Regan Gallagher and Emma Bordeaux share a mutual friend, Sutton Spencer, and an apartment, but they are NOT friends. Ever since getting off on the wrong foot two years before their living arrangement, Emma has shown nothing but disdain for Regan. Unrelenting and hopeful, Regan is determined to change the nature of their relationship andRead More
A Rabble-Rousing Girl Reporter: Renegade Girls by Nora Neus Review
Renegade Girls tells the story of Nell, a girl from Chicago who spends summers with her aunt and uncle in New York. This year, at 17, Nell is eligible to marry… and more importantly, she’s working as a reporter! The story explores life as a late-nineteenth-century “stunt girl”, an undercover reporter, alongside a sweet story ofRead More
The Fight Isn’t Over: Ten Incarnations of Rebellion by Vaishnavi Patel Review
Ten Incarnations of Rebellion takes place in an alternate version of 1960s India, where British colonists’ brutal crackdown successfully quashed earlier attempts at independence. We meet Kalki as a teenager. Her father’s fight for freedom forced him to flee their home, and Kalki hasn’t heard from him since. Despite his rebellion liking costing his life,Read More
In Defense of Horny Bisexual Characters: How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying by Django Wexler Review
I picked this book up for the premise: it’s pitched as Groundhog Day meets Deadpool and is about a chosen one character who has been brought to a fantasy world to save the kingdom. Every time she dies, she wakes up at the beginning of her story, forever stuck in a time loop. After hundredsRead More
A Swoony Historical Sapphic Romance: An Island Princess Starts a Scandal by Adriana Herrera
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! Manuela del Carmen Caceres Galvan wants to experience a final lesbian hurrah in Paris before she has to marry a rich man for her family’s security. Cora Kempf Bristol, Duchess of Sundridge, wants to secure her place in the business world by negotiating aRead More
How Much Would You Sacrifice for Fame?: Every Time You Hear That Song by Jenna Voris
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! I won’t be able to get through this review without mentioning The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, so let me get the comparison out of the way now. Like Evelyn Hugo, this cover likely doesn’t scream “queer story,” but it is—twice over, actually. LikeRead More
A Painfully Oblivious Lesbian Love Story: Cash Delgado Is Living the Dream by Tehlor Kay Mejia
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! Your enjoyment of Cash Delgado Is Living the Dream will depend heavily on how you feel about reading hundreds of pages of a truly oblivious queer main character. The kind of character who googles, “Can you be straight and have a sex dream aboutRead More
Teen Witches Cover Up a Murder: When We Were Magic by Sarah Gailey
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! Alexis and her five friends share a secret—they all have magic powers. On prom night, Alexis’s magic goes wrong and a boy ends up dead. Now, the six teens have to keep this a secret as they try to make things right. Bonds areRead More
A Kind Voice from the Unkind Days of Early 2020: Care of by Ivan Coyote
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! Ivan Coyote is one of my all-time favourite authors; I love their short stories and their essay collections. I’ve gotten to see them perform several times, and it’s always an amazing experience. Which is why I was thrown when I listened to the audiobookRead More
A Page-Turning Mess of a Queer Love Polygon: The Happy Couple by Naoise Dolan
Buy this on Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! If you’re looking for something fun, marathonable, the right amount of messy, and full of queer love polygon drama, then look no further than The Happy Couple. I listened to this as an audiobook (a short and snappy 5.5 hour experience) and I foundRead More