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 vivid, filthy, plague-ridden 1876 San Francisco murder novel with a genuinely gender-nonconforming heroine at its centre, let down for sapphic readers by a central relationship that the book deliberately … 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 backwards-told wartime London novel with the most convincing butch protagonist in Sarah Waters’s catalogue, undercut for romance readers by a structure that shows you every ending before it shows … Read more
This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A professionally made vampire-dynasty romance with the best supporting cast on our list, hampered by a first third that assumes you have already read the prequel. Best for: Readers who want traditionally published polish, … Read more
This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A short, warm rewrite of the 1872 story that invented the lesbian vampire, built specifically so that this time the women survive it — gentler on horror than the source, and unapologetic about 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: The most ingeniously plotted sapphic novel in English and a genuine landmark of Victorian pastiche, held back by a middle section that retells what you have already read. Best for: … Read more
Updated on October 5, 2026 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 yearning-soaked second-chance romance between two former child stars, with a sharp eye for what early fame does to people, held back by a couple … Read more
Updated on October 6, 2026 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 steamy, angst-heavy duet finale that hands the story to the ice queen herself and rewards readers who finished book one, held back by a … Read more
Updated on October 6, 2026 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, steamy arranged-marriage mafia romance with an ice queen readers enjoy watching thaw, undercut by a rushed enemies-to-lovers turn, a heroine many readers find … Read more
This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A three-POV sapphic family saga that turns a second-chance reunion into a book about grief, carried by the best character work of the series and undercut by an ending that hands too much forward … Read more
This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: An eight-years-later reunion between a broke nanny and the widowed designer who left her, with real angst and 5/5 heat, undercut by 508 pages that say the same things twice. Best for: Readers who … Read more