Hey, it's Ace Week, so now feels like a good time to remind you about one of my favourite fantasy novels, OUR BLOODY PEARL.
Our bloody pearl has a non-binary man-eating mermaid protagonist, a gentle pirate love interest, and is the kind of fantasy that is full of hope and kindness and recovery from past harm.
Not only are there a great many queer characters, but the romance is also asexual.
I absolutely adore it.
The author just released an equally queer fantasy in the same world called ONCE STOLEN which features an autistic snake-man who was thrown out of his home swamp for stealing magical stones called ignits and it's *brilliant*
https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/once-stolen-2