Or; Til Piggybacks On Sera’s review of Stars, Hide Your Fires by Jessica Mary Best My plan for this month was to review Stars, Hide Your Fires by Jessica Mary Best, a Cinderella story set in space where Cinderella is a pickpocket using the ball as cover to rob from the rich and give to the people who wantRead More
A Sapphic Are You Afraid of the Dark Episode: Broken Dolls by Ally Malinenko Review
I’m in a complicated situationship, a cloying mix of mummified passion and the sunk cost fallacy. Not to fret: it’s Audible. I subscribed years ago, as emedia struggled to put its feet to the ground. Had I any sense of foresight, I might have seen that the clunky, slow-loading Axis360 would inevitably fall for theRead More
Action, Twists, and Sapphic Yearning: No Body No Crime by Tess Sharpe
I’d been in a reading slump. Few things caught my interest, and an overwhelmingly churlish fog dissuaded me from the more enthusiastically underlined titles on my extensive TBR. (I didn’t get a literature degree just to pompously say “I was being too big of a jackass to read a book I might love”, but theRead More
This YA Take On Thelma and Louise Misses the Mark: Run Away With Me by J.L. Simmonds
Run Away With Me by J.L. Simmonds is a realistic YA novel about two teenage girls, classmates but not friends, who end up together on a desperate road trip filled with secrets and hidden dangers. The main character, Jessie, is quiet, uncertain, and on the run from her abusive stepfather’s corpse. Brooke is self-assured, outgoing, andRead More
Escaping the Lab to Become a Barista: Steam by Shaenon K. Gerrity and Emily Holden
Steam is a quick, cute read about Ruby, a genetically engineered girl created to solve problems. She’s escaped the lab!—She’s on the loose!—She’s playing cupid in a coffee shop! Determined to make people happy, she learns about humans and strives to use her scientific mind and improbable aiming skills to improve their lives. If she encountersRead More
Life in a Walled Garden: Where Lost Girls Go by Kody Keplinger Review
Last month, I read a sapphic YA book involving a cult and reflected that I was disappointed it didn’t explore realistic matters, like why people are drawn to and stay in high-control situations. This month, I chanced upon a sapphic YA book that explored exactly those questions. Where Lost Girls Go by Kody Keplinger (out JulyRead More
A Disappointing Folk Horror Story: Hollow by Taylor Grothe Review
Hollow by Taylor Grothe is a book with a lot of potential. The main character, Cassie, has recently moved back to her home town and reconnected with her childhood best friends—but the past few years have been tough for all of them, and they just don’t fit the way they used to. When they go onRead More
A Queer Coming-of-Age Story Told From the Margins (Literally): The Secret Astronomers by Jessica Walker Review
I tend to take a traditional approach to fiction. I learned the three elements of a story—plot, setting, character—pretty early, and it stuck because is made sense. The Secret Astronomers by Jessica Walker is an exception. Before genre or protagonist, above theme or prose, this book’s most remarkable feature is its format. It’s a tale told inRead More
A Rabble-Rousing Girl Reporter: Renegade Girls by Nora Neus Review
Renegade Girls tells the story of Nell, a girl from Chicago who spends summers with her aunt and uncle in New York. This year, at 17, Nell is eligible to marry… and more importantly, she’s working as a reporter! The story explores life as a late-nineteenth-century “stunt girl”, an undercover reporter, alongside a sweet story ofRead More
The Redemption of Daya Keane by Gia Gordon Review
This book is so delightfully, perfectly messy. Titular character Daya lives in a small, conservative town in Arizona, surrounded by small-minded, conservative classmates and a small-minded, conservative mom. It’s a tough place to be queer. When Daya begins a friendship that turns to something more with megachurch poster-girl Beckett Wild, she might be making moreRead More
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