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caseythecanadianlesbrarian 's review for:
Inkmistress
by Audrey Coulthurst
What a great book! I enjoyed it even more than the first book set in this fantasy universe. The world building, while not knock-your-socks-off, is very good, the writing is quite lovely, and the story and characters captivated me from the beginning. I guessed things a few times, but other times the plot went in directions I didn't expect.
It's a story about love and found family above all things. The main romance (between a boy and a girl) is wonderfully done while still asserting the validity and importance of Asra's previous relationship with a girl. A lot of bisexual women and girls struggle with feeling not queer enough or that their queerness is invalid, especially if they're in relationships with men/boys, and this YA book is a wonderful counterpoint to that without ever being preachy or didactic.
Yay bisexual books! It really felt like this YA was doing something new with bisexual representation: there wasn't a love triangle where one interest is a boy and the other is a girl, it wasn't about a girl who has only dated boys falling for a girl for the first time, and the fact that she was bisexual was irrelevant to the plot even though her ex-girlfriend is key to the story. It's also set in a fantasy world with no bi/homophobia, which is a nice change! The more I think about it, the more Inkmistress feels like a radical bisexual book.
It's a story about love and found family above all things. The main romance (between a boy and a girl) is wonderfully done while still asserting the validity and importance of Asra's previous relationship with a girl. A lot of bisexual women and girls struggle with feeling not queer enough or that their queerness is invalid, especially if they're in relationships with men/boys, and this YA book is a wonderful counterpoint to that without ever being preachy or didactic.
Yay bisexual books! It really felt like this YA was doing something new with bisexual representation: there wasn't a love triangle where one interest is a boy and the other is a girl, it wasn't about a girl who has only dated boys falling for a girl for the first time, and the fact that she was bisexual was irrelevant to the plot even though her ex-girlfriend is key to the story. It's also set in a fantasy world with no bi/homophobia, which is a nice change! The more I think about it, the more Inkmistress feels like a radical bisexual book.