You know when a bunch of factors work together in your favour to make a book particularly immersive for you? This was my experience, earlier during a holiday weekend (late October), when I read Carmella Lowkis’s sophomore novel A Slow and Secret Poison (February 10, 2026). A wonderfully atmospheric and twisty, somewhat slow-burn sapphic horror thrillerRead More
A Gentle Queer Awakening: Ophelia After All by Racquel Marie
Racquel Marie’s Ophelia After All follows high school senior Ophelia Rojas, a boy-crazy rose gardener. With prom and the end of high school swiftly approaching, Ophelia is reluctant to let anything else change, least of all her understanding of who she has always thought she is, but when she finds herself crushing on her classmate Talia Sanchez,Read More
A Lavender Haze Love Story: Late Bloomer by Mazey Eddings
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! “I wish I could say it gets better, but it only gets worse.” “Nothing says love like Taylor Swift.” There is a lot to like about Late Bloomer by Mazey Eddings, but these two lines are what made the book stand out for me. In context,Read More
The Joy of Neurodivergent Romance: Late Bloomer by Mazey Eddings
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! If reading Here We Go Again by Alison Cochrun and Late Bloomer this year has taught me anything, it’s that I have a type in romance novels: two neurodivergent sapphics in love. When Opal wins the lottery, she’s overwhelmed by everyone in her lifeRead More
A Blossoming, Neurodiverse Love: Late Bloomer by Mazey Eddings
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! After winning the lottery, Opal Devlin puts all her money in a failing flower farm, only to find an angry (albeit gorgeous) Pepper Boden already living there. Though she’s unable to find her grandmother’s will, Pepper claims she’s the rightful owner of Thistle andRead More