Scarlett Reads: Half a Soul, Ten Thousand Stitches, and Longshadow

Hello, blog! Today I come with a review and recommendation of not one book, but three!

Half a Soul was recommended to me by an online friend literally years ago (either pre-pandemic or very early in the pandemic), and I checked the ebook out of the library and then returned it to the library unread probably five times over the course of two years, forgot about it, and then finally actually read it this year. This probably doesn't seem like an auspicious beginning, but listen, once I started reading it I was hooked. Regency manners? Balls? The Ton? The Fae? Social activism? Half a Soul was absolute catnip to me, and I immediately followed it up with Ten Thousand Stitches and Longshadow.

The three books are a trilogy in the romance novel way, rather than the fantasy way, by which I mean the second and third book focus on side characters from the first book going on their own adventures and getting their happy endings, as opposed to all three books being about building up to one single, over-arching story or one big fight against a villain. Each book is about a small fight against a small villain, and the triumphs of making the changes you can without losing hope because you alone can't change the entire structure of society.

Also there's fancy dresses, fairy smoochin', and queers. A+ work all around.

https://oliviaatwater.com/series/regency-faerie-tales