Competing authors become dueling lovers in Ladies in Hating. Plagiarism and passion meet, cultures clash, and the reader goes home amused and satisfied. It’s an easy-to-adore one-two punch, and if you like enemies to lovers stories it’s a combination that can’t be beat. But the book is saddled with an unenthralling mystery and late-book family…
Girl Next Door is a truly fun romance with a great premise. Quick-witted and sparkly, it keeps readers fully engaged right down to the last drop, well-earning its A ranking. The plot is also romcom catnip in a way that doesn’t feel cloying or smug; a solid romance about a woman who doesn’t know how…
A lovely, winsome tale about a Summer That Changes Everything, Summer Girls is about life in a small beach town and showcases the ordinary-extraordinariness of falling in real love with the most unlikely suspect. While it’s not A-level material thanks to its rather plain dryness, it’s still a fine romance that most teenagers will be…
Adorable without being cutesy, fluffy without being sappy, and made of spirit and sass, Dream On, Ramona Riley is a wonderful summer read. Its characters are complex, its tropes are utterly enjoyable, and its yearning is palpable. That said, I really wish Ashley Herring Blake would find any other sort of conflict to keep her…
This is another just-plain fun mystery romp with a big personality. Big Name Fan clearly has its roots in a real-life detective dramedy that went off the air with its strongly sapphic-leaning fans upset that its leads never kissed (Rizzoli and Isles). It doesn’t matter if you’ve never seen the show – this fun read…
Ruthie Knox and Annie Mare (whose former pen name was Mary Ann Rivers) have partnered up to write under the pen name Mae Marvel. And under that name they’ve released their first contemporary sapphic romance, Everyone I Kissed Since You Got Famous. It’s a lovely second chance romance for high school best friends who separated…
Romantic big city girl meets down-home country girl in The Ride of Her Life. It’s a sweet, spirited read that’s fun and enjoyable, but the miscommunication level between the leads is annoyingly high. Molly is a romantic who has fantasies of falling in love. She’s been planning her wedding since she was a child, but…
There is something extremely moving – as a queer woman – to sit with a Mills and Boon/Harlequin historical romance involving two women in my hand. A Liaison with Her Leading Lady is romantic and touched with theatrical warmth. It’s not wholly perfect but it reigns as Lotte R. James’ best book yet. Actress Ruth…
I was excited to pick up The Phoenix Crown because I had read books by both authors before and thoroughly enjoyed them. I expected that combined, they would write a stunning, richly historical tale, but alas, that was not the case. 1906. This may very well be Gemma Garland’s last chance. A soprano who has…
Narrated by Bella Lowe Proper English is a prequel of sorts to KJ Charles’ popular Think of England, or perhaps it’s better to say it’s an origin story for two delightful side characters in that book, Patricia Merton and Fenella Carruth. During that murder mystery, Pat and Fen prove themselves to be full of good…
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