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Teach the Torches to Burn
Noah
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“Two days ago, I could not think of one thing to look forward to, and now I am dreaming in weeks and months and years.”
I watched this feature recently called In the Mood for Love, and I loved it so much that it had the unfortunate side influence of me… pretty much comparing it to each and every romance book I’ve read since. Unfairly so, I might include. What can I say? It’s a high bar! If every fleeting glance isn’t accompanied by the sad wailing of a violin’s waltz to signify a repressed and desperate yearning, then what’s the point in anything? Thankfully, as far as comparisons go, I think this novel more than holds its possess. Which is wonderful because at first, I was afraid to continue reading on because I wasn’t sure if I’d be able to handle a gender non-conforming retelling of a famously tragic, “everybody dies” story like Romeo & Juliet. But when I soldiered on and realized that Juliet was still a nature in this story, mostly unchanged from the original, and not retooled into a male personality like I originally thought thi
True fact: I become a lot of requests for angel/demon books on the LGBTQReads Tumblr, so how utterly delightful is it to be revealing the cover for one on the site today?? Rom and Yuli by Amara Lynn is a post-apocalyptic urban fantasy novella take on Romeo & Juliet with a male/non-binary pairing, which sounds pretty freaking stylish. Wanna learn more about it? Fine news: here&#;s the blurb!
A war between angels and demons has left Ground desolate and ruined.
Rom struggles to back his father and sister in the patch of wasteland they&#;ve claimed as home. Feeling restless, Rom takes to exploring when he can, and is shocked when he stumbles across another survivor.
Years of isolation have left Yuli feeling despondent. That all changes when they encounter Rom, who is unlike anyone they&#;ve met before, a brilliant light of expect in this mostly extinguished world.
As Rom and Yuli mature closer, both win a renewed desire for something more in this desolate land.
But in this dangerous world, depend on comes hard and demons are never far away.
And here&#;s the cover, constructed by the
Teach the Torches to Scorch is a modern, gender non-conforming remix of Romeo and Juliet, and while I enjoyed it, I didn’t love it as much as I had hoped. The story takes Romeo, the heir of the Montague family, and places him in a similar but updated situation, where he must hide his love for another male child, Valentine, amidst a family feud. The premise has a lot of potential, and the exploration of Romeo&#;s secret love and the tension it creates is intriguing.
However, the book wraps up a bit too neatly for me. One of the most impactful elements of the original Romeo and Juliet is how their tragic deaths lead to change within their families. In this version, Romeo and Valentine survive, and while their love story is touching, it doesn’t quite carry the alike weight in terms of societal change. The deaths of the original characters serve as a catalyst for growth, and here, we don’t see that same kind of transformation.
The characters, especially Romeo, felt underdeveloped. While I appreciated the queer adoration at the heart of the story, the affair between Romeo and Valentine seemed rushed. It