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Vic reviews The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo

July 11, 2022 by Lesbrarians

Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link I will be completely honest—I really do not care very much for The Great Gatsby. This book, however, far exceeds its source material (*gasp* sacrilege!). This is everything I want out of a retelling of a classic novel, and I am so glad I read it. Nghi Vo’s The ChosenRead More

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Rachel reviews A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson

July 18, 2021 by Lesbrarians

Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link If you’re a fan of paranormal retellings, historical fiction, and poetic writing, S.T. Gibson’s A Dowry of Blood is the perfect read. The novel is an innovative and refreshing retelling of Dracula, told from the perspective of one of Dracula’s three brides—infamous in the novel as the licentious, erotic, lust-filled womenRead More

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Danika reviews The Legend of Auntie Po by Shing Yin Khor

June 18, 2021 by Danika Ellis

Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link This is a quiet, almost slice-of-life graphic novel about a 13-year-old queer Chinese American girl’s life at a logging camp. Mei is the daughter of the camp cook, and she helps out in the kitchen and spends her free time spinning yarns for the other children in camp–especiallyRead More

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Danika reviews The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo

May 30, 2021 by Danika Ellis

Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link When I heard that a queer Vietnamese American The Great Gatsby retelling was coming out, I immediately requested a review copy. I can’t resist sapphic retellings, especially literary ones. There’s one little hiccup to me reviewing this book, though: I’ve never read The Great Gatsby. I haven’t evenRead More

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Shana reviews The Wife in the Attic by Rose Lerner

May 20, 2021 by Danika Ellis

The Wife in the Attic is a gorgeous reimagining of Jane Eyre, available as an Audible audiobook first and as an ebook in Fall 2021. This gothic tale follows a lonely governess employed by a charming aristocrat, but is fascinated by his mysterious wife.   Miss Oliver is a struggling guitar teacher in 19th-century England, anRead More

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Shira Glassman reviews Who We Could Be by Chelsea Cameron

May 2, 2021 by Danika Ellis

I think this book is going to be chocolate cream pie for readers who are suckers for friends-to-lovers f/f. Who We Could Be by Chelsea Cameron is pitched as (grown) Anne/Diana from the beloved Anne of Green Gables series. Cameron has definitely captured the magic of the conventional girl (Diana, or “Monty” in this book — Montgomery, possiblyRead More

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Danika reviews Malice by Heather Walter

April 19, 2021 by Danika Ellis

Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link Malice is an F/F retelling of “Sleeping Beauty” with a Malificent/Aurora romance, and Malificent (“Alyce,” in this case) as the main character. This is a premise that I know a lot of Lesbrary readers will be excited about! It’s a duology, and this volume is mostly setting aboutRead More

Who We Could be by Chelsea Cameron
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Shana reviews Who We Could be by Chelsea Cameron

February 18, 2021 by Danika Ellis

Who We Could Be is a fluffy, heartwarming romance about supposedly straight best friends who fall in love with each other. The story loosely reimagines two of my favorite characters, Anne Shirley and Diana Barry from Anne of Green Gables. I sometimes find coming out stories too predictable and trite. I loved this gooey, angstRead More

The Heiress by Molly Greeley
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Danika reviews The Heiress: The Revelations of Anne de Bourgh by Molly Greeley

January 19, 2021 by Danika Ellis

I’m not a big Pride and Prejudice fan, but for some reason, I’m drawn to P&P retellings–especially queer ones. The Heiress is a Pride and Prejudice novel: not exactly a retelling, a prequel, or a sequel, it fills in the story from one of the minor characters of the book: Anne de Bourgh. In case you forgot, AnneRead More

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Rachel Friars reviews Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron

August 11, 2020 by Danika Ellis

Kalynn Bayron’s Cinderella is Dead is the queer fairy-tale retelling we needed in 2020. Bayron’s novel is doing amazing things for queer fiction, fantasy, and YA. If there’s anything we need more of, it’s books like this, and more from Bayron herself. It’s been a long time since we’ve seen a Cinderella with queer girls.Read More

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