Books Beyond Binaries - Book Club

Books Beyond Binaries is a queer book club exploring LGBTQIA+ themes in adult and young adult fiction. Whether you're well-versed in queer fiction or just starting your journey, we're open to all who are interested. We meet every second Monday of the month starting January 13th from 3:30pm - 5pm in the Hoyt Mezzanine.

In August, we are reading "So Let Them Burn" by Kamilah Cole, a YA fantasy novel with magic, dragons, and lesbians. Here's the summary: 

Whip-smart and immersive, this Jamaican-inspired fantasy follows a gods-blessed heroine who’s forced to choose between saving her sister or protecting her homeland.

Faron Vincent can channel the power of the gods. Five years ago, she used her divine magic to liberate her island from its enemies, the dragon-riding Langley Empire. But now, at seventeen, Faron is all powered up with no wars to fight. She’s a legend to her people and a nuisance to her neighbors.

When she’s forced to attend an international peace summit, Faron expects that she will perform tricks like a trained pet and then go home. She doesn’t expect her older sister, Elara, forming an unprecedented bond with an enemy dragon—or the gods claiming the only way to break that bond is to kill her sister.

As Faron’s desperation to find another solution takes her down a dark path, and Elara discovers the shocking secrets at the heart of the Langley Empire, both must make difficult choices that will shape each other’s lives, as well as the fate of their world.