No Man of Woman Born - bookrastinating.com

Kindle Edition, 216 pages

English language

Published July 10, 2018 by Acacia Moon Publishing.

ISBN:: 978-0-9849822-9-5
ASIN:: B07C86CX8G

(1 review)

Destiny sees what others don’t.

A quiet fisher mourning the loss of xer sister to a cruel dragon. A clever hedge-witch gathering knowledge in a hostile land. A son seeking vengeance for his father's death. A daughter claiming the legacy denied her. A princess laboring under an unbreakable curse. A young resistance fighter questioning everything he's ever known. A little girl willing to battle a dragon for the sake of a wish. These heroes and heroines emerge from adversity into triumph, recognizing they can be more than they ever imagined: chosen ones of destiny.

From the author of the Earthside series and the Rewoven Tales novels, No Man of Woman Born is a collection of seven fantasy stories in which transgender and nonbinary characters subvert and fulfill gendered prophecies. These prophecies recognize and acknowledge each character's gender, even when others do not.

Note: No trans or nonbinary characters were killed …

Destiny sees what others don’t.

A quiet fisher mourning the loss of xer sister to a cruel dragon. A clever hedge-witch gathering knowledge in a hostile land. A son seeking vengeance for his father's death. A daughter claiming the legacy denied her. A princess laboring under an unbreakable curse. A young resistance fighter questioning everything he's ever known. A little girl willing to battle a dragon for the sake of a wish. These heroes and heroines emerge from adversity into triumph, recognizing they can be more than they ever imagined: chosen ones of destiny.

From the author of the Earthside series and the Rewoven Tales novels, No Man of Woman Born is a collection of seven fantasy stories in which transgender and nonbinary characters subvert and fulfill gendered prophecies. These prophecies recognize and acknowledge each character's gender, even when others do not.

Note: No trans or nonbinary characters were killed in the making of this book. Trigger warnings and neopronoun pronunciation guides are provided for each story.

2 editions

TaxideaDaisy2 reviewed No Man of Woman Born by Ana Mardoll (Rewoven Tales, #1)

Review of 'No Man of Woman Born' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Classic fantasy, including revisited fairy tales, can be a charming genre, or it can go very wrong. Fortunately Mardoll generally charms.

You could say that these are fantasy/fairy tales with a queer theme… or you could say that they are classic fantasy/fairy tales that happen to have unexpected gender details. For the most part I would say the latter, with the bonus that those unexpected details may turn out to be critical to the happy endings – once we work them out. I also never realized how very many times pronouns appear in casual fiction – until suddenly they were unfamiliar or semi-familiar neopronouns. That was definitely an eye-opener.

My favorites are probably Tangled Nets and The Wish-Giver. I found Early to Rise to be the least compelling.

While these stories were written FOR the LGBTQIA+ community, they can also be immensely beneficial to, and enjoyed by, cisgender and/or straight …

Classic fantasy, including revisited fairy tales, can be a charming genre, or it can go very wrong. Fortunately Mardoll generally charms.

You could say that these are fantasy/fairy tales with a queer theme… or you could say that they are classic fantasy/fairy tales that happen to have unexpected gender details. For the most part I would say the latter, with the bonus that those unexpected details may turn out to be critical to the happy endings – once we work them out. I also never realized how very many times pronouns appear in casual fiction – until suddenly they were unfamiliar or semi-familiar neopronouns. That was definitely an eye-opener.

My favorites are probably Tangled Nets and The Wish-Giver. I found Early to Rise to be the least compelling.

While these stories were written FOR the LGBTQIA+ community, they can also be immensely beneficial to, and enjoyed by, cisgender and/or straight readers. As with other kinds of fiction, these stories allow us briefly to inhabit selves other than our own. As at least one of Mardoll’s characters observes (and I’ve long thought), one doesn’t have to understand something to acknowledge its truth. There are truths here that many of us have never encountered before, and these stories are a charming way to meet them.