Shattered Review: Is It Worth Reading?
Lee Winter’s award-winning sapphic superhero novel trades capes and fights for sharp dialogue, social commentary and an ending that splits readers. Here’s what to know before you start.
Lesbian Representation
The Power of Mercy Review: Is It Worth Reading?
Fiona Zedde’s Black lesbian superhero novella pairs a shape-shifting vigilante with a murder that hits far too close to home. It’s dark, gritty and absorbing, held back by a short page count that leaves the mystery and the romance underfed.
Bloom Into You Review: Is It Worth Reading?
Our review of Nio Nakatani’s complete eight-volume yuri manga Bloom Into You: a slow burn with a near-perfect ending, held back by early consent problems.
Bingo Love Review: Is It Worth Reading?
Tee Franklin’s Bingo Love follows Hazel and Mari from a 1963 church bingo hall to a second chance in their sixties. Gorgeous art and rare representation, squeezed into too few pages.
This Poison Heart Review: Is It Worth Reading?
Kalynn Bayron’s Medea retelling has wonderful moms and a gorgeous poison garden, but a slow first half, a thin sapphic romance and a hard cliffhanger. Here’s what readers say.
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name Review: Is It Worth Reading?
Audre Lorde’s 1982 biomythography is a foundational Black lesbian life story, not a romance. Our evidence-led review of its prose, its portraits of women, its 3/5 heat and the slow start some readers flag.
Thanks for Listening Review: Is It Worth Reading?
Molly Horan’s YA ace romance has a lovable stage manager narrator, careful asexual representation and a starred Kirkus review, but readers say the love story moves too fast.
Forward March Review: Is It Worth Reading?
Forward March by Skye Quinlan is a warm ace lesbian YA rom-com with standout asexual representation, held back by a crowded plot and a political storyline readers say never lands.
The Dos and Donuts of Love Review: Is It Worth Reading?
A pun-packed sapphic YA baking show novel with a proud fat, queer, Bangladeshi Irish heroine, held back by a romance that waits in the wings until late.
Knit One, Girl Two Review: Is It Worth Reading?
A soft, closed-door Jewish sapphic novella about a yarn dyer and a painter. Readers love its kindness and craft detail, and almost all of them wish it were longer.