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lightreadsAn Unnatural Vice and An Unsuitable Heir
3/5. Historical queer romances finishing off a trilogy about the search for a lost heir, who turns out to be a nonbinary (he doesn't use that term and can't find good pronouns for himself, but that's what it presents as) trapeze artist. That book – about him and the inquiry agent who finds him – is my favorite of the set as it pleasingly defies a lot of conventions of the lost heir genre. He doesn't want the inheritance, and it would truly do him great personal harm to get it, and the way the book settles that as a plot matter is satisfying, if conveniently pat. The emotional underpinnings of it are more interesting. There's just something delightfully subversive about his active rejection of aristocratic privilege because he immediately recognizes how it is antithetical to the truest parts of his gender identity.
Content notes: Murder, implications of past coerced sex.
3/5. Historical queer romances finishing off a trilogy about the search for a lost heir, who turns out to be a nonbinary (he doesn't use that term and can't find good pronouns for himself, but that's what it presents as) trapeze artist. That book – about him and the inquiry agent who finds him – is my favorite of the set as it pleasingly defies a lot of conventions of the lost heir genre. He doesn't want the inheritance, and it would truly do him great personal harm to get it, and the way the book settles that as a plot matter is satisfying, if conveniently pat. The emotional underpinnings of it are more interesting. There's just something delightfully subversive about his active rejection of aristocratic privilege because he immediately recognizes how it is antithetical to the truest parts of his gender identity.
Content notes: Murder, implications of past coerced sex.