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Rat queens
136 pages
A foul-mouthed, blood-spattered love letter to tabletop roleplaying games and ride-or-die female friendships.
What it feels like
Reading this feels like sitting at a table with your most chaotic, hilarious friends during a fantasy roleplaying campaign that has completely gone off the rails. The energy is relentlessly propulsive, driven by rapid-fire, profane banter and kinetic, blood-splattered action sequences. It is a boisterous, booze-soaked experience that never takes itself too seriously, yet manages to anchor its wild antics in genuine emotional stakes. Beneath the snark, the gore, and the tavern brawls lies a surprisingly tender core of ride-or-die female friendship and found family. It will absolutely delight readers who love their high fantasy irreverent, their heroines unapologetically messy, and their magical worlds brimming with modern attitude and cosmic horrors.
- Mood
- chaotic
- boisterous
- blood-splattered
- booze-soaked
- Tone
- irreverent
- raucous
- profane
- snarky
- unapologetic
- Pace
- propulsive
- Themes
- ride-or-die female friendship · found family · embracing chaos · outrunning the past
- The writing
- The dialogue is sharp, relentlessly profane, and packed with modern snark that perfectly complements the kinetic, gory artwork.
- The arc
- The journey shifts from drunken, carefree tavern brawling to a fierce, blood-soaked defense of found family against cosmic horrors.
- Who it's for
- Readers who want their high fantasy served with a heavy dose of modern swearing, unapologetic female antiheroes, and tabletop campaign chaos.
Content notes
- graphic violence
- profanity
- substance abuse
- gore
- sexual content
About the book
"This booze-soaked second volume of RAT QUEENS reveals a growing menace within the very walls of Palisade. And while Dee may have run from her past, the bloated, blood-feasting sky god N'rygoth never really lets his children stray too far" -- Publisher's website.
Description from Open Library.
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