#Charlotte Bond

[lgbtqreads]

Most Anticipated Queer Adult Fiction: January-June 2024

Don’t Want You Like a Best Friend by Emma R. Alban (January 9th) Gwen has a brilliant beyond brilliant idea. It’s 1857, and anxious debutante Beth has just one season to snag a wealthy husband, or she and her mother will be out on the street. But playing the blushing ingenue makes Beth’s skin crawl and she’d rather be anywhere but here. Gwen, on the other hand, is on her fourth season and…

[tinynavajoreads]

Currently Reading: The Fireborne Blade by Charlotte Bond

A novella I picked up from the library that has a female knight and dragons! How can I not?

Our Knight of the Stairs, Maddileh, is disgraced and to win back her honor and her armour, she must go to the demesne of the White Lady, an ancient dragon, and either kill her or bring back a blade rumored to be hidden there. As we go throughout the story, we learn more about this world and the dragons through epigraphs of their killings by other knights as well as Maddileh's own backstory of how she came to be where she currently is.

This is such a good story and the worldbuilding of the dragons and the knights that hunt them is fascinating. The magic that is used as well and who can use magic is also interesting. I love Maddileh's own thoughts on magic and how it should be used when you compare her to her squire who has joined her in the hunt for the White Lady.

[just-a-bookish-reader]

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The Fireborne Blade by Charlotte Bond

Well I'm finally back - I'm going to try to post more regularly soon - but this is the most recent book I just finished, and have so many others I need to blab about from the last book I posted about.

Anyway - at about 168 pages before acknowledgements, holy shit this was quite the book.

Gifted to me as a 23rd birthday gift by my brother's girlfriend, (who I talked to extremely vaguely while reading it since I want her to read it too) this book sat on a shelf for a handful of months. And now it sits at a rather comfortable 4 star rating (with potential in either direction depending on how the sequel is).

This novella was shockingly fun and quick read, though I'll admit, I like apparently many, wasn't exactly expecting any plot twists in an under 200 page book. Until I was in the car the other day (in the passenger seat, not driving) and had the book with the cover face down and started looking at all those little reviews from other authors.

Most of them mentioned something about a plot twist. In fact there was. One I could not have seen coming ever, one that had my jaw dropping at work.

I will also take this opportunity to warn fellow sapphics out there, yes there is some hints of an extreme slow burn but it looks like nothing super physical or even official is going to be happening until The Bloodless Princes in October.

For such a short book, I found the world more believable and enjoyable than many two or three times its size - really proving that a high epic fantasy does not need to be 800 pages. In fact I would love more novella series like these, I would eat them up.

The only difference I wish had been explored was to use different ways to portray the stories when switching out of our main character's point of view - I've seen footnotes be used, and having an image of a scroll on the page with the story typed up - and I really think this would have been even better utilizing one or both - as I just really wanted more of Maddileh and her potential love interest and their moments together.

While I know this is simply meant to be a duology, I can easily see Charlotte Bond writing more and more in this world, it has so much potential and can only grow from here.

[nzbookwyrm]

May 2024

[nikihawkes]

Novella Review: The Fireborne Blade by Charlotte Bond

Title: The Fireborne Blade Author: Charlotte Bond Series: The Fireborne Blade #1 Genre: Fantasy Rating: 2/5 stars The Overview: Kill the dragon. Find the blade. Reclaim her honor. It’s that, or end up like countless knights before her, as a puddle of gore and molten armor. Maddileh is a knight. There aren’t many women in her line of work, and it often feels like the sneering and contempt…

[rosemariecawkwell]

TBR Review: The Fireborne Blade, by Charlotte Bond

Format: 176 pages, HardcoverPublished: May 28, 2024 by TordotcomISBN: 9781250290311 (ISBN10: 1250290317)Language: English Description Kill the dragon. Find the blade. Reclaim her honour. It’s that, or end up like countless knights before her, as a puddle of gore and molten armor. Maddileh is a knight. There aren’t many women in her line of work, and it often feels like the sneering and…

[thepastisalreadywritten]

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Examples of characters I like

[kommandonuovidiavoli]

Aaaaaaaand they're done too, YAY!

I always stopped working on them because I kept thinking "I can't show them until I do this-"

I think I did "that", sort of... this only confirms it, lmao!

Enjoy~

[skyblueartt]

It’s 2am these characters won’t leave my BRAIN

[mintypsii]

pudding my darling daughter

[freetobeafcknriot]

MY FAVORITE QUEER CHARACTERS OF 2023

[noel-levine-fan]

witch's heart? more like... uh... orphan's heart? get it because there are no living parents in this series

no literally ALL the parents are fucking dead they are ALL orphans (except for zizel & rouge who aren't orphans theyre just parentless i guess)

[quarter-lif3crisis]

The Infernal Devices by Cassandra Clare

[sadiegirl2021]

My new (very old 1933) copy of Jane Eyre featuring Pegasus and inspiration for the mating bond