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Nerdy lesbian romance

How to Excavate a Heart by Jake Maia Arlow

October 30, 2022 by LB Leave a Comment

How to Excavate a Heart is a book that hit so many good and familiar notes for me. Shani has just finished her first semester at college where she also got her first girlfriend, who broke up with her just before the start of winter break. Luckily Shani got accepted to an internship that the Smithsonian museum of natural history where she’ll work under her idol on coelacanth fossils, giving her distance from home and something to put her focus towards that isn’t her broken […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance, Young Adult Tagged With: coelacanth, friendship, how to excavate a heart, Jake Maia arlow, lesbian, nerds in love, New Adult, queer, sapphic, Weather

LB's CBR14 Review No:22 · Genres: Fiction, Romance, Young Adult · Tags: coelacanth, friendship, how to excavate a heart, Jake Maia arlow, lesbian, nerds in love, New Adult, queer, sapphic, Weather ·
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What’s in a name?

Spear by Nicola Griffith

October 21, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

The last few years I try to read at least one or two things that I would not normally read. I have done horror graphic novels, manga, and adult novels. I did not do great (but not horrible) this year (that horror manga comic alone would have been enough), but I figured Spear by Nicola Griffith might work. It was adult, and science-fiction/fantasy (heavier on the fantasy). And it was short. I find that if you are tackling a subject/genre you do not normally, short […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, History, Mystery, Religion, Romance Tagged With: Arthurian, British, folk tales, gender, glbtq, Knights and knighthood, Legends & Mythology, lesbian, Medieval (500-1453) Studies, nicola griffith

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:532 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, History, Mystery, Religion, Romance · Tags: Arthurian, British, folk tales, gender, glbtq, Knights and knighthood, Legends & Mythology, lesbian, Medieval (500-1453) Studies, nicola griffith ·
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“We do bones, motherfucker.”

Gideon the Ninth: The Locked Tomb vol. 1 by Tamsyn Muir

September 30, 2022 by Dome'Loki 7 Comments

CBR14 Bingo: “Hot” – Many things are described as hot in the book, corpses, swords.  But most importantly, Gideon is hot! SPOILERS: This is a review of my re-read of Gideon the Ninth and does have some spoilers.  Do not read if you haven’t already read Gideon. Spoiler Free review here.       I have the hardcover edition of Gideon the Ninth which does not include the short story “As Yet Unsent”.  “As Yet Unsent” is a collection of Judy Deuteros’ secret reports on Blood of Eden, after […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: cbr14, cbr14bingo, Dome'Loki, lesbian, LGBTQ, magic, necromancy, tamsyn muir, the Locked Tomb

Dome'Loki's CBR14 Review No:40 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: cbr14, cbr14bingo, Dome'Loki, lesbian, LGBTQ, magic, necromancy, tamsyn muir, the Locked Tomb ·
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I Swear the Fact That This Book Uses Photograph by Nickleback as an Emotional Beat is Good, Actually

The Devil Wears Tartan by Katia Rose

September 23, 2022 by Abi 3 Comments

So funny thing about me is that I’m Scottish, kinda. I’m like, the right amount of kinda Scottish to vibe with the way in which this book is kinda Scottish. It’s set in Ottawa. I live in London. Moira Murray (a name so Scottish my parents are wishing I’d changed mine to something similar instead of making it so that my Scottishness is no longer the first thing that anyone immediately knows about me) and Kenzie Andrianakis (closer to my current level of Scot) are […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance, Sports Tagged With: a little found family as a treat, a little generational trauma as whatever the opposite of a treat is, highland dancing, Katia Rose, lesbian, LGBTQ, LGBTQ author, LGBTQ romance, nickleback as an emotional bond (not joking), rivals to lovers, scotland (eh), sex scenes so good I had to stop reading in public

Abi's CBR14 Review No:11 · Genres: Fiction, Romance, Sports · Tags: a little found family as a treat, a little generational trauma as whatever the opposite of a treat is, highland dancing, Katia Rose, lesbian, LGBTQ, LGBTQ author, LGBTQ romance, nickleback as an emotional bond (not joking), rivals to lovers, scotland (eh), sex scenes so good I had to stop reading in public ·
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What if We Fell in Love, as a Bit?

Written in the Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur

July 31, 2022 by Abi Leave a Comment

After a spectacularly bad first date, Elle and Darcy assume they will never see each other again. Then both of them have run ins with family where they are once more quizzed about the failures of their love lives. So Darcy hatches a scheme. What if they agreed to fake a relationship for a few months to prove to their respective families that they were in fact capable of doing more than just failing at their personal lives? Surely that would solve all their problems, […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: Alexandria Bellefleur, bits that get out of hand, fake relationship, lesbian, LGBTQ, Romance, Seattle

Abi's CBR14 Review No:6 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: Alexandria Bellefleur, bits that get out of hand, fake relationship, lesbian, LGBTQ, Romance, Seattle ·
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Hallmark, But Make it Gay

Delilah Green Doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake

July 21, 2022 by Abi 5 Comments

Sometimes you start a book and within a few pages know the pretty much all of the emotional beats of where it’s going. And sometimes that doesn’t slightly matter, you’re going to have so much fun along the way that you won’t care. A member of the romantic subgenre I saw coined on TikTok recently “Romance books with two cartoon illustration characters on the cover”, I was in love with Delilah Green from the moment I saw her on the front. What can I say, […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: Ashley Herring Blake, bisexual, lesbian, LGBTQ, LGBTQIA, making me say "women" like I'm Jo March, sapphic, sapphic romance

Abi's CBR14 Review No:2 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: Ashley Herring Blake, bisexual, lesbian, LGBTQ, LGBTQIA, making me say "women" like I'm Jo March, sapphic, sapphic romance ·
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