Lesbian romance reviews updated most Fridays. Our sort of something for the weekend…
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
Set in Jae's own Germany, the location is probably the most interesting thing about this book. Uh oh! Woman A is a hotshot business consultant who quits her job after being passed over for all the cool projects by her sexist workplace. Woman B is the assistant of Woman A's uncle, helping to run his … Continue reading Paper Love by Jae
What has happened to Gerri Hill? Once a favourite author of mine, this is one of the rare books to make it onto our "don't bother" list. Woman A is a reluctant celebrity actress, closeted and friendless, and mysteriously successful in her movies. Her next, and final role before her planned retirement from acting, is … Continue reading The Locket by Gerri Hill
Swooooon. I admit, I totally fell for this book, which leaves me with the realisation I might be really into older, powerful women fantasies. In fact, I got so much into this, I can even tell you the characters names! Maddie is a 30ish Australian trying to make her way in New York's media industry. … Continue reading The Brutal Truth by Lee Winter
Andrea Bramhall is the Alistair Maclean of lesbian romance. This trilogy (with more to come, I'm sure - no pun intended) needs readers with a hard stomach and a hard head. Ostensibly a series of detective adventures, with the trauma piled on thicker and faster at every turn, its also a romance story at heart. … Continue reading Norfolk Coast Investigation books by Andrea Bramhall
Woman A manages a posh wine bar for Woman B's mother. She gets on well with her customers and staff, is easy-going, low maintenance and happy. Woman B, a hard-nosed, corporate hot shot still grieving for her not-that-recently deceased father, is not very happy, not moving on, not in a relationship and not at all … Continue reading Blend by Georgia Beers
Our heroine is a gold-medal grade girlfriend: Olympic champion ski racer, tall, rich, loved by children and animals alike, travels the world with own strap-on. She is also just broken enough: following a spectacular wipeout at Vancouver 2010 while chasing a fourth Olympic medal, she has a metal knee, arthritic ankles and a bit of … Continue reading Gold by E J Noyes
