Call Me Traitor, a sapphic fantasy by Everina Maxwell

After reading this book, I’m convinced. Everina Maxwell is going on my authors to follow list. Call Me Traitor blends so many distinct themes into one beautiful Sapphic story about rebellion, politics, love, academia, and war through a lens of neurodivergency and trauma. En is a magical wartank, trained for only obedience to the king’s magi and the commanders they assign her to. Tamol, whose name keeps getting infuriatingly autocorrected on every device I own, is a mage on the lam, exiled by her country alongside her college comrades for undisclosed treason. En has been tasked with bringing one of these traitors back alive to face the king’s justice. The rest of the exiles are expendable. Unfortunately for Tamol, she counts as “the rest.” The best part of this novel for me is that it addresses some very heavy themes with ample humor that doesn’t detract from the severity of the situations. Tamol is a hilarious wit, and as the reader comes to understand the character of En, we very…

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