"The Stone Prince" by Fiona Patton
May. 17th, 2005 08:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
katikatThe "The Stone Prince" by Fiona Patton is THE gay fantasy book, really. Not even Lynn Flewellyn's "Nightrunner Series" is so good (and I have a soft spot for these books). I mean, Patton pushes all my buttons here:
- Prince Demnor and his male Companion Kelahnus are so incredibly devoted to each other; you can fairly feel their love from the pages and the fact that they hop together in bed whenever they have the chance (although off screen) is more than sweet
- Prince Quindara (well, she is actually a Princess but this is a gender-neutral society where the women have male titles like Duke instead of Duchess and Prince instead of Princess) and her younger lover Troy; I really love stories where the female is older, stronger and harder and the man is the gentle one in their relationship
- the Royal twins Marcellus and Atreus; well, they sleep together in one bed, limbs entwined, and they share a psychic link - enough said ;)
This book is more character-driven than action-driven. There are not many battle scenes but when they are there then they are really intense. There is a lot of h/c, especially between Demnor/Kelahnus and Atreus/Marcellus. And there are not many scenes with characters you don't really care about - like the Heathland rebels. The book focuses mainly on Demnor and the tension between him and his mother, the Aristok, and Demnor becoming the Aristok after his mother's death.
A really great book. More than highly recommended!
- Prince Demnor and his male Companion Kelahnus are so incredibly devoted to each other; you can fairly feel their love from the pages and the fact that they hop together in bed whenever they have the chance (although off screen) is more than sweet
- Prince Quindara (well, she is actually a Princess but this is a gender-neutral society where the women have male titles like Duke instead of Duchess and Prince instead of Princess) and her younger lover Troy; I really love stories where the female is older, stronger and harder and the man is the gentle one in their relationship
- the Royal twins Marcellus and Atreus; well, they sleep together in one bed, limbs entwined, and they share a psychic link - enough said ;)
This book is more character-driven than action-driven. There are not many battle scenes but when they are there then they are really intense. There is a lot of h/c, especially between Demnor/Kelahnus and Atreus/Marcellus. And there are not many scenes with characters you don't really care about - like the Heathland rebels. The book focuses mainly on Demnor and the tension between him and his mother, the Aristok, and Demnor becoming the Aristok after his mother's death.
A really great book. More than highly recommended!
