Trauma in SFF Blog
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The Imaginary Corpse by Tyler Hayes
Year published: 2019 Category: Urban fantasy Summary: Most ideas fade away when we’re done with them. Some we love enough to become Real. But what about the ones we love, and walk away from?Tippy the triceratops was once a little girl’s imaginary friend, a dinosaur detective who could help her make sense of the world.… Continue reading
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In the Serpent’s Wake by Rachel Hartman (Tess of the Road #2)
“Sometimes our hearts are full of monsters. It takes valor to look them in the eye.” Year published: 2022 Category: YA fantasy Representation: genderfluid characters, genderqueer characters, gay characters Summary: MIND OF THE WORLD,OPEN YOUR EYES.At the bottom of the world lies a Serpent, the last of its kind.Finding the Serpent will change lives.Tess is a… Continue reading
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The Last Sun by KD Edwards (The Tarot Sequence #1)
Year published: 2018 Category: Urban fantasy Representation: all characters in Atlantian society are queer (pansexual specifically, I believe) Summary: Rune Saint John, last child of the fallen Sun Court, is hired to search for Lady Judgment’s missing son, Addam, on New Atlantis, the island city where the Atlanteans moved after ordinary humans destroyed their original… Continue reading
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Bitterblue by Kristen Cashore (Graceling Realm #3)
Year published: 2012 Category: Epic fantasy (YA) Summary: Eight years have passed since the young Princess Bitterblue, and her country, were saved from the vicious King Leck. Now Bitterblue is the queen of Monsea, and her land is at peace. But the influence of her father, a violent psychopath with mind-altering abilities, lives on. Her… Continue reading
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Blood Scion by Deborah Falaye (Blood Scion #1)
“You have to decide what matters most. Your humanity or your survival.”Year published: 2022 Category: Epic fantasy (YA) Summary: Fifteen-year-old Sloane can incinerate an enemy at will—she is a Scion, a descendant of the ancient Orisha gods. Under the Lucis’ brutal rule, her identity means her death if her powers are discovered. But when she… Continue reading
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Girls of Storm and Shadow by Natasha Ngan (Girls of Paper and Fire #2)
Year published: 2019 Category: YA fantasy Representation: F/F, main character and side characters, M/M, side characters Summary: In this mesmerizing sequel to the New York Times bestselling Girls of Paper and Fire, Lei and Wren have escaped their oppressive lives in the Hidden Palace, but soon learn that freedom comes with a terrible cost. Lei,… Continue reading
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Wolfsong by TJ Klune (Green Creek #1)
Year published: 2016 Category: urban fantasy Representation: M/M, main couple and side couples/characters Summary: Ox was twelve when his daddy taught him a very valuable lesson. He said that Ox wasn’t worth anything and people would never understand him. Then he left.Ox was sixteen when he met the boy on the road, the boy who… Continue reading
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Fireheart Tiger by Aliette De Bodard
“You would have given me so much, in exchange for me giving up everything.” Year published: 2021 Category: Fantasy novella Representation: F/F, main couple and side character Summary: Quiet, thoughtful princess Thanh was sent away as a hostage to the powerful faraway country of Ephteria as a child. Now she’s returned to her mother’s imperial… Continue reading
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Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor (Strange the Dreamer #1)
“And that’s how you go on. You lay laughter over the dark parts. The more dark parts, the more you have to laugh. With defiance, with abandon, with hysteria, any way you can.” Year published: 2017 Category: YA fantasy Representation: F/F and M/M, side characters Summary: The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way… Continue reading
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The Deep by Rivers Solomon
“To join the realities. To make sense of it all.” Year published: 2019 Category: Fantasy novella Representation: F/F, main couple Summary: Yetu holds the memories for her people—water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave owners—who live idyllic lives in the deep. Their past, too traumatic to be remembered regularly, is forgotten… Continue reading
Charlotte Kersten 