Trans Wizard Harriet Porber And The Bad Boy Parasaurolophus: An Adult Romance Novel
Trans wizard Harriet Porber is a master spellsmith who's found herself in a bit of a pickle. After finishing wizard college, Harriet made a name for herself by creating a hit viral spell, but has since failed to craft a follow up. Now Harriet's agent, Minerma, is breathing down her neck, suggesting that Harriet take a trip to an island off the coast of England for inspiration. Hoping for some peace and quiet to clear her head, Harriet Porber arrives to find that her new neighbor, an angsty bard named Snabe from the band Seven Inch Nails, is already there making a racket. This parasaurolophus spellcaster is a bad boy through and through, and with his incredible powers of metamagic, Snabe reveals that this layer of reality is much more than it seems. Could Harriet and Snabe really be characters in a parody romance novel? Soon enough, these two are discovering they have more similarities than differences: both trans, both strong, and both hoping to create a new spell that will change the world. But with the addition of two devious sentient motorcycles to the mix, Dellatrix and Braco, things start to get complicated. Now trans wizard Harriet Porber is caught up in a tale of magic and mystery where nothing is as it seems, except for one universal truth: love is real. This is a 52,000 word bad boy romance novel for adults. It contains some explicit scenes.
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Surprisingly and unironically very good.
Chapters 8 and 13 are some of the most memorable chapters of a book I’ve ever read. I can almost recall all of the scenes beat-for-beat because the absurdness made such an impression on me (in a totally positive way). It’s rare to find a book that makes me laugh out loud but this one got me good a few times. When I wasn’t laughing I was basking in the positivity and love that radiated from the pages.
(“I’m no longer a billionaire bad boy… maybe a hundred thousand dollar bad boy on a good night” How could I not laugh at that)
What I most appreciate about the core message of this book is that Chuck doesn’t just cynically tell Harry Potter fans to “care about something else.” Chuck offers real solutions: take your deep love and nostalgia for wizardry and combine it with your own powers of creativity to make something new, something even better than Harry Potter because the person making it will be working from a perspective of love and acceptance rather than hatred. You can choose to make a better Harry Potter without all the racist names, disgustingly antisemitic tropes, misogyny, and all the other vile bigotries apparent in the series. What a great message to send and one that is certainly going to be more effective than the usual (and understandable) vitriol turned on HP fans.
I think meta-magic is a really interesting concept and now that I know playing with the fourth wall is a regular theme in Chuck’s work I’m excited to see what else is done with it. This was my first step into the Tingleverse—for some reason the Porber sequel was recommended to me over the original—and I loved it, can’t wait to read more from this strange (/pos) author.
Chapters 8 and 13 are some of the most memorable chapters of a book I’ve ever read. I can almost recall all of the scenes beat-for-beat because the absurdness made such an impression on me (in a totally positive way). It’s rare to find a book that makes me laugh out loud but this one got me good a few times. When I wasn’t laughing I was basking in the positivity and love that radiated from the pages.
(“I’m no longer a billionaire bad boy… maybe a hundred thousand dollar bad boy on a good night” How could I not laugh at that)
What I most appreciate about the core message of this book is that Chuck doesn’t just cynically tell Harry Potter fans to “care about something else.” Chuck offers real solutions: take your deep love and nostalgia for wizardry and combine it with your own powers of creativity to make something new, something even better than Harry Potter because the person making it will be working from a perspective of love and acceptance rather than hatred. You can choose to make a better Harry Potter without all the racist names, disgustingly antisemitic tropes, misogyny, and all the other vile bigotries apparent in the series. What a great message to send and one that is certainly going to be more effective than the usual (and understandable) vitriol turned on HP fans.
I think meta-magic is a really interesting concept and now that I know playing with the fourth wall is a regular theme in Chuck’s work I’m excited to see what else is done with it. This was my first step into the Tingleverse—for some reason the Porber sequel was recommended to me over the original—and I loved it, can’t wait to read more from this strange (/pos) author.
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