I’ve never read a book that would fall into the “low-angst romance” category, until I picked up The Secret Crush Book Club by Karmen Lee. The book is the third in a series that takes place in a quaint small town called Peach Blossom. This Black sapphic romance follows two women in their late 20s, Dani and Zoey,Read More
A Heartfelt Round-Trip: Every Step She Takes by Alison Cochrun Review
35-year-old Sadie Wells is desperate to escape her monotonous routines, family business, and some unexpected gay panic. When her injured sister offers Sadie her place on a tour along Portugal’s Camino de Santiago, she decides this is the perfect chance to get away from it all. After three glasses of wine on the plane andRead More
The Diversity of the Ace Experience: Kiss Me, Maybe by Gabriella Gamez
Picture this: you’re me, enjoying your whirlwind first-ever trip to the iconic Powell’s Books in Portland, and you spot a staff recommendation tag with the words “asexual lesbian” prominently featured. You are, in fact, an ace lesbian, so you’re certainly not used to accidentally finding representation in the bookstore. Naturally, you immediately pick up the book inRead More
Family Matters: Next Time Will Be Our Turn by Jesse Q Sutanto
Next Time Will Be Our Turn was the perfect book to read on an airplane, because so much of it involves characters travelling from one country to another, reflecting on what makes a home a home and what it means to live somewhere that doesn’t have room for their whole self. Fair warning, though: itRead More
The Horror of Getting Everything You Thought You Wanted: House of Beth by Kerry Cullen Review
Cassie is a bisexual woman with harm OCD. She is struggling at an entry level publishing job with a boss she hates, reading manuscripts at all hours despite no longer being sure this is the industry for her. She loves her girlfriend, Lavender, but feels like Lavender would be horrified if she knew about herRead More
Escaping Comphet Is In the Cards: The Lovers by Rebekah Faubion
When an advertisement for Rebekah Faubion’s The Lovers, a second chance romance about a tarot reader finding love again, came across my Instagram feed, I knew it would be a release day purchase. I have been practicing tarot for a couple years now and second chance romance is one of my favorite tropes to read, so inRead More
A Sapphic Asexual Manga Romance: Doughnuts Under a Crescent Moon Series by Shio Usui
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! I’m always looking for more sapphic manga with adult main characters: until recently, yuri stories between schoolgirls was about all I could find available in English. While some of those are great, I am excited to see more queer manga coming out now withRead More
How Queer is Queer Enough?: A Guest in the House by Emily Carroll
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! I’ve loved everything I’ve read by Emily Carroll, and A Guest In the House was no exception. The subdued, gothic scenes of the quiet horror of compulsory heteronormativity interspersed with technicolour dream sequences were extremely effective. I felt deeply for Abby, who seems toRead More