Time and Tide Review: Is It Worth Reading?
A modern bisexual woman crash-lands in 1805 and falls for the novelist she grew up reading. Fun, warm and flawed, with a heroine readers can’t agree on.
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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.
Cool for the Summer Review: Is It Worth Reading?
Dahlia Adler’s bi YA summer romance gives a questioning heroine real care and a warm summer with Jasmine, but its love triangle runs on miscommunication. Our evidence-led review.
The Malign Ghosts of Summer Review: Is It Worth Reading?
Ann McMan’s sapphic historical novel has a found family readers adore and real emotional weight, but its short rotating chapters ask for patience. Here’s what the evidence shows.
Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel Review — Is It Worth Reading?
Sara Farizan’s 2014 Iranian American coming-out YA has a narrator readers adore and a loud minority report on how it treats bisexuality. Our evidence-led review.
Sizzle Reel Review — Is It Worth Reading?
Verdict: A messy, divisive queer Hollywood coming-of-age story: newly out bisexual PA Luna schemes to land a job on A-list actress Valeria Sullivan’s directorial debut — and lose her virginity along the way. Some readers found it raw, funny and relatable; many more were frustrated by a misleading blurb (the endgame isn’t the actress), internalised … Read more
The Final Strife Review — Is It Worth Reading?
Updated on October 9, 2026 Verdict: A blood-caste epic fantasy with one of the most original worlds in recent sapphic SFF and a genuinely moving addiction arc, held back by a slow first half, a pushy love triangle and a romance that shares the stage rather than owning it. Best for: Readers who want big-canvas … Read more
The Seafarer’s Kiss Review — Is It Worth Reading?
Updated on October 9, 2026 Verdict: A sharp, genuinely original Norse-myth Little Mermaid with a bisexual mermaid, a lesbian shieldmaiden and Loki as the sea witch, let down by a 224-page length that leaves the romance and the characters underbuilt. Best for: Readers who want a fast, icy, feminist fairy-tale retelling with sapphic longing at … Read more
Odd Girl Out Review — Is It Worth Reading?
Updated on October 9, 2026 Verdict: The 1957 lesbian pulp novel that taught a generation of women they were not alone, still emotionally true on the page, let down by plain, head-hopping prose and a love story that hands the girl to the man. Best for: Readers who want to hold a piece of lesbian … Read more
Superstars Review — Is It Worth Reading?
Updated on October 9, 2026 Verdict: A cult French novel of the 1990s Paris lesbian techno scene with a genuinely electric sense of place and sound, undercut by a repetitive middle, a narrator most readers cannot stand, and a relationship with a seventeen-year-old that many readers cannot get past. Best for: Readers who want literary … Read more