Apr. 19th, 2020

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Came across The Winter Prince by Elizabeth Wein on [personal profile] 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 ([twitter.com profile] 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.

Read more... )

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).

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