Different cultures are explored, and two different women come together in I Can’t Think Straight by Shamim Sarif, the director of the movie of the same name. Going back and forth from Amman, Jordan to London, the lives of two young women trying to make their mark on the world entwine in a funny, poetic,Read More
Rachel reviews The Sea Captain and the Lady by Vada Foster
For anyone looking for a novel with a beautiful lesbian love story, complete with seafaring and pirates, then The Sea Captain and the Lady by Vada Foster is the perfect fit. From the beginning she hooked me in; making me care about the two women the story is about. The Sea Captain opens with Colleen Edwards, aRead More
Rachel reviews Innocent Hearts by Radclyffe
Radclyffe, who established Bold Strokes Books, has written a beautiful, old-west lesbian romance, Innocent Hearts. It is early 1865, and the Beecher family: Martin, Martha and their eighteen year old daughter Kate, have moved from Boston all the way to New Hope, Montana Territory, giving up the comforts of the east to experience adventure inRead More
Rachel reviews Elena Undone by Nicole Conn
Nicole Conn, director of lesbian movies Claire of the Moon and Elena Undone, has written a beautiful, yet realistic romance describing the characters of the movie Elena Undone. In California, Elena Winters, wife of a pastor leading a homophobic congregation, is trapped in a loveless marriage and a life of chores and activities not of her choosing. She is lonelyRead More
Rachel reviews Pembroke Park by Michelle Martin
Pembroke Park by Michelle Martin is a daring novel for its time. Published in 1986, it is the story of two lesbian women in the regency period of England. The year is 1817 in Herefordshire, and wealthy widow Joanna Sinclair, one of England’s privileged “ton”, the upper class society of England, meets her new neighbor,Read More
Rachel reviews Pages for You by Sylvia Brownrigg
Sylvia Brownrigg delivers a beautifully done, complex novel, Pages For You. The novel follows the life of seventeen year old Flannery Jansen as she begins her first semester in a campus college. Just learning about life and naïve about love, Flannery meets twenty-eight year old graduate student Anne Arden, a more experienced, and hardened byRead More