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).
trigger-body horror
Review – Carmilla and Laura
5/5 would bang the creepy chick with the white nightdress and bloodied face.
Review – The Monster Baru Cormorant
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 […]
Review – Gideon the Ninth
I experienced this book as a revelation. Before you assume that’s hyperbole, the only other books I’ve ever read where I felt my life had changed in some subtle, indefinable way—that the me before reading was not the same person afterward–were the Gormenghast books by Mervyn Peake, which I first read in my teens; a […]