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-content warning
Review – The Fear
This story was intensely compelling and I’m glad I read it. If you enjoy dysfunctional sapphics like I do and if you don’t mind reading a pandemic horror right now, you should give it a try.
Review – The Unbroken [Magic of the Lost #1]
Messy infuriating disaster sapphics
destabilising colonialism
in a North African-inspired setting
Review – Carmilla and Laura
5/5 would bang the creepy chick with the white nightdress and bloodied face.
Review – The Masquerade Series 1-3 [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.
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 […]