Annie on My Mind Review — Is It Worth Reading?
Is Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden worth reading? Our review of the classic lesbian YA romance — the closed-door heat, the dated dialogue, and the banned-book history.
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The Color Purple Review — Is It Worth Reading?
This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A Pulitzer-winning novel of survival in which the love between Celie and Shug Avery is the turning point of a whole life, let down only by a second half that loses some readers in … Read more
Patience and Sarah Review — Is It Worth Reading?
This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A tender, plain-spoken 1816 love story that gave lesbian fiction one of its first happy endings, held back by a sagging final third and a few elements that have aged badly. Best for: Readers … Read more
Odd Girl Out Review — Is It Worth Reading?
This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: The 1957 lesbian pulp novel that taught a generation of women they were not alone, still emotionally true on the page, let down by plain, head-hopping prose and a love story that hands the … Read more
The Well of Loneliness 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: The most important lesbian novel of the twentieth century and a genuinely moving portrait of a woman who cannot fit the world she was born into, held back by a … Read more
Bite Me Review — Is It Worth Reading?
This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A gorgeously drawn sapphic YA vampire graphic novel with a killer hook and a found family worth staying for, let down by a romance that barely gets page time and a second half that … Read more
To the Death 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 sharp, fast YA premise — magical dueling as a spectator sport, a revenge plot aimed at a rival’s father, two Chinese American leads — held back by a world … Read more
Where Lost Girls Go Review — Is It Worth Reading?
This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A fast, genuinely unsettling YA cult thriller with a tender sapphic thread running through it, held back by a twist many readers see coming and an ending that stops short of the reckoning it … Read more
The Brides 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 handsomely researched sapphic Dracula prequel with thick gothic atmosphere and real ambition, held back by a glacial first half, a structure that loses readers, and a love story that … Read more
Daughter of the Hunt 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 strange, sensual Iphigenia-and-Artemis retelling set in modern Sydney, with a genuinely original ace-and-kink take on a goddess sworn to chastity, held back by a slow first half and a … Read more