Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! Rose Wilding’s Speak of the Devil is a thriller with a simple premise: seven women (three of them queer) had very good reasons to murder Jamie Spellman, but only one of them left his decapitated head in an abandoned hotel room. Which was it?Read More
An Obsessive Female Friendship Turns Dark: Girls on Fire by Robin Wasserman
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! Two teen girls, Hannah Dexter and Lacey Champlain, become obsessively attached to each other in their rebellion and vengeful agenda against Nikki Drummond. Then dark secrets about what happened to Craig, the boy found dead at the beginning of the novel, begin to unravel,Read More
Queer Smuggler-Duggery: Rough Trade by Katrina Carrasco
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! (Note: This book is a sequel but can be enjoyed without reading the previous one) Fans of historical fiction with high-stakes hijinks and well-developed human characters with strong internal compasses can rejoice! Rough Trade by Katrina Carrasco opens on the early days of organized labor and careens headlongRead More
An Anxious Nonbinary Lesbian Sheep Solves a Murder: Bianca Torre Is Afraid of Everything by Justine Pucella Winans
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! Bianca has overwhelming anxiety, especially social anxiety, to the point that trying to have an everyday conversation is a monumental struggle. They keep a numbered list of fears, like “Fear #6: Initiating Conversation,” “#13 Beautiful People,” and “#11 Parents Discovering They’re a Raging Lesbian.”Read More
A Sapphic K-Pop Horrormance: Gorgeous Gruesome Faces by Linda Cheng
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! Content warnings for self-harm, homophobia, racism, sexism, suicide, violence, and gore. Sunny, Candie, and Mina were a young K-pop group on the rise, starring in a popular TV show that launched their career. That was before everything fell apart. Before Sunny and Candie turnedRead More
A Thrilling Serial Killer Suspense Novel: The Final Child by Fran Dorricott
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! Content warnings: child abuse, child death, trauma Back in the 90s, a serial killer known as the Father kidnapped and murdered children, always siblings. Only one survived: Jillian, who became Erin, and she just wanted to forget the whole thing. But Harriett, whose cousinsRead More
A Fast-Paced Space Opera: The Splinter in the Sky by Kemi Ashing-Giwa
Buy this through Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! Enitan is a scribe focused mostly on figuring out how to grow her tea business on the side, but when her sibling Xiang is kidnapped and the Imperial forces decree that they need a political hostage, she volunteers so that she can go toRead More
A Chaos Theory Psychological Thriller: Strange Attractors by Ana K. Wrenn
Bookshop.org Affiliate Link Strange Attractors by Ana K. Wrenn was released in August 2022 and it follows the complex character of Sonja J. Storey. The book has been described as a psychological thriller, and it takes a deep dive into the darker side of academia. It is not a light and fluffy romance, but ifRead 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 Florida Woman by Deb Rogers
Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link Jamie has always lived a bit of a bumpy life. Her dad left when she was young, and her mom took off with a new boyfriend not long afterwards. She and her brother weathered the foster care system together until he was arrested for dealing drugs. Since then,Read More