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Murderbot is great! Nowhere near as dark as some books I've read, but yeah they do definitely have LGBT rep in them!

Any reason in particular you're not reading the last book?

I didn't hate the relationship, I found it interesting and it was kinda neat seeing it from Jasnah's side and her reasonings and such. I'm sad for her that it's not going to work out, but like... it was never going to work out. Hoid has too much going on to settle down in a realistic way with another person.

And yeah the memory confirmation was great. Hoid being terrified is GREAT tension in the scene and for the book.

I actually don't mind slice of life. Sometimes a slow paced opening is a breath of fresh air.

A long Way to a Small Angry Planet was cute. It was a good little book and I went into it knowing nothing really and was pleasantly surprised by the queer rep. It felt natural and realistic even if it did involve aliens. Enjoyed it.

We're reading Gideon the Ninth (first of Locked Tomb) in book club in October on the Discord server.

I have The Priory of the Orange Tree purchased in ebook format but I haven't read it yet. Had no idea it had queer rep, so now I am even more excited to get to it.

I've definitely heard First Law is both grimdark and good. I have it on my TBR.

if you're not opposed to REALLY dark, Mark Lawrence's Broken Empire trilogy (starts with Prince of Thorns) is very good. You kinda have to push through hating theMC for the first part of the first book but it's totally worth it.

Also the Poppy War trilogy by RF Kuang is excellent.

Also, I will never pass up the chance to recommend Malazan Book of the Fallen.

For me "dark" fantasy aka "grimdark" is about darker themes, harsher language, and more realistic depictions of awful situations being in the forefront of what is happening (as opposed to just existing in the background). The book should be gritty and grim and feel hopeless and even victories should pyrrhic most of the time.

We appreciate you trying so hard. Don't feel bad. Once we reach a specific goal we are moving to OpenCollective and they may be more forgiving about donating from other countries. Not that you HAVE to, jut saying it might work there.

On our instance we have !cosmere@sffa.community and !brandonsanderson@sffa.community along with some other niche ones. Still working on generating content since we're so new.

Our entire instance is dedicated to Sci-Fi and Fantasy media.

I've heard of Demon Cycle and read that it's pretty good. Sounds interesting!

This is in the pipeline :)

welcome Xavier, nice to see you made it :)