Books I Read in 2023: Our Hideous Progeny by C.E McGill (@c-e-mcgill)
We had built here, in this half-ruined boat house on the edge of the Moray Firth, a temple to our own strange gods- to Chemistry and Anatomy and Electricity.
Books I Read in 2023: Our Hideous Progeny by C.E McGill (@c-e-mcgill)
We had built here, in this half-ruined boat house on the edge of the Moray Firth, a temple to our own strange gods- to Chemistry and Anatomy and Electricity.
IRIS KELLY DOESN’T DATE - ASHLEY HERRING BLAKE
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Ashley Herring Blake has written another sapphic romance that I was barely able to out down until it was finished. Iris and Stevie are incredibly cute. The book is really successful take on fake dating that actually seems like a plausible reason two people could fake date!
I loved seeing Bright Falls one last time, although I do wish there was two epilogues one for the Iris/Stevie and one for the whole cast!
Based on this trilogy, any sapphic story Ashley Herring Blake writes will be an auto-buy for me.
Many thanks to Berkley Publishing Group for an eARC via Netgalley in exchange for my honest review. Iris Kelly is released today (Oct 24th) in the US!
CLEAT CUTE - MERYL WILSNER
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Lesbians and soccer, a pairing as old as time. A cute read in a world cup year. This book has Meryl’s trademark spice (so a lot of it, and it’s good), plus lovable main characters Phoebe and Grace are so compelling that I rushed through the book in a day.
Many thanks to St Martin’s Press for an eARC via Netgalley in exchange for my honest review.
she gets the girl - rachael lippincott & alyson derrick
“you will think me cruel, very selfish, but love is always selfish; the more ardent the more selfish. how jealous I am you cannot know. you must come with me, loving me, to death; or else hate me, and still come with me, and hating me through death and after. there is no such word as indifference in my apathetic nature.” ― Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla
MINDBREAKER - KATE DYLAN
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Mindbreaker offers a gripping journey into a dystopian sci-fi landscape set in a futuristic New York. The protagonist, Indra, grapples with the consequences of her cult upbringing, facing a series of daunting choices.
Indra’s character is well written, portraying resilience in the face of a bleak future. Indra has a cute sapphic romance that was the heart of the story for me. I loved the whole cast of characters and the found family dynamic this book has.
While Mindbreaker can be enjoyed as a standalone, if you have previously read Mindwalker it might add some nice little nods and updates for past characters.
The audiobook narration by Stephanie Cannon was great and really added to book.
Thank you to NetGalley and HarperAlley for this ARC in exchange for my honest review!
books read in 2023. the henna wars by adiba jaigirdar
“What I want more than anything else in the world is to feel like being myself isn’t something that should be hidden and a secret.”
read in 2023: disobedience by naomi alderman
Sometimes I think that God is punishing me. For what we did together. Sometimes I think that my life is a punishment for wanting. And the wanting is a punishment, too.
every sapphic book i love → this is how you lose the time war by amal el-mohtar and max gladstone
love is what we have, against time and death, against all the powers ranged to crush us down.
by lunaathorne
— One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
"Of course I love you. I could go back in time and have a whole life and get old and never see you again, and you would still be it. You were— you are the love of my life."