The Mountain God Sleeps On Its Back
by Sam Farren
Lesbian FictionAdded on January 12, 2026
Description
The Mark of the Gods runs from Laslin’s palm to her heart. It is the only true part of her; her body is a mortal shell, destined to change like all the gods before her. She follows their legacy, two hundred years since the last god brought peace to the continent, answering what few prayers remain.Eight years after leaving the mountains she once called home, Laslin finds the beginnings of purpose in a woman named Avery. The rules she’d followed and etched for herself begin to break, and she realises she does not have to be defined by her divinity alone.Once committed to her godhood and now in love with a mortal, Laslin must reconcile the changes creeping across her skin with the truths awaiting her beyond cliffs rearing over the Empty Ocean.*The Mountain God Sleeps On Its Back follows a young god, Laslin, slowly transitioning from her mortal shell. Slow-paced and character-driven, this novel puts lesbian romance at the centre of godhood, duty, and the ruinous mysteries of a past age.
Reader Reviews
This is one of those cases I would love to write an impressive and very deep review, but I only can burst fangirling silly words (you know, love love! Awesome! Everybody should go read this now!) (More Love! Love! for good measure). It happens when something I read touches my black heart (black hearts and fangirling are a curious mix indeed) and leaves it a mess. I just would like to add: love love! Awesome! Everybody should go read this now! It is a slow paced, heartfelt story. More wholesome t
Ireally loved this book.in the past several days, I have torn through Farren's Dragonoak trilogy and Brackish books, and I unknowingly had read tens of thousands of words of their fanfiction before that. I love all of their writing that I've read, but this is definitely my favorite so far.some of you know that I have a fondness for webcomics. one particular type of webcomic genre I love is gays-gently-journeying-through-and-existing-in-a-fantasy-world (though I guess the Tea Dragon series by Kay
This is great. Very Sam Farren -- as always. There's a kind of pacing and interpersonal tension which I don't often find taking centre stage elsewhere. It's good in a different kind of way. It's also good on the level of execution. I like the prose here and the premise is great. It gives a lot of room to explore very human elements with a bit of a hat trick involving a premise of godhood.You get sense of purpose, one's relation to others and oneself, somebody else's primacy to their own history.
