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 Victorian vampire gothic with the best prose in the sapphic corner of the genre, let down by a middle that wanders for longer than the story needs it to. … Read more
This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A warm, genuinely unusual cosy fantasy — dragons who imprint inside the egg, a realm run as a co-operative a century after its monarchy fell — ending on a cliffhanger that has now gone … 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 only book on our dragon shelf where the dragon negotiates — a genuinely original conception of the creature, attached to a twist five readers guessed at the thirty-percent mark. … 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: Orpheus in dragon country, and the book where Maddileh and Saralene finally say it out loud — a fantasy novella with a romance thread that pays off, rather than 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 warm, well-earned close to the quartet that gets the marriage exactly right and skips the alchemy in its own title. Best for: Readers who have finished the first three … 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 best-liked instalment of the cosiest sapphic fantasy series going, undercut by a royal coup its own cosiness has to keep rescuing — and by a cliffhanger nobody warns you … Read more
This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A warm, lore-dense contemporary dragon romance with the best character work of any indie sapphic romantasy this year — undercut by 725 pages, an unsignalled cliffhanger, and a prologue that gives away its own … Read more
A 3.9/5 evidence review of To Shape a Dragon’s Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose — the closest structural match to Fourth Wing in print, and why the sapphic lists are a book early.
A 3.9/5 evidence review of Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh — a Hugo-winning sapphic space opera about radicalisation, and why it is not the romance sapphic lists imply.
A 3.8/5 evidence review of The Blood-Born Dragon by J.C. Rycroft — the best dragon bond in sapphic fantasy, and the love interest its own readers cannot stand.