Princeless: Raven the Pirate Princess books 1 and 2
Guys, Princeless has a spin-off! With my favorite character Raven the pirate princess, no less!
Jeremy Whitley and Rosy Higgins have taken Raven, a major character from the third volume of Princeless, and given her a series following her attempts to get revenge on her brothers for stealing all of her shit. Raven the Pirate Princess is aimed a bit older than Princeless: it's darker, and there's more explicit references to sex and sexuality than in Princeless. It still continues Princeless's theme of women being strong in all sorts of ways, taking their lives and their worlds into their own hands and forging bonds with each other that stand the test of dumping fresh blood over your head and your very nice dress.
ALSO Raven is queer and engaged in a very well-done love triangle that consists of entirely women. I am actually happy about a love triangle, guys.
Book one, Captain Raven and the All-Girl Pirate Crew, follows Raven as she recruits a whole group of women to join her in her quest. The women are of varying ages, colors, interests, body shapes, sexualities... they're all real women, with real lives, and I love it a lot?? Just in the main cast we have Raven Xingtao, queen of pirates, Katie, tall and blonde and punchy, Sunshine, half-elven and sneaky and gorgeous, Jay, cranky teenage alchemist/wizard, and Ximena, long-time best friend turned enemy turned cartographer and grudging friend. We also get Katie's D&D group, who fill out the rest of the crew. It's fantastic, guys. Also Ximena dumps a bucket of fresh blood over her head to get Jay and Raven out of a fix, and if that's not true love/friendship, I don't know what is.
Book two, Free Women, follows our newly formed crew as they make their way to the Island of Free Women, Raven's ancestral home and wretched hive of scum and villainy. This one's mostly plot, as Raven's brothers take central stage as the series' villains, and even construct a Bond-esque death trap complete with alligators. As much as I love it, and I do, I think I liked the first volume a scootch better? But I did really enjoy the one young lady who was told to take out as many pirates as she could, ran out, and decided to catch up on her reading, and let's be real, I will read all of this series forever.
I love this, guys. Maybe even better than Princeless, because QUEER WOMEN FUCK YEAH.
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Jeremy Whitley and Rosy Higgins have taken Raven, a major character from the third volume of Princeless, and given her a series following her attempts to get revenge on her brothers for stealing all of her shit. Raven the Pirate Princess is aimed a bit older than Princeless: it's darker, and there's more explicit references to sex and sexuality than in Princeless. It still continues Princeless's theme of women being strong in all sorts of ways, taking their lives and their worlds into their own hands and forging bonds with each other that stand the test of dumping fresh blood over your head and your very nice dress.
ALSO Raven is queer and engaged in a very well-done love triangle that consists of entirely women. I am actually happy about a love triangle, guys.
Book one, Captain Raven and the All-Girl Pirate Crew, follows Raven as she recruits a whole group of women to join her in her quest. The women are of varying ages, colors, interests, body shapes, sexualities... they're all real women, with real lives, and I love it a lot?? Just in the main cast we have Raven Xingtao, queen of pirates, Katie, tall and blonde and punchy, Sunshine, half-elven and sneaky and gorgeous, Jay, cranky teenage alchemist/wizard, and Ximena, long-time best friend turned enemy turned cartographer and grudging friend. We also get Katie's D&D group, who fill out the rest of the crew. It's fantastic, guys. Also Ximena dumps a bucket of fresh blood over her head to get Jay and Raven out of a fix, and if that's not true love/friendship, I don't know what is.
Book two, Free Women, follows our newly formed crew as they make their way to the Island of Free Women, Raven's ancestral home and wretched hive of scum and villainy. This one's mostly plot, as Raven's brothers take central stage as the series' villains, and even construct a Bond-esque death trap complete with alligators. As much as I love it, and I do, I think I liked the first volume a scootch better? But I did really enjoy the one young lady who was told to take out as many pirates as she could, ran out, and decided to catch up on her reading, and let's be real, I will read all of this series forever.
I love this, guys. Maybe even better than Princeless, because QUEER WOMEN FUCK YEAH.
This entry is crossposted at http://bookblather.dreamwidth.org/407841.html. Please comment over there if possible.