Book description
Season after season, hunters have attempted to capture the white-tailed stag. Local legend holds that its capture promises prosperity, and in a land that is dying—to hunger, to war; to a magical curse, some say—even a whisper of hope is a powerful lure. Yet every hunter who tries fails, never…
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Many books have kissing in the forest, but how many are about kissing the forest itself?
Fenton has watched countless hunters enter his forest to claim a wish by killing the white-tailed stag. Each hunter has taken: a sip from the stream, a flower from the vine, wood to light a fire. Each hunter has subsequently died.
Prior is different; he takes nothing, instead asking for a god’s assistance in waking his sister from her sleeping sickness. Fenton—who is the forest and the white-tailed stag and a son of Old Nan and also, definitely, a god—decides to pack up…
From Samara's list on queer monsters who need a little kiss.
Fenton, god of the forest, and Prior, a human hunter, strike up an alliance—Fenton will save Prior’s sister, if Prior will kill the god’s brother. They do not expect to fall in love. The first chapter is told from the perspective of a forest god, which makes it a little more distant than the rest of the story, but then we get Fenton in his human form and it is very difficult not to fall in love with him.
This story is so unusual and engaging, it sweeps you off to a magical land far away from real life. I…
From Suki's list on queer comfort reads for stressful times.
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