The Music and the Mirror Review | Lola Keeley | Is It Worth Reading?
A lush, mentor/protégé sapphic slow burn set in the world of elite ballet. Our full review of The Music and the Mirror by Lola Keeley — is it worth reading?
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The Headmistress Review | Milena McKay | Is It Worth Reading?
A Lambda Literary Award-winning, gothic ice-queen sapphic slow burn. Our full review of The Headmistress by Milena McKay — is it worth reading?
Something to Talk About Review — Is It Worth Reading?
This post contains affiliate links, including Amazon and Libro.fm. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A Hollywood boss-and-assistant slow burn with four starred trade reviews and unusually careful consent politics, undercut by a romance that does not land until the last tenth of the book. … Read more
MATELDA: In Silence We Forgive Review | Jossef S. | Is It Worth Reading?
This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. ★★★★½ 4.4 / 5 (calculated from Amazon & Goodreads reader ratings — 52 combined) Overall 8.8/10 Romance 9.0/10 Characters 9.2/10 Writing 9.1/10 Emotion 9.3/10 Heat 8.0/10 Ending 8.6/10 Re-read value 8.4/10 An ice-cold survivor and … Read more
Truth and Measure Review — Is It Worth Reading?
This post contains affiliate links, including Amazon and Libro.fm. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A slow-burn ice-queen workplace romance with the best-drawn fashion tyrant in sapphic fiction, undercut by an ending that is really a page break. Best for: Readers who want a burn … Read more
The Brutal Truth Review — Is It Worth Reading?
This post contains affiliate links, including Amazon and Libro.fm. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A sapphic ice-queen workplace romance with the best-drawn frost in the subgenre and dialogue that earns its laughs, held back by a structure that keeps its leads apart. Best for: … Read more
Who’d Have Thought Review | G. Benson | Is It Worth Reading?
This post contains affiliate links, including Amazon and Libro.fm. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A Goldie-winning marriage-of-convenience romance with one of the best slow burns in sapphic fiction and a genuinely heavy emotional undertow, limited by a single point of view that keeps one … Read more
Breaking Character Review | Lee Winter | Is It Worth Reading?
This post contains affiliate links, including Amazon and Libro.fm. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: The Lee Winter title Reddit recommends more than any other, built on unusually generous characterisation and a closet plot that never becomes a weapon, held back by a burn that … Read more
Casting Lacey Review | Elle Spencer | Is It Worth Reading?
This post contains affiliate links, including Amazon and Libro.fm. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A Hollywood fake-relationship romance with the sharpest banter in Elle Spencer’s catalogue, held back by a third-act blow-up that eight separate reviewers call manufactured. Best for: Readers who want a … Read more
Keep Talking: A Sapphic Age Gap Romance — Review
Keep Talking A Sapphic Age Gap Romance If the pull of an age gap is what you love, we have a whole list of age-gap lesbian romance worth exploring. There are slow burns, and then there is Keep Talking by J.J. Arias — and the difference is the kind you feel in your sternum.Bryn lands … Read more