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DOWN COMES THE NIGHT is a fun, genuinely well-written fantasy with a rich atmosphere, strong worldbuilding, and a heart-melting slow burn enemies-to-lovers romance. It also has major Silvia Moreno-Garcia MEXICAN GOTHIC and FRANKENSTEIN energy!
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THE LOVE CURSE OF MELODY MCINTYRE is funny, adorable, and sweet.
Hi, friends!When I started The Sapphic Bookshelf this past May, I had all these grand visions of posting book reviews and blogs and book tags every week. It’s okay, you can laugh with/at me, too. My senior year of college and a whole thesis and, you know, a global pandemic, all really got in the [...]
WRITTEN IN THE STARS is a fun, high quality rom-com with the right balance of angst, smut, and humor—perfect for the holiday season.
Emily M. Danforth’s adult debut PLAIN BAD HEROINES is an intricate, capital-G Gothic tome of sapphic love, tragedy, and so many yellow jacket wasps. Seriously, just an exorbitant amount of wasps.
BURN OUR BODIES DOWN is nothing short of a mindfuck. What an odd, serpentine novel full of inherited secrets, unexpected body horror, and multigenerational mother-daughter tensions. It’s one of those books where nothing is obviously wrong for a lot of it, but you know for a fact that something is about to strike. And then, when everything goes up in flames and you turn the final page, you’re left feeling confused and hollowed out. I felt like I had a hangover after reading this book, but like, in a good way.
CINDERELLA IS DEAD is a fun, feminist, subversive fairy tale retelling with a protagonist of color and a happy sapphic ending.
WILDER GIRLS is for you if you’re into cool but disgusting body horror, mysterious pandemics, and bizarre books that are overall unsettling.
