#far removed

[aphractal2]

peacock dragon, character belongs to someone else

[howifeltabouthim]

She could not remember what it had been like to be in love with him; she could not think herself back into that position.

L. P. Hartley, from My Fellow Devils

[aroaessidhe]

faves of 2024: books with no romance

Calling of Light

Fallen Thorns

The Stardust Grail

Edinburgh Nights series (so far in the series, anyway)

Pluralities

The Scarlet Throne

Moth To A Flame

The Hysterical Girls of St. Bernadette’s

Small Gods of Calamity

Lord of the Empty Isles

The Chronicles of Nerezia

Far Removed

[clydeandy]

the dreams i had last night made me very happy. they were like the dreams i had as a child

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

Far Removed

book 1 in a character-focused sff (with dystopian/horror elements) duology

set on a moon city populated by a highly intelligent semi-aquatic species with a strictly stratified society

a well-off politician / college director who is trying to use his position to challenge the corrupt upper strata organises to have one of his students smuggled out of the city after she’s accused of insurgency

he’s helped by maskad worker - those who are forcibly magically disfigured and made to wear masks, becoming the lowest strata - at the college, who’s able to guide the student to safety

but they catch the attention of powerful people, leading the two of them to be drawn together, developing a complicated friendship

[howifeltabouthim]

. . . I realized that true power came from not caring about anyone.

Lisa Taddeo, from Animal

[howifeltabouthim]

The music from the ballroom was clearly audible, but it seemed strangely to be coming from very far away. From another world.

Mary Balogh, from Thief of Dreams

[howifeltabouthim]

Somewhere in another world, everyone rushed and made sounds . . .

Tanith Lee, from White as Snow