Sibling incest

[jain]

I'm looking for novels involving consensual sibling incest. The "consensual" doesn't have to mean healthy or happy by any means; I just don't want books about rape or other sexual abuse by siblings. I've already either read or have on my list The Carnivorous Lamb by Agustin Gomez-Arcos, Gemini by Michel Tournier, A Density of Souls by Christopher Rice, The Brothers Bishop by Bart Yates, and the Doctrine of Labyrinths series by Sarah Monette and, of course, Flowers in the Attic.

I'm most interested in suggestions for brother-brother or sister-sister incest fiction, but I'm also willing to try recommended books involving brother-sister incest.

Comments

[holyschist]

Elizabeth E. Wein's The Winter Prince has some major brother-brother incest undertones, although there's only one expression of it and it's...dubious? Seriously not healthy, but it is Mordred we're talking about (she also wrote a short story exploring his incestuous relationship with his mother, which is very very dubiously consensual). Medraut and his sister Goewin have some odd tension, too.

Arthurian stories are pretty loaded with (at least initially) consensual brother-sister (or in some versions, nephew-aunt) incest, although that may not be what you're looking for.

[jain]

The Winter Prince is going on my reading list right now. It sounds awesome, especially since (as you say) there's incest all over the Arthurian legends, but most of it brother-sister and often of the accidental, oh-we-didn't-know-we-were-related variety (which is not a trope that I care for at all). Thanks for the recs!

[holyschist]

It's not the main focus of the book by any stretch of the imagination, but this is hands-down my FAVORITE portrayal of Mordred, and just an amazing book all around. (The sequels end up mostly focused on Mordred's son Telemakos and are set in a pretty fictionalized Ethiopia--much more removed from Arthurian legend.)