#nevernight chronicles

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Queer Adult SFF Books Bracket: Round 1

Choose a book:

Nevernight by Jay Kristoff (The Nevernight Chronicle series)

Planetfall series by Emma Newman

Voting ended onNov 30, 2024

Book summaries below:

Nevernight by Jay Kristoff (The Nevernight Chronicle series)

In a land where three suns almost never set, a fledgling killer joins a school of assassins, seeking vengeance against the powers who destroyed her family.

Daughter of an executed traitor, Mia Corvere is barely able to escape her father’s failed rebellion with her life. Alone and friendless, she hides in a city built from the bones of a dead god, hunted by the Senate and her father’s former comrades. But her gift for speaking with the shadows leads her to the door of a retired killer, and a future she never imagined.

Now, Mia is apprenticed to the deadliest flock of assassins in the entire Republic—the Red Church. If she bests her fellow students in contests of steel, poison and the subtle arts, she’ll be inducted among the Blades of the Lady of Blessed Murder, and one step closer to the vengeance she desires. But a killer is loose within the Church’s halls, the bloody secrets of Mia’s past return to haunt her, and a plot to bring down the entire congregation is unfolding in the shadows she so loves.

Will she even survive to initiation, let alone have her revenge?

Fantasy, secondary world, series, adult

Planetfall series (Planetfall, After Atlas, Before Mars, Atlas Alone) by Emma Newman

Renata Ghali believed in Lee Suh-Mi’s vision of a world far beyond Earth, calling to humanity. A planet promising to reveal the truth about our place in the cosmos, untainted by overpopulation, pollution, and war. Ren believed in that vision enough to give up everything to follow Suh-Mi into the unknown.

More than twenty-two years have passed since Ren and the rest of the faithful braved the starry abyss and established a colony at the base of an enigmatic alien structure where Suh-Mi has since resided, alone. All that time, Ren has worked hard as the colony's 3-D printer engineer, creating the tools necessary for human survival in an alien environment, and harboring a devastating secret.

Ren continues to perpetuate the lie forming the foundation of the colony for the good of her fellow colonists, despite the personal cost. Then a stranger appears, far too young to have been part of the first planetfall, a man who bears a remarkable resemblance to Suh-Mi.

The truth Ren has concealed since planetfall can no longer be hidden. And its revelation might tear the colony apart…

Science fiction, mystery, psychological thriller, series, adult

[mortallycrookedchopshop]

Jay Kristoff kills off his characters as easily as he breathes

[booksaesthesic]

-mia corvere aesthetic-

[safifonhasstrel]

Actual footage of me after finishing godsgrave

[bookishintherain]

“𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴 𝘸𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘶𝘴 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘴 𝘸𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘬 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘶𝘴.” - Nevernight, @misterkristoff

❔What are you reading?

I’m reading an ARC of Immortality: a Love Story by @danaschwartzzz and quite enjoying it! I’m a little over halfway but it’s been terribly difficult to put down and I’m very excited to see where it takes me.

[evalescoart]

Never Flinch, Never Fear, Never Ever Forget. From Nevernight

[paragon-of-anxiety]

Wait wait wait you're telling me this barely an adult, dumbass assassin who is attracted to undead people and has the temperament of a cat, went to fight on a mesh half naked, disappeared, stabbed THE pirate king countless number of times, covered herself in his blood, wrenched his head from his body, threw the aforementioned head in the sea, pushed the corpse out of its throne, sat on it with her feet propped on the corpse and declared herself the pirate queen? DAMN.

[oh-jail-for-mother]

happy valentine's only to Mia and Ash. i hope they're having a great day in their little lakeside cottage where the water reflects the sky and the whole place smells like flowers