Short, punchy, and dramatic, Emily Adrian’s Seduction Theory (Little, Brown 2025) is a character-driven novel about obsession, devotion, and manipulation set against the backdrop of academia. Adrian’s novel is structured as the MFA thesis of Roberta “Robbie” Green, who becomes embroiled in the betrayals and intricacies of her thesis advisor’s marriage. Simone is the enigmatic and beautifulRead More
Haunted in Every Sense: The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
Louise Erdrich’s The Sentence highlights the power of words. As it is set in a bookstore and the author herself owns Birchbark Books, I anticipated a richly detailed sense of place and community as well as a clear love of books. The Sentence delivers those things along with a complex look at what it means to be haunted. (ContentRead More
An Instant Classic of Sapphic Historical Fiction: The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
Admittedly, I am extremely late to the game when it comes to Yael van der Wouden’s 2024 debut novel The Safekeep (Simon & Schuster); however, I now regret not picking this one up sooner. The Safekeep has the lasting impact of an instant classic alongside the gripping and propulsive plot of any good story. Set in 1961 inRead More
The Cost of Ambition: To the Moon and Back by Eliana Ramage Review
Since she was a child, Steph Harper has yearned to step foot on the moon. She arrived at the Cherokee Nation when she was five, after her mother fled from her abusive husband. Her mother, Hannah, and sister, Kayla, thrived there. They both take pride in their culture and history. Steph, though, never felt likeRead More
7 Transfeminine Sapphic Books I Read In 2025
It’s a tough time to be trans, more so with the socio-cultural complicity and transmisogyny one witnesses even within supposedly progressive queer circles these days. However, as a trans masc author myself, I want to emphasize that while it is alright to call for the boycott of bigoted authors, it is equally—if not more—important toRead More
A Heartbreaking Love Letter to Hawai’i: Extinction Capital of the World: Stories by Mariah Rigg Review
This collection of short stories traces generations of characters living in Hawai’i, beginning with “Target Island”, which starts in 1948, when Harrison in his crib is covered in broken glass (but miraculously unharmed) when the window shatters from the shockwave of a bomb dropped by US government. When he’s seven years old, he proudly showsRead More
A Masterpiece of Lesbian Historical Fiction: The Original by Nell Stevens
As someone who read and loved Nell Stevens’s previous historical novel, Briefly, a Delicious Life (2022), I was eagerly anticipating her latest release, The Original (Norton, 2025), and it did not disappoint! Set primarily in England in 1899, Grace is the longtime ward of her uncle’s family on their once-grand estate. After her parents were sent to mental institutions,Read More
Sapphic Love in Defiance of Dictatorship: Cantoras by Caro de Robertis
The Atlantic—salt-bitten and memory-laden—beats beneath every clause of Cantoras, and Caro De Robertis (they/them) times their prose to that tidal metronome, letting sentences drift eastward onto Uruguay’s raw ocean edge. Some clauses stretch out like the low-tide flats while others are cast out to sea, where they leave periods bobbing like bottle-caps. Reading it, I heardRead More
Sugar, Spice, and Suffragettes: When We Lost Our Heads by Heather O’Neill
I admit, I am tired of feminist retellings. Or rather, books marketed as powerful treatises on female rage, when in reality, they are often little more than palatable, watered-down morsels of women’s empowerment, lacking any nuance. Unfortunately, even fictional empowerment remains a privilege usually afforded to classically beautiful, relatively upper-class white women, who enjoy maximumRead More
The Best Vampire Novel Since Interview with a Vampire: Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab Review
In one of the most anticipated releases of 2025, V.E. Schwab crafts an entirely new sapphic vampire story. Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil (Tor 2025) is the best vampire novel since Interview with the Vampire (1976). Set across three distinct timelines spanning almost five centuries and countless countries, Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil follows three womenRead More
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