#saphhic books

[haveyoureadthisqueerbook]

Please check here for the list of queued and polled books before submitting a title.

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Check the above list to make sure the work isn't already queued. The queue is extensive.

Include both the title and author.

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Short story collections are welcome provided most of the stories are queer.

Feel free to submit as many titles as you'd like. No genre, language, or reading level restrictions.

If you notice that I've missed tagging queer rep in a poll results post, please comment and let me know what to add! I read a lot of queer books, but sadly have not read all of them.

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[dreamy-loser]

𝒾𝓃𝒹𝒾𝑔𝑜 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒶𝓏𝓊𝓇𝑒 / 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓁𝒶𝓈𝓉 𝓉𝒶𝓁𝑒 𝑜𝒻 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒻𝓁𝑜𝓌𝑒𝓇 𝒷𝓇𝒾𝒹𝑒

[constance-mcentee]

Book Report: “A Tale of Two Florists”

Image Description: The cover art for A Tale of Two Florists by Brenna Bailey. The overall background is a peach color and there are sunflowers along the top of the image, above the title. Two elderly women stand somewhat side-by-side. One has gray hair, green glasses, and wears a teal-blue dress with yellow stars on it. The other woman is a bit shorter, with white hair, a dark blue shirt and black pants. Both are holding bouquets of flowers.

Wednesday, 1 May 2024

One of the frustrating things about being a queer in my 50s is that most queer romance novels I’ve found so far revolve around characters younger than me, usually in their 20s and 30s. Well, I just finished A Tale of Two Florists by Brenna Bailey, and this time the couple were in their 70s. So, still not my precise age group but different from what I had been reading previously.

Generally I’m not the biggest fan of enemies-to-lovers, and that trope figures prominently in the story.  While I’m still not sold on that trope in particular, I am absolutely sold on Bailey’s Juniper Creek Golden Years concept and will be reading the other books in that series.

I’d borrowed an ebook of A Tale of Two Florists from my local library, and they don’t have the other books in that series yet in any format. The Queer Liberation Library doesn’t seem to have them either.

I guess I’ll just have to buy my own copies.

[grainsofexcellence]

Teaser: Emma studied her mother’s face and her heart froze in her chest, then dropped down into her stomach making it churn with discomfort. Her voice dropped an octave. “What did you do?” https://archiveofourown.org/works/55702492/chapters/149933011 #swanqueen #swen #reginamills #emmaswan

*Thank you Crystal Coulter for the reminders!

[redheadedhero]

Any queer fantasy book recs??

Preferably:

.Sapphic

.Third person

.Not dark romance

.Romance subplot

[letusburnthestars]

“She was like water, calm and steady.

But she could penetrate through the biggest of mountains and the heaviest of forests.”

-letusburnthestars

[makemicalromans]

Might just dye my hair pink like Shara Wheeler someday soon

[inkquill256]

I mean, have you ever heard of Villains Don't Date Heros?

It's Sapphic~

[hayleyreadssapphicbooks]

All For Her: Forbidden Romance Novellas

"All For Her" contains three different stories by three different authors. They all share a common theme of a woman falling for someone “forbidden” for various reasons. In “Her Boss’s Wife” by Gun Brooke, a young assistant to an attorney is in love with his wife, who he is in the process of divorcing. In “Her Therapist’s Daughter” by J.J. Hale, a woman falls in love with her therapist's daughter. In “Her Brother’s Girlfriend” by Aurora Rey, a woman is in love with her brother’s girlfriend of ten years.

Since these are all short stories, it is expected that these are fast-paced. While each one was interesting and could have been expanded, I appreciated the short form. I do miss the fleshing-out a full-length book could have given these characters. I think the authors did well on each one and it serves as a good intro piece to each of them. The stories all had a good combo of romance, spice, and plot tucked into the short stories.

My one complaint is the cover. The cover doesn’t represent three stories, and I personally am not a fan of photography on covers. I also prefer covers that don’t look like you’re reading erotica in public.

I would recommend this to any sapphic romance reader especially if one is looking for bite-sized reads.

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

[nightkittenwriter]

Amazon Kindle Edition: $7.99

[chemicalarospec]

One single time I saw the take that One Last Stop was only less popular than Red White and Royal Blue because gay men are more popular than lesbians and I still come up with additional reasons, but I have no idea how popular that take is so sometimes I feel ridiculous. (Cuz like not denying mlm gets more attention than wlw but there was wayyyy more at play in the popularity of RW&RB and the less-popularity of One Last Stop)

[oikaas]

Crying over lesbian love because it’s so beautiful

[grainsofexcellence]

Update for 8 (Rewrite)!

Teaser:

Regina shivered, trying to swallow the lump in her throat. “Are you going to control me again?”

Emma sighed. “After everything that’s happened, I really should.”

The brunette tried to take her hand away but Emma held firm.

“But I really don’t want to. Now you need to tell me.” Emma’s eyes lingered.

“Tell you what?”

“Tell me what the spell requires. The one you are casting.”

Regina’s eyes went wide, her voice catching. “No,”

Emma grabbed Regina’s head with both hands. “I’m trying to help you, let me help you. If this could finally make you happy. I want to do it…”

Regina angrily shook her head. “You can’t. Why would you even want to help me?”

Emma let go. “Because I love you. And I tried not to, but… I can’t stop you. Why not…”

Regina watched the hurt on her wife’s face. Looking for her reaction when the truth was finally revealed, she sat up quickly. “Because… to enact the curse… you have to die.”

[isaaaa101]

READ THIS BOOK

This Delicious Death by Kayla Cottingham

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Three years ago, the melting of arctic permafrost released a pathogen of unknown origin into the atmosphere, causing a small percentage of people to undergo a transformation that became known as the Hollowing. Those impacted slowly became intolerant to normal food and were only able to gain sustenance by consuming the flesh of other human beings. Those who went without flesh quickly became feral, turning on their friends and family. However, scientists were able to create a synthetic version of human meat that would satisfy the hunger of those impacted by the Hollowing. As a result, humanity slowly began to return to normal, albeit with lasting fear and distrust for the people they'd pejoratively dubbed ghouls. Zoey, Celeste, Valeria, and Jasmine are all ghouls living in Southern California. As a last hurrah before their graduation they decided to attend a musical festival in the desert. They have a cooler filled with hard seltzers and SynFlesh and are ready to party. But on the first night of the festival Val goes feral, and ends up killing and eating a boy. As other festival guests start disappearing around them the girls soon discover someone is drugging ghouls and making them feral. And if they can't figure out how to stop it, and soon, no one at the festival is safe.

Mod opinion: I haven't read this book yet, but I really want to, it sounds interesting.

[a-choir-hero]

Meet, Ocean O'Connell Grace Potentilla Magadaline Rosenberg

Catchphrase: "Democracy Rocks!!"

Sign: Libra, the diplomat

Involvement: Chess Club, Debate team, Yearbook Club, Student Council President/ Treasurer, Secretary, Member-At-Large, Foreign Language (Latian, French, Greek), Photography Club, Student-Teacher helpers, School Cheerleading Leader.

Favorite Ride: The Bumper Cars

Role Model: Ocean O'Connell Grace Potentilla Magadaline Rosenberg

Crush: No Time for Romance!

Straight A student, Honor Rolls, Perfect Attendance. (Waiting for more awards!)

Greek/Canadian

"Thanks for everything, mom and dad. You've made me who I am."

This Ocean blog is mostly based on my 80's rtc AU.

Other:

Fucking bisexual in denial

Owns so much DVDs and VHS tapes for her tiny TV in her room

Autistic swag

Dude cannot handle cold weather

No one will know if there is saphhic books under her bed... (there is)

Other Blogs:

None at the current!

[doublefictionaldragon]

I have just finished reading nevermore (all of it that is out so far anyway) and OMG HOW MUCH DO I FUCKING LOVE IT!!!

the plot

the art

THE SAPHHICS

the references to Edgar Allen Poe (that make me want to read all of his books)

the well-written characters (who are so interesting to follow around and actually feel 3D and real)

AAAAAAAHDJDBSJSKDBD

I love it.