#natasha ngan
I don’t realize it until I speak it. And it’s different from the times I’ve said it before, or the way I’ve hoped it, as if dreaming something enough could birth it into being. I know it now with a certainty that has fitted into the lost core at the heart of me, as hard and angular as my hope was soft and shimmering. The King will not have me.
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A war might be coming.
But we have the wings to fight it.-Girls of Paper and Fire, Natasha Ngan
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“A war might be coming. But we have the wings to fight it.”
GIRLS OF PAPER AND FIREbyNatasha Ngan
Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan
For some reason, a trill of annoyance runs through me. Everyone’s assumption is for women and men to be together, and yet here we are, human girls, the Demon King’s concubines. Surely love between two women would’ve be so strange?
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They can take and steal and break all they want, but there is one thing they have no control over. Our emotions. Our feelings. Our thoughts. None of them will ever be able to control the way we feel. Our minds and our hearts are our own. That is our power.
happy birthday kesh @moonchosens!
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make me choose:
rwrb orgopaf for @jesseblackthorns“But time has a way of folding itself, like a map, distances and journeys and hours and minutes tucked neatly away to leave just the realness of the before and the now, as close as hands pressed on the either side of a rice-paper door.”
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Wren: Lei, get up, you’re being lazy.
Lei: Lazy is such a strong word, Wren. I like to call it ‘Selective Participation’.
Wren:
Wren: Idiot is such a weak word, I prefer to call it ‘Lei’.
Lei: Ugh, fine. I’ll get up!
Lei and Wren from Girls of Paper and Fire for my underrated wlw book series! // twitter threadsociety6
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Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan
9/10
Do the wlw end up together : Yes
So I know I’m quite late getting around to reading this one, but basically I’ve been on hold at my library for the last 4 months. And I’m not gonna lie, seeing a book with a main wlw couple hitting the mainstream so hard that there’s a hundred person backlog waiting to read it makes me a bit proud. And boy, was it worth the wait. We start off with some beautiful worldbuilding; Lei is a Paper caste living in world where humans exist on a range of fully humanoid (Paper) to mostly demonic in appearance (Moon). Subsequently, the more demon features one has, the higher their standing in society. Lei lost her mother in a raid on her village seven years prior, and is herself taken to be a Paper Girl, one of the Demon King’s yearly selection of concubines. She has two goals when she arrives: to find if her mother is still alive, and to stop this from happening to any more families across Ikhara. In the fantasy action sense, this book really is everything. It isn’t afraid to make its dystopian rulers actually… evil. A lot of YA fantasy/dystopian books seem to shy away from showing actual violence or class prejudice (I saw one website compare it to The Selection which was… an interesting choice to say the least). Lei’s anger at the persecution that she’s lived under and at the way she’s now treated as an accessory is raw and completely believable, and makes the end of the book all that more validating. Moving on, I do love a good romance-against-the-odds, but I do have to say that it was not one of my favorite parts of the book. Compared to the fantastic way that Ngan builds her fantasy world and fuels Lei’s motivation, there really didn’t seem to be any build-up or chemistry in the romance until it was already happening. A few genre-typical lines near the beginning of the book made it clear who the love interest would be, but they did more to establish connection than the actual character interactions. All in all, this book gracefully threads the line of creating a uniquely imaginative world but keeps all the human vulnerabilities that makes it recognizable, and I would highly recommend you all go read it (if I’m not too late already).
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