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Otherbound
416 pages
A tense, dual-perspective fantasy where sleep brings not rest, but a dangerous plunge into another world and another body.
What it feels like
This propulsive fantasy delivers a uniquely tense reading experience, built on the unsettling premise of being pulled into another person's body every time you close your eyes. The mood is steeped in otherworldly suspense as the narrative shifts between realities, exploring themes of intertwined destinies and hidden dangers. The prose is immersive and urgent, capturing the visceral disorientation of a protagonist forced to navigate a mute servant's increasingly perilous life in a strange land. It is a story that balances the vulnerability of lost autonomy with the high stakes of survival. Readers who appreciate queer young adult science fiction and fantasy will be captivated by this earnest, suspenseful journey where nothing is quite as it seems.
- Mood
- tense
- otherworldly
- unsettling
- Tone
- urgent
- suspenseful
- earnest
- Pace
- propulsive
- Themes
- loss of bodily autonomy · hidden dangers · intertwined destinies · queer identity
- The writing
- Direct and immersive, focusing on the visceral disorientation of shifting perspectives and mounting danger.
- The arc
- A disorienting plunge into another's reality that builds into a tense struggle for survival and understanding.
- Who it's for
- Readers who crave high-stakes portal fantasies with queer representation and intense, character-driven suspense.
Content notes
- profanity
- sexual situations
- loss of bodily autonomy
About the book
A seventeen-year-old boy finds that every time he closes his eyes, he's drawn into the body of a mute servant girl from another world--a world that's growing increasingly more dangerous, and where many things are not as they seem.
A 17-year-old boy finds that every time he closes his eyes, he is drawn into the body of a mute servant girl from another world, a world that is growing increasingly more dangerous. The plot contains profanity and sexual situations.
Description from Open Library.
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