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Finn Longman

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Finn Longman is an author and medievalist, originally from London. They write young adult and adult fiction, with a particular interest in genre-bending stories about identity, friendship, and monstrosity – of the metaphorical or the literal sort. They've spent most of their adult life either working as a library assistant or studying for increasingly niche degrees in medieval literature, but when they don't have their head in a book they can usually be found playing folk music in a local pub.

Finn is currently a PhD student at the University of Cambridge, researching friendship and affection in the later Ulster Cycle.
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Average rating: 4.08 · 4,034 ratings · 1,179 reviews · 5 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Wolf and His King 4.13 avg rating — 2,656 ratings — published 2025 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Butterfly Assassin (The Butterfly Assassin #1) 3.88 avg rating — 1,008 ratings — published 2022 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hummingbird Killer (The Butterfly Assassin #2) 4.21 avg rating — 261 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Moth to a Flame (The Butterfly Assassin #3) 4.33 avg rating — 110 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Animals We Became 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — expected publication 2026 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Constraints and Compromises: Why Line Edits Need Rules

At the end of February, I submitted my line edits for The Animals We Became, my next book — a queertrans retelling of the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi (the story of Blodeuwedd) exploring gender, trauma, and compulsory heterosexuality through assorted nonconsensual animal transformations and all the other fascinating horrors of medieval Welsh literature. Line …

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Finn Longman wrote a new blog post Constraints and Compromises: Why Line Edits Need Rules At the end of February, I submitted my line edits for The Animals We Became, my next book — a queertrans retelling of the Fourth Branch of the Mabinog Read more of this blog post »
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Finn Longman and 11 other people liked Lucky's review of The Wolf and His King: "I do not think I have ever read a book so beautifully composed as this one. The wolf chapters are in evocative, heart-twisting verse, and the (human) prose chapters are equally luscious. This book's ability to incorporate medieval stylistic choices w" Read more of this review »
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“…you’d crawl on your knees if it would reclaim him from whatever shadow has swallowed him, and damn the mud on your crown. If you cannot unbury him, then you’ll offer blood sacrifices on the grave he never had, feed his shade with the entrails of his murderer.”
― Finn Longman, The Wolf and His King

tags: love, revenge, yearning

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“You think all that’s inside you is darkness, Isabel, but I see light there. It’s small and it’s starved, but it’s there. And I wish you could see it too.’
‘A candle can’t do much against a black hole.’
‘So light another candle.”
― Finn Longman, The Butterfly Assassin

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“If they know what you are,' he said - clutching his prayer beads, white- knuckled, his mercy only just outweighing his fear - 'they will never let you be anything else.”
― Finn Longman, The Wolf and His King

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