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 tender butch/butch novella about two women around fifty finally acting on years of pining, held back by a page count that stops just as the relationship starts and by … Read more
This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A warm, unusually grounded butch/femme second-chance novella about life after prison, with a heroine pair readers adore, held back by a length that leaves the romance feeling rushed and an epilogue that points somewhere … 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 clever, warm locked-ship mystery with a sharp-tongued sleuth and a real idea about who gets to count as a person, held back by a puzzle slighter than book one’s … 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 1941 Chicago noir in which a magical detective has three days of soul left and a girlfriend she has not told — Nebula-winning, unbearably tender, and let down by … Read more
A genuinely inventive Slavic-folklore monster romance at novella length, very steamy and very short, that spends part of its 104 pages on a third-act breakup it does not have room for.
This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: Eighteen thousand words that carry more grief, atmosphere and craft than most books five times the length — with a “high heat” label three readers say the book does not quite meet. Best for: … 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: Orpheus in dragon country, and the book where Maddileh and Saralene finally say it out loud — a fantasy novella with a romance thread that pays off, rather than 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: A beautifully written novella about oaths, masks and empire, sold as slow-burn romantasy by a starred trade review and described by eight independent readers as a romance you never actually … 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: The most artful book on our dragon shelf — Beauty and the Beast rebuilt through Vietnamese myth in a poisoned post-colonial world — and a demanding one, where seven readers … 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, deliberately strange sapphic monster romance that delivers exactly the thing its title promises and several things it does not — and the things it does not are why readers keep asking for … Read more