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, fiercely voiced reclamation of Egypt’s last pharaoh with genuine emotional weight and a superb audiobook, undercut by a narrator who foreshadows everything and a queer thread far quieter … 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 gothic Van Helsing mystery with gorgeous prose, a found-family detective team and a genuinely unsettling killer, undercut by a slow first half and a romance that arrives too late … 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 beautifully written, decades-spanning love story between two women that lands as the emotional gut-punch it promises, undercut by a central pair some readers never believe in and an ending … 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 big, funny, sorrowful 1980s Kentucky family saga with a married woman’s love for another woman at its centre, rich in character work and let down by a slow middle … 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, deeply felt Creole family saga with a hidden love between women at its core, held back by a slow middle and a romance that often waits in 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 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. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: The book that launched one of lesbian fiction’s longest-running couples, a Secret Service bodyguard romance with real sexual charge and a hero readers have loved for twenty-five years, held back by a heroine many … Read more
Is Love Me Like You Shouldn’t by Harper Bliss worth reading? Our review of the therapist-client age gap romance — the 5/5 heat, the ethics problem, and the grief.