Everina Maxwell's Winter's Orbit
My accidental streak of reading queer genre fiction continues with this very fun book, where a scamp of a prince is informed by his grandmother the Emperor that he has to marry his recently deceased cousin's ex-husband for Intergalactic Reasons. They are totally into each other but each thinks the other isn’t, and they take way too long to have an honest conversation, also for Intergalactic Reasons (and for trauma reasons, it’s pretty clear to the reader that the deceased spouse was abusive, though this is not confirmed for a while, but anyway, content warning there). So much ANGST, it’s like I was reading fic! Make out already! But anyway I was totally into these two dudes and their relationship, as well as the intergalactic politics stuff, the little bit of a mystery they’re trying to solve, and the cast of badass lady secondary characters (including an eccentric professor). I mean this is not all fluffy, I don’t want to give that impression, see the parenthetical above, but it has a fluffy core for sure. A/A-.
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A review copy was provided by the publisher. This book will be released on February 2nd.
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