Results for: meet up
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‘A Good Happy Girl’ Oozes With Lesbian Kink and Familial Pain
This is a work of textures, of excess, of grease, of desire. It is a portrait of pleasure as punishment and punishment as pleasure, a gluttonous urge for more until both small joys and small discomforts are compounded into the same nauseating grotesquerie.
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Elizabeth Blake’s Edible Arrangements Is Hungry (and Horny) for Modernist Literature
The book can help us understand the sensual relationship between food and sex in Je Tu Il Elle and in other forms of LGBTQ art, media, and cultural production.
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Andie Burke’s “Fly With Me” Takes Sapphic Fake Dating to New Heights
Yes, there’s grief. But Fly With Me is one of the swooniest, funniest, sexiest books I’ve ever read.
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Two Women Find Love in a Quirky Southern Town in “Love and Hot Chicken”
Slow burn romance in a small Southern town gives this queer novel its heat.
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Satanic Panic Depicted in Thriller ‘Rainbow Black’ Feels Strikingly Relevant to the Present
If there’s one word I could use to describe Maggie Thrash’s books, I’d use “tormented.”
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“Brainwyrms” Is the Perfect Twisted Novel for Clive Barker Queers
There’s an undeniable playfulness in the way Alison Rumfitt presents sex, kink, and violence, but there’s also a seething rage underneath it all.
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‘Memory Piece’ Understands the Power of an Archive
Through three interconnected characters, Lisa Ko pens a very queer book about memory, art, and revolution.
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“Men I Trust” Is a Beautiful Graphic Novel About Loneliness, Connection, and Capitalism
Tommi Parrish’s stunning new graphic novel Men I Trust is about two lonely women. It appears to be the story of their connection, but as it unravels it becomes darker, deeper, and, ultimately, in its own way, more hopeful.
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Cleat Cute’s Sapphic Soccer Romance Will Fill the World Cup-Shaped Hole in Your Heart
It can’t be good for your body to cut off lesbian soccer drama cold turkey.
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Hayley Kiyoko’s Debut YA Novel Tells Queer Love Story Set in 2006
If I’m being honest, it’s one of the better written celebrity fiction novels that I’ve read (and I’ve read Lauren Conrad’s YA series).
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This YA Book Is a Great Queer Second-Chance Romance
What would you do if the one person you loved the most was the one person you cannot remember?
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Sexy, Ambitious Novel “Any Other City” Explores Transition and Transformation
I don’t remember ever reading such sexy queer sex.
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The Godzilla Valentine’s Day Comic Book Special Is a Sweet Sapphic Story of Love and Compromise
Written by trans lesbian comic book writer Zoe Tunnell, the Godzilla Valentine’s Day Special tells the story of Piper, a queer woman who decides to become a kaiju researcher after surviving an attack on Godzilla. It’s sapphic and gay as hell and I love it.
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In Lesbian YA Debut, Teen Girls Find Love in the Midst of an Asteroid Barreling Toward Earth
The biggest theme in Jen St. Jude’s If Tomorrow Doesn’t Come is mental health.
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“People Collide” Throws Everything You Thought You Knew About Body Swap Stories out the Window
Isle McElroy’s new novel provides a nuanced approach to gender within its body swap premise.
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Sapphic Yearning, Horror, and K-Pop Blend Perfectly in “Gorgeous Gruesome Faces”
I’ve never really been a horror girlie, but in recent months, I’ve found myself intrigued by YA books that have a horror element.
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A Sweet Sixteen Becomes a Coming Out Party in Queer YA Novel “Friday I’m in Love”
The scene where Mahalia — the Black queer teen at the center of Camryn Garrett’s new novel — comes out to her mom is painful but honest.
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“Sorry, Bro” Is an Ideal Bisexual Romance Novel To Read This Month
If you find yourself needing a bit of sweetness and charm in these early, dreary months of the year, Sorry, Bro is a perfect pick me up.
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In a Year Full of Great Sapphic Holiday Romances, “Kiss Her Once for Me” Stood Out
Kiss Her Once for Me is a truly stellar example of not just a holiday romance or a queer romance, but of any kind of romance.
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“Love at 350º” Is a Sapphic Romance for Us Gays Who Spend Saturdays Baking Pies
Baking aside, my favorite thing about Love At 350° is the fact that the main characters are women over 40.