i just read stag dance and really liked it and was wondering if there were any books that were in a similar contemporary fiction/lit with trans men? i feel like a lot of the market is saturated with transmasc fantasy or horror novels and i just want something thats set in the real world but still a bit weird/whimsical??
i dont know how youd even pull off a surreal horror with this vibe but if there is one out there i need it... but if you have a fiction or fantasy novel like this im still super interested!
Just remembered that I read The Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling and its sort of pulling this off but id still love a book that goes in a different direction
the only genre im not interested in for this would be like romance or extremely historically accruate stuff but everything else is on the table, i want to get into them more since im going into uni for creative writing and started reading a lot of short stories for that and realised i kind of like them, im also just generally a fan of novellas
I finished Stag Dance by Torrey Peters like 2 days ago and enjoyed it and thought it was very provoking, i also have Seasons of Glass and Iron downloaded on my kindle so ill be reading that soon.
ok so im a huge dragon nerd and will always look for more dragon books but its so hard because i never think theres enough dragons, ill list what ive already read and what ive already heard of too so we dont have to repeat ourselves
not interested in middle grade, ya or romantasy
Priory of The Orange Tree (enjoyed but not enough dragons, are there more in the other novels?)
Soulbound Saga (not enough dragons and i dont really like baby dragon plotlines but i liked the world and im willing to read the other ones)
The Rain Wilds Chronicles (very fun series, pretty dragon heavy but i could always use more)
The Aleurian Cycle... or like fireborn/flamefall/furysong (enjoyed becuse it was so fasat and i liked the queer rep but veryyy sparse on the dragons they had 3 different types and never described what they actually looked like wtf)
sharper than scale swifter than flame (you guessed it... not enough dragons, but i do enjoy novellas too and liked the themes of family and stuff)
the natural history of dragons (dnfed, first book definitely didnt have enough dragons and i dont really like mystery plotlines, or the voice, and the character was like alice from TRWC but not as memorable)
King Sorrow (kind of not really a dragon book because he functioned as a demon too but i enjoyed the sort of whimsical quality to the dragon here but thats not usually my taste)
the sky on fire is currently on my tbr pile ill get around to it soon
yes ive heard of dragon riders of pern and im only mildly interested in it, the naomi novik series too and the one that has the blind dragon i dnfed that one because i didnt want to invest in a big long seires, ive also heard of when women were dragons and dnfed early
i feel like this is an impossible ask because the novel felt so charming and beautiful and unique as i was reading it that i literally could not think of anything similar that ive read or read about but i literally fell in love as i read it and would love to read something similar if anything comes to mind
to be a bit more specific id really love somethign with a few of these catergories; interesting prose/presentation of the story, strange myth-like world (specifically inspiredby/emulating non-western mythology), queerness, and just beautiful writing and prose