Buon venerdì, prodi seguaci!🚞

Giugno è il mese del pride e quindi piglierò due libri dell’ultima serie fantasy della mia autrice aroace preferita, Claudie Arseneault.

La serie in questione è The Chronicles of Nerezia e il primo libro è Awakenings. Si tratta una serie di nove romanzi brevi, di cui solo l’ultimo non è ancora uscito, con un formato semi-episodico che si intreccia in un’unica grande trama. Arseneault dice di aver unito alcune delle cose che ama di più nei giochi: colpi di scena epici come quelli dei JRPG, le missioni secondarie da svolgere in qualsiasi momento tipiche dei giochi di D&D e il divertimento più intimo e rilassante dei giochi da tavolo. Il tutto condito con la sua solita atmosfera queer e forti legami platonici tra personaggi asessuali (soprattutto tra ə due protagonistə non binariə).

Descrizione: Your story is my story…

As the city’s eternal apprentice, Horace has never found a clan to belong to. E has joined Trenaze’s guards with hopes to finally earn eir place during eir trial day at the Great Market—that is, until the glowing shards haunting the world break through the city’s protective dome. Armed with a sword and too little training, Horace doubts in eir ability to defend the market-goers. But eir last stand is interrupted by a mysterious elven figure who can dissipate the shards with a single, strange sentence: your story is my story.

From the moment it is uttered, Horace knows the sentences holds true for em, too—and when the elf collapses in the middle of the market, e carries them to safety. After an afternoon of board games in their quiet, sharp-witted company, Horace is ready to follow this elf as they seek the forest that haunts their dreams, and answers to the confounding events at the Market. Their story is eir story, and e is willing to confront the dangers of the road to hear their laugh again and finally feel like e belongs.

Il secondo libro della serie è Flooded Secrets e volete sapere una cosa favolosa delle copertina di The Chronicles of Nerezia? Se le mettete una di fianco all’altra formano un’unica immagine! Potete ammirarla sul sito dell’autrice!

Descrizione: Fate and friendship brought Horace, Rumi, and Aliyah together in Rumi’s Wandering Wagon of Wonderful Wares, a sentient self-propelling wagon. They seek the forest haunting Aliyah’s dream, hoping for answers about their past and their unique abilities—but for that, they need to traverse a world haunted by Fragments, dangerous shards that can possess travellers.

With the Fragments in the wilderness, banditry was the last danger Horace had expected on the road—but not even that could stop Keza Nesmit. Swift and deadly with a staff, Keza drops on the Wagon crew, claiming most of their provisions before vanishing back into the Tesrima Ridge. As if to compound their bad luck, the tunnel that serves as the only pass through the mountain is flooded and impassable.

Keza reappears, and she’s willing to show them the source of the flooding, a waterway blocked by Fragments, in the hopes that they can unblock it—and just like with the stolen food, she won’t answer any questions about her motives, no matter how friendly. Abrasive, confident, and eager to bicker, Keza makes for a thorny companion, but they’ll need to work together to free the pass and continue their travel.

As they unravel the Fragments’ blockage, so, too, do they chip away at Keza’s walls. But the cost of breaking both is far higher than anticipated, and Horace is about to learn that some secrets are better left untouched.

Eccoci qua! Conoscevate questa serie? O avete in programma delle letture in tema pride? Fatemi sapere nei commenti!

A presto!♠️