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.
A warm, really funny sapphic rom-com about two women who inherit a failing Portland sex shop, held back by sitcom humor and a thin supporting cast. Our evidence-led review.
Our review of Sunny Side Up by Missouri Vaun and VK Powell, a warm sapphic cozy mystery with a retiring police chief, a woman on the run and a town worth moving to.
A frozen-court political mystery with a genuinely fun sapphic marriage at its center, held back by a slow middle and a heroine a lot of readers wanted to shake. Our evidence-led review of Claire Eliza Bartlett’s YA standalone.
Is The Sweetest Season by Harper Hayes worth reading? Our early review of this closed-door small-town sapphic slow burn, covering the heat, the counting and the series.
A wintry, gothic selkie retelling set in 1830s Nova Scotia, with real menace and a tender closed-door love story, held back by a slow middle and a reveal readers see coming.
Elle Cobin’s debut is a gentle, closed-door coffee-shop slow burn with a supporting cast readers love — held back by a slow first half and an early, ARC-heavy rating.
A warm, faith-positive sapphic YA first-love story set in small-town Georgia, held back by an overlong deception plot and a side character many critics call ableist.
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.
A YA sapphic vampire mystery with a clever death-vision hook and a warm side cast, held back by a romance many readers never feel. Our evidence-led review.