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Review – Song of Stars

April 3, 2023 by lianyu Leave a Comment

Cover of Song of Stars by Rae D. Magdon

Song of Stars is an F/F fantasy romance with childhood friends to rivals to lovers. If you were ever in band, competitive sports, debate club, or anything else where you were judged harshly as a kid/young adult, this book is for you! It’s spicy but sweet, prickly but affectionate.

Filed Under: Blog, Fantasy, Reviews Tagged With: mc-sapphic, setting-fantasy

F/F dark romance books

May 1, 2022 by lianyu 1 Comment

text: novel recommendations / F/F dark romance / a short reading list. background image: cherries

Here’s a short list of F/F novels (>50k words, some over 100k) with dark romance elements (that is, with abusive romantic relationships but with a happy ever after or happy for now ending).

Filed Under: Blog, Resources Tagged With: genre-lesbian romance, mc-non-virginal love interest, mc-sapphic, mc-slave, setting-fantasy, setting-fantasy asia, setting-sci-fi, trigger-body horror, trigger-content warning, trigger-gore, trigger-power dynamics, trigger-sexual assault, trope-closed door romance, trope-enemies to something, trope-hea/hfn

Review – Lucky 7 [Lucky Breaks #1]

September 23, 2021 by lianyu Leave a Comment

F/F near-future dystopia Fun, fast, action-packed sci-fi heist poc x poc stud/femme enemies to lovers secrets, lies, metaverse; review by Lianyu Tan; image of Lucky 7 ebook and paperback by Rae D. Magdon

Lucky 7 by Rae D. Magdon

Fun, action-packed sci-fi heist
poc x poc butch/femme enemies to lovers
secrets, lies, metaverse
I loved it!

Filed Under: Blog, Reviews, Sci-fi Tagged With: mc-mage, mc-non-virginal love interest, mc-poc, mc-sapphic, mc-stem, series-luckybreaks, setting-fantasy, trigger-gore, trope-enemies to something, trope-heist

Review – The Unbroken [Magic of the Lost #1]

June 16, 2021 by lianyu Leave a Comment

Cover image of the book The Unbroken, Magic of the Lost #1 by C. L. Clark. "How can we love the person who was once our oppressor?

Messy infuriating disaster sapphics
destabilising colonialism
in a North African-inspired setting

Filed Under: Blog, Fantasy, Reviews Tagged With: mc-non-virginal love interest, mc-poc, mc-sapphic, mc-warrior, series-magic of the lost, setting-fantasy, trigger-content warning, trigger-gore, trigger-power dynamics, trope-anti-colonialism, trope-bodyguard/ward, trope-enemies to something

Review – The Masquerade Series 1-3 [Baru Cormorant]

February 17, 2021 by lianyu Leave a Comment

Ebook cover images of the Masquerade series books 1-3 by Seth Dickinson (The Traitor Baru Cormorant, The Monster Baru Cormorant, The Tyrant Baru Cormorant)

This series goes from buying you dinner where you exchange sexually charged barbs but then escalates to surgically removing and filleting your heart. 

The end of the third book puts you back together and cracks terrible and wonderful jokes whilst it sutures up the numerous incision points it’s made in your body. 

Filed Under: Blog, Fantasy, Reviews Tagged With: mc-non-virginal love interest, mc-poc, mc-sapphic, mc-stem, mc-virginal heroine, mc-warrior, series-baru cormorant, setting-fantasy, trigger-content warning, trigger-gore, trigger-power dynamics, trigger-sexual assault, trope-anti-colonialism, trope-bodyguard/ward, trope-enemies to something

Review – The Monster Baru Cormorant

February 7, 2021 by lianyu Leave a Comment

Book cover: The Monster Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson, features disembodied mask that is grinning. Tag: Unmake the system. Remake the world.

The Masquerade Series, Book 2 by Seth Dickinson Read this book if you want to suffer This book is like 170k words long, a bunch of stuff happens in it, there’s at least 3 povs that I can remember, but mostly it felt like a game of drawn-out grief where every new page might uncover […]

Filed Under: Blog, Fantasy, Reviews Tagged With: mc-poc, mc-sapphic, mc-stem, series-baru cormorant, setting-fantasy, trigger-body horror, trigger-content warning, trigger-gore, trigger-power dynamics, trope-anti-colonialism

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