#the fungi fey stuff is like. hmm mycelial hivemind vibes. which i like the idea of

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

In The Roses of Pieria

dark fantasy romance

a woman takes a well-paying but suspicious sounding job as an archivist working for a mysterious estate owner, and finds herself translating numerous never-before-seen artifacts from her specialty field on an ancient civilisation

as she begins to translate romantic letters between two ancient figures and unravel more about them, her frustration over the knowledge being kept secret and confusion over what the letters reveal grows

but between that and her developing feelings for her employer’s assistant, she finds out that getting to close to these secrets is dangerous

lesbians, vampires, fey

#In The Roses of Pieria #aroaessidhe 2024 reads #sapphic books #oughhhhhh yeah this was pretty good! #it’s such an interesting mix of elements and I think it pulls it off pretty well. But also definitely won’t work for everyone. #I definitely was most intrigued by the fungal fey but also knew going in that that was a more minor aspect. #However seems like it’ll be much more significant as the series goes on so am interested in that #the fungi fey stuff is like. hmm mycelial hivemind vibes. which i like the idea of #It starts off very slow and atmospheric and then the danger and action creeps up all of a sudden #and I can only assume that the series will continue with the higher stakes #if you like the idea of timewar but want it to be more grounded narratively (and also from the POV of mere humans reading the letters #not just focused on them) you might like this?? but also there’s a lot of other things going on. so #I will say…plot hole? I am confused how V needed C to translate the letter to send to A #when the whole point of C’s job is that A can’t read the ancient language anymore. did i miss something there lol? #also damn we got a furry but then she immediately lost her furry abilities forever. rip.