February is the shortest month so it makes sense that it would sit between two months with strong sapphic releases (if you weren’t looking forward to March already, this is your sign). But with several strong romance/speculative releases, this February wasn’t slacking in content either. 🌈📚
Life is Strange: Reunion
NOBODY TOLD ME ABOUT A NEW LIFE IS STRANGE GAME?
Haven't had the time to read much sapphic books lately...but I did watch the music video to Hayley Kiyoko's "Girls Like Girls" for the first time. (I might have been living under a rock in the 2010s.) Does this bring back memories for anyone?
Immortal Game by Allison Saft Netgalley Request
please please please i need irish folklore-inspired fae sapphic romance
I wished Lady’s Knight had chosen to do anything new or risky with its narrative. Instead, the story is mostly characterized by predictable plot points and twists...A sapphic novel doesn’t have to defy gravity to be great, but at a bare minimum, I do expect it to keep me awake at night. 🌈📚
If you haven't read last year's best royalty sapphic romance, what are you waiting for? Nobody in Particular stuns with a gorgeous cover and characters with depth I wasn't personally expecting. 🌈📚
The Persephone Effect by Maria Ying
Queen of Faces by Petra Lord
Heap Earth Upon It by Chloe Michelle Howarth
Night Shade & Oak by Molly O'Neill
Blessing the feed with some sapphic books that were released in the last couple of weeks.
It mixes so many interesting ideas and themes. I'm excited to start reading!
It’s a new year for sapphic books, and we’re starting off with fireworks. From a new Emily R. Austin novel to a sequel to a fan-favorite indigenous fantasy novel to the release of The Persephone Complex (aah!), this January was a great month for sapphic books.🌈📚
I moved it up my TBR!
To Shape a Dragon's Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose
To Ride a Rising Storm by Moniquill Blackgoose
Does anyone know what the plan is for the Nampeshiweisit series? Like, is it a duology or trilogy or...? While I love the idea of a sapphic fantasy with dragons, I also like to go into series like these with a sense of where (and when) things end.
A woman with long white hair covers one eye with her gloved hand; her other eye is glowing and red with a crosshair-shaped pupil; streaks of blood run down her face. She wears a black pilot’s suit with gold accents against a yellow and black background. Text: THE PERSEPHONE EFFECT.
Out now! Our lesbian Greek myth sci-fi continues: come for giant robots and desire so consuming it becomes cannibalism, stay for the terror of turning into your mother. Will Persephone become a god... or a monster?
Itch: mariaying.itch.io/the-persepho...
Amz: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FGXHSNHN
I wouldn’t recommend The Devils just for the sapphic romance—there isn’t enough focus for that—but I also wouldn’t *not* recommend it if you’re looking for a memorable and unique sapphic relationship and don't mind the premise. I will fully admit that I fell in love with the wholesome chemistry. 🌈📚
@electropengwing.bsky.social very excited to finally read on sundays she picked flowers 🌹
On Sundays She Picked Flowers by Yah Yah Scholfield
To Ride a Rising Storm by Moniquill Blackgoose
Today is the release date of two exciting sapphic books! The first is On Sundays She Picked Flowers by Yah Yah Scholfield, a Southern Gothic story of generational trauma and reclamation, while the second is To Ride a Rising Storm, the long-awaited sequel to To Shape a Dragon's Breath!
Nebula Lindsay Elise Page
Re-subscribed to Nebula so I could catch up on all the Lindsay Ellis videos I missed in these trying times.
real omg
Even though I’m embarrassingly late with this end-of-the-year list, it didn’t feel right to skip this annual tradition on the blog. I also have a little fun trying to predict the future at the end! AO3 always reminds me of how much I love sapphic romance. 🌈📚
I need more sapphic books where the main character is the top in the relationship.
But seriously y'all need to be following @theamericano.bsky.social if you want REAL ACTUAL sapphic book recs especially in SFF. She's smart, she's extraordinarily well read, & she's nice. Also prolific af, reviews dropping left & right over here. Indie or trad, if you want women kissing, she's on it
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I'm so excited!! I LOVE the premise. 💜
I KNOWWW
Every year, I sort through dozens of sapphic books (twice!) to find the ones I'm most excited about. This year, I had the pleasure of looking at nearly one hundred new releases. So if you ever hear people saying that sapphic books aren't in vogue, this is proof to the contrary. 🌈📚
I think I cry every time I see a sapphic book I want to read on NetGalley...and then it turns out that it's only available on NetGalley UK. But maybe it's worse for the people on the other side?
Oml, this looks awesome!!
Not putting effort into subtitles when so many people rely on them to understand what's going on is definitely a choice!!
Alice's thoughts are real, but Katabasis never seems to be able to escape the shadow of the very institutional culture that it is ostensibly parodying. This might be one of the few novels I've read where I'm viscerally like: This is too close to the action to see the forest for the trees. (3/3)
For a novel that is supposed to be about exposing higher education, Katabasis did not make me hate academia. Instead, it seems almost purposefully designed to make people want to feel included in "knowing the thing," and that confused the messaging for me because how we use metatext matters. (2/3)
Katabasis by R.F. Kuang Front Jacket
Katabasis by R.F. Kuang Hardcover Front and Sprayed Edges
I'm very conflicted about R.F. Kuang's Katabasis. As someone who has actually read Plato's Phaedo, Katabasis very much feels like "Oh my god, that's the thing from [insert text here]!" the book. I'm wondering if anyone from #AcademicSky had a similar first impression. (1/3)
