That might be too vague, but I’ve recently read the Six of Crows Duology and Voyage of the Damned by Frances White and loved both. Something in that kind of vein would be perfect.
My criteria is:
* I say ‘light fantasy’, but by that I just mean nothing super dense. SciFi is also okay! Anything that takes me to ‘another world’ basically.
* Ideally the story will have a mystery or another element (like a heist) that keeps me gripped. I want to feel like I can’t put it down.
* I’m a sucker for lovable but broken characters and the found family trope.
* Ideally LGBTQ+ representation
Any suggestions welcome 🙂
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The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi.
Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett, maybe.
It’s noir pastiche and involves investing a murder by blunt instrument (a dragon). Lovable but broken is a yes, but the Watch is debatable as a found family. Later books in the series have LGBTQ+ representation but that reading relies on the fact that gender works differently if you’re a dwarf.
No LGBT rep, but {{Hawk and Fisher, by Green}} is one of my favorite
Becky Chambers, This is How You Lose the Time War, The Rook series, Lexicon
Ethan of Athos… Dr. Ethan is forced (by duty) out of his single gender space colony when a mysterious delivery arrives…
Off To Be The Wizard…. computer geeks hang out together in 1150 A.D., shhh, don’t tell anyone there is a mystery, one of the main characters is gay, but it doesn’t really come up
Mistborn… the chosen one magical orphan is recruited by the heist guy and solves a thousand year old mystery, no LGBTQ+, though
Rhapsodic by Laura Thalassa might be a good one for you based on the criteria you listed 🙂