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Book Rec: Glorous Day
Jan. 1st, 2021 01:37 amOkay, technically it's a novella, but who cares!
This right here is the post where I first learned of its existence, including an image description by yours truly. I have been truly negligent in my reccing duties, because it is a fantastic story, but especially with recent discussions in mind.
Short version: This book is guard/space princess f/f action-Romance with a Happily Ever After. There's some dark stuff in it, like references to torture and also an actual political revolution/coup/whatever, including at least two assassinations (one on-page), but there's also some truly incredible stuff.
One of the incredible things is that the main character's love interest? The space princess? Is blind. She's treated like glass by her chief servant and her father, but anyone who cares for her is well aware that she's very capable; she uses a white cane and, later, a small droid as accessibility devices, and adores the arts. One of the details I love is that one of her past lovers, who usually works in watercolor, gifted her with an oil painting that he made with very thick brush strokes, so she could feel it.
Anyway, through the course of the story, she is eventually rid of the people in her life who try to stifle her, and also our main character has never been one of them. Her story and her treatment read to me as pretty realistic and well researched, but there could well be stuff I'm unaware of as a sighted person.
There is currently no audio version available that I'm aware of (boo 😥), but I've got my fingers crossed. I know this particular publisher automatically arranges for audiobooks of novels after they reach either a certain review threshold or are six months old, whichever comes first, but it's also a novella rather than a novel, so it might go either way.
Long story short, if you can handle some heavy stuff (warnings at the link) and want a story with a happily-ever-after that involves a disabled person having their needs and abilities respected? Definitely worth checking out.
This right here is the post where I first learned of its existence, including an image description by yours truly. I have been truly negligent in my reccing duties, because it is a fantastic story, but especially with recent discussions in mind.
Short version: This book is guard/space princess f/f action-Romance with a Happily Ever After. There's some dark stuff in it, like references to torture and also an actual political revolution/coup/whatever, including at least two assassinations (one on-page), but there's also some truly incredible stuff.
One of the incredible things is that the main character's love interest? The space princess? Is blind. She's treated like glass by her chief servant and her father, but anyone who cares for her is well aware that she's very capable; she uses a white cane and, later, a small droid as accessibility devices, and adores the arts. One of the details I love is that one of her past lovers, who usually works in watercolor, gifted her with an oil painting that he made with very thick brush strokes, so she could feel it.
Anyway, through the course of the story, she is eventually rid of the people in her life who try to stifle her, and also our main character has never been one of them. Her story and her treatment read to me as pretty realistic and well researched, but there could well be stuff I'm unaware of as a sighted person.
There is currently no audio version available that I'm aware of (boo 😥), but I've got my fingers crossed. I know this particular publisher automatically arranges for audiobooks of novels after they reach either a certain review threshold or are six months old, whichever comes first, but it's also a novella rather than a novel, so it might go either way.
Long story short, if you can handle some heavy stuff (warnings at the link) and want a story with a happily-ever-after that involves a disabled person having their needs and abilities respected? Definitely worth checking out.
