#fae books

[belle-keys]

this is the worst book description I’ve ever read like I’m actually having a stroke

#sexy fae vikings #hades and persephone AND beauty and the beast #this is awful i’m sorry #this is actually making me nauseous so #books #fantasy books #booktok #anti sjm #anti sarah j maas #anti fbaa #anti acotar #fae books #beauty and the beast #hades and persephone #anti intellectualism

[rorydm]

whenever i see jude and cardan’s arts, i am internally screaming!!

#the cruel prince #jude and cardan #jude duarte #cardan greenbriar #fanart #fae books #the folk of the air #news #enemies to lovers

[philosophy-with-anxiety]

does anyone have any good fae/forest nymph/ forest magic fantasy books? preferably w a romantic subplot. something that reads like a hozier song?

#ethereal books #magical books #magical realism #fantasy books #fantasy book recs #fae books #forest nymph #book recs #book recommendations #well written books #greek mythology #hozier #hozier aesthetic #books #bookworm #fave books

[time-to-write-and-suffer]

Ppl are (understandably) upset abt fae shit taking over YA/NA romance but I think getting mad at the very concept of fae and why it's popular won't really do much. Mainly because the "fae" we see in popular books are just the same flavor of guy, with minor variations based on author appeal. The "fae" are no different from the vampires back in the Twilight ripoff era (in fact they can be traced all the way back to Twilight itself), they're just using a different word for that specific flavor of Straight Romance Guy and his associated tropes, which is what you're really mad at.

Usually the main fae guy is a bigstrong man, there's some sort of mating system, potentially some gender essentialism, and everyone's a model. It's a generic but "appealing" (to mostly straight women) enough concept that it can be pretty much anything you want it to be, all while tapping into that high fantasy/"political intrigue"/enemies-to-lovers buzzword soup. I think the only reason this trope is specifically called fae and not elves is because you want to be darker and edgier, and elves have a cultural association with being more ethereal and sexless. So we have these guys, who are really just the same guy, who are really just elves who fuck, and we call it fae because it sounds more mysterious and, well, fey than elves.

(It could also be argued that fae and elves are the same guy also, but most girlies are not ready for that conversation.)

I think it's understandable that it became this way, as the concept of "fair folk" exists across different cultures and has fewer set rules compared to Tolkien/D&D elves. It has a bigger and more varied pool of inspiration for writers to take ideas from. However, instead of actually taking ideas from any folklore, a lot of the current fae shit is just repackaged vampire/werewolf stuff: these are guys who are better than you, they have superpowers, they fight and fuck like animals, and they claim your weak human body with their bites, and the ultimate upgrade is becoming one of them. It's the same old shit under a different name.

The reason it feels like an epidemic is because smaller authors are just cribbing shit from the bigger ones and using the same names for the same guys, the same tropes, the same plots. Like "oh this made me horny, so I'll just repeat it!" and this echo chamber has begun spawning its very own lore and mythology, and newer authors are assuming that this is based on real folklore and not some woman's personal wank bank, and don't bother to check because this is good and made them horny, so why change what works? Like, I've legit seen authors claim that SJM didn't invent fae mating because "it's part of the original mythology." Which, to be very clear and admirably restrained, is not the case. SJM didn't invent mating, but it's not becuse it's "original folklore." It's just the same old stuff but with a different name, and unfortunately, the fair folk and associated folklore is a lot more vague than, say, werewolves or vampires, and that's why these tropes are now becoming "canon" lore.

We've basically taken a vaguely defined existing concept, slapped its name on the old paranormal romance tropes of yore, and because there's no cultural understanding of fae the same way there was vampires, there's no "vampires don't sparkle" pushback, and we've begun adopting a few women's fetishes as the Universal Truth, and that's the part you hate. The part where it's the Same Guy again, but he's wearing a different hat.

And while I get why you'd be tired of this shit specifically (I am also tired), I think to dismiss fae in general is like dismissing vampires back when Twilight was popular. It's a type (or types, rather) of supernatural creature that has a rich history across cultures and it's a well of inspiration for writers that has been used before and will be used after. I think to blanket-dismiss the concept of fae in a book is counterproductive. You want to encourage writers to tap deeper into that well if you want that generic samey-ness to go away. What you want to dismiss are the tired tropes that are forced on otherwise interesting folklore/mythology that's open to endless different interpretations.

At the same time, I do fully understand why wouldn't want to do that, because as much as writers like to complain that readers just don't get their flavor of unique, sometimes there's just not a lot to get. It's the same fucking guy, girlies. You wrote the same guy again! To find one unique and interesting take on the fae, you have to sift through a thousand of That One Guy, and it's just not worth it.

(There are also and will always be really cool books about fae that aren't romance as well, but I'm specifically talking abt romance because it's infested with fae shit right now and I get it. I really do get it, I get both sides of the issue. I'm part of the problem, I wanna see cool fae shit with romance so I keep reading them, but it's the same guy again, so I'm writing my own, but it might be the same guy again because I'm also braindead!)

Anyway, I look forward to years from now when fae get their renaissance and we get wacky and interesting takes on them. First we had Twilight, now we get What We Do in the Shadows. First we got ACOTAR, and eventually we'll get ... ??? We'll see! We can only go up from here!

#fae books #anti sjm #anti tog #anti acotar #fae #fair folk

[rroderickrowe]

Pre-Order Alert!

You can pre-order member #rroderickrowe 's next book today! Heretic: Lost in Legend Book 1 releases July 15th.

In the year 3115, Priest-Applicant Justice Preston is sent to the ancient home of the Jamari to research his life and miracles. It seems straight forward until... A church gone rogue. An unexpected discovery of Fae. A murderous bishop.

His boyfriend and guide introduces him to the people known as the Tuatha De Cernon. Stagmen. Fauns. Satyrs. Pixies, dryads, nymphs and others. These people have come through a portal opened by the legendary Jamari a thousand years before. They've been living amongst us in secret for all this time.

And he discovers ancient memoirs written by the Sophia Shaman, boon companion to the Jamari. In her own words he finds proof the Church of Jamari has been subverting the teachings of the legend they claim to follow. Any rumor of this discovery will bring the inquisition and the enforcer priests into his life in dangerous and deadly ways.

He can turn the fragile relics over to the church knowing they'll never be seen again. Or, he can find a way to make them public and become HERETIC.

Cernon, High King of the Tuatha De, wants to use the discovery to entice the church into violating a millennia-old agreement and then have his people come out of seclusion.

Justice can choose to be the bait in the trap, or flee into exile with his boyfriend Ian. Ian, as a practicing shaman, has his own deadly secrets from the church which has long forbidden any spirituality outside the influence of the priests.

In his soul-searching, Justice must choose from so many options and deadly paths he finds it near impossible. But time carries him inevitably into his eventual fate.

#fantasy books #paradigmlost #portal fantasy #rroderickrowe #writers of tumblr #fantasy world #lgbt fiction #readers of tumblr #fae books #writeblr

[mollyringle]

ARC reviewers wanted!

Please reblog if you know any avid readers who frequently review books online! Especially if they enjoy novels containing: - fae - witches - angst-free queerness - romance - a cozy noblebright mood even amid magical disaster - '90s cover bands I seek reviewers and general word-of-mouth-spreaders for my novel Ballad for Jasmine Town, which contains all of the above. (As to the romance and queerness, the main couple is a trans man and a bi woman, in case you prefer to know such details.) It can be requested on NetGalley and Edelweiss right now, or I could email you an ARC in PDF or epub format.

Here is the publisher page if you’d like to read more about it. (Though distributed by Simon & Schuster, the book is independent-press-published. The publishing world is complicated.) For those who've read Lava Red Feather Blue: it takes place in the same country and has some overlapping events, but you don't have to read one book to make sense of the other. They are both stand-alones. Thank you in advance, and I hope it finds some happy readers!

#please reblog #books #queer books #ballad for jasmine town #netgalley #arc #book reviewers #urban fantasy #fae books #witchy books #noblebright #queer fantasy #small presses #trans representation #bi representation #queer representation

[tessorange-art]

Prince of Sunlight ☀️

#oak greenbriar fanart #the stolen heir #the stolen heir fanart #tsh #tsh fanart #tfota #holly black #elfhame #bookish #book fanart #book illustration #ya books #fae #fae books #Tess Art tag

[shunnao-addict]

I swear to god if I see one.more.fucking.porn.romance about dangerous&tortured fae and some human girl I'll get into a murder spree and not one court would condemn me

#CAN WE PLEASE STOOOOOP #THEY'RE NOT EVEN NICELY WRITTEN #anti sjm #i blame her for this #fae books

[menagerie-of-monsters]

Today's the day!!! Claimed by the Flame of Faery is out on Kindle Unlimited, ebook, and paperback~

#fantasy romance #dark fantasy romance #fae romance #fae books #dragon romance #monster romance #dark fantasy #book release #book promotion #claimed by the flame of faery #monsters of faery

[sapphicbookclub]

Sapphic Books List: Fae

Magical worlds involving fae, seelie, faries and the like! 🧚

A Dark and Hollow Star by Ashley Shuttleworth

The Taking by Celeste Castro

Moribund by Genevieve Iseult Eldredge

A Duet for Invisible Strings by Llinos Cathryn Thomas

Ash by Malinda Lo

Silver Ravens by Jane Fletcher

There's Magic Between Us by Jillian Maria

Faerie Queen by Jennie Taylor

Bourn's Edge by Barbara Davies

So Fey: Queer Fairy Fiction Anthology

#sbl #sapphic books #fae #fae books #lgbt books

[belle-keys]

“It isn’t that mortals can’t be pretty—many of them are—but their beauty doesn’t make you feel pummeled by it. I feel a little pummeled by Oak’s beauty. If I look at him too long, I want to take a bite out of him.”

- The Stolen Heir by Holly Black

#the stolen heir spoilers #the stolen heir #holly black #the folk of the air #tfota #oak greenbriar #oak x suren #fae books #ya books #ya fantasy #book quotes #faerie #book blog #bookish

[rorydm]

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#jude and cardan #jude duarte #enemies to lovers #news #fae books #the cruel prince #the wicked king #holly black #cardan greenbriar #jude x cardan

[zaeyos]

I had such a blast creating these two massive character montage pieces I had the pleasure of painting for Chloe C. Penaranda late last year for her An Heir Comes to Rise series ✨

#an heir comes to rise #a queen comes to power #a throne from the ashes #a clash of three courts #a sword from the embers #an heir comes to rise series #Chloe C Penaranda #fantasy books #fae books #book lover #art #digital art #drawing #digital #fan art #illustration #painting #procreate #commission #commissions #commissions open #illustrator #book illustration #book illustrator

[godzilla-reads]

Oh, my… the Fair Folk shelf has split into another shelf because there are too many books. And I still desire more 👅

If you have any Fae books to recommend, I’m all ears (but nothing by SJM)

#godzilla reads #fairy books #fae books #bookish #book blog #book recommendations #bookshelf #books #bookworm #reading #booklover

[noahhawthorneauthor]

Author versus books! Hi gentlefolk, I'm Noah, and I write queer fantasy books with disabled and/or neurodivergent characters. ✡️🏳️‍⚧️

The Eternal Machine was my debut book, and it's the first in an dark steampunk fantasy series with morally wrecked fae and a love triangle that develops into a polycule. 🏴‍☠️🗡️

Phantom and Rook is a cozy urban fantasy, with found family, forgotten love, and mental health discussion. I'm hosting a Read-Along for this on Halloween, and I'll be revealing the cover for the next book soon! Each book in this series features a different couple, and the next is dark academia chaos. 🍁✨

The Rebel Foxes is the last book I released, and it's the first one under my new pen name, Noah Hawthorne. It's a dark and dieselpunk standalone in an interconnected series. It's full of mutant shifters hellbent on breaking society, T4T, and a polyamorous relationship.🔥🐾

Here's my Linktree, where you can find my books, playlists, and more.

#aelina isaacs #queer books #indie books #fantasy author #phantom and rook #indie author #writeblr #writing fantasy #writers on tumblr #dark fantasy #noah hawthorne #fantasy punk #trans author #jewish author #fantasy books #queer urban fantasy #steampunk fantasy #airship pirates #gay pirates #fae books #magical realism #gay witches

[rroderickrowe]

I can't help but share out a wonderful set of reviews I got for my first trilogy. What an amazingly well-done synopsis and review she has given to my novels!

I have a new cover on the first book now, but that was to make it fit in with the rest of the series, NOT because it was the wrong cover. It was the RIGHT cover in so many ways and it's still the one I put out at book shows and events.

Thank you Ida Umphers! I hope you discover the other books I have out there soon!

#fantasy books #paradigmlost #portal fantasy #rroderickrowe #writers of tumblr #fae books #fantasy world #lgbt fiction #readers of tumblr #writeblr #book things