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    Book Releases: Bi & Pan Books of July-December 2023

    By now, after all the years of me making those posts, y’all should know the drill: inside you will find books which make it clear beyond a shadow of the doubt that their main character/love interest is bisexual or pansexual & only ones about which I am 100% sure (well, maybe 99% sure). I obviously haven’t read all of them, so please do let me know if you catch any mistakes!

    Enjoy, buy and preorder! And hey, a lot of those titles are (or will be) available on Scribd, so if you want to check out that service but don’t have an account yet, use my invite code to get 2 months for free! (This also gives me one free month.)

    See also: bi & pan books of January-June 2023; 2019-2023 releases by rep and genre
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    Book Releases: Bi & Pan Books of January-June 2023

    Time to talk about the bisexual and pansexual rep, my guys! As in, time to talk about over 120 books coming out this half of 2023 that feature either/or bi and pan protags. Or love interests. As always with these posts, I tried to only include books which make it crystal clear that the characters id as such. Please do let me know, if you spot any mistakes!

    Enjoy, buy and preorder! And hey, a lot of those titles are (or will be) available on Scribd, so if you want to check out that service but don’t have an account yet, use my invite code to get 2 months for free! (This also gives me one free month.)

    See also: bi & pan books of 2022 – January-June & July-December; 2019-2023 releases by rep and genre
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    Book Releases: January-June 2022 Books With Bi Protagonists

    January on Reads Rainbow means big releases posts (big as in long & time-consuming to draft; not big as in only about big books!). And today it’s time for books with bi and/or pan rep.m

    Those posts have been going for a few years, but just as a reminder: I only include books where there’s no doubt that a character actually is bisexual (or pansexual). That means the character either uses a label or the narrative makes it abundantly clear (especially in case of sff novels). Also, I include books with bi/pan main characters and love interests, and sometimes really major side characters.

    If you know any books I missed or mistakes I made, please let me know in the comment! And like always, the rainbow emoji means the author is LGBT. Happy reading!

    A lot of those titles are available on Scribd, so if you want to check out that service but don’t have an account yet, use my invite code to get 2 months for free! (This also gives me one free month.)

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    ARC Review: Iron Widow

    Iron Widow is one of those 2021 debuts that possibly everyone has already heard about it and is (rightly!) excited about, so let us stoke the fires some more with our reviews of this glorious beast of a book. There’s a music mix, too!

    And if you want to do yourself a big favour, go ahead & follow Xiran on twitter already!

    The boys of Huaxia dream of pairing up with girls to pilot Chrysalises, giant transforming robots that can battle the mecha aliens that lurk beyond the Great Wall. It doesn’t matter that the girls often die from the mental strain.

    When 18-year-old Zetian offers herself up as a concubine-pilot, it’s to assassinate the ace male pilot responsible for her sister’s death. But she gets her vengeance in a way nobody expected—she kills him through the psychic link between pilots and emerges from the cockpit unscathed. She is labeled an Iron Widow, a much-feared and much-silenced kind of female pilot who can sacrifice boys to power up Chrysalises instead.​

    To tame her unnerving yet invaluable mental strength, she is paired up with Li Shimin, the strongest and most controversial male pilot in Huaxia​. But now that Zetian has had a taste of power, she will not cower so easily. She will miss no opportunity to leverage their combined might and infamy to survive attempt after attempt on her life, until she can figure out exactly why the pilot system works in its misogynist way—and stop more girls from being sacrificed. 

    Iron Widow

    Xiran Jay Zhao

    Goodreads

    Rep: Chinese-coded cast, bi mcs, polyamory
    CWs: gore, murder, torture, mentions of rape, threats of rape, misogyny, femicide, suicide ideation, abuse, alcohol addiction
    Release: 21st September 2021

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    Book Recs: Historical Romances

    There’s something about a good histrom that just perfectly scratches a certain itch for me. And once I find an author whose books I enjoy, I will binge their entire backlist. That being said, it’s still an area where, at least in tradpub, it’s very cishet and white. So, here I’ve done my utmost to find you 10 recs that are very much not cishet (although they do remain quite white, so if anyone has recs of their own, please do drop them in the comments!). For that time when you just need a good histrom.