#the last sun

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Character, book, and author names under the cut

Rune Saint-John- The Tarot Sequence by KD Edwards

Ianthe Tridenarius- The Locked Tomb by Tamsyn Muir

Nico di Angelo- Percy Jackson Series by Rick Riordan

Thomas Lightwood- The Last Hours by Cassandra Clare

#Rune Saint-John #The Tarot Sequence #TTS #Lord Sun #Tarot Sequence #The Last Sun #KD Edwards #Ianthe Tridenarius #Ianthe the First #The Locked Tomb #gideon the ninth #tlt #Tamsyn Muir #Nico di Angelo #The Sun and the Star #PJO #Percy Jackson Series #Heroes of Olympus series #Trials of Apollo series #toa #riordanverse #Rick Riordan #Thomas Lightwood #The Last Hours #shadowhunters #Chain of Gold #Cassandra Clare #polls #lgbt books #queer book character tournament 2.0

[ironwingedhawk]

#the tarot sequence #rune saint john #the hourglass throne #the last sun #the hanged man

[badsongpetey]

Rune and Brand from KD Edwards' fantastic Tarot Sequence books! Great characters, queer rep, world building, a magic system that actually has costs, and, ofc, loveable doofuses. Deals with mature themes so take care, but an incredible read. Can't wait for more books...

#special love for grumpy sarcastic secretly soft-hearted brand #the tarot sequence #rune saint john #brandon saint john #the last sun #the hanged man #the hourglass throne

[midreky]

Everyone, Addam Saint Nicholas! Still figuring out how to draw him but I liked how this sketch came out and this fandom very much needs all the content it can get!! Gosh, I love him 😭💕

#The Tarot Sequence #kd edwards #addam saint nicholas #rune saint john #the last sun

[marmelade-sky-reading]

I am rereading the Tarot Sequence right now

#booklr #the tarot sequence #rune saint john #Lord Tower #the last sun #the hanged man #the hourglass throne

[goodoldfashionednerd]

I'm rereading TTS so ✨ memes ✨

The last meme is sponsored by Max Saint John

#okay can i confess something? #i lowkey ship brand and ciaran 😭😭 #like i'm still a rune x addam x brand shipper don't get me wrong #but i think these two should at least have a one night stand #i can feel something happening between them OKAY? #the tarot sequence #tts #the hourglass throne #tht #the eidolon #the last sun #the hanged man #quinn saint nicholas #tts ciaran #rune saint john #tts shitpost #tts meme #tts memes

[haveyoureadthisfantasybook]

vote yes if you have finished the entire book.

vote no if you have not finished the entire book.

(faq · submit a book)

#fantasy #books #The Last Sun #The Tarot Sequence #K.D. Edwards #poll #result: no #l: English

[innerslumber]

So I finished reading The Tarot Sequence including all the free stories on the author's website and I'm devastated because now I have to wait for book 4 and this is going to be a 9 book series...

AND THERE ARE ONLY 340 FICS ON AO3. WHY IS THERE NOT MORE??? THESE BOOKS ARE FUCKING GREAT. HOW WILL I BE SUSTAINED UNTIL BOOK 4????

*crying sobbing throwing up* 😭😭😭😭😭

#seriously the characters are so good #the world building is so cool too #Also praying that the endgame is m/m/m OT3 #the tarot sequence #rune saint john #brand saint john #addam saint nicholas #the last sun #the hanged man #the hourglass throne #the eidolon #kd edwards #book

[ars-matron]

The Tarot Sequence Reread

Nothing has given me brain rot in a long while like the Tarot Sequence by K D Edwards has. And since I just finished reading all the supplemental stuff right when my hold for The Last Sun came back up I thought I would do something I have only done once before-and in a much less flattering way for a book I hated-and live blog my reread.

There's just so much in this series I need to pay closer attention to. And usually I would go on here and read some metas, but there is literally nothing!! The only things in the tags for this series is people wishing there were more people reading it, a handful of very wonderful fanarts, and an account of the decline of a discord that evidently used to exist for it. So, maybe this will encourage some people to read the books too.

Because there are some heavy topics in this series anytime I talk about such topics I will tag for them, but if they don't come up in the chapters I'm reviewing, I won't. So if you have certain things back listed you might not see all my posts on it. Anyone who is reading along and is curious about it can DM me.

NOW! Predictions and things I want to pay attention to under the cut for spoiler reasons.

The Tower. At the end of the prologue of the first book my thoughts were, " So we trust NO ONE!!" Except Queenie, because why would Rune and Brand live with her if she was evil? Then the children showed up and I had to trust them, they were too young to be part of the, whole thing, plus they are so cute. You have to trust them. And then Addam came along, and of course we trust him, he's an Addam, he's a giant dancing teddy bear and I love him! So I read the whole series (that's out so far) expecting we would find out the Tower was an evil guy, that he had had something to do with the fall of the Sun Throne. Honestly by the end of the third book I didn't think that any longer, and I was starting to before that after finding out he was also Qunn's godfather because!!! There is no way Qunn wouldn't have seen if the Tower revealed he had been a part of all that. (I'm still asking myself HOW exactly he or Mayan wouldn't have noticed an astral projection listening device being installed in Rune's room at their freaking tower that is super locked down! But then it happened for two other locations that were supposed to be super warded and protected my other companions too. So maybe it isn't his fault. I do think he might blame himself, I do think that some of his stand-offishness might also be guilt for not being able to stop the attack on the Sun Throne to start with. We will see...) I'm going to go into this read through with the assumption he is just lonely and sad and not a bad guy.

QUEENIE!!!! Because, WHO THE FUCK IS QUEENIE!? I was already suspicious because every time someone asks Rune and Brand where she came from, or how long she's been with them, they say "She's been with us forever." Every time! It reeks of mind fuckery. Then Eidolon and the epilogue that wasn't came along. Current theory is that she is the Empress, and also that she's probably Rune's mother. I would be willing to bet she was the woman at the end of the third book who spoke up to the river after everyone else. Edwards did a good job of making her disappear in the background, but I'm gonna be hunting for every mention of her and how she acts around everyone.

Ciaran, just because I love him and at first also suspected him of evil deeds. But he's just your gay vodka uncle and he loves all his adopted family so much and I just want to keep a closer on him at the start of the series.

Kellum. We only see him once in the second book, but he's mentioned in Eidolon by the Fool (Or Queenie pretending to be the Fool, again I'm not sure, there's Queenie interference for sure) And he was in one of the supplemental novellas. I think he will be making a bigger appearance in the next book.

Quinn's prophecies. I'll probably make a list of those for a separate master post.

Tallas. The Atlantean soul mates. This is a MAJOR spoiler. Rune says that Brand and he formed a talla bond the night of the attack. That it was what brought Brand out of the geas and got them to safety. The bond was gone when he woke up in the hospital and he's spent this whole time thinking he's somehow broken their talla bond. Something definitely happened between him and Addam in the Westlands, and I don't think Addam was wrong in assuming it was the budding of a talla bond. Because something sort of bond-like is also there now after the Hourglass Throne, after he used his bond with Brand to get him and Addam back to their time. My theory here is that they might be each other tallas, all three of them. Together. We know that it doesn't have to be a sexual relationship, though I don't think Addam would mind that one bit. Everything is pointing to the three of them being tied together somehow, and my theory is mostly that, before they were together together, no one talla bond could form and take precedence over the other. Now that they are together all the time, going on missions, living together, they have more opportunities for a bond to fully form and take hold. Assuming it involves all three of them.

And with that, I'm going to go read!

#the tarot sequence #k d edwards #the last sun #rune saint john #brand saint john #max saint john #quinn saint nicholas #addam saint nicholas #the hanged man #the hourglass throne #the eidolon #booklr #ttsrr

[pansexualnoodle5]

SO ATLANTIS WAS REAL AND THERE WAS THIS WAR IN THE 60'S AND THEY LOST SO WE GAVE THEM NANTUCKET WHICH THEY CALL NEW ATLANTIS AND IT'S FILLED WITH MAGICAL CREATURES AND EVERYBODY IS QUEER AND THEY'RE RULED BY THE MAJOR ARCANA AND THERE'S THIS ONE PRINCE NAMED RUNE SAINT JOHN AND HE AND HIS BESTIE/BODYGUARD ARE THE LAST MEMBERS OF THE SUN COURT WHICH WAS DESTROYED DECADES AGO AND THEY'RE FLAT BROKE SO THEY DO THESE JOBS FOR LORD TOWER AND NOW THEY'VE GOTTA FIND THIS DUDE ADDAM AND ALSO EVERYBODY IS QUEER LITERALLY EVERYONE IS SO QUEER

#I WILL GO ALL NIGHT IF I HAVE TO #READ THESE BOOKS GUYS I MEAN IT #the tarot sequence #the last sun #the hanged man #the hourglass throne #rune saint john #brand saint john #addam saint nicholas #max saint john #quinn saint nicholas #corbie dawncreek #layne dawncreek #annawan dawncreek #corinne dawncreek #kd edwards #lgbt books

[noahhawthorneauthor]

The found family and mystery is always a good bonus ✨🔍📚🏳️‍🌈

#noahs book recs #queer books #aelina isaacs #indie books #fantasy author #matsdotter and adrastus #dress the neck becomingly #three meant to be #the last sun #teeth and tarot #the alchemy of moonlight #book recs #book recommendation #gay books #happy queers #lgbtqia books

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Character, book, and author names under the cut

Harry Cameron- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Quinn Saint Nicholas- The Tarot Sequence by KD Edwards

Rooney Bach- Loveless by Alice Oseman

Shen Qingqiu- Scum Villain's Self-Saving System/Ren Zha Fanpai Zijiu Xitong by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

#Harry Cameron #The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo #TSHOEH #Taylor Jenkins Reid #Quinn Saint Nicholas #The Tarot Sequence #the last sun #tls #the hanged man #thm #the hourglass throne #tht #KD Edwards #Rooney Bach #Loveless #Alice Oseman #Shen Qingqiu #Shen Yuan #Peerless Cucumber #Scum Villain's Self-Saving System #Ren Zha Fanpai Zijiu Xitong #SVSSS #MXTX #Mo Xiang Tong Xiu #polls #lgbt books #queer book character tournament 2

[someonelookingpraediti]

Currently Reading...

The Tarot Sequence - K.D. Edwards

The Last Sun

These have been cropping up on my radar for a while, and they looked like a quick, easy read, which is what I wanted. Well, they're weren't that quick, but they were easy.

When I first started this book, it seemed like exactly the kind of "teen dross" my friend always accuses me of reading. The main character is the most specialist boy who ever did live, he lives in the magical city of Atlantis, and he has glowing orange eyes, and super duper magic powers, and his bodyguard is his bestest friend ever. Almost immediately, I was like... this is not for me.

But then! Then the plot kicked in! It got good, and fast.

I'm pretty sure I guessed who the big bad of the trilogy is like, a couple of chapters in, but I'm super hoping I'm totally wrong, because I'd like to be completely surprised by the ending! I'm also guessing (hoping, praying,) that Max and Quinn get together, because they'd be the cutest couple ever!

The Hanged Man

I think this is going to be one of those series I need to buy physical copies of! I've already ordered a special edition of the first in the spin-off series, but the only editions I can find of the original trilogy are paperback. The covers look cool, though, so I might just get the paperbacks.

This one was absolutely as good as the first - it's incredible how the big climactic finale starts like, halfway through the book, and somehow doesn't lose pace, it just continues to build and build, despite being so long! This is an author who can keep you gripped!

I'm absolutely smitten with Max; and I am now just waiting for the revelation that Brand was involved (unwittingly, unknowingly) in the attack on the Sun Court/Rune, which is definitely coming.

The Hourglass Throne

I start the third book in my trash fantasy trilogy... and they're dealing with Covid. Seriously? I read fantasy specifically to escape the real world! It's supposed to be totally believable that the humans discovered Atlantis sixty years ago and fought a massive world-changing war against them, and now Atlantis is in Nantucket. But it would just be too unrealistic if they just didn't mention the pandemic in this unspecified timeline? His boyfriend has burgundy eyes and a metal prosthetic hand with magic powers, but sure, two metres apart. I just want his problems to be like, fantasy problems, not my problems.

Anyway.

So, it did not end the way I thought it would. In fact... it didn't really end at all. It felt like the book had finished, but not the series. He's still got to get the Tower back. He's still got to fulfil his HUGE new prophecy we've just found out about. He still has six of his nine attackers to discover, hunt down, and brutally murder. Is this... not a trilogy? Maybe there are going to be more books?

I was totally wrong about the person who organised the attack on him/his court. From the very first time he was mentioned, I was convinced that Lord Tower had actually orchestrated it all, and was playing the biggest double cross of all time. And then it turns out to be... well... no, I'm not sure? Was it meant to be Lady Time? Or do we still not know? There has got to be more books, because this really didn't explain anything.

My other guess from the first book was that Max and Quinn would get together. It hasn't happened, but the spin-off series is based around them, I believe, so there's time. I'm also so heartbroken that Quinn lost his powers, and I'm hoping he gets them back in the spin-off. Quinn is, easily, hands down, no question, the best character of the series, I absolutely adore him. I cannot, cannot wait to read his book!

Postscript.

Holy shit, I just looked it up and this isn't even nearly a trilogy! There are NINE books planned for the series, what the actual fuck. I thought I was going into a completed series! I can't believe I'm going to have to wait, what? six? ten? years for the series to be finished?! This will not do, I'm obsessed!

#currently reading #spoilers #the tarot sequence #k d edwards #the last sun #the hanged man #the hourglass throne

[waytointothetarotsequence]

So in The Last Sun, Rune talks about how Adam can't be his tallah, and we find out why in The Hourglass Throne. The spoilers start here: what if both Brand and Adam are his tallas, the only way he and Brand connected for the first time was because in the future Adam would be there. Meaning Rune and Adam were always meant to, and always did, go back in time to that night. Runes tallah bond broke in the past with Brand because Adam and current Rune return to the current time.

Just some random thoughts while rereading the books.

#the tarot sequence #the tarot sequence spoilers #tts spoilers #the hourglass throne #the hanged man #the last sun #kd edwards #rune saint john #brand saint john #adam saint nicholas

[midreky]

Rune and Brandon from The Tarot Sequence series by KD Edwards because its all I think about right now!! Just a sketch but maybe I can work some more on it later and make it more interesting!

#the tarot sequence #brand saint john #rune saint john #the last sun #kd edwards

[logarithmicpanda]

The Tarot Sequence (K.D. Edwards)

I originally wasn't that into the series. Urban fantasy tends not to be my jam, and I wasn't compelled by the plot in The Last Sun. But the characters? The characters in this series are everything I could ask for. They feel layered and real, and the interactions between them are both natural and endearing, so soon after finishing the first book, I picked up The Hanged Man.

The thing is, every book is better than the previous one. The plot gets more complex, the worldbuilding (that started off a bit thin for my high fantasy tastes) blooms, the characters and their relationships deepen.

The Hourglass Throne is the culmination of that. I cried a lot, because I feel so close to the characters that their pain is my pain, their joys my joys 🥺 I cannot wait to see where the series goes moving forward!!

(And now, for my classic bullet points)

Urban fantasy

Amazing characters

Queer normative society

Found family galore

Atlantis is real and their society is based off the tarot arcana

Magic stored in "sigils" which gives a bit of a videogame feel

Tw : violence, torture, aftermath of sexual violence

Seriously these books are a rollercoaster of gruesome and wholesome lol

8/10 and special Panda mention

#the tarot sequence #the last sun #the hanged man #the hourglass throne #panda reviews #quick and dirty reviews #reblog later #special panda mention #its been a while since i gave one of those haha