Unable to escape the incessant bullying Jodi faces at school and online, she feels taking her life is the only way out. Jodi’s mother finds her in the nick of time but the damage is already done. The color that once illuminated Jodi is now a seemingly permanent gray. Jodi’s parents decide moving to aRead More
Danielle reviews Owning Regina: Diary of My Unexpected Passion for Another Woman by Lorelei Elstrom
Owning Regina:Diary of My Unexpected Passion for Another Woman by Lorelei Elstrom is a woman-loving-woman’s answer to E. L. James’ Fifty Shades of Grey. Written in diary format, Meg Curtis gives us an up close and personal taste of exploring bondage, discipline, and sadomasochism (BDSM) for the first time. Describing her intense erotic inclination towardsRead More
Danielle Ferriola reviews Hood by Emma Donoghue
Hood is not your light reading on the beach, rather a long sitting in bed with a box of tissues and a warm blanket. Emma Donoghue writes a tragically beautiful story about two women who shared a special kind of love –a love that many might not agree with. Pen O’Grady and Cara Wall haveRead More
Danielle reviews After the Night by Rachel Dax
With images of Netflix’s Orange is the New Black fresh in mind, I was immediately drawn to After the Night by Rachel Dax (I admit I mainly associated the two because of lesbians and a women’s prison). Set in Berkshire, England in 1960, Dax takes us to Deepdown women’s prison where Leah Webster begins workingRead More