This month, I decided to branch out and read my first sports romance. I chose Colombian author Johana Gavez’s debut novel, A Match to Love. Gavez is a self-proclaimed fluff lover, so I knew I was in good hands. When an anonymous online friendship turns into something romantic, Ari Nuñez finds herself out of her depth.Read More
A Heartfelt Round-Trip: Every Step She Takes by Alison Cochrun Review
35-year-old Sadie Wells is desperate to escape her monotonous routines, family business, and some unexpected gay panic. When her injured sister offers Sadie her place on a tour along Portugal’s Camino de Santiago, she decides this is the perfect chance to get away from it all. After three glasses of wine on the plane andRead More
Family Matters: Next Time Will Be Our Turn by Jesse Q Sutanto
Next Time Will Be Our Turn was the perfect book to read on an airplane, because so much of it involves characters travelling from one country to another, reflecting on what makes a home a home and what it means to live somewhere that doesn’t have room for their whole self. Fair warning, though: itRead More
Motorcycles, Magic, Monsters, and Love Letters: Road to Ruin by Hana Lee Review
Road to Ruin by Hana Lee was described to me as a Max Max: Fury Road-inspired fantasy with magic-fueled motorcycles, a dangerous wasteland, and romantic letter writing, and it lives up to the hype. I was instantly drawn in, and the whole thing was a romp that left me excited for the sequel. Not only does ourRead More
Living Your Queer Adolescence at 35 Years Old: Every Step She Takes by Alison Cochrun Review
I liked Alison Cochrun’s Here We Go Again is one of my favourite romance novels, so I was excited to pick up her newest. This one has a very romcom premise: when Sadie thinks the plane she is on is about to crash, she confesses to her seatmate that she thinks she’s a lesbian. MalRead More
Edge of the World: An Anthology of Queer Travel Writing edited by Alden Jones Review
I cried a bunch while reading Edge of the World (out May 6, 2025). A profoundly topical collection, Alden Jones’s latest anthology collects sixteen* autobiographical pieces about travel from writers loosely connected by their complicated American-ness and LGBTQ+ identities. I appreciated Jones’s intentions in titling the anthology—in hoping that “the contents undermine the idea ofRead More
A Second-Chance Foodie Romance: The Pairing by Casey McQuiston
Exes and former childhood best friends Kit and Theo accidentally book the same European food tour four years after their breakup. Try as they might to stay away from each other, they can’t help but fall back in love all over again. But maybe this time, they’ll get it right. It’s hard to find eitherRead More
A Decadent Bi4Bi Romance: The Pairing by Casey McQuiston
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support the Lesbrary and independent bookstores! [I] wonder if heartbreak will fuck you if you learn to love it enough. It feels unnecessary to recommend the new Casey McQuiston romance, given how incredibly popular Red, White, and Royal Blue and One Last Stop are. I’m sure this will also getRead More
A Lesbian Road Trip Romcom About Death: Here We Go Again by Alison Cochrun
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! I read Alison Cochrun’s previous book, Kiss Her Once for Me, and liked it, but I was not expecting to love this one quite as much as I did. Some of that is for reasons that will translate to many other readers, and someRead More
Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest To Track Down The Last Remaining Lesbian Bars In America by Krista Burton
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! This book really just had to live up to the title for me to love it, and it did. Krista Burton used to run a blog called Effing Dykes that I followed and enjoyed, so I knew I was already a fan of herRead More