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libraryleopard · 1 year ago

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Adult standalone urban fantasy novel

In an alternate version of present-day Vancouver inhabited by the reincarnated Knights of the Round Table and other figures from myth and folklore, a college student from an Arthurian family and a valkyrie both become entangled in a murder investigation

Gay autistic main character with anxiety; bi ace main character; M/M + F/F romances; Chinese Canadian trans girl side character

#i REALLY wanted to like this because it's part gay green knight retelling part valkyrie detective mystery #and those are excellent concepts #but i didn't really end up liking it sigh #it felt very slow and slice-of-life which i don't think worked with the murder mystery plot #i felt like hildie (the valkyriee) spent most of her chapters being like 'woe is me i don't want to be a valkyrie' which got boring fast #the climax of the novel also involves randomly inserting chapters from the pov of new perspective characters which is just…why…#also some that really bugged me #is that i had heard that this novel explores arthurian myths and european colonization of the americas #and and like european myths overwriting indigenous ones #which sounded like an interesting concept #and there are mentions of indigenous canadian history and place names #but no mentions of present-day indigenous peope or really any other cultures having urban fantasy stuff going on?#i get not wanting to overstep your lane but even just like. mentioning there are magical creatures from cultures would have worked #especially since you have a valkyrie running around in an arthurian world!!#okay ending on a positive note props to the guinever/lancelot/galehaut polycule never seem that combo before #but yeah this was kinda disappointing #the winter knight #jas battis #2023 reads #lulu speaks #lulu reads #lulu reads the winter knight #books

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