#literary recommendations

[hystericallsoph]

"I love you, Elizabeth. Not that fictional perfection you show people, but you. I don't want you to be perfect or better than others, I love you as you are. With me you don't have to be different, with me you don't have to pretend, and I think there's more value in that" —Jayden

~translated excerpt from the book "Serás" by Anna K. Franco.~

If you get a chance to read it, do it. it's a lot of perfection and i ended up falling hard for Jayden, he's everything that's right. there's also a lot of growth in the main character throughout the story, Liz is the best <3

[griseldagimpel]

Mercedes Lackey Recs

I’m reading The Last Herald-Mage Trilogy right now and really liking it. I want to read more of Lackey’s stuff in the future, but also she wrote over a hundred novels, so help me, literary-side tumblr! Does she have any other novels with prominent LGBT characters? Barring that, what do you consider to be her best stuff?

[ilivewithengineers]

If you're ever having a bad day and want to hate on fundamentalists, Small Gods is good.

L

[geekhyena]

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