Disobedience Review: Is It Worth Reading?
A thoughtful, award-winning novel about two women who loved each other in Orthodox Jewish London, with an ending many readers find hard.
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Only Ever One Choice Review: Is It Worth Reading?
A tender second-chance coming-out romance with a Muslim heroine in South Africa, let down by a clunky opening.
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.
Whenever You’re Ready Review: Is It Worth Reading?
Rachel Runya Katz’s sapphic road trip through grief and Southern Jewish history has a five-star friendship at its heart and a romance readers say gets crowded out. Here’s what the evidence says.
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.
Melt With You Review: Is It Worth Reading?
Jennifer Dugan’s YA ice cream truck road trip has a lovely premise and a Booklist star, but readers keep tripping over its miscommunication plot. Here’s what the evidence says.
Picture-Perfect Christmas Review: Is It Worth Reading?
Charlotte Greene’s Glenwood Springs Christmas romance has a lovely town and friend group, but readers keep tripping over Quinn’s jealousy and a rushed reconciliation.
Returning to Love Review — Is It Worth Reading?
Verdict: A married-couple second-chance romance with some of the most honest depression writing in sapphic fiction, held back by a long, repetitive middle and a reconciliation that happens mostly off the page. Best for: Readers who want a realistic story about mental illness inside a marriage, and who can forgive a slow middle, a lot … Read more
This Ravenous Fate Review — Is It Worth Reading?
Black sapphic vampires in 1926 Harlem is a premise readers love. Our evidence-led review of Hayley Dennings’s YA debut weighs it against the editing, the pacing and an open ending.
The Witch Queen Review — Is It Worth Reading?
Heather Walter closes the Crimson Crown duology with a satisfying finale for Snow White’s wicked queen. Readers love the ending and Ayleth. The middle is a different story.