I love a time loop story, so I had to pick up up this sapphic YA take on the trope—especially one with with fat and disabled characters on the cover! In the first chapter, Phoebe is living August 6th for the 26th time in a row. Every day is the same, and every day sheRead More
Queer Cozy Fantasy with Magical Animal Shenanigans: The Phoenix Keeper by S.A. MacLean
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! I’m animal lover who’s always looking for more cozy queer fantasy, so this book seemed tailor made for me. It follows Aila, a phoenix keeper at a magical zoo who is trying to restart their phoenix breeding program to help bring the phoenixes backRead More
A Love Letter to Summer Camp: Wish You Weren’t Here by Erin Baldwin
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! Enemies to lovers is a popular trope, but most people don’t have full-on nemeses in real life. So in contemporary settings, rivals to lovers is more common: the people you compete with, argue with, and hate. Wish You Weren’t Here presents a lower stakesRead More
A Witchy Parent Trap: Emma and the Love Spell by Meredith Ireland
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! Emma has plans for the perfect summer, and they all involve her best friend (and crush!) Avangeline by her side. However, Avangeline reveals that her parents are getting a divorce, and her mom plans to take her with her to New Orleans! Emma decidesRead More
A Sapphic, Victorian Parent Trap: Don’t Want You Like a Best Friend by Emma R. Alban
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! Pretty much as soon as I discovered Emma R. Alban’s Don’t Want You Like a Best Friend, I was excited to read it. From the frothy cover to the Taylor Swift lyric title (admittedly I don’t actually know Taylor Swift’s music well enough to recognize thatRead More
A Muffin Baking- and Hijinx-Filled Romantic Comedy: Vengeance Planning for Amateurs by Lee Winter
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! Vengeance Planning for Amateurs by Lee Winter was published February 2024 and is Lee’s first intentional romantic comedy. The book follows muffin baker Olivia Roberts, her beloved stuffed penguin Trip, and her band of book club misfits that meet at the local crime bookstore.Read More
A Cozy Queer Comic of Community: Matchmaker by Cam Marshall
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! This was a surprise, last-minute entry in my list of favourite reads of 2023! I stumbled on this while researching new releases for Our Queerest Shelves, and I was pleasantly surprised to see it was by a local British Columbia author/artist! I requested itRead More
A Cozy Queer Bookstore Fantasy: Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree
Bookshop.org Affiliate Link This is a prequel to Legends & Lattes, which I adored. It’s a cozy fantasy novel with low stakes and impeccable vibes. Let me skip the conclusion of this review: if you liked the first book, I can’t imagine you won’t also like this one. And if you didn’t like Legends &Read More
A Fantasy of Community: Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! Legends & Lattes has been reviewed at the Lesbrary before, and it’s certainly gotten a lot of praise online in general, so why do I feel the need to add my own positive review to the mix? I think it’s because the reason IRead More
A Sapphic Regency Romp: Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburgh by Rachael Lippincott
Bookshop.org Affiliate Link As a current Pittsburgh resident, as soon as I saw that the Lesbrary had received a review copy of Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburgh by Rachael Lippincott, I knew that I needed to read it. A fun sapphic romance mixing regency and the steel city with added time travel? Sign me up. And itRead More
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