Darius the Great Deserves Better

there's something about this story, its characters, adib khorram's writing and the way it all comes together that just moves me

of course, with any story where a character has depression, i'm always wary of the depiction. but i think darius the great sets the bar/standard for depression depiction, at least for my personal taste, because it so closely reflects what i experience as a queer POC in america who lives with depression. i cried constantly throughout this book not because its content was sad (well, there were a lot of sad things) but because of darius' words and actions, because so often they resonated with me so deeply.

i love darius so so much, and i'm sad that there isn't currently a darius 3 in the works, but you can bet that i'll be on the look out for any announcements for it till the end of tune