Queer Contemporary Fantasy with POC main characters

[Lady Red Ego]

Hi all! My name is Tsanhua and I'm looking for CPs/Beta readers for the first book of my contemporary fantasy trilogy. It's called The Reddening (69,000 words). Think TRC, The Vegetarian, and American Gods. Here's the blurb:

Kai Clearwater has spent her whole life being sporadically transported to a singular, repetitive scene of violence that always begins with a man leading a girl into a forest. Instinctually, she knows not to tell anyone. But immediately after arriving in the rural town of Livenstow for University, she meets a young man called Taariq who has a green glow that only she can see. Upon meeting his curious roommates, Mener and Badr, she learns that there is a Second World, a fluid parallel reality that is entirely dictated by the imaginative power of the occupier. Just as quickly, she learns that she one of the most powerful and unstable occupiers of this world.

 As she grows closer to Taariq, to whom she is magically bonded in an intensely and ambiguously intimate relationship, she has increasingly disturbing encounters with the key political players of the Second World – the stoic and controlling Badr, who seems to be coaxing her into a weapon for his own ends, the perplexing appearance of a young, mysterious man who can access her mind and asks her to call him Mouse, and the existence of the Self, a religious organisation that believe in colonising the Second World and regard her as a threat that must be wiped out. And there remains the final question that haunts her throughout: who is the man that murders the girl in the forest, and why?

Trigger warnings for non-graphic references to infanticide, fantasy gore, and past abuse. I'm more than happy to remove certain scenes that allude to these to make you comfortable - just let me know. It's on its fifth draft and is near completion. I just want to know where to tighten up/expand. 

If this sounds interesting to you, just drop a response here or at aprilt...@gmail.com and we can exchange our first few chapters. I'd especially like to hear from queer and BIPOC writers, but no worries if you're not! I'd love to hear from readers of all backgrounds. 

My favourite writers are probably C.S Pacat, Maggie Stiefvater (obviously), Madeline Miller, Anne Carson, Aimee Bender, and Lettered. I'm reading The Priory of The Orange Tree right now and loving it. 

I'm open to reading absolutely anything, but I should warn you that my preference is character-driven books and queer romances :)