Alternative Romance discussion

Sky Tongues by Gina Ranalli - Romance between a hermaphrodite woman and another woman.


THE FOLLOWING HAVE SPOILER ALERTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!







Pleasure of a Dark Prince by Kresley Cole - You find out toward the end that this brother and sister who are never seen together are one person with this Ranma 1/2 curse and she/he is in love with this broken hearted dude. I hope they get their own book!

Tong Lashing by Peter David - Apropos falls in love with this chick that turns out to be a dude in the end. Very funny.

Familiar Scars by Christy Leigh Stewart - The leading couple adopt a cross-dressing child prostitute.

I would like to read your book, Christy. It sounds interesting.

Oooh, these totally sound like the kind of romance stories I'd be into! ...Which means there's about 98% chance my library doesn't have them, but I can try lol

Familiar Scars by Christy Leigh Stewart - The leading couple adopt a cross-dressing child prostitute.
I freaking LOVED Peter!!! He was like, my favorite character even though he was barely in the book XDD.

You'll enjoy the sequal, in it Peter adopts a totally heterosexual conformist child.

...I can't tell if you're joking or being serious :/

This thread just reminded me of the movie Zerophilia ! I think that movie would qualify as...gender-bender bizarro romantic comedy? lol. It had such an odd premise that I thought it would be crap, but it was actually really cute/sweet~ I wanna go watch it again now...

Seriously joking.

Christy wrote: "Seriously joking."

I was leaning toward joking, but you never know ;)

If I Were a Lady... by Bryl R. Tyne - A pre-op M2F transgender teacher hooks up with a straight male principal.

Not a good book but I love the premise. Does anyone know any good transgender romances?

Maledicte by Lane Robbins is a great gender bender / trans. I literally can't recommend this one enough.

It has characters with a whole lot of punch and depth and a complicated back story. The main character Miranda has her young lover Janus taken away from her and swears revenge so she allows herself to be possessed by a Kali-esque type goddess that promises her revenge in return for some rather hefty payments Miranda must make in return. Only problem is the two female personalities come to a standstill and for various reasons niehter wants to completely back down so the other can claim control of the physical body.

As a result the conflict between the two gives room for a third, and separate personality to take control who is fully and completely male - the Maledicte of title fame. It's not your typical "girl in boys clothes story", the gender identity is complete and the main character doesn't back down from it at all. Also contains the only love triangle I've ever read that is 100% believable and has actual stakes to it that contain (among other things) heavy questions of sexual identity for all characters involved.

Thanks!

Sounds awesome, thanks!