Longshadow by Olivia Atwater
Jul. 27th, 2023 10:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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3/5. Another historical fae fantasy romance in this series, this one F/F. Take my opinions with a bigger handful of salt than usual, as I read this while a GI thing ripped through my household. In fact, I read 2/3 of it in a few hours while lying on the couch next to Cb, neither of us really capable of getting up, and I can’t swear I was conscious for every part of the book. It’s cute, it’s quirky (there’s a brother who is a ghost, which is cute and sad), it has a twist that you should see coming 200 pages off because even I in my reduced state figured it out like 100 pages in advance. It continues to be committed to found family, creating family through adoption, non-neurotypical people, and generally ripping the British aristocracy up one side and down the other. All good stuff. I continue to be a little “hmm” about how these books use fae-ness or the consequences of fae magic to stand in for various kinds of non-neurotypicality, but it’s a “hmm” where I think I’m coming around to what the book is doing as valuable and interesting. Still marinating on it.
Content notes: Recollection of parent loss, depictions of grief and loss of a child.
3/5. Another historical fae fantasy romance in this series, this one F/F. Take my opinions with a bigger handful of salt than usual, as I read this while a GI thing ripped through my household. In fact, I read 2/3 of it in a few hours while lying on the couch next to Cb, neither of us really capable of getting up, and I can’t swear I was conscious for every part of the book. It’s cute, it’s quirky (there’s a brother who is a ghost, which is cute and sad), it has a twist that you should see coming 200 pages off because even I in my reduced state figured it out like 100 pages in advance. It continues to be committed to found family, creating family through adoption, non-neurotypical people, and generally ripping the British aristocracy up one side and down the other. All good stuff. I continue to be a little “hmm” about how these books use fae-ness or the consequences of fae magic to stand in for various kinds of non-neurotypicality, but it’s a “hmm” where I think I’m coming around to what the book is doing as valuable and interesting. Still marinating on it.
Content notes: Recollection of parent loss, depictions of grief and loss of a child.