[ SECRET POST #4354 ]

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #4364 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

01.



__________________________________________________



02.


__________________________________________________



03.


__________________________________________________



04.


__________________________________________________



05.


__________________________________________________



06.


__________________________________________________



07.










Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 48 secrets from Secret Submission Post #625.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Ayrt

You know there are more books than the ones you were forced to read in high school, right? I'm gay as well, and in the past year alone have read great books with gay characters, ace characters, bi characters, trans characters, not to mention characters of color and disabled characters in lead roles/as protagonists. And the stories, while romance has admittedly played a part, have been about heist and piracy and assassins and giant monsters and aliens (I'm a sucker for genre fiction and always will be)

Not all fiction is Catcher in the Rye, thank god

[meredith44]

Have any recs? I've been mostly reading urban fantasy these days, but heists, piracy, and assassins sounds good!

(And as an aside, I had to read Catcher in the Rye twice for school. I despised it both times. So I appreciate that part of your comment too!)

[(Anonymous)]

Fingersmith: Victorian heist novel in which the thief falls for her mark and then things get MORE complicated. Pretty dark and very Dickensian.

Edge of the Abyss and its sequel, The Abyss Surrounds Us: Bisexual Chinese monster-trainer gets kidnapped by post-apocalyptic pirates to train a monster for them.

The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet: optimistic found-family space opera with actually interesting alien races

Not nearly as well-written as the above but unique enough to be interesting and enjoyable were Mask of Shadows (about a vengeful genderfluid assassin-in-training) and Our Bloody Pearl (about vaguely-steampunk pirates helping an asexual agender bloodthirsty siren with PTSD and a debilitating spinal injury)

[meredith44]

Nice.

Turns out Fingersmith and Mask of Shadows are at the library walking distance from where I live. And The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet is on kindle unlimited. The Abyss ones are also available at a near-ish library. Our bloody pearl is going to be the only difficult one to access.

Thanks so much for the recs! I look forward to trying them out.