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[alexseanchai]

Has anybody read The Bone Doll's Twin et al by Lynn Flewelling? 'Cause—spoilers!—I'm thinking that trilogy is a trans narrative, but I'm not wholly convinced our lead is a trans character. Opinions?

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[iamshadow]

I have read the trilogy, and they're excellent, and you're not wrong. As for narrative vs character, I don't know what you mean exactly, but trans themes are definitely present, far more overtly than, say, in a transformational fairy tale.

Flewelling's Darkrunner series, which is set several hundred years later in the same universe, stars a lead canonical queer couple, too. She's one of my favourite fantasy writers.

[alexseanchai]

Ooh there's more? Shiny.

[iamshadow]

Luck in the Shadows, Stalking Darkness and Traitors Moon are the first three. Then Shadows Return, The White Road, Glimpses (a collection of Flewelling's Nightrunner short stories, illustrated with submitted fanart by readers), Casket of Souls, and the final book (for now, at least) Shards of Time, is due for release in April.

She's otterdance over on LJ, in case you want to follow her.

[alexseanchai]

OOOOO

[iamshadow]

But yeah, finish the Tamir Triad first (Bone Doll's Twin, Hidden Warrior, The Oracle's Queen) because that is a couple of hundred years earlier in time, and some things in the Nightrunner series are historical spoilers for current events in the Tamir Triad, if that makes sense.

[alexseanchai]

I'm rereading. But yeah.

[iamshadow]

That's cool then. I read Bone Doll's Twin first, and then I read the first three Nightrunner books because the rest of the Tamir Triad wasn't published yet, and I was like... well, I know who wins, then. /o\

Like when my brother told me to watch Serenity before Firefly. Stupid brother.