Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! Natalie Keane is one of Hollywood’s top leading ladies. Unfortunately, with fame comes unwanted attention, sometimes in the form of crazed fans turned stalkers. With award season approaching as the man who held her hostage gets released from prison, Natalie agrees to extra security.Read More
Awards Season, a Fake Relationship, and Healing from Trauma in Cover Story by Rachel Lacey
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! What does Rachel Lacey’s new novel Cover Story have in common with the second-highest grossing film of 1992, The Bodyguard? A lot. Or nothing at all. If you’ve seen The Bodyguard, Cover Story will definitely feel familiar. There really are only so many ways that a celebrity/bodyguard romance can go,Read More
Medieval Queer Chaos: Gwen & Art Are Not in Love by Lex Croucher
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! Gwendoline and Arthur have been betrothed to one another since birth. Too bad they absolutely hate each other. When forced to spend a summer in Camelot together, Gwen and Arthur discover tantalizing secrets about one another: Gwen witnesses Arthur kissing a boy, while ArthurRead More
Sweet Sapphic Chaos: The Fiancée Farce by Alexandria Bellefleur
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! “She was a total fucking goner. Whatever magic Tansy was made of, Gemma wanted to drown in it, revel in the honeyed heat burning her up from the inside out. It was better than the finest bourbon she’d ever had the pleasure of sipping.”Read More
A Sapphic Marriage of Convenience Manga: I Married My Best Friend to Shut My Parents Up by Kodama Naoko
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! Machi has been going along with what other people want for as long as she can remember, but she’s so sick of her parents nagging her to find a husband that she’s ready to marry someone they’d hate to spite them. She wasn’t expectingRead More
Fake Dating at Its Best: Iris Kelly Doesn’t Date by Ashley Herring Blake
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! Delilah Green Doesn’t Care, the first book in Ashley Herring Blake’s Bright Falls series, was the first sapphic romance I had ever read. It is still my favorite because, not only is it an excellent book, but I credit it with opening up an entireRead More
A Sapphic Romance That Soars: Fly With Me by Andie Burke
Bookshop.org Affiliate Link “They were mirrors in a way. Both of them watching their loved ones suffer. Both unable to help in any meaningful way. Both coping—one with work and the other with a list. Both scared shitless of hurting the other one.“ Content Warnings: Terminal illness, chronic illness, misogyny, toxic relationship, grief, traumatic brainRead More
Iris Kelly Doesn’t Date Is a Satisfying End to Ashley Herring Blake’s Bright Falls Series
Buy this from Bookshop.org with a Lesbrary affiliate link! First, a confession: I never liked romance novel covers. For the first thirty-five years of my reading life, I had no idea what went on between the covers of romance novels (well, okay, I had some idea), but if it had anything to do with whatRead 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
Alexandria Bellefleur Continues to Make Seattle the Romance Capital with The Fiancée Farce
Bookshop.org Affiliate Link In a year of reading romance novels, I have learned a lot about the genre. First, and most importantly, I enjoy it so much that I usually read an entire novel within a single twenty-four hour period. Another thing that I have noticed—something that threatens to temper that enjoyment from time toRead More