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).
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Review – Lucky 7 [Lucky Breaks #1]
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!
Review – The Unbroken [Magic of the Lost #1]
Messy infuriating disaster sapphics
destabilising colonialism
in a North African-inspired setting
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 Traitor Baru Cormorant
The Masquerade Series, Book 1 by Seth Dickinson A truly grimdark political anti-imperialist epic fantasywith a sapphic protagonist wielding fiscal policy as her superpower The most brutally calculating sapphic heroine I’ve ever met. I LOVED her. Also the closest I’ve seen to a MC personifying my day job. Personally I found her blunt use of […]
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 […]