Lesbian romance reviews updated most Fridays. Our sort of something for the weekend…
Everyone is currently swooning over Megan Rapinoe and her World Cup and Golden Boot and purple hair and sunglasses and 'not fucking going to the White House' quote. But let's not forget her recently-retired, and wildly eloquent, predecessor on the US National Women's Soccer team, the mighty Abby Wambach. She is famous for kissing her … Continue reading Forward: A Memoir by Abby Wambach
This 'historic' (Victorian?) novel opens with our orphaned American heroine choking back sobs of distress at her ex-girlfriend's wedding. A pair of lovely young English aristocrats (brother and sister) help her blow her nose. Friendship ensues. Within a ridiculously short space of time, the brother proposes. Our heroine accepts, partly to get away from everything … Continue reading The Haunting of Heatherhurst Hall by Sebastian Nothwell
How would you like to spend some time in the head of an anxious former child genius? Yes? Then this is the book for you! Your host for this trip will have suffered a massive and public breakdown in her teens and is now living a reclusive existence under an assumed name. She holds down … Continue reading Listen by Kris Bryant
Totally readable, slightly fraught romance. Woman A is a hotshot American author, recently humiliated by a very public divorce from a no-good-cheatin'-wife. In her grief-ridden state, she runs away from it all to a house she buys, sight-unseen, in small town, UK. Her grandmother spent her childhood in small town, UK and our hotshot author … Continue reading Full English by Rachel Spangler
I'm a bit of a tennis fan, so when this popped up on my Kindle recommendations just a day or two after Andy Murray announced his imminent retirement, and I was lying in bed with a cold in need of some comforting fluff, I didn't need to think twice. Tennis Mom is a powerful, black … Continue reading Love all by Rachel Spangler
This much-anticipated sequel to the brilliant Ask, Tell, picks up shortly after the first book finished. The Major surgeon Bec and the Captain surgeon Sabine have got together despite the outrageous difficulties of the US Army's 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' policy. Bec has left the army to become a civilian surgeon. Sabine has had to … Continue reading Ask Me Again by E J Noyes
Radclyffe is back on the horse! After the "Don't Bother" that was Love After Hours we now have a gem of a surgeons-go-at-it-like-surgeons book. Raaaah! Radclyffe makes these two surgeons genuinely interesting and intriguing women, thrown deep in really tricky situations in their professional as well as in their personal lives. This is primarily an excellent … Continue reading Passionate Rivals by Radclyffe
