Verdict: A cute, clean, low-stakes college romance about a girl who can’t talk to pretty girls and the soccer star who pursues her anyway. Series fans enjoy returning to the friend group; readers looking for tension or heat find very little to hold on to. Best for: Readers who want a sweet, PG sapphic campus … Read more
Verdict: A short, soccer-heavy fourth instalment in which a new national team coach reshuffles everything before the 2015 World Cup — satisfying for fans who love the team politics, but the book stops before Canada, and a growing number of readers feel the series is padding its way to the tournament. Best for: Readers deep … Read more
Verdict: The book where Jamie and Emma are finally a couple — and, for many readers, the series’ first real lull. Fans love watching the relationship work, and the women’s-soccer detail stays excellent, but a vocal minority found it a dragging filler instalment once the tension of getting together was gone. Best for: Committed Girls … Read more
Verdict: The Girls of Summer series grows up: ten years after book one, Jamie and Emma are professional players meeting again at a US national team camp. Less angsty and more rewarding than Training Ground for many readers — but it is a very slow, very PG bridge book, and it still leaves the big … Read more
Verdict: A gentle, fade-to-black age-gap romance set in an English golf club — a fifty-something divorcee’s late coming out, told with warmth and humour by Harper Bliss and her wife Caroline. Readers who want sweet and mature love it; readers expecting classic Bliss heat or high drama find it pleasant but forgettable. Best for: Readers … Read more
Verdict: A tiny, funny, zero-angst Christmas novella in which a kleptomaniac cat keeps stealing from the woman next door — pure comfort that does exactly one thing well, with just enough room for two likeable women and not much more. Best for: Cat lovers who want a two-hour holiday palate cleanser with banter and kisses. … Read more
Verdict: A tender, genuinely rare butch/butch YA love story with a found family readers adore and a final act that leaves people in tears, held back by a disorienting first half and an ending that is bittersweet rather than a romance HEA. Best for: Readers who want two butch girls written with real softness, a … Read more
Verdict: A gentle, closed-door butch/femme short story about a newly out band mom and a butch orchestra director snowed in at a music competition, warm and easy to love but held back by a length that leaves readers wanting a whole book. Best for: Readers who want a low-angst romance between two women in their … Read more
Updated on October 9, 2026 Verdict: A warm, funny, genuinely moving YA novel about queer community and a complicated family legacy, undercut by a back half that rushes and a romance that plays second fiddle to the bar. Best for: Readers who want found family, grief and queer joy more than a slow-building love story, … Read more
Updated on October 9, 2026 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 and a sapphic romance that is still only a flirtation. Best for: Readers who want a cozy science-fiction whodunit … Read more