— Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea
— Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea
My whole life, this is what I’ve wanted. A best friend. Someone who gets me, who accepts me. Someone who fights like hell to get me to see that they love me. Someone who lets me love them back. Someone who’s so goddamn beautiful, she makes my toes curl. Someone who calls me on my bullshit. Someone who makes me laugh. Someone who makes me look at her like this and looks at me the same way. Someone who . . . who’s my home.
DELILAH GREEN DOESN'T CARE by Ashley Herring Blake ★★★
The right person shouldnt complete you, they should love you the way you are. And it's cool if they make you want to be better, but they should never make you feel like you are too much or not enough exactly as you are.
COUNT YOUR LUCKY STARS by Alexandria Bellefleur ★★★½
every sapphic book i love → the henna wars by adiba jaigirdar
of course muslims can be gay. how can anyone think otherwise? The two aren’t mutually exclusive. I’m living, breathing proof.
by lunaathorne
To know the ocean, I have always felt, is to recognize the teeth it keeps half hidden.
OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA by Julia Armfield ★★★★★
IN CHARM’S WAY - LANA HARPER
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
In this fourth Thistle Grove installment, the series circles back to the house of Harlow. Delilah is a compelling main character, and as always, there is a magical problem for her to solve, as well as a romance to be had. The love interest Catriona is an outsider and a complex character.
I think these books can no longer be standalone at this point in the series. Thanks to the lore/worldbuilding from prior books so, if anyone wanted to start with this book, I would say to read at least Payback’s A Witch and Back In A Spell before it for better context.
I enjoyed this book and still find this a solid series/world and am looking forward to reading the next installment about Dahlia Abramov.
Many thanks to Berkley Publishing Group for an eARC via Netgalley in exchange for my honest review.
Read in 2023 (8/?)
She Gets the Girl by Rachael Lippincott & Alyson Derrick
❝ It’s all the things I never knew an “I love you” could be, meeting me exactly as I am, without a single condition. It’s coming home instead of running away. ❞
These prompts are open to any fandom and any medium as long as the works center sapphic, WLW/NBLW, F/F+, or femslash ship(s). There are no other rules — you can use all, some, or only one of the prompts; do one or more a day or spread them out; begin late or post them after September; or mix ‘n’ match prompts; it’s up to you!
Make sure to tag your work(s) with #sapphicsept2023 or #Sapphic September 2023 so that others can find your contributions and to spread the word!
Prompts: {Day 1: parallel worlds; || Day 2: holographic; || Day 3: 3 AM; || Day 4: chrome; || Day 5: kitchen; || Day 6: experiment; || Day 7: flight; || Day 8: gravity; || Day 9: time warp; || Day 10: body mod; || Day 11: letters; || Day 12: virtual reality; || Day 13: consciousness; || Day 14: space opera; || Day 15: vacation; || Day 16: anniversary; || Day 17: magnetic; || Day 18: life on Mars; || Day 19: highway; || Day 20: morning after; || Day 21: utopia; || Day 22: dystopia; || Day 23: phone call; || Day 24: hotel; || Day 25: dreamscape; || Day 26: gears; || Day 27: atomic; || Day 28: bad ideas; || Day 29: replica; || Day 30: robot/AI.}
THE SUN AND THE VOID - GABRIELA ROMERO CRUZ
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Sun and the Void is told from the dual points of view of Reina and Eva, both young women that are trying to fit into societies that reject them. Gabriela Romero Lacruz uses a South American setting and mythology to create a world unlike any I’ve read before.
As this is the first book in a series it does have some worldbuilding that slows the start of the book down. However, once that initial build-up is done, it is realized to its full potential and becomes an exciting, fast-paced book.
You cannot help but root for both Reina and Eva, and I am excited to pick up the next one and find out what happens.
Many thanks to Orbit Books for an eARC via Netgalley in exchange for my honest review.
