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The Prince And The Dressmaker & First Test

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Book 2 of the trans rights readathon is The Prince and the Dressmaker. It’s a sweet graphic novel with some lovely art.

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round 1, poll 281

click for better quality & to see the full image. sometimes they get cut off weirdly!

which cover do you like best?

Finn Family Moomintroll by Tove Jansson

The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang*

Voting ended onJan 17

*(context, the red haired beauty in the background is the princes drag persona!)

remember, you're voting for the cover, not the author or the book!

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Queer Historical Fiction Book Bracket: Round 2B

Choose a book:

The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang

To Shape a Dragon's Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose

Voting ended onJul 5, 2025

Book summaries below:

The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang

Paris, at the dawn of the modern age:

Prince Sebastian is looking for a bride―or rather, his parents are looking for one for him. Sebastian is too busy hiding his secret life from everyone. At night he puts on daring dresses and takes Paris by storm as the fabulous Lady Crystallia―the hottest fashion icon in the world capital of fashion!

Sebastian’s secret weapon is his brilliant dressmaker, Frances―his best friend and one of only two people who know the truth: sometimes this boy wears dresses. But Frances dreams of greatness, and being someone’s secret weapon means being a secret. Forever. How long can Frances defer her dreams to protect her friend?

Jen Wang weaves an exuberantly romantic tale of identity, young love, art, and family. A fairy tale for any age, The Prince and the Dressmaker will steal your heart.

Setting: late 19th-century France

Graphic novel, historical fiction, turn-of-the-century, young adult, middle grade

To Shape a Dragon's Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose

A young Indigenous woman enters a colonizer-run dragon academy—and quickly finds herself at odds with the “approved” way of doing things—in the first book of this brilliant new fantasy series.

The remote island of Masquapaug has not seen a dragon in many generations—until fifteen-year-old Anequs finds a dragon’s egg and bonds with its hatchling. Her people are delighted, for all remember the tales of the days when dragons lived among them and danced away the storms of autumn, enabling the people to thrive. To them, Anequs is revered as Nampeshiweisit—a person in a unique relationship with a dragon.

Unfortunately for Anequs, the Anglish conquerors of her land have different opinions. They have a very specific idea of how a dragon should be raised, and who should be doing the raising—and Anequs does not meet any of their requirements. Only with great reluctance do they allow Anequs to enroll in a proper Anglish dragon school on the mainland. If she cannot succeed there, her dragon will be killed.

For a girl with no formal schooling, a non-Anglish upbringing, and a very different understanding of the history of her land, challenges abound—both socially and academically. But Anequs is smart, determined, and resolved to learn what she needs to help her dragon, even if it means teaching herself. The one thing she refuses to do, however, is become the meek Anglish miss that everyone expects.

Anequs and her dragon may be coming of age, but they’re also coming to power, and that brings an important realization: the world needs changing—and they might just be the ones to do it.

Setting: 1842, east coast of a North America (alternate history with dragons)

Fantasy, historical fiction, alternate history, 1840s, series, young adult

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The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang

This rebind was done for a friend part of the LGBTQ Valentine's Rebind Exchange hosted by the amazing Instagram Binding Community.

The graphic novel tells the story of a prince, a dressmaker, of gender queerness and being comfortable in your own skin.

About the rebind: ✦ Duo bookcloth ✦ Illustration is based off a panel from the graphic novel ✦ took me two true-crime podcast episodes to glue all the gems on

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Birthday reading on the porch 🥰

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What I Read in August 2025

re-read for me, but I still really like it

Wasn't sure how I'd feel about this book (I'm not always the biggest fan of non-human protagonists) but it was such a fun read!

it was okay...but I don't think this series is for me. ^^'

A good installment in this trilogy. Not much down time in this book, but enjoyable. Interested to see how the last book wraps things up.

Let's just yeet Apollo and Zeus away huh? Pretty please? As a treat?

I liked it, no romance in this volume but friendships and politics and intrigue. The ending line and art piece actually made me tear up.

Sadly I didn't much care for this one. It felt like every time I almost had a hold of the story the author was telling it...changed to yet another sort of story. *shrug*

making good progress in this series ^_^ Hugue is yet another interesting character. Abel simply can't stand out in his group, they are all weirdos. (Also Abel I saw where your head landed!)

Continuing on my danmei obsession we have another good one here. Everyone wants Chen Xing to get married. The crammed carriage scene was hilarious and the fight scenes are really good.

re-reading, people get gravely injured a lot in here. I do like where Limbdo is so confused by the concept of having nice feelings towards Takiko.