#freya marskes book

[goatsandgangsters]

Jack Alston, Lord Hawthorn, from A Power Unbound by Freya Marske @fahye

Alan looked at his hand engulfed in Jack’s. He said, coming to the realisation along the way, like a sentence that only revealed itself word by word as he wrote it down: “You’re still the kind of arse who’ll pick two fights before breakfast, but you’ve been desperate for someone else to look after, haven’t you?”

#a power unbound #the last binding #freya marske #jack alston #lord hawthorn #ft. bonus elsie and bonus alan #lastbindingedit #through SHEER FORCE OF WILL I’ve brought gifsets to the book fandom! #I would like to buy a fruit basket for whoever sat him at the base of a tree #and handed him a newspaper about important votes in the Lords #lit edit #booklr #bookedit #lgbt reads #my edits #sff books #fantasy fiction #fantasy books

[ace-artemis-fanartist]

Happy book birthday to A Power Unbound by @fahye. Here's Addy in her red dress.

#a power unbound #the last binding #freya marske #adelaide morrissey #artist on tumblr #queer books #lgbt books #my art

[le-trash-prince]

The Last Binding Trilogy Cover Art - William Morris designs

I love how beautiful these covers are, and I love how William Morris is used throughout the books in little ways.

#the last binding #freya marske #william morris #christine foltzer #a power unbound #a restless truth #a marvellous light #books #bookblr #arts and crafts

[kaojenart]

Sketchy concepts for Alan And Jack from A Power Unbound! I love this series and miss these characters already!

#a power unbound #the last binding #the last binding trilogy #a marvellous light #a restless truth #freya marske #books #gaybooks #mlm #mlmbooks #alan and Jack #digital drawing #book fanart

[the-darling-house]

The parlour was a striking room even by the standards of Penhallick House. The Morris paper on the walls held a dense pattern of leaves and clusters of flowers in red and blue and yellow, woven through with thorny tendrils studded with tinier flowers in startling white. It filled the walls in wide panels between dark, carved wood that stretched from the floor and formed arching ribs where it met the ceiling.

- A Marvellous Light, Freya Marske

#a marvellous light #freya marske #the last binding #william morris #john henry dearle #bookblr #book quotes #interior design #vintage aesthetic #maximalism #whimsigothic #maximalist #aesthetic #arts and crafts movement #victorian style #do you ever just wake up in the middle of the night to google wallpaper that was mentioned in a book you read months ago #room photo @ house beautiful uk

[evenaturtleduck]

Thoughts on A Power Unbound, in no particular order and with an effort made to avoid major spoilers:

-Why does anyone in this story bother with magic when both of the Blyths are there to do actual violence?

-I have to reread A Marvelous Light because I'd forgotten how much I love Adelaide

-Extremely uneven power dynamics are toxic and destructive but can also be fun and kinky

-Every protagonist in this trilogy says 'be gay do crimes'

-Edwin Courcey my beloved overachiever

-Alan Ross is awarded Brother of the Century award (Walter Courcey is awarded whatever the opposite of that is)

-Lady Cheetham and Lady Dufay are both magnificent and I assume they live happily ever after together doing magnificent magical Lady things

-"Alan, we're in a house so full of inverts that Wilde could write a play about it"

-"It's alarming that forgery is your first instinct, but I admire it."

-the bees <333333333

#favorite books #a power unbound #the last binding #freya marske

[kazz-brekker]

the last binding trilogy by freya marske, or, when edwardian-era pornographic literature becomes steadily more and more relevant to the plot

#i got approved for an arc of the third book and it's SO GOOD so far #hawthorn and ross are incredibly mad they find the other one attractive and that's just how it should be #pie says stuff #pie reads #a power unbound #the last binding #a marvellous light #a restless truth #freya marske #books

[bigdreamsandwildthings]

It was such a lovely long weekend full of books, hot drinks, and walks in the forest. Don’t make me go back to reality 🍂📖🤎

#booklr #book photography #book picture #a power unbound #freya marske #bookworm #bibliophile #the last binding #books and nature #book community #book aesthetic #book lover #book nerd #my photos #mine

[out-of-the-forest-i-come]

can we talk about how cute edwin courcey is?? how passionate? and how everyone can see it and how both blyth siblings love him so fucking much and how alan lowkey found him endearing and how edwin looks cold but is actually just a small intellectual who doesn't know how to communicate with other people except through info-dumping and how he feels comfortable enough to do it around those who have basically become his family

#edwin courcey #the last binding #a marvellous light #a restless truth #a power unbound #freya marske #books #book thoughts #out of the forest out of the brain #out of the queue i come

[lucky-numberme]

"I see you're trapped in my gay and stupid maze again" — Flora Sutton, probably

3/20 Queer Book Draw Challenge: A Marvellous Light by @fahye

[ID: an illustration of Edwin and Robin in the hedge maze scene. They are surrounded by a holly hedge, which reaches out to them with thorny vines. Robin is in the background, pinned against a neoclassical statue. In the foreground, Edwin kneels, face racked and hair askew. The vines are wrapped around his arms, leaving cuts and scratches. All of his focus is on a palmful of dirt in his hand. Behind them, the sky has darkened to the point of storm. End ID]

#THIS BOOK SLAPS Y'ALL #it's beautifully constructed easily one of my favorites #also i know robin is supposed to be in mourning clothes (bc edwardian) but he seems like the kind of guy who'd add a little pop of colour #like a half mourning treat #queer book draw challenge #queer books #a marvellous light #freya marske #the last binding #robin blyth #edwin courcey #lgbt books #queer lit #book illustration #also i just found the author's tumblr! hence the reblog lol #little museum

[redwhiteandroyalbluesuggestions]

Be compared with many, many other books that come after you

#red white and royal blue #rwrb #casey mcquiston #lgbt books #winters orbit #everina maxwell #freya marske #a marvellous light #HS Valley #Tim Te Maro #prince of the palisades #julian winters #prince of fortune #lisa tirreno #the gay dictator #sean kraig

[goatsandgangsters]

Robin Blyth and Edwin Courcey from A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske @fahye

“I’m wondering what sort of blind idiot I was, not to find you attractive when we first met,” said Robin. Colour touched Edwin’s cheeks. The smile that tugged at his mouth was the same one he’d worn when Robin had admitted to being fascinated with his hands: faintly incredulous, but mostly pleased. It wasn’t an expression of regret. It did make Robin want to drag him back to the bed, pin him down, and murmur praise into his skin until it inked itself there like the opposite of a curse. “Ah,” said Edwin. “Whereas I am neither blind nor an idiot.” 

#a marvellous light #the last binding #lastbindingedit #freya marske #robin blyth #edwin courcey #lit edit #booklr #bookedit #lgbt reads #/sprinkles in some Leyendecker and some Singer Sargent sketches for Robin as a treat #kudos to the two random men in turn-of-the-century photographs. your jawlines understood the assignment! #I'll be making ones for a restless truth and maud/violet next now that I've deVOURED IT #but gotta get Them Boys finished and posted first #I Love Them Both So Much #my edits #sff books #fantasy fiction #fantasy books

[haveyoureadthisfantasybook]

vote YES if you have finished the entire book.

vote NO if you have not finished the entire book.

(faq · submit a book)

#fantasy #books #A Marvellous Light #The Last Binding #Freya Marske #poll #result: no #l: English

[lucidteaparty]

Edwin and Robin in A Marvellous Light in a nutshell

#edwin courcey #robin blyth #a marvellous light #artwork #fanart #freya marske #this book is the reason I’m back on tumblr #my post #the last binding

[hermitknut]

So I got an early copy of A Power Unbound (third in the Last Binding Trilogy, after A Marvellous Light and A Restless Truth) and I won't spoil anything, obviously, but hot damn. Wow. That is a) how you end a trilogy and b) uhhh hot damn. Ahem.

I knew what the pairing was gonna be, and after the first two books I knew it would be good, but... look, I've gone from Hands of the Emperor to A Taste of Gold and Iron to A Power Unbound, and it's all about the power dynamic and the route to real, certain consent amidst complicated circumstances and everyone's personal baggage, and asfjhsdkjfhskdjfhsd. A Power Unbound doesn't deal with fealty the way A Taste of Gold and Iron does, but it does deal with loyalty and trust and what it means to have power and honestly, I'm a little obsessed.

If you haven't read A Marvellous Light yet, I highly recommend it (and the whole trilogy). Book one is about a gay edwardian magician and his non-magical counterpart and their investigation into a dangerous curse (and, ahem, each other); book two is a lesbian magician/non-magician pair conducting heist-like shenanigans on a cruise ship (the non-magician lesbian and the non-magician gay man are siblings, and the investigation and the shenanigans are related). Book three is another pair of queer men, who we stay with through the third act of the magical-danger-plot and also through them figuring each other out. The sex scenes are explicit and so is the emotional unravelling, I thoroughly enjoyed all three books and I can't wait for 3 to be out so I can talk to more people about it!!

#last binding #last binding trilogy #freya marske #a marvellous light #a restless truth #a power unbound #such a fab trilogy #I usually get a bit frustrated when a trilogy has different PoVs in every book #but this one really worked

[snabulous]

now why would i write my paper when i could read my gay little boat mystery instead

#i’m reading a ruthless truth by freya marske rn and this series is consuming my life #the first book knocked my socks off and the second one is gearing up to be even better #it has LESBIANS it has BOATS it has MURDER MYSTERIES it has CHAOTIC BISEXUALS it has OVERT REFERENCES TO SEX THAT REMIND ME THAT THIS IS #AN ADULT GAY STORY AT ITS CORE!!!!!!! #if any of y’all read this series literally message me instantly bc i’m being so normal abt it rn #the last binding #the last binding series