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 564-page Scottish sea-myth romance between an ex-nun and the creature who planned to eat her, with enormous yearning and the best prose of Sinclair’s career — undercut by a … 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 sapphic Snow White retelling relocated to a pirate ship, with a genuinely charged captain-and-captive dynamic and 5/5 heat, undercut by a final act that resolves half its plot in … 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, top-band F/F omegaverse romance built on a genuinely good moral dilemma, undercut by a plot too thin to fill the court-intrigue premise it sets up. Best for: Readers who already know what … Read more
This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A gothic sapphic monster romance with a genuinely great premise, a magnetic serpent-queen love interest and 5/5 heat, undercut by a 124-page length that leaves most of its plot as an outline. 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: The most convincing butch/femme yearning I’ve read in a trade-published horror novel, undercut by a first half that takes too long to bite and an ending readers repeatedly say loses … 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 witchy sapphic finale with genuinely good grief writing and the series’ most explicit F/F content, undercut by a reconciliation that resolves before it earns anything. Best for: Readers who … Read more
This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: An accomplished sapphic epic fantasy with a bodyguard romance that earns its slow burn, undercut by a book-one ending that separates the leads and resolves nothing. Best for: Readers who want Game of Thrones-scale … 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 cosy sapphic Halloween-town rom-com with the most likeable setting I have read this year, undercut by a central romance that runs from strangers to soulmates inside a week. Best … 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 gothic horror romance good enough to land on Publishers Weekly’s six-title Best Romance list of 2025, undercut for a sixth of its readers by an insta-love that arrives before … Read more
This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A genuinely accomplished dark fantasy with a romance two-thirds of its readers describe as abusive — and the real question is not whether that is true but whether the book knows it. Best for: … Read more