I'm deciding whether or not to nominate this because I'm not sure if anyone else has read the books!
FANDOM NAME: The Wode Series by J. Tullos Hennig
WHAT MAKES IT GREAT: It's a queer historical fantasy retelling of the Robin Hood series! It's a five book series, with the first four books already out and the fifth book tentatively being released in 2019. Robin Hood and Maid Marian (Robyn and Marion, respectively, in this version) are brother and sister and keepers of the old religion and ways, and Gamelyn, the future Guy de Gisborne, becomes friends with them and lovers with Robyn and is torn between duty and love toward them and toward his new religion and ways. Over the course of four books, it follows a similar trajectory of the folk tale you know, but there's a lot of betrayal and action and adventure, and a lot of mutual pining.
It shares a lot of similarities with The Mists of Avalon in the sense of old religion versus new, expected relationships versus relationships built on love, strong female characters, magic versus non-magic, etc. It's very sex-positive for a novel set in the 12th century, and there's definitely inclinations of poly relationships.
WHERE CAN I FIND IT?(optional): Amazon, Kindle, eReader download via a library
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FANDOM NAME: The Wode Series by J. Tullos Hennig
WHAT MAKES IT GREAT: It's a queer historical fantasy retelling of the Robin Hood series! It's a five book series, with the first four books already out and the fifth book tentatively being released in 2019. Robin Hood and Maid Marian (Robyn and Marion, respectively, in this version) are brother and sister and keepers of the old religion and ways, and Gamelyn, the future Guy de Gisborne, becomes friends with them and lovers with Robyn and is torn between duty and love toward them and toward his new religion and ways. Over the course of four books, it follows a similar trajectory of the folk tale you know, but there's a lot of betrayal and action and adventure, and a lot of mutual pining.
It shares a lot of similarities with The Mists of Avalon in the sense of old religion versus new, expected relationships versus relationships built on love, strong female characters, magic versus non-magic, etc. It's very sex-positive for a novel set in the 12th century, and there's definitely inclinations of poly relationships.
WHERE CAN I FIND IT?(optional): Amazon, Kindle, eReader download via a library