Oh my. I have no words. Having finished No Man of Woman Born I fear I may be hopelessly infatuated with Ana Mardoll's voice and vision. This was such a beautiful, powerful, and necessary collection. I am envious, jealous even, of a generation that gets to grow up reading empowering, inclusive stories like this alongside their mass-market fantasies.

What Mardoll offers here are familiar fantasy tales of sacrifice, vengeance, justice, and love. They are simple stories, a mix of fairy tale, fable, and fantasy, which follow the genre conventions we all know and love. Some of them are explicitly about gender, with pivotal questions of identity and expression. These are the stories that follow the prophecy from which the collection gets its name, where 'no man of woman born' is subverted in some clever and entertaining ways.

That said, there are no traps or surprises here, no big reveals designed to shock or titillate the reader. There is one story - a sword in the stone story - where the reveal of gender is done publicly and proudly, but it a moment of empowerment, of claiming one's destiny. There is also a story - a dragon sacrifice story - that is all about the wishing for one's true gender identity, but for all its very public spectacle, what exactly the wish changed, if anything, remains a very private thing.

It is the other stories that I think are even more important, however. They are the stories that are not about gender, but where the characters exist in a world where nonbinary genders are simply accepted without question, without comment, without hatred, and without ridicule. More importantly, they are accepted as a state of being, as a defined gender, and not some confusing phase of transition. There is no expectation that these characters ever were or will become binary. These are the stories where, if not for the gender-neutral pronouns, most readers likely would not have picked up on the gender aspect.

There are also stories here that straddle those two extremes, suitably non-binary stories of non-binary storytelling. There is one in particular that I just loved - a Sleeping Beauty style fairy tale - where the entire castle knows the protagonist has boy days and girl days, and where that duality of gender is the key to circumventing the fairy's curse.

Gender aspects aside, I would be woefully remiss if I did not call out the storytelling of Mardoll. These stories in No Man of Woman Born flow so beautifully, are so wonderfully readable, that it is almost too easy to overlook the polished sense of style. The writing is as beautiful as the sentiments it conveys, and I will never stop recommending this to friends.

Title: No Man of Woman Born: Rewoven Tales

Publisher: Acacia Moon Publishing

Author: Ana Mardoll

Pages: 180pp

Price: $9.99/$4.99

A humble fisher and weaver of nets. A cunning hedge-witch of unremarkable power. An orphan on a path of revenge. A secret daughter who is the heir to a long-prophesied destiny. A royal heir cursed by faeries. A young warrior determined to rid the land of an evil tyrant. A child with one heart-felt wish ....

In this collection of seven stories, Mardoll weaves tales of love, duty, vengeance, courage, betrayal, dragons, and destiny -- and each features a non-binary character in the role of heroic protagonist.

I love epic fantasy, but I just do not have the time to devote to multi-volume sagas. As such, I grabbed a copy of Mardoll's No Man of Woman Born when I spotted it on netgalley. And I'll be honest -- it was the fantasy and witch parts that initially attracted me; the fact that the protagonists were all non-binary was interesting, but of secondary importance.

That changed the further I got into the collection. Mardoll's tales are filled with rich, wonderfully-realized characters; some very young, some on the cusp of adulthood, some mature in years. Each character's non-binary-ness is inherent not only to them as characters, but is also a necessary element of the story. Consider Finndís in "Daughter of Kings": there is a prophecy that a daughter of King Njáll will pull the golden sword from the stone and unite the fracturing tribes. Unfortunately, the King has no daughters -- except Finndís, who is female, even if no one else sees her that way.* In "Early to Rise" (a reimagining of Sleeping Beauty), Claude has been cursed to sleep until she is awakened by true love's kiss. Claude, however, has girl days, boy days, and days when they are neither. This loophole -- uh, nope, sorry. No spoilers.

No Man of Woman Born was a thought-provoking and enchanting introduction to a new writer and the worlds xie can create. I will definitely be reading more of xer work in the future. ... Um, it would be really cool if some of these characters got their own books; just sayin' ....

I highly recommend No Man of Woman Born to fans of epic fantasy; anyone looking for stories with non-traditional protagonists, especially non-binary/genderqueer heroes; and fans of Effie Calvin, KJ Charles, and Jordan L Hawk.



* By the way, that's Finndís on the cover. :)

No Man of Woman Born is a collection of short stories featuring prominent characters who do not identify as cisgender – there are trans princes, non-binary princesses, genderfluid royals whose family adapt pronouns used accordingly, and it’s beautiful. With a title taken from Shakespeare, and a prologue mentioning the infamous scene in which Tolkien’s Éowyn defies a gendered prophecy by proclaiming that while no man may complete it, she is no man, I knew this was going to be good. What I didn’t anticipate was how much I loved it. I have a mixed history with short story anthologies in that I usually want to love them and then end up really, really disappointed. However, Mardoll did not disappoint with this collection of fantastical stories ranging from princesses determined to live as such in a world that denies them their true names to peasants avenging the death of loved ones.



Soldiers and seers had been helpless before the dragon, but they had been men and women. Wren was neither, yet the knowledge did not make xer feel special. Xie simply was xerself, in the same way Halwen was a witch.



Each story comes with a list of warnings where appropriate, and many also come with a phonetic guide to the pronouns used. For example Wren, the collection’s first protagonist, uses xie and xer. Now while this may look confusing at first, it is literally a few letters from being she and her both of which are used all the time so really it’s not that big of a leap. It’s even phonetic so you know how to say it aloud!



I once wrote a good portion of my dissertation defending the use of ‘they/them’ as pronouns in academic texts and I for a First Class Honours Degree. Fight me with your ‘oh but won’t it get confusing’ bullshit. If it got confusing, then I’d have been marked a lot less using it again and again for 13,000 odd words.



“Father never believed me,” she whispered , so softly she wasn’t sure he heard. “I told him when I was younger than Rúni, still just a baby. He thought I’d heard Leifur and Magni talking about the prophecy, but I hadn’t known anything about it. I wouldn’t have cared even if I had! I didn’t want to be a queen or hold a magic sword, I just wanted him to stop calling me something I wasn’t. I wanted him to see me.”



Aside from being wonderful fantasy stories with the traditional hallmarks of the genre – dragons, prophecies, witches and spells and curses – these stories contain some very poignant moments. The quote above is from Daughter of Kings, the collection’s fourth tale, and I thought it was beautiful. Finndís, the daughter of the King, never sets out to be a prophesied ruler – only to be seen in her father’s eyes as the young woman she has always been. She does not want a crown, or the influence of the council, or a socially important marriage – she wants people to call her by her name, and say ‘she’ when they refer to her. So not much at all, in a land where Kingdoms are at stake. These stories are about people who – to quote Mardoll directly – “aren’t special because they are trans; they are special and they are trans”. Yes, these stories open up the floor for discussion of rigid gender binaries and just how necessary they are in settings where flesh-eating dragons literally live next door and demand sacrifices, they show how much complexity, colour and depth can be added to tales of prophecy and magic, but they also exist purely as a series of incredibly enjoyable, well-written stories that just happen to feature trans people. They can also be fantastically funny. One of my favourite lines was definitely the following:



If gossip from the capital could be believed, the last attempt on the overlord’s life had involved an exotic undetectable poison, a goat, and a young culinary genius.



Does that, or does that not, sound like a Skyrim side-quest?



“You are my child, and you are special and loved . Whether you’re a boy, or a girl, or both, or neither, or something else entirely, Eoghan and I will love you as we always have and always will.”



There are some amazing dynamics between characters, my favourite possible being that of Claude and their family in Early to Rise where despite being about a genderfluid child with a curse hanging over their head, Mardoll manages to include the sorts of moments every family experiences – the ‘don’t tell mum’ moment where a sibling helps you do something they shouldn’t, those awkward discussions with parents about who you fancy, and Claude’s all-consuming love for their family who accept them on boy days, girl days, and the days where they’re not sure but they know they’re loved regardless.




“How do you know when a shoe doesn’t fit quite right? It covers your foot and it’s better than nothing at all, because you’re not getting burrs stuck in your heel when you walk, and no shoe is perfect. Maybe if you just wear thicker socks, it’ll feel right. Maybe all shoes are bad and you just need to accept it and stop complaining that your feet hurt.” Kie grinned, shaking kir head. “And then one day you take the shoe off and try on a different one and it’s like you’re seeing sunshine for the first time. And you realize shoes can be comfortable, you were just wearing the wrong one.”



I loved this book, each story was a perfect little tale of love and defiance that both invoked and reworked tales we know well – sleeping beauty and her spindle, waiting for a prince, the sword in the stone and the leader who will pull it free – and created worlds both fantastical and moving. Please read this book.



I want to finish with a few quotes from the Author’s note at the end of the book.



Please only refer to characters by their correct pronouns. For characters whose gender might be considered a ‘spoiler’, it would be better not to reference them at all in reviews rather than concealing their gender with incorrect pronouns .



More resources on transgender characters and how to write about them are available at GLAAD.org and Nonbinary.org for those who are interested. I owe a debt of gratitude to Vee (@ FindMeReading) of GayYA.Org for sharing their poignant thoughts regarding how trans characters are handled in book reviews and how we can better serve our community.



Overall rating: 5 books out of 5



A Copy of this book was provided by NetGalley in exchange for an honest and unbiased review

The book as a whole. 4/5
I really enjoyed it. The author’s note was so touching and I think the hopes for this book were realized. Diversity in all types of fiction are really necessary so that we might all find ourselves and our potential in the stories we enjoy. The one thing at the beginning that threw me off was that these really are short stories/fairy tales. These are not long novels with in-depth stories and though that is made very obvious in the description this sometimes made me feel left hanging. Now, to the stories themselves

Tangled Nets 3/5
Wren was an interesting character. Xhie had obviously been through a lot with xer sister and there was a lot going on, but I just didn’t feel attached to xer. There was some cool world exploration, but right as I wanted to know more about xer the story was over. I think my biggest thing was there was some information about the other dragons and what happened to the white dragon that while interesting would have been better used as time to explore Wren more.

King’s Favor 3/5
I liked this one better than Tangled Nets. There’s world building, but there’s also some exploration of Caran that I enjoyed about why nee was doing what nee was doing and why nee was specifically chosen. While I felt a bit of attachment to nee I wanted more. Caran got this amazing opportunity at the end and then it was over.

His Father’s Son 5/5
This story was all I wanted! Nocien was the first character I really felt attached to in the book and he was glorious. We got his backstory through him remembering everything in a lot more detail than I feel like the previous short stories and I was hooked. Then, there was action, a great amount of it that really hit you and then the ending! I felt like I got the complete story.

Daughter of Kings 4/5
This one got me right in the feels. Finndis is lovely, but there’s a past that is a bit painful. We get just enough of her history to really enjoy her victory. What a great story.

Early to Rise 3/5
The most obvious retelling of a fairy tale in the book. An interesting retelling of Sleeping Beauty. It was short, but I enjoyed it well enough

No man of Woman Born 4/5
Innes asks some great questions about prophesies that I admit I never thought about. I love that all the details don’t seem to slow any of these characters down. I think it really speaks to most of us who have dreamed of being heroes during at least one point in our lives. What a great story to give people faith in themselves.

The Wish-Giver 4/5
Short, but so heartwarming.

A really cool collection of fantasy short stories where transgender and nonbinary characters take centre stage. No Man subverts gendered prophecies of tales that are old as time. There are pronunciation guides provided for each story. And that’s what I liked a lot, since I follow Ana Mardoll on twitter, they’re very informative and a pretty interesting person. I was already aware of some nonbinary terms, but this book introduces some ones I wasn’t aware of.

My favourite of all the stories was either Tangled Nets or His Father’s Son. All are amazing but these two caught my eye the most and was most intriguing to read.

This was an absolute joy. If you like fantasy at all, especially if you like twists on fantasy tropes, you need to read this. Despite most of the stories all being based on the idea "prophecy seems to foretell that evil ruler/dragon/monster will never be killed, turns out it was actually talking about a trans person who would do it," they never get old. Each one has a different cliché prophecy and subverts it in a new way. It's creative and well-written and what so many people are looking for right now. Trans girls and trans boys saving their people! Nonbinary heroes getting dragged into fighting evil! People who are still figuring out their gender and if they could be the prophesied warrior! Collect them all!

The one thing I still don't understand is why the theme was broken for the very last story, which didn't involve a prophecy. I liked it, but I was confused at the sudden break from the premise. Nevertheless, you should read it.

I've been following Ana Mardoll on twitter for ages, but never read one of xer books (my TBR is SO long, and I try to not acquire more books, also for financial reasons), but when I saw the following tweet, I could not help myself:

https://twitter.com/AnaMardoll/status/1054408759659913217

So on to Netgalley I went, and requested and send to kindle I did.
And I loved it. The stories had a lovely length befitting to the story. The only one that I wished was a bit longer, was the last one, about a little girl going to a dragon to have a wish granted. I just wanted to see what kind of adventures she would have when she was older, since she was so brave and sure as a toddler.

It's amazing to see how genderessentalist tropes and fairytales get turned on their head, when a protaganist isn't cis gendered, or falls outside of the gender-binary. It was lovely to see stories where the gender of the main character was a plotpoint, but not a problem (except for one story, where the near family does not accept the gender identity of the protagonist, but even there the problem is not that the protagonist is trans, but the problem is that his father finds that hard to accept. And even that is not the main issue in the story).

I've learned that witches and dragons and sorcerers really need to take a gender 101 class if they want to see their curses actually be successful in the long term. And this also rekindled my love for fairytell retellings. And realised that stories about non-cis characters are really validating to my own non-cis gender identity. More please! Maybe I should lift my selfimposed book-buying ban...

Having seen this book talked about by a few people, I jumped at the chance to get to read & review it. Some of the stories were a little too short or simple for my tastes (which is usually my main problem with short story anthologies and the reason I don't often read them) and had they all been quite similar I probably would've dropped a star or two, but while they all follow the same basic theme (gender-based prophecies being misinterpreted only to be fulfilled by trans people), each of these stories were unique enough that I thoroughly enjoyed reading them all.

The author's note at the beginning of the book was a really nice touch -- I had no idea that Mardoll xerself was genderqueer, and seeing yourself represented on the page is 1000% nicer when you know it's not just because a cis author thought including one (1) vaguely non-cis character would earn them diversity points or whatever.

All in all, 'No Man of Woman Born' was just a really NICE read, written specifically for people like me, by someone like me. It unapologetically places trans characters front and centre, without trying to cater for cis people's preconceived ideas: at no point did any character have to 'prove' their gender in order for them to be accepted, and even when other characters didn't understand, not once did they ever try to tell them that they were wrong; not even the sexist ones.

I would strongly recommend this book to any and all non-cis people looking to find some real representation, and I would highly recommend this book to any fantasy loving cis person willing to listen and learn.

The stories in this book are beautiful. The way the author takes well-known fairy tale tropes and subverts the gendered stereotypes associated is extremely well done. The helpful tips to using neopronouns provided before each story is a nice touch that will help readers who are new to the concept. Overall, a wonderful book. I'll definitely be adding to my personal collection, and advocating for its addition to our library.

This book took me a while to get into.

I am trying to read more LGBTQIA books so i can see more representation of myself and my friends in the world.
This novel definitely achieved that head on in every mini story and taught me things i didn't know like neo pronouns in literature.

I loved the way they changed up the well known fairytales - usually you can tell the ending but in this novel you couldn't as they had re-written the entire theme in order to allow the transgender or non-binary character to blossom.

This was okay, but it was a little bit too shallow in the storytelling. I think i would prefer this sort of book if it was one story in depth focused on one character.

Book given in exchange for a free review.

This has one of the most inclusive casts of characters, I've read from binary, non-binary, Gender Fluid to transgender characters. I think the pronouns and language use in the book reflect the LGBT community as a whole. The prophecies in the book a written beautiful with gender in mind.

I was given this book by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

I absolutely loved this book and most of the stories within. They all fit so well together and at the same times they each had a different atmosphere. I can't believe I finally found a book about trans and non-binary characters in fantasy ! That makes me so excited and I can't wait to read more

I know posting excerpts from the author's notes is not generally the 'done thing', but it seems to be something I've been doing more and more lately. After all, who can explain a book better than the author in their own words:

"The heroes and heroines in these pages aren't special *because* they are trans; they are special *and* they are trans."

This book features seven stories featuring trans, genderfluid, or intersex protagonists in the staring roles of traditional style high fantasy / fairytale stories. Sometimes the characters are out and the world is incredibly accepting of their identity and sometimes it is more of a secret at first, but all the characters are treated with respect by the narrative. All the stories also come with content warnings at the beginning as well as pronunciation guides for neopronouns if they are used. It was just a really fun collection and also a very important one. Unfortunately even today the high fantasy genre is pretty homogeneous and it's so important for people to be able to see themselves in the stories they read. I would definitely recommend this book for someone looking for more diverse fantasy stories.

First a small note. Please educate me if I misuse any terminology or say anything that doesn't use preferred wordings. I'm new to this and there's a bit of a learning curve. I want to be a good ally and that's why I chose to read this book: in the hopes that experiencing a story through a character with a nontraditional gender identity would better help me understand how that world view differs from mine. The job of learning this stuff is mine, but support would be appreciated.

When I saw No Man of Woman Born on NetGalley, I immediately pinged another reviewing friend to make sure she saw it. We both were excited by the concept.

When I read the preface, I discovered the book isn't meant for us. It is meant for those people who may lack heroes (gender neutral, IMO. I never liked the word heroine either. They're all heroes regardless of gender) to identify with in literature because they don't fit what society considers normal for gender.

Mardoll's primary goal, if I understood properly, was to correct the exclusion of atypical genders from the fulfillment of prophecies. For example, "no man of woman born" was fulfilled by caesarean section. So the short stories all revolve around prophecies (and one curse) and how they can be fulfilled in non-cis ways. I'm pretty sure the book is a big success here.

In some cases I recognized origins to prophecy, but not in all of them. Even apart from the gender experience, I appreciated the creativity in several tales, such as how the dragon was fought in the first one. Not going to tell you any more--you'll have to read it yourself.

My overall favorite is the retelling of sleeping beauty but I can't tell you why without a spoiler. Again, read them for yourself to see.

This is my first experience with neopronouns. As someone who was raised to see a disconnect when they is used as singular (yes, I'm aware there are many reasons it is acceptable, but it was very solidly pushed as wrong when I learned my grammar, so it's a struggle for me), I would love a widely accepted gender-neutral singular pronoun. I adjusted more quickly to reading the different ones than I expected to. I still don't understand whether these neopronouns are gender neutral or signify different variations on the spectrum. I shall have to do more research.

My overall rating for this collection is 4 stars. I think a part of the reason it isn't higher is my wants impacting the rating, rather than failings on the part of the author. I'd have liked a greater sense in more of the stories that they were heroes because of who they were as people and not merely because of their gender identity. But overall ratings like this are difficult to give and based on a very personal gut reaction. I'm sure it will be higher for many readers, including other allies, cis readers, and anyone else who wish to expand their horizons. I definitely recommend it.

I enjoyed the classical fairytale feel of the stories, and how they were diversified with the inclusion of non-binary and transgender characters, who are still too seldom seen in fantasy fiction. I liked it well enough, though the stories themselves felt a bit too familiar - besides the inclusion of LGBT+ characters, there wasn't much to set them apart from other fairytale fantasy stories.

Enjoyable but didn't blow me away.

The idea for this book is great and important, but the book itself fell short for me. I think it is tough to write fantasy short stories in particular, and most of these stories had conclusions that felt rushed / problems that were too easily solved. I think the author would've been better served by turning a couple of these stories into novellas so the stories and characters could've been better developed.

7 short stories who deal with the prophecies' limits when it comes to gender in fantasy.
It was a delightful read who explores gender identity, we need more stories about genderqueer people in fantasy.

C’est ma première fois à lire une fiction LGBT+ fantasy, et je n’ai pas été déçue : ces sept histoires courtes (environ une trentaine de pages chacune) ont pour fil directeur le thème de la prophétie, que j’affectionne tout particulièrement. Mais dans le cas de ce livre, les prophéties que nous connaissons bien – « le fils de ____ le tuera » , ou bien « Elle se piquera le doigt sur une quenouille et tombera dans un sommeil profond » – ont une différence de taille par rapport à leurs versions habituelles : selon les mots de l’auteure, « le destin voit ce que les autres ne voient pas ».

Chaque histoire est accompagnée de notes concernant les pronoms utilisés pour et par les personnages, très utiles pour le lecteur qui n’y est pas habitué ou qui ne les connaît pas tous. Elles sont également assorties d’une note concernant le contenu de chaque texte, prévenant le lecteur qu’il s’apprête à aborder des thèmes difficiles tels que la mort des parents, l’automutilation ou encore le mégenrage d’une personne trans. C’est un des premiers livres que je trouve avec ce genre de notes, et elles me paraissent très utiles : je suis personnellement sensible à certains de ces thèmes, et le savoir avant de lire l’histoire correspondante m’a permis d’être prête à l’aborder sans réaction négative de ma part.

Daughter of kings est, parmi les sept récits, mon préféré. La princesse qui doit sortir l’épée magique du rocher en plein milieu de la forêt a été assignée homme à la naissance ? Peu importe : la prophétie mentionne une fille, et elle en est une. Tangled nets et King’s favor obtiennent la deuxième place ex-æquo : le premier pour l’ambiance qui s’en dégage, cette famille de pêcheurs tentant de survivre tant bien que mal à une mauvais saison après le décès d’un de ses membres, et le deuxième pour la méchante sorcière et ses pouvoirs mystérieux qui souhaite à tout prix se débarrasser de celui et celle (?) que la prophétie désigne comme ses assassins éventuels.

Chaque histoire est centrée sur les personnages trans ou non conformes aux normes de genre traditionnelles, et certaines présentent des romances non hétérosexuelles – elles sont définitivement un changement bienvenu par rapport aux récits de fantasy habituels, et leurs prophéties genrées et autres princes combattant le dragon. Leur format en permet une lecture assez rapide, et elles ne s’embarrassent pas de détails inutiles ou de longs paragraphes descriptifs avant le départ de l’intrigue, ce qui peut manquer à certains mais que je considère plus comme un point positif.

De manière globale, j’ai bien apprécié ce livre, et je le conseillerais volontiers à celles et ceux qui recherchent quelque chose de nouveau en fantasy, ou une représentation positive de personnes trans et/ou non binaires dans la littérature.

The hubs and I had a conversation the other day about Sigourney Weaver's role in Alien. It was my position that Ripley was written in such a way that the gender of the actor wouldn't have mattered. The character and the story were strong enough on their own that acknowledging gender would have been unnecessary and would likely have been a distraction. He disagreed and pointed to the scenes with the kid as evidence that a female would be better to perform those scenes.

o.0 seriously?

This book is not a single story but a series of snapshots into the lives of people who do extraordinary things. I enjoyed some more than others, but I found value in each of them. My only critique is that the main character's difference was the pivotal information rather than just a facet of the character's identity. And maybe this is me, seeing this through the eyes of a cis-gendered person, but I have always felt that "otherness" stops being so other, when one stops making a big deal about it. When I think about friends of mine who are gay or transgender, those aspects of them are not what come to mind first. I immediately think of X's sharp ass wit or M's phobic aversion to Jello. I missed seeing characters handled like that.

All said, I am grateful for the insights that I got by reading this. It's made me want to seek out more stories, especially about non-binary people. I thought I had a pretty good handle on what that means, but I realize I have no idea. I imagine it's kind of like trying to explain color to a person born blind, but I look forward to learning.

This is an anthology of fantasy stories where the main characters are transgender or nonbinary people. Some of the stories use neo-pronouns (for example, xie instead of he/she and xer instead her/him) which took a few pages to get used to but I quite liked it by the end. In some ways it was easier for me than using them/they pronouns because I have a constant grammar battle in my head. I think this is an incredibly valuable book because there is nothing quite like the feeling of isolation of never seeing yourself reflected in popular culture, screens and books.

There’s a lovely analogy in one of the stories that illustrates that feeling of being ‘other’ beautifully:

“How do you know when a shoe doesn’t fit quite right? It covers your food and it’s better than nothing at all, because you’re not getting burrs stuck in your heel when you walk, and no shoe is perfect. Maybe if you just wear thicker socks, it’ll feel right. Maybe all shoes are bad and you just need to accept it and stop complaining that your feet hurt.” Kie grinned, shaking kir head. “And then one day you take the shoe off and try on a different one and it’s like you’re seeing sunshine for the first time. And you realize shoes can be comfortable, you were just wearing the wrong one.”

In terms of the stories, there are some that I enjoyed more than others and I find that I enjoy a story more when there is more dialogue. Stories with long descriptive narrative don’t engage me quite as much. A story with a twisty re-take of ‘Sleeping Beauty’ comes with a trigger warning of non-consensual kissing which initially I was amused by but then thought about it a bit and realised that I was raised believing that it is okay to kiss an unknown, unconscious person in the name of ‘true love’. Interesting.

I enjoyed ‘No Man of Woman Born’ and I think readers of LGBTQIA fantasy will too. For a more in-depth and thoughtful point of view, read Shira Glassman’s review.

Book received from Netgalley and Acacia Moon Publishing for an honest review.