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 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: An award-winning debut with the best atmosphere on this list — a house full of evacuated taxidermy in 1939 — attached to a mystery that half its readers say never … 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 genuinely atmospheric 1831 London mystery with a slow-burn sapphic romance the cover copy never mentions — let down by a second half that abandons its own grimy realism for … Read more
This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A short, warm rewrite of the 1872 story that invented the lesbian vampire, built specifically so that this time the women survive it — gentler on horror than the source, and unapologetic about that. … 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
A 3.7/5 evidence review of She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan — award-winning queer historical fantasy about ambition, and why it is not the sapphic romance lists imply.