![]() ![]() ![]() Aqib can be very high-handed (it may sound like he isn’t in a high position, but he actually is–he’s a “Royal Cousin,” with the blood of the gods in some small measure). Lucrio is shall we say, rough around the edges. They’re real and flawed and often unlikable. Instead, within the context of this particular story, it worked for me. I won’t get into details for obvious reasons, but in any other book I’d call the ending a cheat. In the other, we watch Aqib’s life after Lucrio leaves. In one, the days during which Lucrio and Aqib are together pass one-by-one, as they fall for each other and strive to not be caught by Aqib’s family. Femysade readily goes with the gods, and Aqib and Lucretia are left to go on without her. The gods also awaken Aqib’s latent ability to speak with animals, and they predict that Lucretia will grow into her own abilities. ![]() She’s a prophesied savant, whose mathematical skills will help them in their equations. One day a prophet and a mage, of the people Aqib’s folk believe are gods, come to test his wife, Femysade. He marries and becomes friends with a princess and has a single daughter, Lucretia. Unfortunately, same-sex relationships are strictly forbidden in Aqib’s lands, and he doesn’t want to run away with Lucrio. In Kai Ashante Wilson’s A TASTE OF HONEY, young Aqib, who takes care of the animals in the Prince’s Menagerie, catches the eye of a soldier from a different land–and finally Aqib understands why women have never held his interest. ![]()
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