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Happy #AceWeek!
Time for book recs!!
Time for book recs!!
Starting with my personal fave: Royal Rescue by @AAlexLogan, about an aroace prince who will not have it! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44307228-royal-rescue?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=ynlCwNL2GY&rank=4
A recent favourite is Upside Down by @NR_Walker, an adult romance between two asexual guys, which is definitely a new comfort read for me! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44292759-upside-down?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=b2FTJKFTgA&rank=1
Another recent read is Perfect Rhythm by @JaeFiction!
Sapphic adult romance and one of them is ace! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35335039-perfect-rhythm?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=Uyl4SczMps&rank=1
Sapphic adult romance and one of them is ace! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35335039-perfect-rhythm?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=Uyl4SczMps&rank=1
The Sound of Stars by @alechiawrites is YA sci-fi with a demisexual protagonist, and it's AMAZING! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42185079-the-sound-of-stars?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=xKEY1hGoYp&rank=1
Rick by @lxgino is a wonderful middlegrade about a boy questioning if he's on the ace spectrum! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44660928-rick?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=Z09cp3kcRr&rank=1
I love love LOVE Xan West's books and Eight Kinky Nights has a greysexual character in an f/f friends to lovers romance! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48665659-eight-kinky-nights?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=hSuAz2HIgf&rank=1
My favourite romance author is @TaliaHibbert, and book 3 in the Ravenswood series, That Kind of Guy, has a demisexual hero! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43690183-that-kind-of-guy?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=deeicZBoeP&rank=2
Now Entering Addamsville by @chessiezappia has super casual ace rep, and it's perfect for this time of year! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43453737-now-entering-addamsville?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=pa1GuoEc6E&rank=1
Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe is a graphic memoir and it's about eir experience being genderqueer and asexual, and it honestly hit me so hard and was so relatable. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42837514-gender-queer?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=3AcEGRsz4A&rank=1
Read With Pride by @LucyTheReader is book 2 in The Paper & Hearts Society, a super cute YA contemporary series! This book has a demisexual protagonist in an established f/f relationship! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46257211-read-with-pride?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=F8ya2GCpJQ&rank=1
The Spy With the Red Balloon by @Bibliogato is the second book in the Balloonmakers series and has a demisexual protagonist who falls in love with his best friend! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38650956-the-spy-with-the-red-balloon?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=1j0eesuBEt&rank=1
I recently read Switchback by @Danika_Stone, which is a survival story with an aroace MC! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41711283-switchback?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=x2Innq4dI4&rank=2
One of my favourite reads of the year is Beyond the Black Door by @AdriAnneMS, a dark YA fantasy with an asexual main character! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42642042-beyond-the-black-door?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=8qu5mhKjbk&rank=1
Another adult (or actually, new adult) romance with an asexual protagonist is Play It Again by @aidanwayne! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43263026-play-it-again?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=vusMB0kFOk&rank=1
For more YA sci-fi, I'd recommend the Dare Mighty Things duology by @HKaczynski, with an asexual main character! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29523636-dare-mighty-things?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=dSvkM29YIj&rank=1
A wonderful YA contemporary (exclusively written in text messages!) with an M/F romance between a demisexual girl and a bisexual boy is Technically, You Started It by @muliebris! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41016382-technically-you-started-it?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=yfVpBq8M2n&rank=1
If you like poetry, I'm going to NEED you to read Goddess of the Hunt by @briseisbooks!
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43466612-goddess-of-the-hunt?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=a42py77Y9e&rank=3
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43466612-goddess-of-the-hunt?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=a42py77Y9e&rank=3
YA heist book with an aroace MC! Immoral Code by @LillianJClark! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40062683-immoral-code?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=KTjOH1FsmN&rank=1
Steampunk YA sci-fi with an aroace MC: Tarnished Are the Stars by @RosieeThor! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43319680-tarnished-are-the-stars?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=W46w3b3WQA&rank=1
Another WONDERFUL middlegrade is Hazel's Theory of Evolution by @lisajennbigelow, who writes my favourite LGBTQ+ middlegrade
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43521319-hazel-s-theory-of-evolution?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=9XG8yDhjv3&rank=1
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43521319-hazel-s-theory-of-evolution?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=9XG8yDhjv3&rank=1
For more adult romance, I'd recommend Soft on Soft by @romancemina! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41207417-soft-on-soft?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=Bzi2IjBQUV&rank=1
Another personal favourite is Summer Bird Blue by @AkemiDawnBowman, which is a beautiful YA contemporary that deals with grief https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35716237-summer-bird-blue?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=iQQ4ECP8uU&rank=1
Looking for spooky books to read for Halloween? Pick up Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38139409-sawkill-girls?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=a0cd1BIUGW&rank=1
Of course I have to include Loveless by @AliceOseman, which is in my top 5 favourite books of the year and is already so special to me! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42115981-loveless?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=e5HMCGU8AU&rank=1
Book 3 in @cblee_cblee's superhero series, Not Your Backup, has a questioning aroace MC! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43235749-not-your-backup?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=aWIItnentr&rank=1
Meet biromantic asexual Alice and her Cutie Code in Let's Talk About Love by @KannClaire! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31625039-let-s-talk-about-love?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=Y7f4J6z3wV&rank=1
The Wayward Children series by @seananmcguire is one of my favourite series ever, and the first book, Every Heart a Doorway, has an asexual MC! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25526296-every-heart-a-doorway?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=l1p21wKlmk&rank=1
Before I Let Go by @mariekeyn is a YA mystery with an asexual MC! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33918883-before-i-let-go?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=PsR2sUbK40&rank=2
I've not read this yet, but my friend @_AnnaKirchner has written Little Black Bird, which is a Slavic inspired fantasy with an asexual protagonist! I can't wait to read this! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53102834-little-black-bird?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=zBDqUJDwKP&rank=1
Another book I'm really looking forward to reading is Elatsoe by @ShiningComic! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49089632-elatsoe?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=NAKyQSPuYC&rank=1
I'm also hoping to read The Art of Saving the World by @corinneduyvis soon, which is a YA sci-fi with an ace lesbian MC! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40392203-the-art-of-saving-the-world?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=lQYVndZTyU&rank=1
That's it for now! I hope you find some great reads
