Happy Pride Month! For June Book Club we wanted to make sure we picked a book that not only had a diverse LGBTQ+ cast of characters but also was Own Voices. We decided on Initiation: Sex Wizards Book 1 by Alethea Faust.
Magic is a rare gift that only exists in the bloodlines of the rich, the royal, and the reputable. Dominai of Airedale, a poor hunter and forest guide, is barely one of those things. But after a moonlit encounter with the wizard Allisande, Dominai’s life is changed forever. She reveals that Dominai has magic in his lineage and provides him with a letter of introduction to the Crux, the center of magical study in the Kingdom of Straetham.
Magical study is a far cry from the dusty tomes and rituals Dom was expecting. Instead, it is sex and desire, submission and surrender, loyalty and love, and, above all, trust. But when the trust of the Crux is betrayed, Dom must face his own insecurities and the unknown to protect his new home and his fellow wizards.
Alethea Faust’s debut novel delivers risk-aware consensual kink, hard BDSM, budding relationships between kind, emotionally mature adults, and a lot of butt stuff.
Initiation is a full-length adult fantasy, the first in the epic Sex Wizards series set in a sex-positive, magical world. This novel has a kink-based magic system which crosses a wide range of play with varying degrees of intensity. The wizards of the Crux include pansexual, polyamorous, fantasy race, nonbinary, gender non-conforming and intersex characters. Please see book preview for full CW.
Initiation is available on Kindle Unlimited as well as in paperback from the author through their site.
About Book Club
The Wandwed Book Club is a free community of readers that read indie fantasy books and discuss them on Discord.
At the end of the month, Dex and Ashley discuss the book on a live stream (which is later posted to youtube). Our goal is to build up this community and its events to include things like craft nights and author interviews.
