Author S.T. Gibson (A Dowry of Blood, An Education in Malice, the Summoner's Circle series, etc.) attended MasqueradeNYC the other day & shared on social media what I think is an interesting & quite poignant interpretation of the central relationship of the story.
Queer Fiction Free-for-All Book Bracket Tournament: Round 3
Choose a book:
A Dowry of Blood by S. T. Gibson
Time to Orbit: Unknown series by Derin Edala
Voting ended onApr 5, 2025
Book summaries below:
A Dowry of Blood by S. T. Gibson
S.T. Gibson’s sensational novel is the darkly seductive tale of Dracula’s first bride, Constanta.
This is my last love letter to you, though some would call it a confession…
Saved from the brink of death by a mysterious stranger, Constanta is transformed from a medieval peasant into a bride fit for an undying king. But when Dracula draws a cunning aristocrat and a starving artist into his web of passion and deceit, Constanta realizes that her beloved is capable of terrible things.
Finding comfort in the arms of her rival consorts, she begins to unravel their husband’s dark secrets. With the lives of everyone she loves on the line, Constanta will have to choose between her own freedom and her love for her husband. But bonds forged by blood can only be broken by death.
Time to Orbit: Unknown series (The Javelin Program, The Antarctica Conspiracy) by Derin Edala
When Dr Aspen Greaves signed up for the Javelin Program, humanity's first foray into colonising deep space, they expected to wake up to life in a thriving colony on a distant planet. Instead, they find themself five years away from their destination on a broken spaceship full of complex mysteries, dead astronauts, and a very unhelpful AI.
Aspen wasn't trained for any of this. But if they can't keep themselves alive, get the ship in working order, and find out what went wrong by unravelling a chain of mysteries leading all the way back to distant Earth, then neither Aspen nor the five thousand sleeping passengers in their care will ever see a planet again.
where are the Evocation girlies (gender neutral). if you love david moira and rhys PLS dm me i need more people to yell about them with now that i have read this book THREE times
Eli Ever and David Aristarkhov amuse me because they both have severe childhood trauma from their physically abusive fathers but one became a serial killer and the other became a lawyer
