This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A feral, funny, genuinely creepy witch-coven debut with one of the best friendship ensembles in YA sapphic fantasy, held back by a slippery plot and a prose style that some readers never settle into. … 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 stronger, more emotionally honest sequel that takes Hannah’s trauma seriously and gives her and Morgan a relationship built on communication, held back by a vague villain and the loss … 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 fast, smart YA hostage thriller with a genuinely memorable bisexual con-artist heroine and a sweet sapphic relationship at its centre, undercut by a heist that some readers find too … 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 sharp, funny 1940s New York locked-room mystery with a knife-throwing bisexual narrator and a genuinely lovable detective duo, undercut — for this site’s readers — by a romance that … Read more
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This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A foundational Black lesbian vampire novel that reinvents feeding as a consensual, spiritual exchange instead of predation, undercut by uneven prose and a slow, interior pace that a professional trade review and a real … 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 Lambda Award–winning gothic horror novel that reimagines Lucy Westenra and Bertha Mason as immortal survivors haunting 1967 San Francisco, anchored by a fierce found-family bond rather than a romance, … Read more
This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: The best-reviewed book in this site’s sports romance coverage — a slow-burn, grumpy/sunshine pairing between two Olympic-caliber winter athletes that critics and everyday readers agree actually earns its ending. Best for: Readers who want … 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 warmly character-driven college lacrosse romance with real chemistry and a meaningfully drawn friend group, undercut by a slow, mundane opening and a turn that several readers call sudden rather … 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 YA sapphic soccer rivals-to-lovers romance built on real forced teamwork instead of manufactured tension, held back by a single POV that leaves its own love interest thin. Best for: … Read more