Verdict: A warm, funny butch/femme “cuffing season” romance with real chemistry, a scene-stealing five-year-old and co-writing so seamless readers can’t find the join, held back by a late-book breakup built on a secret that many readers found contrived. Best for: Readers who love a relationship-of-convenience setup, a butch single mom and a kid who matters … Read more
Verdict: A rare butch-for-butch Rosh Hashanah romance with real heat, a Sephardic artist lead and a synagogue community readers love, held back by a heroine who dithers and a months-long timeline that the page count never makes you feel. Best for: Readers who have been hunting for two butches falling for each other, who want … Read more
Verdict: A hot, emotionally heavier-than-it-looks stud/femme Christmas novella that gives a beloved side character her own story, held back by a length readers keep calling too short and an ending that feels more like a door left open than a door closed. Best for: Readers who already love Zedde’s Like Her world and want Pam’s … Read more
Verdict: A cosy, well-liked snowed-in butch/femme Christmas novella with an ice-queen surgeon and a golden-retriever carpenter, held back by a length that moves the romance faster than at least one reader could follow and a reader record too thin to prove much beyond “people enjoyed it.” Best for: Readers who want a one-sitting holiday romance … Read more
Verdict: A funny, genuinely hot butch/femme Passover novella with Jewish representation readers rarely get to see on the page, held back by a heroine whose hot-and-cold routine wears thin and a length that leaves both women underdeveloped. Best for: Readers who want an explicit sapphic holiday romance that isn’t Christmas or Hanukkah, a swoon-worthy butch … Read more
Updated on October 9, 2026 Verdict: A cozy-looking Christmas tree farm romance that is really a book about grief, sobriety and surviving an abusive father, with a fat butch lead readers cherish, held back by a romance that runs hot and cold and a closed door that leaves the chemistry half on trust. Best for: … Read more
Updated on October 8, 2026 Verdict: A sapphic marriage-in-crisis novel that is unusually honest about how two people stop talking to each other, and unusually frustrating for exactly the same reason. Best for: Readers who want a second-chance romance about repair rather than reunion, who can sit with a couple who avoid the conversation for … Read more
Updated on October 8, 2026 Verdict: A 68-page winter dragon novella that delivers exactly the cosy, spicy holiday treat it advertises — and nothing beyond it, which is why nearly a third of readers land on three stars. Best for: Readers who want a seasonal palate cleanser between longer books, who are fine with insta-love … Read more
Updated on October 5, 2026 Verdict: A warm, low-angst workplace romance at a struggling winter resort, with genuine chemistry from the first meeting and a father-daughter subplot that gives it more weight than the cover suggests, held back by a business plot readers call naive and a late crisis almost everyone sees coming. Best for: … Read more
Verdict: A queer Hallmark Christmas movie with the sex left in — snowy, warm and genuinely explicit, undercut by a narrator a large minority of readers cannot stand and a conflict the book repeats rather than resolves. Best for: Readers who want holiday comfort, a tree farm in the snow and open-door heat, and who … Read more