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Canons! The Demon's Lexicon series by Sarah Rees Brennan

sarahtales is an excellent YA urban fantasy and has one main character from an ensemble of main characters, Alan, who has a damaged leg/permanent limp, and is a) a compulsive liar b) a badass marksman and c) a loving nerd that needs hugs. His disability affects him but very much doesn't mean he sees any fewer adventures, near death experiences and love interests than the other main characters. It's a part of his character, but it really isn't anything like the be all and end all of him.

Also, Spellwright by Blake Charlton is a recent high fantasy book where there are magic languages and spells are written - sometimes short sentences, sometimes entire volumes - and the main character, Nicodemus Weal, is a "cacographic" (similar to dyslexic) wizard that people had thought might be a prophesised saviour figure until they realised he couldn't, um, spell right. He lives (and adventures!) at a kind of wizard university where he is slowly progressing toward the equivalent of graduating, until people connected with cacographers start being murdered by something and he starts trying to survive, protect the other, younger cacographers and attempting to figure out what on earth has been going on. The book does has a lot of discussion of Nicodemus' disability; whether he's dangerous, whether it would ever be possible to cure it and whether he's damaged or whether it's just a fundamental part of himself, but I wouldn't really say it's "disability stuff" so much as "identity stuff" and character work. Also there's some interesting examination of prejudice against cacographers, and whether it's better to be magically literate but cacographic or not magical at all. Nicodemus being cacographic *is* central to the story, but it isn't a story *just* about being different and living with a disability, it's a high fantasy magical murder mystery that involves disability as a theme.

And, in ASOIAF series by George RR Martin, amongst the cast of thousands there is one main character that has lost use of his legs, and another major main character with dwarfism, and they both (particularly Tyrion, the one with dwarfism) have complex characters and lots of adventures. Also there are a couple of others that I won't mention because it's spoilery. Not so sure there will be a happy ending for anyone in that series, and if something terrible happens to either character I don't yet know about because I've only read half of ASOIAF so far a) I'm sorry and b) nobody spoil me! :P But a brilliant book with many characters, some of which have disabilities.

I don't mind when there's some/a lot of plot that touches on a character's disability, especially when it's "identity stuff"- media that gives a character a disability and then completely ignores it is nearly as aggravating as media that ignores everything else about them. I'm just tired of reading and watching things where there's no real plot or action beyond that.

Thanks for the recs, these sound awesome!

I agree! But I think all of these books are great stories foremost, and the way they each incorporate and handle disabilities is to their credit. Spellwright is the most disability focussed but I believe in a good, interesting way - it affects his life, how he thinks of himself and how others think of him, and it's the reason people around him are suddenly getting murdered, so it rather warrants focus! And tbh I think it might be the only book I've read with a (basically) dyslexic main character or even someone who is magical but not in the "normal" way, so for me at least it didn't feel at all like it was rehashing the same old tropes. Plus I have to say I think the magic system in Spellwright is so original and fascinating, it's brilliant. I haven't seen many people around talking about it (not that I've looked particularly hard :P ) but I think it's definitely worth a look.

The Demon's Lexicon and ASOIAF both have ensemble casts and shifting viewpoints, so the disability stuff is much less a major plot point and more another element to deal with in some rather complex and adventurous lives. All of these books have a lot of plot and action! I hope you enjoy :)

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