This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A feral, funny, genuinely creepy witch-coven debut with one of the best friendship ensembles in YA sapphic fantasy, held back by a slippery plot and a prose style that some readers never settle into. … Read more
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 stronger, more emotionally honest sequel that takes Hannah’s trauma seriously and gives her and Morgan a relationship built on communication, held back by a vague villain and the loss … Read more
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 gentle, character-first YA witch fantasy with a genuinely clever curse at its centre and a slow-burn sapphic romance that pays off, held back by a sagging middle, a thin … Read more
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 lush, angry palace fantasy about surviving a king who owns you, with a tender forbidden romance at its centre, held back by a slow first half, a heroine many … Read more
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 furious, fast, genuinely original anti-fairy-tale with a Black lesbian heroine who wants the whole story torn down, undercut by thin worldbuilding, a cartoonish villain and a romance that arrives … Read more
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 tender, slow-building princess romance between a betrothed bride and her fiancé’s sister, held back by a thin world, a slow first half and an assassination plot that readers see … Read more
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 lyrical, grief-soaked sapphic Cinderella that mattered enormously in 2009 and still has some of the loveliest prose in YA fantasy. It’s held back by glacial pacing and a romance … Read more
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 quick, likeable Salem witch mystery with an already-out lesbian heroine and a genuinely sharp portrait of a toxic ex, let down by thin characters, a romance that barely gets … Read more
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 raw, grief-soaked YA mystery with one of the best bisexual heroines in the genre and a love story told entirely in the rear-view mirror, let down by a whodunit … Read more
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 fast, smart YA hostage thriller with a genuinely memorable bisexual con-artist heroine and a sweet sapphic relationship at its centre, undercut by a heist that some readers find too … Read more