The Ice Princess's Fair Illusion (Fairytale Verses, #2)
S.L. Dove Cooper
All Marian wants is for society to accept that she's just not interested in... whatever society thinks she ought to be interested in. A princess with a reputation for insults and snide remarks, she's afraid to show anyone who she would be if people would let her. In a fit of temper at her refusal to marry, her father creates her worst nightmare: she is to be wed to the first beggar who arrives at the gates. Edel was visiting purely for diplomatic reasons, aiming to ensure her daughter inherits a strong and peaceful kingdom. She sees something in Marian that is achingly familiar and when Edel hears the king's proclamation, only one thing is on her mind: to protect Marian from the fate that had befallen Edel herself. Their lives threaded together by magic, Edel and Marian will have to find their way in the world in this queerplatonic, sapphic verse novel retelling of King Thrushbeard.
Publication Year: 2018
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While verse isn't my favorite format (the story is as if it is being told to you around a fire, in this case by two people who interrupt each other a lot), I don't think it's fair to complain about that since it says in its own description that it is in verse.
I really enjoyed the multiple different types of asexuality and aromanticism portrayed in this story. It is definitely heavy-handed in places (telling rather than showing in a bad way) but I can easily look past that for the very sweet story about various types of love. I also enjoy the strangeness of learning more about the character's love for each other through how they speak to each other in the present as they tell the story rather than from the actual story they tell.
Incomplete list of rep we get:
Aro-Ace in multiple types of queerplatonic relationships (at different times)
Ace Lesbian in a queerplatonic relationship
Gray or Demi-sexual/romantic
Super casually normalized lesbian marriage
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