next if you want to hear more about what happened at the Shipbuilder's Guild. :)

As for non-canon facts, I published a "fanfic" called "what spring does with the cherry trees" that is about Evemer learning how to write love letters. Again, it's not officially canon, it's more of just my own love letter to fandom as a thank-you gift for teaching me most everything I know about writing :)

ALSO! If you want to hang out with some of the coolest and nicest people in the world, there is an official fandom discord server for my books right here.

[thevagabondexpress]

reading a taste of gold and iron and i really like the fact that kadou's initial suspicions turn out to be the correct ones. in any other book siranos would be a red herring and that would be the right authorial decision to make. here, though, kadou's anxiety means that siranos needs to be guilty. he's always being told "oh there's nothing to be worried about, there's no reason to fear" and often there isn't but it doesn't make it any better to have your insecurities and your anxieties invalidated time and time again. we have to see kadou be right, be able to say "yes, this time, i do know what i'm talking about," and new listened to. that's what we need.