This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A seven-hundred-page sapphic vampire academy romance with a genuinely devastating final act and the most invented world on our list, held back by copy-editing that eleven separate reviewers stopped to mention. Best for: Readers … Read more
This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: The foundational sapphic vampire romance, still the warmest and funniest book in the subgenre and still the one with almost no plot in it, undercut by an ending that arrives out of nowhere. Best … 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 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.