The Winter Prince

Came across The Winter Prince by Elizabeth Wein on runpunkrun's April 11th Weekend Update post in the form of this tweet

Hey, you! Are you into cruel, beautiful, tormented, jealous, incestuous princes? Because I just discovered Elizabeth Wein's 1993 Arthurian Mordred retelling called THE WINTER PRINCE, and it's the iddiest thing in id-town. It's THE CRUEL PRINCE, but make it gay and take it to 11
— Shelley Parker-Chan (shelleypchan) April 6, 2020

I have not read The Cruel Prince and I only vaguely have an idea of what it's about (but am most definitely conflating it with other books about... fairies??)
Even so, I remember having slight interest in it when it came out. The words "cruel" and "prince" call out to me, but I have yet to care for fairies. So here's this Mordred "retelling" and my library has it on Overdrive. It's a go 👍

It's only around 200 pages so I just read it in one sitting rn. And I loved it.

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Also I wouldn't really say it was "gay", even though Medraut's focus is on his brother Lleu it doesn't really come across as an LGBTQ+ story, not even in subtext (and I live for subtext).