Jean: "The most popular category in this video is going to be queer rep for..." Me: *has been waiting for months for book reccomnds for f/f romances.* *deeply sighs expecting it to be anything but f/f* Jean: "Female/Female Romances." Also Me *with popcorn in the air* : "ASDGAIAOD OMG FINALLY! It's been 84 years... GIVE ME THE BOOKS"
Here are my recommendations. They're basically all M/M 'cause I'm gay and that's what I read. In no particular order, other than the order they appear on my shelf: The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black is a YA urban fantasy about a pair of twins, Hazel and Ben, who have grown up in a town populated by faeries, which makes it a tourist trap. The main attraction is a horned boy sleeping in a glass coffin, who Hazel and Ben have both been in love with their entire lives. Then one day the coffin is found smashed open, the boy is gone, and all hell breaks loose. Timekeeper by Tara Sim is an alternate universe YA fantasy set in an alternate Victorian London where time is controlled by magic clock towers. When the clocks break, time goes wrong, and if the clocks stop completely, time in their area stops, and they are sealed off from the rest of the world. Danny Hart is a clock mechanic - someone with the ability to see and repair the strands of time - one of the youngest ever, whose father is trapped in a town where time has stopped. Danny wants to be assigned to the project to build a new clock tower and free the town, which has never been attempted before. Unfortunately, Danny is suffering from PTSD after a rather terrible accident, so the lead mechanic is unwilling to trust him with any serious responsibilities. Danny is assigned to fix the Colton tower in Enfield, where he falls in love with a clock spirit, which is illegal. Meanwhile, terrorists are bombing clock towers and stopping time. It's a strong contender for my favourite book series. Loka Legends by Jay Bell is an own voices YA high fantasy set in a world which is ruled by Oligarchs - mages who guard the Lokas - crystals of elemental power. Dylan is the son of Jack, the Blue Oligarch - the Oligarch of water. Someone starts assassinating the Oligarchs and stealing their Lokas, so, after scrying to work out what to do, Jack gives his Loka to Dylan, and sends him to stay with Tyjinn, the Red Oligarch, for protection. Things don't quite go to plan. Half Bad by Sally Green is a dark YA urban fantasy set in a world with white witches and black witches. The white witches hate and persecute the black witches. Nathan Byrn is a half-code, half-white witch, and half-black witch. As such, his life is hell. The first book follows Nathan as he grows up as more and more sanctions are placed on half-codes by the white witch council. A major theme of the books is duality - black vs. white, and one of the ways in which this is exemplified is in Nathan's love interests - a female white witch, and a male black witch. Carry On by Rainbow Rowell is a YA urban fantasy about a boy named Simon Snow, the worst chosen one ever. Simon is destined to defeat the Insidious Humdrum, a creature that sucks magic from the world. Unfortunately, Simon sucks at magic. At the same time he has to contend with his roommate, Tyrannus Basilton Grimm-Pitch, or Baz, who Simon hates and is convinced is a vampire. Then the ghost of a dead woman shows up in his room, looking for her son. Simon and Baz have to team up to solve the mystery of the dead woman, which they believe is related to the death of Baz's mother. City of Spires by Claudie Arsenault is an adult high fantasy set in the city of Isandor, a free city that stands against the brutal and domineering Myrian Empire. The Myrians have an enclave in the city as part of an arrangement, and the Myrian leader Avenazar uses this as an excuse to get up to terrible things. No one has the power to stand against him without breaking the agreement, so he pretty much has carte blanche to do whatever he likes. Lord Diel Dathirii is done with letting the Myrians run wild, and wants to unite the great houses of Isandor to drive the Myrians out of the city, but first he has to contend with all the old grudges between the families. Meanwhile, Lord Arathiel Brasten finally returns to Isandor after a century of being trapped in a place where time doesn't flow. Everything has changed and he can't exactly go home, so he takes shelter in the slums of Isandor. The series deals heavily with themes of class, race and sexuality. It has basically a full LGBT+ cast, aside from Avenazar. I believe it's own voices for asexual rep. Wonders of the Invisible World by Christopher Barzak is an own voices YA urban fantasy about a boy called Aidan Lockwood growing up in the small, sleepy town of Temperance, Ohio. Aidan is just kind of drifting through life. He has no friends or real interests or ambitions. Then his best childhood friend, Jarrod, returns from his life in Cleveland, and starts talking about things that Aidan doesn't remember, but definitely should, such as the man in the black suit that only Aidan could see. The two of them team up to recover Aidan's memories, and along the way they uncover the history of the Lockwood family. It's my favourite book of all time. Nightrunner by Lynn Flewelling is an adult high fantasy about Alec of Kerry, a boy who is arrested for poaching. While in the dungeon, he meets a fellow prisoner called Seregil, and the pair perform a breakout. Seeing potential in Alec, Seregil takes him on as a travelling companion, and eventually an apprentice, for Seregil is part of a secret spy network and he thinks Alec has what it takes to join them. It's kinda squicky because Alec is only 16 and Seregil is an adult, but I've only read the first book (which has no explicit romance in it) so Alec might come of age before they get together? Skybound by Alex London is an own voices YA high fantasy set in the land of Uztar, a place where birds of prey are revered, and falconry is the main way of life. It’s about a pair of twins from the Six Villages, Brysen and Kylee, who go into the mountains to capture a ghost eagle, the most dangerous bird in existence. Brysen goes to trade the eagle for the life of his lover, and Kylee goes to protect Brysen. They are followed by Nyall, who is in love with Kylee. Meanwhile, an army of religious fanatics called the Kartami are marching on Uztar, intent on wiping out the falconers and the birds that dare to obey them. There is own voices gay rep in Brysen, but I'm pretty sure Kylee is aromantic too. Rifter by Ginn Hale is an adult high/portal fantasy about a man named John Toffler, who steals a key intended for his roommate Kyle, a strange man with tattoos on his eyelids and scars on his face. This turns out to be a mistake because Kyle is actually Kahlil, an otherworldly warrior who has been assigned to watch John. For John is actually the Rifter, a god destined to destroy Kahlil's world. The Rules and Regulations for Mediating Myths & Magic by F. T. Lukens is a YA urban fantasy about a boy called Bridger Whitt who accidentally becomes the apprentice of a wizard who mediates between the magical and non-magical worlds. Meanwhile he also has to deal with his crush on his neighbour, a hot football player named Leo. Series with multiple POVs with at least one queer POV character: The Shadowhunter Chronicles by Cassandra Clare (YA urban fantasy) Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy (middle grade/YA urban fantasy) Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo (YA high fantasy) Rick Riordan's mythology books (middle grade/YA urban fantasy) The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater (YA urban fantasy) A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin (adult high fantasy) The Diviners by Libba Bray (YA historical/urban fantasy) Falling Kingdoms by Morgan Rhodes (YA high fantasy) (bit meh about this one, but I figured I'd mention it anyway) Books with heavily implied queer protagonists: The Bartimaeus Sequence by Jonathan Stroud (middle grade/YA urban fantasy) (later confirmed by the author) The House of Mountfathom by Nigel McDowell (YA historical/urban fantasy)
I just finished The Priory of the orange tree by Samantha Shannon. And it has F/F romance between the protagonists 😍 and M/M romance between two other characters.
all of ricks books are really good, tho i’d your looking for specifically queer books if wait for the new nico and will book that’s coming out soon!! tho idk i’d you’d have to read the other series to understand it or not
Your dragon jumper is awesome!!! Loved this video. So excited to try these out. I’m thinking of reading Every Heart a Doorway for the Femme Fantale readathon.
Excellent recommendations (and jumper). “The Way of Thorn and Thunder - The Kynship Chronicles” by Daniel Heath Justice might be of interest. High epic adult fantasy, but the foundational myths and worldview are Cherokee (Justice is enrolled Cherokee as am I - though different communities). So no princesses, etc (or dragons, sorry). But plenty of wonderful beings and characters. In many of our traditional pathways, gender and sexuality are fluid concepts and that is written beautifully by Justice, not as something one must “come to terms with” but simply as the way the world works. It is set in a time of resistance to invasion and acculturation
I love this video so glad you finally did it. I love books with LGBTQ+ books and have really been getting into fantasy recently so adding most of beds books to my Amazon cart and wish list
Omg I was just looking for a video like this and you delivered! It's astounding to me how many of these I had never heard of before when all I'm looking for these days is lesbian witch literature. Thank you so much, I've put them all on my tbr! Also I'm currently reading Daughter Of The Burning City by Amanda Foody and it has a bi main character, lesbian side character and ace male character but I don't know what's gonna happen to them yet so maybe it's too soon to recommend. I do like it so far tho
You’re the reason why I read Queen of Ieflaria... and after two weeks I have read all the 3 books available! Thank you! 😊 Since they’re are tales, I hope they will have more to come after the 4th one...
I loved Ash and also the prequel Huntress. I would highly recommend Huntress. I would also like to recommend Heart of Iron and the sequel Soul of Stars by Ashley Poston. This is a sci-fi fantasy with lots of rep. I just finished the sequel and I want everyone to read them. Great video. 💖💖💖
I'd add The Pyradiste Adventure Series starting with The Pyramid Waltz, and it's Prequel, Lady of Stone, by Barbara Ann Wright (5 books all up). Interesting magic system, evil demon things, partly inhabited humans, court intrigue, swords, and f/f love.
I now have Ash on my library list and I finally bought Girls of Paper and Fire - the ebook was only$2.99!! Also I will be starting my first recommendation from Jean which is Uprooted. I’m super excited!!
Yay! So excited for this. My TBR is going to grow exponentially due to this. I liked Ash, and would like to read Malinda Lo’s Huntress. Are Kissing the Witch and The Raven and the Reindeer YA? Thanks, Jean!
The priory of the orange tree!!! Queer romance is just slipped in there, and half (that I’ve read so far) of the mcs have gay romantic feelings or have had gay relationships in the past. AND THERES DRAGONS. Also different religion representation? Like there’s a character who wears a head swathed in fabric, which is cool.
The infinite noise by Lauren shippen is more sci-fi than fantasy, but it's a really moving male male romance with superpowers. It's so good I read it in 2 days.
Your dragon top is gorgeous so I'm glad you named the maker - I was going to ask! :) I'm a huge fan of grimdark fantasy, which I know some people loathe, so I'd only recommend my favourites to people who I know appreciate the subgenre. But for people that do, I always suggest Richard Morgan's Land Fit for Heroes series (The Steel Remains, The Cold Commands, The Dark Defiles). It has three main characters, the most central of whom is a gay man, and one of the two other main characters is a lesbian (the third is a straight man). The series as a whole is very explicitly violent (and has very ugly sex scenes) so it's not for everyone, but I loved it.
so many of these i wanna read! i've read a few of them too although i preferred huntress by malinda lo to ash when i read them like ... 6 or 7 years ago! [im gonna include it in my own recommendation video i think!] i got my copy signed actually although now i cant find it! i think i might put the gilda stories on my tbr for the femme fantale readathon because i have wanted to read it for ages but just havent got to it yet. :)
It isn't the main love story, but the Graceling Realm trilogy by Kristin Cashore has some refreshing queer representation! And Cashore's more recent book Jane, Unlimited has a f/f relationship as the main love story :) though it doesn't entirely qualify as fantasy as it mixes many genres.
Hello. Interesting video which give me some ideas. May I ask you what is this kind of books behind you? (with lot of colors and faces in the spines in penguin edition). Its probably classics I think .
The Bone Season trilogy has F/F and M/M relationship representation from second book onwards, not the main character though. Then there is In the Vanisher's Palace which is a dystopian fantastic, Asian retelling of Beauty and the Beast, including dragons, F/F and non binary representation.
I loved Girls of Paper and Fire. I'm about to read Perfectly Preventable Deaths but I'm reading FrankKissStein first. I loved Heartstopper 1 + 2 which os a graphic novel. The main character's are M/M but there are also a supporting characters that are F/F but I think Heartstopper 3 might focus mire on the F/F.
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Jean: "The most popular category in this video is going to be queer rep for..."
Me: *has been waiting for months for book reccomnds for f/f romances.* *deeply sighs expecting it to be anything but f/f*
Jean: "Female/Female Romances."
Also Me *with popcorn in the air* : "ASDGAIAOD OMG FINALLY! It's been 84 years... GIVE ME THE BOOKS"
YAS! I don't mind that it dominates the video cause it's so hard to find recommendations elsewhere aha.
Jean Bookishthoughts thank you for making it! Appreciate it heaps :))
Here are my recommendations. They're basically all M/M 'cause I'm gay and that's what I read. In no particular order, other than the order they appear on my shelf:
The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black is a YA urban fantasy about a pair of twins, Hazel and Ben, who have grown up in a town populated by faeries, which makes it a tourist trap. The main attraction is a horned boy sleeping in a glass coffin, who Hazel and Ben have both been in love with their entire lives. Then one day the coffin is found smashed open, the boy is gone, and all hell breaks loose.
Timekeeper by Tara Sim is an alternate universe YA fantasy set in an alternate Victorian London where time is controlled by magic clock towers. When the clocks break, time goes wrong, and if the clocks stop completely, time in their area stops, and they are sealed off from the rest of the world. Danny Hart is a clock mechanic - someone with the ability to see and repair the strands of time - one of the youngest ever, whose father is trapped in a town where time has stopped. Danny wants to be assigned to the project to build a new clock tower and free the town, which has never been attempted before. Unfortunately, Danny is suffering from PTSD after a rather terrible accident, so the lead mechanic is unwilling to trust him with any serious responsibilities. Danny is assigned to fix the Colton tower in Enfield, where he falls in love with a clock spirit, which is illegal. Meanwhile, terrorists are bombing clock towers and stopping time.
It's a strong contender for my favourite book series.
Loka Legends by Jay Bell is an own voices YA high fantasy set in a world which is ruled by Oligarchs - mages who guard the Lokas - crystals of elemental power. Dylan is the son of Jack, the Blue Oligarch - the Oligarch of water. Someone starts assassinating the Oligarchs and stealing their Lokas, so, after scrying to work out what to do, Jack gives his Loka to Dylan, and sends him to stay with Tyjinn, the Red Oligarch, for protection. Things don't quite go to plan.
Half Bad by Sally Green is a dark YA urban fantasy set in a world with white witches and black witches. The white witches hate and persecute the black witches. Nathan Byrn is a half-code, half-white witch, and half-black witch. As such, his life is hell. The first book follows Nathan as he grows up as more and more sanctions are placed on half-codes by the white witch council. A major theme of the books is duality - black vs. white, and one of the ways in which this is exemplified is in Nathan's love interests - a female white witch, and a male black witch.
Carry On by Rainbow Rowell is a YA urban fantasy about a boy named Simon Snow, the worst chosen one ever. Simon is destined to defeat the Insidious Humdrum, a creature that sucks magic from the world. Unfortunately, Simon sucks at magic. At the same time he has to contend with his roommate, Tyrannus Basilton Grimm-Pitch, or Baz, who Simon hates and is convinced is a vampire. Then the ghost of a dead woman shows up in his room, looking for her son. Simon and Baz have to team up to solve the mystery of the dead woman, which they believe is related to the death of Baz's mother.
City of Spires by Claudie Arsenault is an adult high fantasy set in the city of Isandor, a free city that stands against the brutal and domineering Myrian Empire. The Myrians have an enclave in the city as part of an arrangement, and the Myrian leader Avenazar uses this as an excuse to get up to terrible things. No one has the power to stand against him without breaking the agreement, so he pretty much has carte blanche to do whatever he likes. Lord Diel Dathirii is done with letting the Myrians run wild, and wants to unite the great houses of Isandor to drive the Myrians out of the city, but first he has to contend with all the old grudges between the families. Meanwhile, Lord Arathiel Brasten finally returns to Isandor after a century of being trapped in a place where time doesn't flow. Everything has changed and he can't exactly go home, so he takes shelter in the slums of Isandor. The series deals heavily with themes of class, race and sexuality. It has basically a full LGBT+ cast, aside from Avenazar. I believe it's own voices for asexual rep.
Wonders of the Invisible World by Christopher Barzak is an own voices YA urban fantasy about a boy called Aidan Lockwood growing up in the small, sleepy town of Temperance, Ohio. Aidan is just kind of drifting through life. He has no friends or real interests or ambitions. Then his best childhood friend, Jarrod, returns from his life in Cleveland, and starts talking about things that Aidan doesn't remember, but definitely should, such as the man in the black suit that only Aidan could see. The two of them team up to recover Aidan's memories, and along the way they uncover the history of the Lockwood family. It's my favourite book of all time.
Nightrunner by Lynn Flewelling is an adult high fantasy about Alec of Kerry, a boy who is arrested for poaching. While in the dungeon, he meets a fellow prisoner called Seregil, and the pair perform a breakout. Seeing potential in Alec, Seregil takes him on as a travelling companion, and eventually an apprentice, for Seregil is part of a secret spy network and he thinks Alec has what it takes to join them. It's kinda squicky because Alec is only 16 and Seregil is an adult, but I've only read the first book (which has no explicit romance in it) so Alec might come of age before they get together?
Skybound by Alex London is an own voices YA high fantasy set in the land of Uztar, a place where birds of prey are revered, and falconry is the main way of life. It’s about a pair of twins from the Six Villages, Brysen and Kylee, who go into the mountains to capture a ghost eagle, the most dangerous bird in existence. Brysen goes to trade the eagle for the life of his lover, and Kylee goes to protect Brysen. They are followed by Nyall, who is in love with Kylee. Meanwhile, an army of religious fanatics called the Kartami are marching on Uztar, intent on wiping out the falconers and the birds that dare to obey them. There is own voices gay rep in Brysen, but I'm pretty sure Kylee is aromantic too.
Rifter by Ginn Hale is an adult high/portal fantasy about a man named John Toffler, who steals a key intended for his roommate Kyle, a strange man with tattoos on his eyelids and scars on his face. This turns out to be a mistake because Kyle is actually Kahlil, an otherworldly warrior who has been assigned to watch John. For John is actually the Rifter, a god destined to destroy Kahlil's world.
The Rules and Regulations for Mediating Myths & Magic by F. T. Lukens is a YA urban fantasy about a boy called Bridger Whitt who accidentally becomes the apprentice of a wizard who mediates between the magical and non-magical worlds. Meanwhile he also has to deal with his crush on his neighbour, a hot football player named Leo.
Series with multiple POVs with at least one queer POV character:
The Shadowhunter Chronicles by Cassandra Clare (YA urban fantasy)
Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy (middle grade/YA urban fantasy)
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo (YA high fantasy)
Rick Riordan's mythology books (middle grade/YA urban fantasy)
The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater (YA urban fantasy)
A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin (adult high fantasy)
The Diviners by Libba Bray (YA historical/urban fantasy)
Falling Kingdoms by Morgan Rhodes (YA high fantasy) (bit meh about this one, but I figured I'd mention it anyway)
Books with heavily implied queer protagonists:
The Bartimaeus Sequence by Jonathan Stroud (middle grade/YA urban fantasy) (later confirmed by the author)
The House of Mountfathom by Nigel McDowell (YA historical/urban fantasy)
this is what i came here for. thank you ! it sucks being gay and never seeing gay men in fantasy series.
you're an actual god ♥
Karkat Vantas thank u!!!
@@karkatvantas9557 Huge respect man. I'm always looking for fantasy with gay characters but NEVER find any. Just the same popular ones and that's all.
I would like to add the carpet weaver into this. A great book set in Afghanistan
I came out as bisexual this year and I LOVE this video. Thank you so so much for introducing us to more LGBTQ+ litterature 🌈❤️
Congratulations my friend :) big step!
I just finished The Priory of the orange tree by Samantha Shannon. And it has F/F romance between the protagonists 😍 and M/M romance between two other characters.
This is definitely on my TBR!
@@JeansThoughts You will love it!
Pratistha Das I second this recommendation!
Definitely Priory!
Two years later, and YES YES YES, I came here after reading that book 😭
The Six of Crows duology (Six of Crows + Crooked Kingdom) has m/m rep and the subsequent duology, starting with King of Scars, has f/f rep!
Magnus Chase by Rick Riordan is a trilogy with a gender fluid person that I really liked
PLUS let's not forget that means Magnus is some kind of LGBT, considering the ending, so the protag is LGBT too!
all of ricks books are really good, tho i’d your looking for specifically queer books if wait for the new nico and will book that’s coming out soon!! tho idk i’d you’d have to read the other series to understand it or not
WOO! I've been waiting for this for so long! Omg I'm so hype
Love that you included Kissing the Witch. Such a great selection of short stories.
Love the list, I'd heard of Girls of Paper & Fire but didn't know that's what it was about. And great lipstick!
Ailsa Floyd read it, it’s so good, follow up coming soon
@@JungkookxSim Thanks, I'll definitely have to check it out! :)
Depends on how whether you think it’s fantasy or historical fiction, The Song of Achilles has a m/m romance with the main character being bi!
Your dragon jumper is awesome!!!
Loved this video. So excited to try these out. I’m thinking of reading Every Heart a Doorway for the Femme Fantale readathon.
Ahh White is for Witching and Kissing the Witch are two of my favourite books and I hardly ever hear anyone discuss them! So thank you!
Yay! Well you have excellent taste ;)
Thank you so much for this video!!! These recommendations all seem amazing
Excellent recommendations (and jumper). “The Way of Thorn and Thunder - The Kynship Chronicles” by Daniel Heath Justice might be of interest. High epic adult fantasy, but the foundational myths and worldview are Cherokee (Justice is enrolled Cherokee as am I - though different communities). So no princesses, etc (or dragons, sorry). But plenty of wonderful beings and characters. In many of our traditional pathways, gender and sexuality are fluid concepts and that is written beautifully by Justice, not as something one must “come to terms with” but simply as the way the world works. It is set in a time of resistance to invasion and acculturation
Ron Warren that sounds brilliant, I definitely will be having a look at that one!
Added to my TBR, thank you
I love this video so glad you finally did it. I love books with LGBTQ+ books and have really been getting into fantasy recently so adding most of beds books to my Amazon cart and wish list
Added them all to my TBR(the ones I didn't add already from recommendations from you before) they all sound so good !
Omg I was just looking for a video like this and you delivered! It's astounding to me how many of these I had never heard of before when all I'm looking for these days is lesbian witch literature. Thank you so much, I've put them all on my tbr!
Also I'm currently reading Daughter Of The Burning City by Amanda Foody and it has a bi main character, lesbian side character and ace male character but I don't know what's gonna happen to them yet so maybe it's too soon to recommend. I do like it so far tho
You’re the reason why I read Queen of Ieflaria... and after two weeks I have read all the 3 books available! Thank you! 😊
Since they’re are tales, I hope they will have more to come after the 4th one...
I really didn't expect Perfectly preventable deaths to be in this video, it made me so happy! I love that book! 😭💕
I loved Ash and also the prequel Huntress. I would highly recommend Huntress. I would also like to recommend Heart of Iron and the sequel Soul of Stars by Ashley Poston. This is a sci-fi fantasy with lots of rep. I just finished the sequel and I want everyone to read them. Great video. 💖💖💖
I'd add The Pyradiste Adventure Series starting with The Pyramid Waltz, and it's Prequel, Lady of Stone, by Barbara Ann Wright (5 books all up). Interesting magic system, evil demon things, partly inhabited humans, court intrigue, swords, and f/f love.
I now have Ash on my library list and I finally bought Girls of Paper and Fire - the ebook was only$2.99!! Also I will be starting my first recommendation from Jean which is Uprooted. I’m super excited!!
Yay! So excited for this. My TBR is going to grow exponentially due to this. I liked Ash, and would like to read Malinda Lo’s Huntress. Are Kissing the Witch and The Raven and the Reindeer YA? Thanks, Jean!
Kissing the Witch is adult but I think you could call the raven and the reindeer YA :)
@@JeansThoughts Thank you. I added both to my TBR
The priory of the orange tree!!! Queer romance is just slipped in there, and half (that I’ve read so far) of the mcs have gay romantic feelings or have had gay relationships in the past. AND THERES DRAGONS. Also different religion representation? Like there’s a character who wears a head swathed in fabric, which is cool.
This was SO great. I can't wait to get into some of these. Thank you💖
The infinite noise by Lauren shippen is more sci-fi than fantasy, but it's a really moving male male romance with superpowers. It's so good I read it in 2 days.
YES I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS!!!
Your dragon top is gorgeous so I'm glad you named the maker - I was going to ask! :)
I'm a huge fan of grimdark fantasy, which I know some people loathe, so I'd only recommend my favourites to people who I know appreciate the subgenre. But for people that do, I always suggest Richard Morgan's Land Fit for Heroes series (The Steel Remains, The Cold Commands, The Dark Defiles). It has three main characters, the most central of whom is a gay man, and one of the two other main characters is a lesbian (the third is a straight man). The series as a whole is very explicitly violent (and has very ugly sex scenes) so it's not for everyone, but I loved it.
so many of these i wanna read! i've read a few of them too although i preferred huntress by malinda lo to ash when i read them like ... 6 or 7 years ago! [im gonna include it in my own recommendation video i think!] i got my copy signed actually although now i cant find it! i think i might put the gilda stories on my tbr for the femme fantale readathon because i have wanted to read it for ages but just havent got to it yet. :)
I'm not usually huge on fantasy but some of these i like the sound of and might buy now !
I'd check out the Black Magician trilogy. The gay character is not the MC but we do end up switching to his perspective in the second and third books.
It isn't the main love story, but the Graceling Realm trilogy by Kristin Cashore has some refreshing queer representation! And Cashore's more recent book Jane, Unlimited has a f/f relationship as the main love story :) though it doesn't entirely qualify as fantasy as it mixes many genres.
Loved this! Would you ever do a queer sci-fi video also??
Hello. Interesting video which give me some ideas. May I ask you what is this kind of books behind you? (with lot of colors and faces in the spines in penguin edition). Its probably classics I think .
I would also suggest Mask of Shadows. It has a gender fluid main character, which I don't think I've ever seen before in a fantasy novel.
The only other time I've seen it done was in the Magnus Chase trilogy by Rick Riordan
I'm sorry but can you tell me what gender fluid means?
@@jjjhhhaaammm22 the MC sometimes identifies as male and sometimes identifies as female
@@moodybookworm7856 Oh, thank you for telling me😊
Who is here after reading In The Closet: A Gay Romance by Ecops Dee on Amazon Kindle.
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Such a fantastic video and jumper😍. Do I have to be familiar with the original myth in order to get into "Outrun the Wind"?
Nah Outrun the Wind is definitely one that stands apart from the mythology so you can read it solo.
Guess I just figured out what to do during this quarantine.
You need to read Saga by Brian Vaughan e Fiona Staples!!! I'm sure you'll love it!!
The Bone Season trilogy has F/F and M/M relationship representation from second book onwards, not the main character though. Then there is In the Vanisher's Palace which is a dystopian fantastic, Asian retelling of Beauty and the Beast, including dragons, F/F and non binary representation.
I loved Girls of Paper and Fire. I'm about to read Perfectly Preventable Deaths but I'm reading FrankKissStein first. I loved Heartstopper 1 + 2 which os a graphic novel. The main character's are M/M but there are also a supporting characters that are F/F but I think Heartstopper 3 might focus mire on the F/F.
SO MANY AWESOME SOUNDING QUEER REC'S!
Yay glad you think so!
Fairy Tale ah!, fire of the faithful& outrun the wind, both seems interesting. great recommendations. & looking good in red
The Binding by Bridget Collins is a good one!
Wolfsong by Tj Klune is a must read!!!!!
You know you watch Jean a lot when all those books are already on your TBR
YAS enjoy them all ;)
Love your jumper!
The only thing I didn’t like about Ash is there romance is at the least possible second
The Tensorate Series by Jy Yang.
Need book recommendations for m/m everything im hearing f/f but not m/m
I know this is late, but if you haven't read it, six of crows is a great book and it has a gay side couple :)
Very interesting
Not Your Sidekick by c.b lee