This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A deeply emotional, much-loved romance between a gentle ex-con rebuilding her life and a closeted executive who fears losing her grown children — two women in their forties and fifties who, unusually, actually talk … Read more
This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: One of Harper Bliss’s darkest and most emotional books: a woman in her forties comes home to an Oregon lake to heal after a suicide attempt and falls for the resort owner who calls … Read more
This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: An intense, high-angst slow burn between a rising pro soccer player and the abused wife of a US senator, and a much-loved debut. Many readers couldn’t put it down; others found it overlong, the … 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, clear-eyed Outer Banks romance about an Army staff sergeant learning to name her PTSD and let a patient nurse love her anyway, held back by a flashback-heavy first … Read more
This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A genuinely kinky butch/femme erotic romance with far more feeling than its cover suggests and a butch domme readers fall hard for, held back by instalove, sheer repetition of scenes and a role-play opening … Read more
This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A hot, high-drama small-town age-gap romance with one of the most loved butch heroines in Melissa Tereze’s catalogue, held back by an instant attraction that asks for faith and a family so cruel that … 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 sixteen-years-in-the-making best-friends romance with real chemistry, a charismatic butch love interest and an unusually serious look at childhood trauma, held back by a heroine whose stalling wore out a … Read more
This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: One of the most quoted love stories in queer literature, with prose readers annotate by the page, undercut by a self-absorbed narrator and a deliberately unresolved ending that romance readers need to know about … Read more
This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: The 1950 paperback that launched lesbian pulp, and a clear-eyed wartime portrait of women living on their own terms, undercut by moralising lines its publisher demanded and a distance that keeps every heartbreak at … 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 claustrophobic 1965 Irish gothic about grief, secrets and one woman’s consuming fixation on her married neighbour, written in prose even its detractors admire, held back by a first half … Read more