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 yearning, witty Regency gothic about two rival novelists in a supposedly haunted house, with a Lambda Literary Award and two starred trade reviews behind it, undercut by a rivalry … 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 witty, inventive Regency fantasy with a scene-stealing fae narrator and two starred trade reviews, held back by that same narrator keeping readers at arm’s length from the romance and … Read more
This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A sweeping, emotional reincarnation romance: antique-shop owner Quinn and bestselling author Abby find old photographs that trigger shared visions of past lives — and realise they have found each other again and again across … Read more
This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: Clare Lydon’s most emotional book: a first love between two young women in late-1950s London, torn apart by the times and reunited sixty years later. Readers call it heartbreaking, beautifully researched and one of … Read more
This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: An unusual and gripping blend of tennis, espionage and pre-war history, as an American star is blackmailed into spying on the German champion she once loved. Readers found it tense and rewarding after a … Read more
This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A glamorous, fairy-tale butch/femme romance with a boxer readers fall for on sight, held back by a heroine many struggle to root for and an ending that resolves faster than its conflict deserves. Best … Read more
This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A haunted-house family novel about Black queer desire and the cost of silence, with a genuine emotional payoff and a Lambda-winning pedigree, held back by a slow first half and a romance that stays … 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, gorgeous historical fantasy about three witch sisters and the suffrage fight, with a tender sapphic subplot — undercut by a baggy middle and a romance that stays firmly … 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, funny, genuinely moving Southern classic with one of fiction’s most beloved sapphic couples at its heart, held back by a love story it never names and racial writing … 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 tense, beautifully controlled three-day novel of a 1918 Dublin flu ward, with a sapphic love story at its heart that arrives late and ends in grief, held back for … Read more