2021/094: Magic's Pawn -- Mercedes Lackey

2021/094: Magic's Pawn -- Mercedes Lackey

“If you do not touch,” said Moondance, as if he read Vanyel’s thought, “You do not live. If you seal yourself away inside your barriers, you seal out the love with the pain." [loc. 4903]

Grandiose epic fantasy, with a gay protagonist (and quite a few other gay characters), doomed romance, human-animal Bonds, beautiful people with jewel-coloured eyes, and emotional arcs as epic as the magical conflicts. I wish I'd discovered this book in my early teens: but it hadn't been written then ...

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