f/f romance
The winner of multiple awards, Malinda Lo’s Last Night at the Telegraph Club is the beautifully written narration of a young Chinese-American teen’s queer coming-of-age in 1954 California. The story is set in a richly depicted Chinese-American San Francisco of the 1930s through 1950s, including ...
Alexandria Bellefleur’s The Fiancée Farce is another of her sweet, sparkly contemporary romances – this time, about a fake engagement that ends up turning all too real. The tropes may be familiar, but the warmhearted treatment of them won’t be. It definitely coasts on charm and is low-stakes, ...
This sequel to Zen Cho’s Sorcerer to the Crown is satisfactory, but didn’t win me over in the same way as its predecessor.
Muna wakes up on a beach in Janda Baik, a fictional island near Indonesia, with no memory of how she and her sister Sakti came to be there, or of the curse that both are ...
Calling The Shots is a perfectly acceptable little slice of hockey romance that has decent conflict, likeable characters, and a romance worth rooting for. But Farmer’s just-okay way of telling the story makes this one a mid-level read.
Confident former bad girl of the rink Regan Lane’s coachi ...
I had no experience with author Brianna Labuskes when I picked up The Librarian of Burned Books, but I found the novel’s subject matter intriguing. Covering an underutilized piece of WWII history, the story shows three heroines who fight for something that is doubtless dear to most AAR readers’ ...
In the first few chapters, Flip the Script by Lyla Lee seems like it isn’t going anywhere special: heroine Hana Jin has landed a lead role in the K-Drama Fated Destiny opposite K-Pop star Bryan Yoon in his first acting gig, and to boost ratings for their show, they are asked to have a fake relatio ...
For Her Consideration is an endearing romance with a lot of positives, but the narrative moves slowly. Oh so slowly. It grinds down and leaves the reader waiting for more to happen, ultimately resulting in a sense of herky-jerky pacing that puts a damper on the proceedings.
Nina Rice gave up her ...
Rust in the Root does not take place in the same universe as Justina Ireland’s paranormal historical duology Dread Nation/Deathless Divide, which both earned DIKs here. This book can’t possibly be as good as those, right? Surprise! It’s even better.
In a magic-infused alternate history, the ...
Nope, apparently it’s not too early for the first wave of Christmas-related romance novels to hit the market. In The Event of Love is sweet and just a touch quirky, making it a fun and fast-paced intro to the season.
Morgan Ross is an event planner extraordinaire. She’s busy and success ...
The trouble with The Romance Recipe is that I felt like our heroines really didn’t like each other much. They wanted to have sex, sure, but it took more than half the book for me to believe that they had anything resembling an out-of-bed future together.
Amy Chambers has just opened her first ...