Notes from a Regicide, Isaac Fellman
Notes from a Regicide, Isaac Fellman
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Notes from a Regicide

Author: Isaac Fellman

Narrator: Avi Roque

Unabridged: 13 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/15/2025


Synopsis

Notes from a Regicide is a heartbreaking story of trans self-discovery with a rich relatability and a science-fictional twist from award-winning author Isaac Fellman.

When your parents die, you find out who they really were.

Griffon Keming’s second parents saved him from his abusive family. They taught him how to be trans, paid for his transition, and tried to love him as best they could. But Griffon’s new parents had troubles of their own – both were deeply scarred by the lives they lived before Griffon, the struggles they faced to become themselves, and the failed revolution that drove them from their homeland. When they died, they left an unfillable hole in his heart.

Griffon’s best clue to his parents’ lives is in his father’s journal, written from a jail cell while he awaited execution. Stained with blood, grief, and tears, these pages struggle to contain the love story of two artists on fire. With the journal in hand, Griffon hopes to pin down his relationship to these wonderful and strange people for whom time always seemed to be running out.

In Notes from a Regicide, a trans family saga set in a far-off, familiar future, Isaac Fellman goes beyond the concept of found family to examine how deeply we can be healed and hurt by those we choose to love.

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books.

About Isaac Fellman

Isaac Fellman is the author of Dead Collections as well as The Breath of the Sun (published under his previous name), which won the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for queer science fiction, fantasy, and horror. He is an archivist at the GLBT Historical Society.

About Avi Roque

Avi Roque is a Latiné, trans masculine, nonbinary actor and voiceover artist. They have narrated over 55 audiobooks and have received numerous accolades, including an Odyssey Award, a SOVAS Award, and multiple Earphones Awards for outstanding narration. Their debut audiobook, Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas, was featured on Audible’s Top 10 Best Audiobooks of 2020.Avi is passionate about bringing LGBTQIA+ stories to life, especially those centered on marginalized communities—stories they wish they had access to growing up. While they are deeply committed to narrating Trans and Queer narratives,Avi also advocates for being cast beyond the scope of their identity, encouraging producers to see the full range of their talent.You can also hear Avi as the voice of Raine Whispers in Disney’s animated series The Owl House.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Emily on January 28, 2025

if transphobic freaks are gonna 1-star this without reading it, you'd better believe I will cancel you out......more

3.5 stars rounded up Beautifully written queer literary fiction with a bit of a speculative twist. Not quite what I was expecting, and not entirely my thing stylistically, but a novel I think will resonate with the right audience. Notes from a Regicide is supposed to be a memoir/biography written by......more

Goodreads review by Zana on January 27, 2025

This was a lot more literary sci-fi than I thought it'd be, which unfortunately, isn't really my thing. But I know some of my friends and mutuals would really appreciate this book. I really liked how this book showed how each of its MCs (Griffon, Etoine, and Zaffre) dealt with their transitions and t......more

Goodreads review by Christine on March 14, 2025

This book was beautiful and powerful but confusing. Throughout the book I constantly went back and forth between absolutely loving it and not understanding what they were talking about, like I had missed an inside conversation.......more

Goodreads review by KMart on April 14, 2025

This is one of those books that welcomes you into its pages and does not apologize for the messy, raw humanity within. This is not a book you rush through. It’s a book you sit with—one that asks you to slow down, breathe, and feel every bittersweet moment. Fellman has crafted something quietly magni......more


Quotes

“A delicate, ardent portrait of two aging trans revolutionaries and the son they never expected.” —Jenn Shapland, National Book Award finalist

“A glittering, empathetic story about the pains and pleasures of loving eccentrics....Marvellous, and heart-breakingly unsentimental.” —Jennifer Giesbrecht, author of The Monster of Elendhaven

Notes from a Regicide is a dazzling meditation on art and desire....it is also quite simply the best kind of book there is—dangerous because it is beautiful, and because it is true.” —Jedediah Berry, author of The Manual of Detection and The Naming Song

“Fellman paints an intimate and vivid portrait of a queer family weathering a dystopian world in this triumphant sci-fi novel.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

“Fellman (The Two Doctors Górski) writes a literary sci-fi novel about trans identity that will appeal to fans of Charlie Jane Anders or Izzy Wasserstein’s These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart, and those who were fascinated with the play on histories and identities in T. Kingfisher’s Sworn Soldier series.” —Library Journal

“Unapologetically queer, [Notes from a Regicide] is a somber, joyful treat of a tale that clearly comes from a place of knowing, and one that will linger in your memory.” —Kit Mayquist, author of Tripping Arcadia

“A unique and powerful book, perfectly blending fiction and memoir....Triumphantly painful and beautiful in equal measures.” —Caitlin Starling, author of Last to Leave the Room

“Weird, wonderful, and warm without ever losing its bite. Notes from a Regicide [is]...a messy labyrinth of heart-wrenching, lived-in detail.” —Mattie Lubchansky, author of Boys Weekend

“This novel is a revolving door of love and revolution, spinning so quick, the two become indistinguishable, the kind of book that propels a generation.” —Emme Lund, author of The Boy with a Bird in his Chest

More Praise for Isaac Fellman

“[A] thoughtful, acerbic, bracingly hopeful book.”—The New York Times on Dead Collections

“Utterly refreshing and thrilling. Dead Collections is a marvel that left me feeling as if miracles might lurk behind every doorway and inside every old box of papers.” —Charlie Jane Anders

“Unique and emotionally deep.” —Kirkus Reviews on Dead Collections

“This is dark academia at its most oppressive and intense. . . marvelously staged and meticulously examined.” —The New York Times on The Two Doctors Górski

“Confident and lyrical, The Two Doctors Górski is an academic gut-punch. A superb blend of the devastatingly familiar and exquisitely fantastical.” —Caitlin Starling, best-selling author of The Death of Jane Lawrence

“Wonderful voice, memorable characters and very interesting metaphysics. Couldn't put it down.” —Jo Walton on The Two Doctors Górski

“This brilliant, haunting tale packs a punch.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review on The Two Doctors Górski

“Fellman continues to showcase a skill for capturing psychological depths with flashing concision. . . . a new direction in Fellman's already impressive use of the speculative to think through questions of identity.” —Locus on The Two Doctors Górski

“An introspective masterpiece of low fantasy. . .[and] literary fantasy at its finest, a deeply contemplative and multilayered novel that explores the real psychological struggles of identity, imposter syndrome, and the trials of academic life.” —Grimdark Magazine on The Two Doctors Górski


Awards

  • Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year
  • Amazon.com Best Books of the Year