I watch The Holiday every December, so when I heard about a sapphic book coming out with the same premise—two strangers swap houses over the holidays and fall in love with people from each other’s lives—I knew I had to pick it up. As you’d expect, we have two main characters: Clover, who left herRead More
A Second Chance Christmas Romance: Make the Season Bright by Ashley Herring Blake
What can I say: around December, I start craving Christmas romances, both in movie and book form. The sapphic Christmas movie selection may still be pretty weak, but at least we have plenty of seasonal sapphic romance books to choose from. I enjoyed the previous Ashley Herring Blake romances I read, so this seemed likeRead More
10 Sapphic Holiday Romance Books to Cozy Up With This Winter
As the cold of winter starts to settle in and festive cheer buzzes in the air, it’s the perfect time to cozy up with a romance novel to keep warm. Unexpected friendships, fake dating, and second-chance romances abound in these 10 sapphic holiday rom-coms. Make You Mine This Christmas by Lizzie Huxley-Jones This is aRead More
A Hallmark Movie as a Sapphic Novel: In the Event of Love by Courtney Kae Review
Dive into In the Event of Love and the Fern Falls Christmas tree farm this holiday season, where there’s no lack of cozy vibes. A log cabin with freshly baked cinnamon buns awaits us and our main character. Morgan Ross leaves when times are tough. When her grad party turns into a disaster that destroysRead More
A (Christmas) Light in the Darkness: All is Bright by Llinos Cathryn Thomas
Full disclosure: the author is a friend and provided me with an eARC of this novella in exchange for an honest review. Thankfully, I tend to enjoy everything she writes, so this is neither a hardship nor a friendship-ending challenge! It was actually a humid, sunny, 31-degree late summer Toronto day when I wrote thisRead More
Baby’s It’s Cold Outside… Let’s Stay In and Read Sapphic Holiday Romances!
As the sun goes down at 4pm and the temperatures plunge down to the lower forties (if I am lucky), I can’t help but want to curl up on my couch with my cat, a heated blanket, and a good Christmassy story. Below are a few books that I am hoping to devour this month—feelRead More
A Holiday Romance with Depth: Season of Love by Helena Greer
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! Every year, I intend to read a bunch of queer holiday romances in December, but I don’t usually follow through with it. The holiday romances that I have read were often flops, which doesn’t help. This year, I gathered together my collection of sapphicRead More
Fake Dating Meets Single Parenting: Make Her Wish Come True by A.L. Brooks
Buy it on Amazon with this Lesbrary affiliate link! Make Her Wish Come True by A.L. Brooks was released on October 23, 2003 and is a contemporary romance about two women who are absolutely not in a place to date. Or so they keep telling themselves. Abby Baxter had to grow up way too fast,Read More
All The Pretty Girls Read Sapphic Stories: Readalikes for Reneé Rapp’s Snow Angel
If you have watched The Sex Lives of College Girls or Mean Girls (the musical), then chances are that you’re familiar with bisexual singer/actor Reneé Rapp. In 2022, Rapp released her debut EP Everything to Everyone, which featured nine original songs about mental health, her queer identity and love. Most recently, Rapp released her firstRead More
Meagan Kimberly reviews Make You Mine This Christmas by Lizzie Huxley-Jones
Christopher and Haf meet at a university Christmas party one night and after drunkenly kissing under the mistletoe, they’re mistaken for a couple. Rather than own up to the truth that they were simply strangers making out at a party, they go along with the idea. Haf agrees to fake date Christopher during the breakRead More