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faves of 2025: urban fantasy

Vagabonds!

The Ballad of Perilous Graves

When Among Crows/To Clutch A Razor

The Incandescent

The Last Sun/The Hanged Man/The Hourglass Throne

Painted Flock

The Undetectables/The Undead Complexa

Vicious/Vengeful

read in 2025

#read in 2025 #queer books #Vagabonds!#The Ballad of Perilous Graves #When Among Crows #The Incandescent #The Last Sun #Painted Flock #The Undetectables #vicious

#the first half of this book was only pain but obviously are the soft parts that are breaking me now #I'm really loving this book #every chapter is a story of a different queer person in Nigeria with a supernatural element #it's. so good #vagabonds!

2025 reads / storygraph

Vagabonds!

contemporary fantasy (with some horror, scifi)

many lightly interconnected stories about various queer/trans people in Lagos who are considered vagabonds/outsiders

a fashion designer and her magical daughter, a driver for a powerful corrupt politician, the romance of two lesbian sex workers, fairygodgirls who deliver books to people who need them, a spirit of the city observing it all (and many more)

explores the rich world of queer life and resilience and existence in Nigeria

#Vagabonds!#eloghosa osunde #aroaessidhe 2025 reads #magical and beautifully written! very good!#explores a lot of different kinds of queer characters and narratives many with fantasy/supernatural elements #but also some horror/scifi and some stories are barely supernatural at all -#though of course many of the realities of the world we live in can feel magical/horrifying/dystopian so they fit together pretty seamlessly #it’s not quite a short story collection but not quite a traditionally connected narrative #I did lose track of some of the characters/stories a little #I think that’s just something that happens when I listen to books like this (big cast) as an audiobook. but a fantastic experience #also omg Pet reference! love that book #also - was pleasantly surprised to find an ace-coded character (& an aroace one maybe going by one paragraph in Gold’s chapter?)#in Wura- when her lover is explaining to her disbelieving therapist that their relationship was never sexual.#It’s only briefly explored but it’s nicely intertwined with the characters.#I find that most books like this that attempt to encompass the entire queer community tend to leave out aspec people -#or they just have a token mention but everything else is very allo-romance focused.#This book focuses just as much on the platonic/familial; community; and individual queerness; which I really appreciated #[not to say that this book necessarily encompasses the Entire community - i don't remember significant intersex or trans man chars?]#[but def mentions at least. it's mostly sapphic/lesbian focused overall. a lot of diversity regardless]#queer books #sapphic books #struggling to come up with ways to describe some of the stories since there's so many and i read this a week or 2 ago so i just grabbed the #ones from the blurb sorry lol.

very rare that I pick up a book and am surprised by asexual characters but I started Vagabonds! by Eloghosa Osunde yesterday and it seems like one of the characters is probably ace in some form:

it's very much an ensemble cast kind of book, and I doubt it'll be explored in any more depth than this, (the character in question has POV chapters as well (she's also a lesbian)

her (kinda magical immaculate conception) daughter also expresses a lack of interest in boys (or girls mostly) at one point, though it could be an age thing

and also the main character in another chapter seems maybe aroace. She's trans too, her narrative is moreso about that

not something explored in depth but still nice to find! and the book is good

#vagabonds!#Eloghosa Osunde #asexual books #it's nice for a book that's about many different kinds of queer people to include aspecs #even if not by name just being like. casually portraying it as a good and also queer thing is more than i've seen in a lot of books #oh there was a typo. ignore that

love love how v! shows love to all the way gone girls, sees them in their whole brokenness

"Books mattered, because girls who are at their most real in book pages are sometimes the only reason alive girls get through their years at all. Gone girls shifting the world to help keep here girls alive; gone girls there to say: I’m seeing you, you’re not the one who needs a new mind, it’s them." - vagabonds!, Eloghosa Osunde

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"When you get home, teach your mummy that you don't argue with someone about the meaning of their name."

"What they have told you about me is not true. I put my doubt in that and my faith in what I am. What I am is worthy. Worthy."

"If anybody deserves to live, it is us. It is us, after all this dying we have done."

- Eloghosa Osunde (VAGABONDS!)

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From Eloghosa Osunde (Vagabonds!)

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“Today’s winnings,” she pours crumpled ones and a handful of change out of a worn baseball cap. The minute it’s empty the cap fits back over her head and she can see now without squinting so much. It’s too bright to properly be winter.

“Fifteen dollars and ninety-six cents. Pretty good for an hour of work. That’s more than minimum wage in this country.”

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