Seven Recipes for Revolution: 1

Ryan Rose

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The Bear meets Attack on Titan in this exhilarating, food-based epic fantasy filled with high stakes and monster steaks, perfect for fans of Pierce Brown and Jay Kristoff.

Paprick is a common butcher, carving slabs of meat from gargantuan monsters so elite chefs can prepare magic-granting meals for the rich. But Paprick’s true passion is cooking, and if he can learn the secret art, his dreams of liberating his people and sharing the monsters’ magic with the world could come true. He steals the precious ingredients needed to practice recipes at home, but if he’s caught, he’ll be executed.

As his desperation grows, he ventures into the black market and uncovers a spice imported from unknown lands. Combining it with the last of his stolen meat, he cooks a dish the world has never tasted before, with side-effects he couldn’t have foreseen.

The dish’s magic grows Paprick to kaiju-size, and legends of his powers spread among the people. Immediately, the rulers arrest him, but Paprick convinces them to make him a chef’s apprentice—if they ever want to learn his Recipe. However, his exposure to the world of high cuisine reveals the rot at its center, and with his new power, rebellion is only a few recipes away…

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Disco (he/they)
• Dec 29 2025

[Hi folks, It’s finally time! Here’s my list of my favourite queer reads this year. I’ll be doing another post soon with my top BIPOC reads!
Seven Recipes for Revolution by Ryan Rose

Food magic, queer normative, angry revolution, eat the rich!!
This is my top pick from the whole year.**
The Chromatic Fantasy by H.A.
Runaway nun becomes a transmasc highwayman, meets another transmasc highwayman, shenanigans
A Gentleman’s Gentleman by TJ Alexander
A transmasc Earl who doesn’t want a valet but gets a handsome valet and regrets everything (but not really)
Tradwife by TC Parker
Queer investigator looks into unsolved murders in a Tradwife community, everyone’s a suspect, fictional true crime
Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove
Monsters in space, kinda queer AI, more found family!
Coffin Moon by Keith Rosson
A brutal vampire revenge thriller. A man and his basics track down an evil queer vampire. I was shocked and horrified and hooked.
The Prospects by KT Hoffman
An MM baseball romance with a transmasc MC. Do I understand baseball? No. Did it make me happy cry? Yes!
The Saint of Heartbreak by Morgan Dante
Judas x Lucifer love story, very sad bois, slowest of slow burns, literally thousands of years
Self Made Boys by Anne-Marie McLemore
The Great Gatsby but they’re both transmasc, the romance, oh the romance
The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting by KJ Charles
A regency MM romance that will make you swoon. They were SO protective of each other!
Do share your favourites in the comments!
Much love, Disco x](https://discotopia.binderybooks.com/item/HSYcvJadXGio1qQkORkP/)

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