Being Hers Review — Is It Worth Reading?

Being Hers by Anna Stone book cover

A patient, consent-forward age-gap femdom romance with a charged first two thirds, held back by a manufactured third-act conflict and heat that reads thinner than its billing.

Learning Curves Review — Is It Worth Reading?

Learning Curves by Rachel Lacey book cover

This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A genuinely adult academic age-gap romance with a 15-year gap, a famous pottery-wheel scene and no miscommunication plot anywhere, held back by a second lead the book never explores as thoroughly as the first. … Read more

Boss of Her Review — Is It Worth Reading?

Boss of Her by Anna Stone book cover

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 consent-forward femdom workplace romance with a genuinely magnetic older lead, let down by a third-act breakup that several readers call engineered rather than earned. Best for: Readers who want … Read more

Precious Red Pearls Review — Is It Worth Reading?

Precious Red Pearls by Holly Hawthorne book cover

This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A short, genuinely well-written gothic about hunger and ownership, undercut by a consent question five separate reviewers say the book never actually answers. Best for: Dark romance readers who know what a captivity premise … Read more

For Love and Blood and Fury Review — Is It Worth Reading?

For Love and Blood and Fury by J.J. Arias book cover

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 only sapphic vampire romance where the throuple is genuinely a throuple rather than a couple with a guest, sold as a complete romance and ending on a cliffhanger the … Read more

Better Off Red Review — Is It Worth Reading?

Better Off Red by Rebekah Weatherspoon book cover

This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: The foundational sapphic vampire romance, still the warmest and funniest book in the subgenre and still the one with almost no plot in it, undercut by an ending that arrives out of nowhere. Best … Read more

Providence Girls Review — Is It Worth Reading?

Providence Girls by Morgan Dante book cover

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, formally ambitious sapphic cosmic horror romance with some of the most striking prose in indie sapphic fiction, undercut by two narrators who sound like the same person. Best … Read more

The Woman from the Waves Review — Is It Worth Reading?

The Woman from the Waves by Roslyn Sinclair book cover

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 564-page Scottish sea-myth romance between an ex-nun and the creature who planned to eat her, with enormous yearning and the best prose of Sinclair’s career — undercut by a … Read more

Lady Venom Takes a Mistress Review — Is It Worth Reading?

Lady Venom Takes a Mistress by Kat Blackthorne book cover

This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A gothic sapphic monster romance with a genuinely great premise, a magnetic serpent-queen love interest and 5/5 heat, undercut by a 124-page length that leaves most of its plot as an outline. Best for: … Read more