Protection by Carla Blake is labelled an erotic thriller. The story is centred on the relationships between actress Carrie Shilling, her bodyguard Andrea Stone and Isobel Pearce, a woman fascinated with Carrie. Carrie is a rising star, who recently left a popular TV soap to star in high profile movies. After a terrifying run-in withRead More
Link Round Up: April 10 – 16
Autostraddle posted Lumberjanes Launches TODAY! Grace Ellis and Shannon Watters Are Spilling Their Guts. Diversity In YA posted Want More Diversity in Your YA? Here’s How You Can Help. YA LGBT Books (Goodreads Group) posted YA books with butch lesbian characters. Balance by Georgia Beers was reviewed at C-Spot Reviews Hysterical: Anna Freud’s Story by Rebecca Coffey was reviewedRead More
Hannah reviews The Dark Wife by Sarah Diemer
The Dark Wife is a retelling of the ancient Greek myth involving Persephone and Hades. This myth is one of my favorites, so I picked up its reinterpretation eagerly. Diemer’s tale didn’t disappoint.This book simply holds a solid, good story. The prose is immediately engrossing and full of similes which paint the ancient world DiemerRead More
Jess reviews Babyji by Abha Dawesar
Babyji (2005) by Abha Dawesar is an atypical ‘coming of age’ novel featuring an academically gifted, sexually empowered female protagonist Anamika Sharma. Dawesar returns to her Indian roots, placing Anamika in the heart of a class-divided Delhi, juggling the pressures of being both a student and a lover. This is an unapologetic exploration of theRead More
Kalyanii reviews Tell Me by Deanna DiLorenzo
There is something haunting about a novel that engages in a manner such that the reader feels the story to be her story, seducing to a degree wherein the experience conveyed comes to flow through her veins and beat with her heart until it leaves her all but trembling with emotion, eventually settling within theRead More
Ashley reviews The Bermudez Triangle by Maureen Johnson
Nina, Mel and Avery have been inseparable for as long as they can remember — until Nina decides to attend a leadership program at Stanford the summer before her senior year of high school. Mel, who knows she is a lesbian but has never spoken it aloud, plans to spend her summer working alongside AveryRead More
Ally Blumenfeld reviews A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
(a.k.a. Why all queer ladies should read A Room of One’s Own) “For masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.” So ventures Virginia WoolfRead More
Link Round Up: April 3 – 9
AfterEllen posted The AfterEllen.com Book Club Choice for April Is… Autostraddle posted Dear Queer Diary: Virginia Woolf Is My Homegirl and Ten Books For Queers And Feminists To Read This Spring. LadyLike Book Club posted Episode 29 – Brought to You By These Sponsers. Lambda Literary posted New in April: Tom Spanbauer, Emma Donoghue, Michael Nava, Bernardine Evaristo, and Ron J. Suresha. Read More
Nicole reviews Digital Divide by K.B. Spangler
This month’s book selection is Digital Divide by K.B. Spangler. Initially described as a kind of sci-fi mystery tale with a lesbian protagonist, I found that that, indeed was exactly what the book delivered. Set in a near-future alternate Earth where several hundred people have been turned into, essentially, cyborgs in order to become ultimateRead More
Lena reviews Hearts Starve by Patricia Russo
Hearts Starve, Patricia Russo’s haunting novel, is a story about loss. Not the act of losing, the reality of loss. People who have already lost things and must confront their doomed actuality. For such depressing subject matter, it’s still a beautiful and heart wrenching book. Told as a dark, urban fairytale, the story follows threeRead More
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