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Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 4:11 am
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Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 5:32 am
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Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 6:24 am
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Let The Right One In (Let Me In) could technically be considered an LGBT novel. It's about a romance between a boy and a child vampire. If you've already seen the Swedish film, then you know about the "twist."
I'm reading The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo right now. It's more...crime drama? One of the main themes in the series is violence against women. Lisbeth herself is a BAMF bisexual, who rapes her rapist in the first book. emotion_dowant And Sweden's best hacker? But she's also incredibly socially awkward and introverted. Haven't seen the Swedish films yet, but Fincher's adaptation was boss.
For the paranormal romance stuff: Rachel Vincent's Shifter series. Werecats. Specifically, werepanthers. The last few books reeked with sexism, as the main character, Faythe, works as an enforcer, which is a "boys only club." The female werecats (tabbies) are the minority, usually being the last child after several boys. Their main objective in life is to marry a strong, Tom pridecat, and bear his kittens, including the next Tabby. It's the mens' job as enforcers to protect their Pride (territory) and Tabbies. We get thunderbirds in the last two or three books. The books were like crack to me - I could barely put them down and finished them in two or three days.
The Southern Vampire Mysteries (True Blood) Better than the show, but they're about 300 pages per book, and I stopped reading after the...9th book? With the loss of Claudine and several other things, it just didn't feel the same. I think she's losing her spark.
The former doesn't have any LGBT characters or themes - that I recall. The latter has some, but they're more minor characters. Lafayette, Pam, I think there was a gay vampire King...Russell?
Son of The Witch, if you like the Wizard of Oz. The Witch's son takes a male lover.
The Hunger & The Last Vampire by Whitley Strieber. I'm going to pretend Lilith's Dream doesn't exist, as I should with the second one...Character of change, blatant inconsistencies from the first, written to be adapted for the action movie never came...Anyway, Miriam, one of the main characters and resident vampire, is bisexual.
And finally, Carmilla. The vampire short story that heavily influenced Dracula. Lesbian vampire, need I say more?
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Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 7:24 am
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Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 7:28 am
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I don't really know any LGBT books, but 'The Droughtlanders' is a pretty good book that has some gay rights messages mixed in with it. The plot of the book is kind of hard to explain. It's in a futuristic world, where only certain areas of the country still get rain, and the people live relatively good lives. Everywhere is a parched desert, and the people who live in it are called the Droughtlanders. It's got some romance in it, and heavily comments on aspects of the Western world. There's three books in the series, and they're pretty good. The author of those books is Candice Mac.
I would recommend 'Woundrous Strange' as well if you like paranormal romance. That one really doesn't have any LGBT issues in it, but I still found it to be a good read. The author is Lesley Livingston.
'Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale' was one that I enjoyed as well, though I liked the second book, 'Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie' more. You can read either one out of order and both will still make sense, since they're not directly linked to each other. If you end up reading Tithe, 'Ironside' is the sequel to it, and that has some definite LGBT going on with one of the secondary characters. The author is Holly Black.
'The Mortal Instruments' series is another one that you might like. 'City of Bones' is the first book, and it's written by Cassandra Clare. More paranormal romance in that one, and some definite LGBT issues brought up in that one as well.
The only problems with 'The Droughtlanders' and 'Wonderous Strange' is that both are written by Canadian authors. If you're in the states, I don't know if you'd be able to find them.
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Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 7:37 am
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Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 7:41 am
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Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 8:11 am
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Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 4:33 pm
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Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 4:38 pm
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Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 5:47 pm
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Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 8:40 pm
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I've been making my way through this list of books, and I'm working on the Xanth series right now. It's not my favourite fantasy series, but it's fun and silly. Definitely not a serious read, but it's still entertaining.
Sunshine by Robin McKinley was an interesting take on the whole vampire story, and is probably one of my favourite supernatural-themed books.
Poppy Z. Brite's Lost Souls has a touch of romance (just a smidge), both same-sex and otherwise, but a great deal more "sex, blood, and rock 'n roll". (Horribly corny quote from the back of the book.) It's still one of my favourite books, even if it is trashy. If you're looking for something with more romance (mostly same-sex), then I highly recommend Drawing Blood, also by Ms. Brite. Might be hard to find, though.
I really enjoyed the Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson, and I'm eagerly awaiting more books from him that are set in the same universe.
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Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 11:22 pm
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Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2012 3:11 pm
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