Hi all! I'm look for polyamorous fiction book recs that are well-written and feature polyamory, preferably from an author who knows what they're talking about, and is NOT a why choose/harem/reverse harem romance book (I find them tropey and poorly written, but if there are exceptions, lemme know!)

-The relationship doesn't have to be the main plot (in fact, it's nicer if it's not) -Ideally it's the MC who's poly, not just supporting characters -I don't really read the romance genre much and contemporary romance can be a hard sell :/ -I love fantasy and sci-fi but will honestly take anything if polyamory is explored well -Bonus points for Asian characters -I've already dnf'd Iron Widow :')

Thanks in advance!

While I'm a little hesitant about this novel, given what I've seen in the reviews and forums, I will say the audiobook narrator is FIRE--Adam Lazarre-White could read the phone book at this point, and it would sound amazing. Definitely makes me want to get all the Sinners Bleed on audio as well (and gives me an excuse for a re-read!)

"The [white cop] had sweat stains spreading down from his armpits that vaguely resembled maps of England and Ireland respectively."

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"LaPlata sighed. It came out low and long like the bottom note in a blues song."

Eep. Purple prose is a big pet peeve of mine. We'll see how long I stick with this!

Chapter 3 perfectly encapsulates the absolute delusion that is Christian fundamentalism. It’s shaped by a harmful theology that makes the very idea of historical progress difficult to trust. So instead of embracing a perfect world, they run from it.

Apoplectic belief, especially premillennial dispensationalism, teaches people how to falsely interpret the world around them. If history is understood as moving toward corruption and divine judgment, then social progress can look misleading. Even genuine attempts to improve society can be considered as distractions from the “real” story, which is that the world is falling apart exactly as prophecy said it would.

So then it creates a different relationship to history. A progressive view of history assumes that, however imperfectly, people can work to improve social conditions. But an apocalyptic view assumes that history is unraveling toward divine intervention. So then decline is evidence that events are unfolding as they should. As Jennings says, fundamentalists begin to look at catastrophic news and see proof of the impending apocalypse in everything they read. It literally just solidifies their erroneous beliefs. And they don’t want to change any of it, because then it would negate their worldview.

The political and emotional consequences of this are insane. If the world is seen as terminal rather than improvable, then the central task of the believer is not to embrace positive change but to remain spiritually separate from a corrupt society. It affects how people live, what they fear, and how they interpret reality.

Every new emergency becomes further proof that the prophetic reading of history was correct. That’s such dangerous thinking, I’m terrified that these people vote