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A Marvelous Light by Freya Marske
Jan. 23rd, 2022 02:48 pmA Marvelous Light by Freya Marske
4/5. First in a trilogy of historical queer fantasy romances. Very K.J. Charles but twice as long and with an entirely different marketing profile. I quite liked this – it's thorny and romantic and sexy and fantastical and in places frightening. But I read this nearly two months ago when it first came out (I'm really behind, guys) and the thing I remember most about it is that she has such a beautiful turn of phrase. I left bookmarks all throughout my copy, which was a library book so they are long gone, sigh. But I do remember a reference to one of the protagonist's attractiveness as turbulent like a Turner painting, and also a nonmagical person taking a moment alone to react to the existence of magic, and this one sentence packed the sort of density and feeling in that most other authors would put in five pages. Good stuff.
Content notes: Familial emotional abuse.
4/5. First in a trilogy of historical queer fantasy romances. Very K.J. Charles but twice as long and with an entirely different marketing profile. I quite liked this – it's thorny and romantic and sexy and fantastical and in places frightening. But I read this nearly two months ago when it first came out (I'm really behind, guys) and the thing I remember most about it is that she has such a beautiful turn of phrase. I left bookmarks all throughout my copy, which was a library book so they are long gone, sigh. But I do remember a reference to one of the protagonist's attractiveness as turbulent like a Turner painting, and also a nonmagical person taking a moment alone to react to the existence of magic, and this one sentence packed the sort of density and feeling in that most other authors would put in five pages. Good stuff.
Content notes: Familial emotional abuse.