This book normalizes queerness and disabilities by putting it front and center with the main characters (one main character is a trans man who is also blind). My love of this book goes far beyond just my personal obsession with selkies, though. And there is a whole underwater city full of selkies in this book and I am forever in love with everything about it! And for those of you who have read some of my other reviews, you know how much of a selkie fan I am.
Odder Still has so many things that I enjoy, it’s hard to pick a favorite. Odder Still is the first book by Bryn that I have read and I’ve already put their other books on order because I am in love–with this setting, with the way Bryn writes, and the characters and their character development. Content warnings include alcohol consumption and animal death. Each No-Man’s Lander book has a romantically fulfilling ending and a final HEA, with steamy thoughts and foreplay but no explicit sex.
This book exist in the wider These Treacherous Tides universe, coming chronologically after Once Stolen, but it is the first book in the No-Man’s Lander series and is an easy entry point into the world. Odder Still is a M/M fantasy novel with a class-crossing slow burn romance, murderous intrigue, and a parasite-human friendship in an underwater steampunk city. With revolutionary plots and political schemes tangling his every choice, Rubem must soon decide whether or not to trust Tavish in his fight against the parasite’s growing control. Her son is irresistibly charismatic though, and after a lifetime of being kicked out and disavowed, Rubem is desperate to believe in the friendship Tavish offers. She desperately wants to tear Rubem apart for the parasite before those who oppose her can do the same.
Findlay, a dashing and manipulative philanthropist whose mother’s fuel company monopolizes their corrupt underwater city with an iron claw. The only person offering Rubem help is Tavish K. The parasite itself is no better, influencing his emotions and sassing him with his own memories as it slowly takes over his body.
All labeling of characters is done in good faith, based on what info is available in reviews and blurbs.Rubem of No-Man’s Land was content keeping to his wine, his pets, and his extensive collection of fishnets.īut since a sentient, fuel-producing parasite bonded to his brainstem, every morally-depraved scientist and hardcore rebel for a hundred miles wants to ruthlessly dissect him. beyond their attraction to one specific person.
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