BookRiot The brilliantly original and fascinating worldbuilding is a lush background for a beautifully romantic fantasy, and the writing is rich and visually stunning. Booklist, Starred review Wilson's writing is beyond stunning, and the inventiveness of his world, his language, and his dialogue, are only deepened by his innate understanding of his characters, their rich emotion, and their struggles to live and love as they wish to. Jemisin and will leave most readers agitating for more.
The Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog A vivid and deeply satisfying romance set against a fascinating backdrop, A Taste of Honey will especially appeal to fans of speculative fiction from authors like Lois McMaster Bujold and N. Publishers Weekly Stylistically daring, diverse, & unabashedly queer: Kai Ashante Wilson's A Taste of Honey is the future of fantasy. The Chicago Tribune Wilson displays his talent for tugging the reader's heartstrings and underplaying hard emotion, and he delivers a poignant and satisfying conclusion. a model of concise, efficient storytelling. The Washington Post Rich in invention and provocative in its themes. a beautiful look at love in its many forms. Saladin Ahmed, author of Throne of the Crescent Moon tells a story that is as much about loss and memory as it is about the reclamation of one's identity. Jemisin, Hugo Award-winning author of The Fifth Season One of our most stylistically and thematically original fantasists. Wilson has woven a fractal tapestry of a world - past mingling with future, exotic magic spiced with futuristic science, gods with too-human needs - and set in it a love story as painful as it is beautiful and complex.
But neither Aqib nor Lucrio know whether their love can survive all the hardships the world has to throw at them. In defiance of Saintly Canon, gossiping servants, and the furious disapproval of his father and brother, Aqib finds himself swept up in a whirlwind gay romance. His heart has been captured for the first time by a handsome Daluçan soldier named Lucrio. Aqib bgm Sadiqi, fourth-cousin to the royal family and son of the Master of Beasts, has more mortal and pressing concerns. As the royalty negotiates over trade routes and public services, the divinity seeks arcane assistance among the local gods. Find out why Wired named it one of the 20 Best Books of the Decade! Long after the Towers left the world but before the dragons came to Daluça, the emperor brought his delegation of gods and diplomats to Olorum. Jemisin calls a love story as painful as it is beautiful and complex.
A Taste of Honey is the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Theodore Sturgeon, and Locus finalist novella that N.
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