Thanks to woze @nympheline for this delightful review of Oak King Holly King!~** spoiler alert ** I

Thanks to woze @nympheline for this delightful review of Oak King Holly King!~** spoiler alert ** I love so many things about this author’s writing: their attention to historic detail, the way readers get to revel in characters’ desires and thought processes, their world-building. And all of those elements are here (ESPECIALLY the world-building)… but what I wasn’t expecting out of this book was the whole-hearted embrace of all the different stages of falling in love. This book doesn’t follow the stereotypical beats of a romance novel; the focus is not on the burn of yearning and misunderstanding, but of the triumph of “us against the world.” The lovers–and, by extension, we–are allowed to be happy, in so many different ways. There is struggle, there is hate–but always, always we fight together. And there are so many different reclamations of identity throughout this story that give true meaning and vindication to the struggles. I wish more novels took this approach. ~Oak King Holly King is a gay Victorian fae romance, available now wherever fine books are found!Amazon • Apple Books • Barnes & Noble • Bookshop.org • Kobo • Overdrive • Smashwords -- source link

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