#simon jimenez

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Queer Book Character Tournament Round One

Eolo- The Raven Tower

Ahro- The Vanished Birds

Alex Fierro- Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard

Rosethorn- Circle of Magic Series

Voting ended onApr 15

Character, book, and author names under the cut

Eolo- The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie

Ahro- The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez 

Alex Fierro- Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard by Rick Riordan

Rosethorn- Circle of Magic Series by Tamora Pierc

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found ya

"the vanished birds" - simon jimenez // "this must be the place" - talking heads // "Someday We Will Shine Together" - revolutionary girl utena, episode 39 // "there but for the" - ali smith // "smoke signals" - phoebe bridgers // "on earth we're briefly gorgeous" - ocean vuong // "orlando" - virginia woolf // "the song of achilles" - madeline miller // "the vanished birds" - simon jimenez

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Queer Fiction Free-for-All Book Bracket Tournament: Round 1B

Choose a book:

October Day series by Seanan McGuire

The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez

Voting ended onFeb 22, 2025

Book summaries and submitted endorsements below:

October Day series (Rosemary and Rue, A Local Habitation, An Artificial Night, Late Eclipses, One Salt Sea, Ashes of Honor, Chimes at Midnight, The Winter Long, A Red-Rose Chain, Once Broken Faith, The Brightest Fell, Of Things Unknown, Night and Silence, The Unkindest Tide, A Killing Frost, When Sorrows Come, Be the Serpent, Sleep No More, The Innocent Sleep, Silver and Lead, and other stories) by Seanan McGuire

October "Toby" Daye, a changeling who is half human and half fae, has been an outsider from birth. After getting burned by both sides of her heritage, Toby has denied the Faerie world, retreating to a "normal" life. Unfortunately for her, the Faerie world has other ideas…

The murder of Countess Evening Winterrose pulls Toby back into the fae world. Unable to resist Evening's dying curse, which binds her to investigate, Toby must resume her former position as knight errant and renew old alliances. As she steps back into fae society, dealing with a cast of characters not entirely good or evil, she realizes that more than her own life will be forfeited if she cannot find Evening's killer.

Fantasy, paranormal, urban fantasy, mystery, series, adult

The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez

Endorsement from submitter: "Broke my heart <3333333 Fumiko Nakajima woman of all time"

A mysterious child lands in the care of a solitary woman, changing both of their lives forever in this captivating debut of connection across space and time.

"This is when your life begins."

Nia Imani is a woman out of place and outside of time. Decades of travel through the stars are condensed into mere months for her, though the years continue to march steadily onward for everyone she has ever known. Her friends and lovers have aged past her; all she has left is work. Alone and adrift, she lives only for the next paycheck, until the day she meets a mysterious boy, fallen from the sky.

A boy, broken by his past.

The scarred child does not speak, his only form of communication the beautiful and haunting music he plays on an old wooden flute. Captured by his songs and their strange, immediate connection, Nia decides to take the boy in. And over years of starlit travel, these two outsiders discover in each other the things they lack. For him, a home, a place of love and safety. For her, an anchor to the world outside of herself.

For both of them, a family.

But Nia is not the only one who wants the boy. The past hungers for him, and when it catches up, it threatens to tear this makeshift family apart.

Science fiction, time travel, lyrical, adult