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transbookoftheday · 2 months

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Transfem Book Recs for International Women's Day

Happy International Women's Day! Here are some transfem book recommendations for you:

Book Titles:

Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki

Cheer Up: Love and Pompoms by Crystal Frasier

Joy, to the World by Kai Shappley and Lisa Bunker

A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall

Tell Me I'm Worthless by Alison Rumfitt

Just Happy To Be Here by Naomi Kanakia

Me and My Dysphoria Monster by Laura Kate Dale and Hui Qing Ang

Pet by Akwaeke Emezi

For the Love of April French by Penny Aimes

Fake It by Lily Seabrooke

Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters

Fierce Femmes And Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom

Princess of the Pomegranate Moon by Emily Wynne

Her Majesty’s Royal Coven by Juno Dawson

The Ojja-Wojja by Magdalene Visaggio and Jenn St-Onge

Galaxy: The Prettiest Star by Jadzia Axelrod and Jess Taylor

Into the Gray by Margaret Killjoy

Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) by Hazel Jane Plante

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bigdreamsandwildthings · 4 months

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Top 10 of 2023 ✨

These were the reads that wouldn’t leave my head, that I loved the most, that I can’t stop thinking about even at the end of the year. What were yours?

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wormwoodandhoney · 11 months

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books read in 2023: her majesty's royal coven

four childhood best friends splinter in adulthood in the face of a great evil coming for their two covens- a traditional, bureaucratic coven and a more intersectional and inclusive coven. tackles aspects of transphobia & racism in the uk, to varying degrees of success imo. be sure to check trigger warnings

#her majesty’s royal coven #bookedit #books #witchy girls #i liked this book a lot! but i think it didn't nail the discussion of racism tho it tried a lot and i did like the Black characters #juno dawson is a trans author tho and the discussion of trans witches is great #definitely gonna read the next one #photoshop hard

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whilereadingandwalking · 6 months

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Gosh, this series is good! The Shadow Cabinet by Juno Dawson is the second in a series that started with Her Majesty's Royal Coven. At it begins (spoiler for the first book ahead), Ciara Kelly is trying to stay incognito as she takes over the body of the soon-to-be High Preistess of HMRC. Meanwhile, Leonie sets out to save her brother from the claws of escaped fugitive Hale, and personal dramas shake and curl in the small town where young Theo nurses a new body and huge magical potential. It's all about to get a whole lot worse.

The last thing I expected following the first book was to genuinely start rooting for Ciara. Talk about a good anti-hero! If the enemy of book one was transphobia, the enemy of this book is virulent toxic masculinity and patriarchy (what a surprise, right?). The novel swerves from humor to horror to dreadful suspense to emotional twists and turns by the pound. It's bold, dramatic, and impossible to put down, and just like the first, it ends with some pretty impossible feeling twists that will leave you reeling (I already have some theories, and am very, very interested in when 3rd book Human Rites is going to come out. Dawson's world continues to be rich, fascinating, and devastating.

Content warnings for g-slur, violence, misogyny, suicide, domestic abuse/violence, emotional abuse, addiction, sexual violence.

#the shadow cabinet #juno dawson #bookworm #her majesty’s royal coven #book blog #my book reviews

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homerjacksons · 1 month

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fabbookreads · 7 months

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october tbr and gina 🐈‍⬛

#fabiola reading stuff #books #bookblr #tbr pile #silver nitrate #the phantom of the opera #axiom’s end #godkiller #her majesty’s royal coven

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aroaessidhe · 11 months

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The Shadow Cabinet, Juno Dawson

#HELP #the shadow cabinet #her majesty’s royal coven #context is this is an otherwise serious scene

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theliterarymess · 11 months

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I preordered this a year ago and she’s here!

#her majesty’s royal coven #the shadow cabinet #juno dawson #booklr #shannon’s tbr #Waterstones stop sending damaged books challenge

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miaisagirllover · 8 months

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You've read HMRC?? That's really cool! I've been looking for someone to discuss the series with for the longest time (finished re-reading HMRC #1 last week, currently waiting for The Shadow Cabinet to arrive at my local library).

ahh another hmrc coven fan! ur gonna be really shocked by the end of shadow cabinet trust me

#hmrc #her majesty’s royal coven #asks

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razzisnthere · 1 year

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her majesty’s royal coven was so good but def could’ve gone without the chapters of helena’s transphobic rants,, her reasons for transphobia were ridiculous and stupid tbh

also could’ve gone without the over exaggerated pronoun struggles (hi- I MEAN HER — shit like that)

overall i liked it,, plot was interesting and the ending was insane but honestly could’ve ended with a happy family and i would’ve been perfectly content

#her majesty’s royal coven #like leave theo alone she’s been through enough her mom doesn’t need to be evil also

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queer-books-bracket · 1 year

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#the raven cycle #trc #the raven boys #the dreamer trilogy #her majesty’s Royal coven #Juno Dawson #books #lgbt books #polls

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transbookoftheday · 7 months

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Her Majesty’s Royal Coven by Juno Dawson

A Discovery of Witches meets The Craft in this the first installment of this epic fantasy trilogy about a group of childhood friends who are also witches.

If you look hard enough at old photographs, we’re there in the background: healers in the trenches; Suffragettes; Bletchley Park oracles; land girls and resistance fighters. Why is it we help in times of crisis? We have a gift. We are stronger than Mundanes, plain and simple.

At the dawn of their adolescence, on the eve of the summer solstice, four young girls–Helena, Leonie, Niamh and Elle–took the oath to join Her Majesty’s Royal Coven, established by Queen Elizabeth I as a covert government department. Now, decades later, the witch community is still reeling from a civil war and Helena is now the reigning High Priestess of the organization. Yet Helena is the only one of her friend group still enmeshed in the stale bureaucracy of HMRC. Elle is trying to pretend she’s a normal housewife, and Niamh has become a country vet, using her powers to heal sick animals. In what Helena perceives as the deepest betrayal, Leonie has defected to start her own more inclusive and intersectional coven, Diaspora. And now Helena has a bigger problem. A young warlock of extraordinary capabilities has been captured by authorities and seems to threaten the very existence of HMRC. With conflicting beliefs over the best course of action, the four friends must decide where their loyalties lie: with preserving tradition, or doing what is right.

Juno Dawson explores gender and the corrupting nature of power in a delightful and provocative story of magic and matriarchy, friendship and feminism. Dealing with all the aspects of contemporary womanhood, as well as being phenomenally powerful witches, Niamh, Helena, Leonie and Elle may have grown apart but they will always be bound by the sisterhood of the coven.

#her majesty’s royal coven #hmrc #juno dawson #transfem #trans book of the day #trans books #queer books #bookblr #booklr #reposting this because of the sequel

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bigdreamsandwildthings · 3 months

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#booklr #book photography #book picture #pink books #happy place #butcher and blackbird #meet me at the lake #her majesty’s royal coven #bookworm #bibliophile #fiction #new adult #na fiction #book lover #book nerd #book aesthetic #book community #my photos #mine

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betterbooksandthings · 2 years

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Her Majesty’s Royal Coven by Juno Dawson

Talk about a book that punches you in the face, steals your lunch money, and leaves you gaping like a fish, asking yourself what just happened. This is a fantastic introspection on a modern magical matriarchy that is stunning. Her Majesty’s Royal Coven by Juno Dawson follows four witches in the UK who grew up friends, fought in a magical war together, and largely have gone their separate ways in adulthood. Helena is the priestess of HMRC, with a young daughter and a white tory attitude. Elle has given up her life as a healer to become a stay-at-home mother to her two children. Niamh is a countryside vet. Finally, after being fed up with the close-minded practices of the HMRC Leonie has founded her own inclusive Coven, where being black and a lesbian is not a problem. When oracles in the HMRC predict a great danger to come after the discovery of a powerful teen, their lives will drastically reorient. Even in a world where the future is foretold, fates can always change with the smallest choices. The question is, will these four be able to avoid calamity, or will the choices they make domino into disaster? In this version of London, the witches' coven and the warlocks cabal work for the British government in a secret. The world is unaware of the existence of magic, and the magic users who can heal, read minds, predict the future, and call on the elements do their best to keep it that way. These systems are on the precipice of large changes, prompted by the magical institution's moral rigidity. The book challenges rigid notions of gender and explores the consequences of disrespecting others’ bodily autonomy. The place of trans women in the witch’s coven is a primary point of conflict in the book. I cannot imagine it being explored better. The book has compassion for trans women and trans youth and the characters will quite literally move the earth to protect them. Now, the female friendship dynamics in this book are messy and I absolutely love it. Capturing the feeling of growing out of your friendships or growing around your childhood friendships is not an easy thing. Even without communicating telepathically, characters know with a look when something is wrong. They know what to fix, and what to leave alone. More importantly, they show the ways you have blindspots for people you have grown up loving. The fact that they are brilliantly talented witches with complex emotional and personal lives is simply icing on top of the cake. You will know what I mean when I say I will actively die if anyone harms Holly and Theo. I could say more about how I absolutely adore their character arcs, interactions, and overall existence, but I will not because you have to witness it. Considering there is another book in the series that may be just as deadly as this one, I will need all the help I can get. If you are a fan of British workplace fantasy books like Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s Good Omens or Daniel O'Malley’s The Rook but are looking for something a bit queerer and more witchy, this is the book for you. I need to let you know right now there are TERFs in the novel so please take proper care as you read. I would also like to say I think Her Majesty’s Royal Coven by Juno Dawson is a wonderful book that will take the world by storm if we let it.

Her Majesty’s Royal Coven by Juno Dawson, is on sale today, May 31, 2022. I would like to thank Penguin Random House for providing the ARC of Her Majesty’s Royal Coven by Juno Dawson in exchange for my honest review.

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happygaytimes · 2 years

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Okay so I just noticed this and I’m making you see it too but I love the difference between my two copies of HMRC by Juno Dawson

Like the first one is the “author signed” one by Waterstones where she has literally just signed it. Then the second one is the one she signed while talking to me, as well as signing it to me she has doodled in the title, written a wee note and accidentally signed it twice bc she was listening to me talk while doing it.

#I have other books of hers like this but hmrc is the only book I have the two copies of #happygaytimes #juno dawson #hmrc #books #book #fantasy #fantasy novel #her majesty’s royal coven

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blogmollylane · 2 years

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Newly acquired: Her Majesty’s Royal Coven by Juno Dawson

#juno dawson #her majesty’s royal coven #lgbtq #transgender #spice girls #witches #covens #matriarchy

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