This is a post-apocalyptic ride of a novel with many a comparison to the Mad Max movies. Desert wastelands, thrilling motorcycle rides, and dinosaur-like creatures await in these pages! Jin-Lu, our main character, is a mage-bike courier, which means she has an aesthetically cool and extremely dangerous job taking messages and cargo across the wastelandsRead More
A Painfully Realistic Teen Romance: Cupid’s Revenge by Wibke Brueggemann
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! I will admit that the cover really influenced me in picking this one up. I think it’s stunning. But I’m glad I did! Tilly is only non-artist in a house of passionate artists, and she’s always felt left out. Her parents don’t really understandRead More
GBBO, but Sapphic and Bangladeshi: The Dos and Donuts of Love by Adiba Jaigirdar
Bookshop.org Affiliate Link Adiba Jaigirdar, author of The Henna Wars and Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating, has become known for her compulsively readable teen romances centering queer Bangladeshi-Irish characters. Her newest novel, The Dos and Donuts of Love, tackles fatphobia, racism, and familial expectations, this time on the set of a nationally televised baking competition. Seventeen-year-old ShireenRead More
Shakespeare, Fae, and Orisha: That Self-Same Metal by Brittany N. Williams
Bookshop.org Affiliate Link At the age of sixteen, Joan Sands possesses exceptional craftsmanship skills that she employs to create and maintain the stage blades for The King’s Men, a theatrical troupe led by William Shakespeare. Joan’s remarkable blade-crafting ability is rooted in her magical power to manipulate metal, bestowed upon her by her guiding deity,Read More
Culinary Combat School: Cooking With Monsters by Jordan Alsaqa & Vivian Truong
Bookshop.org Affiliate Link Recently, I read and loved Basil and Oregano by Melissa Capriglione, a sapphic YA graphic novel set at a magiculinary school. I am delighted to say that Cooking with Monsters—one of my most-anticipated books of the year—is also a sapphic YA graphic novel set at a fantasy cooking school. In this case,Read More
A Hilarious and Sweet High School Love Triangle: Belle of the Ball by Mari Costa
Bookshop.org Affiliate Link In the graphic novel Belle of the Ball, Brazilian author and illustrator Mari Costa treats us to a charming, sweet, and funny story of a high school love triangle between a nerdy wallflower, a charming jock, and an overly driven cheerleader. When Belle Hawkins (who goes by her last name), school mascotRead More
Danika reviews The Restless Dark by Erica Waters
Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link During October this year, I tried to pack my TBR with seasonal, Halloween-adjacent reads, and The Restless Dark looked like the perfect match. It’s a sapphic YA horror/thriller book set at a true crime podcast event where listeners compete to try to find the unrecovered bones of aRead More
Danika reviews She Gets the Girl by Rachael Lippincott and Alyson Derrick
Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link Do you want to read a fun and absorbing new adult F/F romance written by a wife/wife author team? Of course you do. So you can probably stop reading the review now. Go ahead and grab it. This follows two point of view characters: Alex and Molly. AlexRead More
Meagan Kimberly reviews Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova
Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link Alejandra Mortiz wants nothing to do with her magic, so she tries to get rid of it, resulting in catastrophe. Putting her trust in a brujo named Nova sends her on the path to nearly losing her family. She must travel to the magical realm of Los LagosRead More
Danika reviews Indestructible Object by Mary McCoy
Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link Messy bisexuals, this one’s for you. ❤️ One of my favorite things to read about is flawed main characters. Characters who make mistakes–mistakes they really knew better than to make, but they did it anyways. I can’t stand negative reviews of books based on the protagonist having flaws,Read More