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Multigenerational missing girls and ripple effects

Salt Bones by Jennifer Givhan

July 19, 2025 by LB Leave a Comment

Salt Bones fulfills the “family” square on CBR17 Bingo. Actual rating: 4.5 stars Salt Bones is a story of myth, which missing girls matter, and cycles of generational pain. I was really excited to read this based on the premise of Persephone and Demeter story through a Mexicali perspective, and this was great. There are so many different mother-daughter dynamics explored, and all of them dealing with different kinds of trauma. The Veracruz family seems to be cursed because twenty years ago Mal’s younger sister, […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Mystery Tagged With: abuse cw, cbr17bingo, Demeter, family secrets, folklore, Jennifer Givhan, La Siguanaba, Mexicali, missing daughters, Multigenerational, persephone, Persephone and Demeter, queer lit, sapphic, suicide cw

LB's CBR17 Review No:15 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Mystery · Tags: abuse cw, cbr17bingo, Demeter, family secrets, folklore, Jennifer Givhan, La Siguanaba, Mexicali, missing daughters, Multigenerational, persephone, Persephone and Demeter, queer lit, sapphic, suicide cw ·
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And the Rose Goes Oh No

Here For the Wrong Reasons by Annabel Paulsen and Lydia Wang

July 19, 2025 by Jake Leave a Comment

Read as part of CBR17 Bingo: review. I read this based on the review here.  My journey into sapphic romance continues with this fun little number. Also, before I begin, the women who co-wrote this apparently fell in love each other while writing it, which is the most adorable thing ever. And in the last romance I read, the writers were a wife-wife team. So maybe I have a thing? Or maybe it’s just coincidence. Either way, I don’t follow The Bachelor or shows like […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Annabel Paulsen and Lydia Wang, cbr17bingo, Here for the wrong reasons, LGBTQIA, queer, reality TV, Review, Romance, sapphic, the bachelor

Jake's CBR17 Review No:26 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Annabel Paulsen and Lydia Wang, cbr17bingo, Here for the wrong reasons, LGBTQIA, queer, reality TV, Review, Romance, sapphic, the bachelor ·
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One of my favorite fantasies

The Oleander Sword by Tasha Suri

July 15, 2025 by LB Leave a Comment

The Oleander Sword fulfills the “green” square on CBR17 Bingo. I read and reviewed this book for the first time back in 2022 and it still has me absolutely devastated and sitting here filled with feelings. Luckily this time around I have The Lotus Empire at hand and don’t have to wait to find out what happens next for Priya and Malini! The Oleander Sword takes place a year after The Jasmine Throne and is a story full of the ripple effects of war and […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, burning kingdoms, cbr17bingo, Indian fantasy, orbit publishing, queer, queer fantasy, sapphic, Tasha Suri, The Oleander Sword, tragic

LB's CBR17 Review No:12 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, burning kingdoms, cbr17bingo, Indian fantasy, orbit publishing, queer, queer fantasy, sapphic, Tasha Suri, The Oleander Sword, tragic ·
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Ground Control to Major Tom

Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid

July 8, 2025 by Jen K Leave a Comment

Bingo Square: Work (because astronauts and NASA) I really enjoy Taylor Jenkins Reid and her novels – as books, Malibu Rising and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo are my favorite of hers but the audio version of Daisy Jones and the Six elevates that novel beyond what is on the page (I do consider audiobooks reading and they count as read book but sometimes I want to distinguish how I read succinctly because for things like Daisy Jones, it actually is kind of a […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: cbr17bingo, sapphic, space, Taylor Jenkins Reid

Jen K's CBR17 Review No:67 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: cbr17bingo, sapphic, space, Taylor Jenkins Reid ·
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Cover of Nav’s FoolprGuide to Falling in Love by Jessica Lewis . In the illustration, a young white woman with long brown hair and glasses, wearing a pink and red strawberry print dress faces a young black woman with short curly brown hair, longish on top with a fade on the side. They are smiling at each other. Between them is a corgi.

A warm squishy hug!

Nav’s Foolproof Guide to Falling in Love by Jessica Lewis

February 7, 2025 by LB 1 Comment

[Nav’s Foolproof Guide releases April 29, 2025] I’ve been following Jessica Lewis’ books since her debut, and I was so excited to see what she’d do with a romance. Suffice to say I was not disappointed! Nav’s Foolproof Guide to Falling in Love feels like a warm squishy hug and builds the tension between Nav and Gia so wonderfully. Nav doesn’t believe in love, especially not anything lasting after her mom left “for space” three years earlier, but her best friend Hallie loves to fall […]

Filed Under: Featured, Fiction, Romance, Young Adult Tagged With: contemporary, friendship, Jessica Lewis, lesbian, queer, Romance, romcom, sapphic

LB's CBR17 Review No:3 · Genres: Featured, Fiction, Romance, Young Adult · Tags: contemporary, friendship, Jessica Lewis, lesbian, queer, Romance, romcom, sapphic ·
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The best fantasy has dragons

The Fireborne Blade by Charlotte Bond

The Bloodless Princes by Charlotte Bond

December 18, 2024 by LB Leave a Comment

I came across The Fireborne Blade at the library, and between it being a novella (tis the season (IYKYK) lol) and having a dragon on the cover, I took a closer look. I’m so glad I picked this up, and between picking it up and starting it, I swung by the library again and happened to see the sequel, The Bloodless Princes (it was one of those “why is this look familiar? Oh! Same series!” moments). The Fireborne Blade does a lot of typical dragon […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: #fantasy, Charlotte bond, dragons, here there be dragons, novella, queer, sapphic, the bloodless princes, the Fireborne blade, Tordotcom

LB's CBR16 Review No:20 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: #fantasy, Charlotte bond, dragons, here there be dragons, novella, queer, sapphic, the bloodless princes, the Fireborne blade, Tordotcom ·
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