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Finding a New Favorite YA Contemporary Author: Ophelia After All and You Don’t Have a Shot by Racquel Marie

September 25, 2024 by Emory Rose

Recently, I got to read Racquel Marie’s debut and sophomore releases: Ophelia After All and You Don’t Have a Shot. While the two books had different focuses, they were both compulsively readable coming-of-age stories, and I think any reader of sapphic contemporary YA will find at least one of them to be up their alley. Though it isn’tRead More

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A Rivals to Lovers Soccer Romance: You Don’t Have a Shot by Racquel Marie

July 19, 2024 by Vic

Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! Racquel Marie’s You Don’t Have a Shot is a YA romance that centers around Valentina Castillo-Green, a high school soccer star whose life revolves around the sport. After an abrupt end to her junior year soccer season, Vale ends up at soccer camp, co-captaining a teamRead More

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When Your Hyperfixation is Sapphic Books: A Shortlist of Sapphic Autistic Narratives

February 12, 2024 by Theo

I recently read a report from the University of Cambridge about how autistic people are more likely to be queer than allistic people, with specifically autistic female-identifying people being three times as likely to identify as some form of queer. If you are interested in reading more about this, you can read the abstract. ThisRead More

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An Epic, Slow Burn F/F Romance: The Senator’s Wife by Jen Lyon

February 6, 2024 by Liv

Amazon Affiliate Link Since reading The Senator’s Wife, I’ve been thinking about what exactly my criteria is for rating a book with five stars. Anne of Green Gables is the first five-star book I ever read; Anne of Avonlea was, unsurprisingly, the second. The three books by Jeanette Winterson that were the subject of my undergraduate thesis—The Passion, Written on theRead More

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Sporty Sapphics: Cleat Cute by Meryl Wilsner

October 20, 2023 by Vic

Bookshop.org Affiliate Link Meryl Wilsner’s Cleat Cute is probably one of the most talked-about sapphic romances of the fall, at least in my circles, and in my opinion, the hype is deserved. It follows serious team captain Grace Henderson and enthusiastic up-and-comer Phoebe Matthews from a rocky first impression to a growing respect to genuine romantic feelings, allRead More

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Ted Lasso But Make It Sapphic: Cleat Cute by Meryl Wilsner

October 14, 2023 by Jazelle H.

Bookshop.org Affiliate Link “Calling Phoebe loud and obnoxious and gay ignores all her layers and contradictions. That’s Grace’s issue with fame—people take you at face value. Nobody bothers to look for the person beneath the brand.” ⚠️ Spoilers ahead. Book contains graphic sex scenes. ⚠️ Phoebe Matthews is ready to take her first season as aRead More

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#SapphicSoccerStoryGoals: You Don’t Have a Shot by Racquel Marie

September 30, 2023 by Raquel R. Rivera

Bookshop.org Affiliate Link You Don’t Have A Shot is sapphic soccer-rivals-to-lovers perfection set in present-day Southern California. If you’re still mourning the fact that the Women’s World Cup is over or you agree that “fútbol is life” a la Danny Rojas from Ted Lasso (but with a queer Latina twist), this book is for you!Read More

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An F/F Romance for Women’s Soccer Fans: Cleat Cute by Meryl Wilsner

August 21, 2023 by Maggie

Bookshop.org Affiliate Link For everyone currently getting excited about women’s soccer, Cleat Cute by Meryl Wilsner, out September 19, is a cute romance between two teammates during the leadup to a World Cup year. I would like to thank the publisher for providing The Lesbrary with an ARC for review. I honestly enjoyed this storyRead More

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Aoife reviews Training Ground by Kate Christie

July 8, 2016 by Danika Ellis

I was not, unfortunately, super into this book. Training Ground is the first book in the Girls of Summer series by Kate Christie, and to be honest, it reads more like a prequel – the whole book is just backstory for book 2. She categorises TG as a ‘contemporary lesfic with a romantic arc, butRead More

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