Every four years, the Winter Olympics rolls around and, like clockwork, I become temporarily obsessed with figure skating. This time, however, I’ve found my obsession sticking around a little longer, so I decided to reread Tillie Walden’s graphic novel Spinning, a memoir that explores the author’s years as a competitive figure skater and her decisionRead More
Gothic Schoolgirls: Spoiled Milk by Avery Curran Review
Avery Curran’s Spoiled Milk is a gothic tale of a girls’ boarding school in 1928. After the tragic death of golden girl Violet, Emily, Violet’s best friend, knows this was no accident. Emily is desperate to prove she was murdered, so she enlists the help of the other girls in her year, including even prim and properRead More
A Mystery with a Tragic Sapphic Subplot: The Lemon Twist by Élan Les Vies Review
Élan Les Vies’ The Lemon Twist comes out May 26, 2026. After her father’s descent into his gambling addiction, her mother’s untimely death-by-lighting strike, and her sister’s disappearance, 19-year-old Iris Sailor lives and breathes figure skating. That is, until her drug use is discovered and her dreams of going to the Olympics are snatched away. Hopelessly alone,Read More
Reading Queer: Poetry in a Time of Chaos edited by Maureen Seaton & Neil de la Flor
This poetry collection includes queer writers across multiple identities. It’s a celebration of the LGBTQ+ community even through times of hardship. With pieces that uplift our very existence to poems filled with rage and pain, this collection captures what it means to be human at the intersection of many marginalized identities. Below are just aRead More
A Disappointing Dreamy Fantasy: The Secret World of Briar Rose by Cindy Pham Review
The Secret World of Briar Rose by Cindy Pham (June 2, 2026) follows Corin, a thief searching for her missing sister, and Amelia, a princess who’s been asleep for 100 years. Corin stumbles her way into Amelia’s subconscious, where she reunites with her sister, and they proceed to travel through Amelia’s dreams and meet demons, alter-egos,Read More
Star Wars meets The Hunger Games meets The Bachelor: Love Galaxy by Sierra Branham Review
For Artemis Ialan, an ex-convict and trash collector living on a planet that has been reduced to a toxic wasteland, the opportunity to compete on an intergalactic dating show starring the prince and princess set to inherit the galactic empire is at once a dream… and a nightmare. After agreeing to an underhanded deal toRead More
Sapphics and the Sea
As a lesbian who has always been fascinated by the deep sea (so much so, I have a Goodreads shelf titled ‘weird ocean stuff’), it is particularly pleasing to me to see so many releases merging the two. I recently read and reviewed The Jellyfish Problem by Tessa Yang for the Lesbrary, and it gotRead More
A Lackluster “Yuri” on Ice: Just Between Us by Adeline Kon
This one’s on me. I should have known from the author’s “lesbian Heated Rivalry” comp-pitch viral tweet that something wicked this way comes. I understand marketing is a necessary evil—especially for emerging artists—but surely, there are some decent sapphic romance titles that would have made for a more fitting comparison. Anyway, we digress. I have alwaysRead More
This YA Take On Thelma and Louise Misses the Mark: Run Away With Me by J.L. Simmonds
Run Away With Me by J.L. Simmonds is a realistic YA novel about two teenage girls, classmates but not friends, who end up together on a desperate road trip filled with secrets and hidden dangers. The main character, Jessie, is quiet, uncertain, and on the run from her abusive stepfather’s corpse. Brooke is self-assured, outgoing, andRead More
Regency Romance for Fans of Twelfth Night: A Lady for All Seasons by T.J. Alexander Review
“If the mind is desperate to convey a thought, that thought will not be ignored.” I’m a big fan of T.J. Alexander’s romances, not only for their lyrical writing and frequent trans protagonists, but also for how skilled they are at getting me to root for that happy ending. Their latest book, A Lady for AllRead More
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