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fanart of hal schrieve's comic "vivian's ghost." possibly one of the best comics I've ever read. go read it!
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fanart of hal schrieve's comic "vivian's ghost." possibly one of the best comics I've ever read. go read it!
Fave Five: New and Upcoming YA Starring Trans Girls
These are 2024-26 releases. Lucy, Uncensored by Mel Hammond and Teghan Hammond One of the Boys by Victoria Zeller Fawn’s Blood by Hal Schrieve Queen of Faces by Petra Lord This Wretched Beauty by Elle Grenier Bonus: These are all prose novels, but for a graphic novel, check out Girlmode by Magdalene Visaggio and Paulina Ganucheau
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Fawn's Blood by Hal Schrieve
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Have you read this trans book?
Yes and I liked it
Yes and I didn't like it
No
No but I'd like to
I've never heard of it
Fawn and Silver share nearly coming out together as trans in their small Maryland town, clocking a copious number of hours in detention, and spending their sleepovers secretly making out. They’re also uniquely obsessed with vampires, who are being hunted, imprisoned, and executed for the danger they allegedly pose to human life. Rachel is a bisexual teen, who has secretly been turned vampire and who is contending with the fact that her mom is a notorious vampire slayer. When Silver disappears and Fawn goes west in search of him, her and Rachel’s fates converge, both falling into the hands of Cain, an edgelord vampire known for his proselytizing for the drinking of human blood. But in discovering hidden tunnels and secret bars, youth shelters and punk shows and safe houses, Fawn find herself in the middle of a vampire underground in Seattle—an organized resistance keeping each other alive through a network of blood distribution and protection from slayers. Fawn’s Blood is a timely antidote to the anti-trans moral panic of today. Taking the queer-coded villain and flipping it on its’ head, this multi-voiced vampire novel offers a paranormal YA fantasy full of complicated queer characters—human and monster alike—all of whom are simply trying to survive in a world that wants them dead.
Fawn's Blood by Hal Schrieve
Vampires, vampire slayers, and a bloodthirsty underground resistance converge in a campy YA fantasy about being a queer teen in a world that wishes they did not exist.
The librarian and critically acclaimed author of Out of Salem puts a pulpy spin on vampire fiction, and bites back at anti-trans moral panic.
Fawn and Silver share nearly everything: coming out together as trans in their small Maryland town, clocking a copious number of hours in detention, and spending their sleepovers secretly making out. They’re also uniquely obsessed with vampires, who are being hunted, imprisoned, and executed for the danger they allegedly pose to human life.
Meanwhile in Seattle, Rachel's relationship to her girlfriend and her membership in her mother's vampire-slaying vigilante group is thrown into question when she's bitten by her mother's nemesis and awakes with a craving for blood. When Silver disappears and Fawn goes west in search of him, her and Rachel’s fates converge, both falling into the hands of Cain, an edgelord vampire known for his proselytizing for the drinking of human blood.
But in discovering hidden tunnels and secret bars, youth shelters and punk shows and safe houses, Fawn find herself in the middle of a vampire underground in Seattle—an organized resistance keeping each other alive through a network of blood distribution and protection from slayers.
Fawn’s Blood is a timely antidote to the anti-trans moral panic of today. Playing with tropes about monstrousness, predation, and villainy, this multi-voiced vampire novel offers a paranormal YA fantasy full of complicated queer characters—human and monster alike—all of whom are simply trying to survive in a world that wants them dead.
Which books would the Exocolonists read?
Happy Exo-versary! 🚀I Was a Teenage Exocolonist came out one year ago, and I want to celebrate by recommending some books I think the main characters would love.
Book titles:
Sol: The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer
Cal: Taproot by Keezy Young
Anemone: Blazewrath Games by Amparo Ortiz
Marz: TJ Powar Has Something To Prove by Jesmeen Kaur Deo
Dys: How to Get over the End of the World by Hal Schrieve (comes out October 3, 2023)
Tangent: Unwieldy Creatures by Addie Tsai
Tammy: The Tea Dragon Society by K. O'Neill
Nomi: Lark and Kasim Start a Revolution by Kacen Callender
Rex: So This Is Ever After by F.T. Lukens
Vace: Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
Sym: Two Dark Moons by Avi Silver
Vivian's Ghost by Hal Schrieve - pages 119-121
read the full comic right now here and buy the beautiful book here
New Young Adult Releases! (October 3rd, 2023)
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Have I missed any new Young Adult releases? Have you added any of these books to your TBR? Let me know!
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New Standalones/First in a Series:
The Voice Upstairs by Laura E. Weymouth
Kween by Vichet Chum
Up in Flames by Hailey Alcaraz
Beholder by Ryan La Sala
Love in Wonderland by Abiola Bello
And Don't Look Back by Rebecca Barrow
The Homecoming War by Addie Woolridge
The Scarlet Alchemist by Kylie Lee Baker
Curious Tides by Pascale Lacelle
Plan A by Deb Caletti
The Forest Demands Its Due by Kosoko Jackson
When Ghosts Call Us Home by Katya de Becerra
Eight Dates and Nights by Betsy Aldredge
The Blackwoods by Brandy Colbert
A Twisted Tale Anthology by Various
The Spells We Cast by Jason June
How to Get Over the End of the World by Hal Schrieve
Hockey Girl Loves Drama Boy by Faith Erin Hicks
Night of the Witch by Sara Raasch & Beth Revis
Before the Devil Knows You're Here by Autumn Krause
All the Things We Never Said by Yasmin Rahman
Salt the Water by Candice Iloh
The Lotus Flower Champion by Pintip Dunn & Love Dunn
The Glass Scientists: Volume 1 by S.H. Cotugno & Sabrina Cotugno
New Sequels:
Silence & Shadows (Blood & Moonline #2) by Erin Beaty
Prince of Thorns & Nightmares (Princes #2) by Linsey Miller
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Happy reading!
Turns out there isn’t a single peep about Vivian’s Ghost here on tumblr so I’m gonna go ahead and push it my damn self
It’s gonna hurt your feelings and tweak your dick, it’s hot shit
The way tumblr links tweets is inexplicably hideous but click on them anyway