#Bisexual Book Review

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Errant: The Compendium by L.K. Fleet

➤A sapphic adult fantasy adventure ➤Butch bisexual protagonist ➤A swordswoman for hire on the run from people hunting her meddles in an act of thievery to rescue a woman ➤The act of rescue goes wrong and leads to the two women pretending to be wives ➤They both are now targets and are on the run from danger together while bickering and helping people ➤Navigating relationships and learning secrets ➤Queernorm world

My review on goodreads.

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are you a fan of sapphic romance, love-hate relationships, but tired of enemies to lovers? Order your copy of Off With Their Heads by Zoe Hana Mikuta today!

We have:

alice in wonderland themed body horror

crows

wlw couple that hates each other but “the only one that gets to kill you is me”

bisexual, lesbian, AND aroace rep including alterous attraction !

not one but TWO fucked up throuple situations (for very different reasons)

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Loveless - Alice Oseman

A book I've been meaning to read for a bit.

Story: Georgia and her two friends just graduated high school and are going to college. Everyone around her is "growing up": getting partners, kissing, other things... but she has no interest in it. Even more than that, she hates the idea of being in that, but can she really just be loveless?

Review: I liked this book, it was definitely not something I'd give to my siblings just yet (due to content and language). I have already forgotten most of it, but there were definitely some cute moments in there.

Overall: 4/5 ⭐️

[feywildfancypants]

My running notes from Silver Under Nightfall by Rin Chupeco:

I love snarky chaos characters so much. “Take it from someone who talks too much” *kills the guys while he’s monologuing* “you talk to much”

*mid battle* What’s the word for fucker in this language? *makes best attempt* is later corrected with the right word because what he says means cantaloupe. “Ah, I believe I am starting to understand your frustrations with my language”

Like Witcher if despite the witcher being badass, the vampires were even more badass. (Like even the “well fuck” is so Witcher 🤭)

Can’t say I love you. Just says fuck you instead.

Like, he’s a badass reaper and then the vampires are just all *you fragile, we protect you” and he resents them for it even if he secretly loves it.

Lady Song kicking ass again. 

10/10 would recommend. Soft, queer, bloody gory romantasy. *chefs kiss*

[savesappho]

Not/Coming Out (2024)

This charity anthology is a diverse look at queer existence in the best way possible. And--better yet--all these diverse representations of queer identities are in one place!

Edited by Kenzie Millar, Amanda Shortman, Dewi Hargreaves, and Lou Willingham Content Warnings: coming out, homophobia, transphobia. Specific content warnings are listed at the start of each piece! Genre: Short fiction & poetry It’s true that coming out doesn’t just happen it is a constant process that is different for everyone.This celebration of diverse voices from across the LGBTQ+…

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In a social media graphic for the book, the author describes Imogen as having "queer discourse brainworms", which is a good way to put it. She tries to educate herself about queer issues, but just ends up thinking that there’s only one right way to be queer. She doesn’t feel the same way about girls as she does in her crushes on guys, so she concludes that means she doesn’t like girls at all. Even when faced with obvious evidence to the contrary, she convinces herself that she’s just trying to be bisexual for clout and that she’s a bad person for appropriating queerness.

Imogen longs to be part of the queer community, and while I’m sure there is some 100% straight and cis person this applies to in the world, it’s such a relatable queer experience. I was in middle school when I excitedly talked about looking forward to joining the Gay/Straight Alliance in high school, and how if I could choose, I’d be pansexual and panromantic. But, of course, I too was "hopelessly straight"…

The Enthusiastic Ally to Bisexual Pipeline: Imogen, Obviously by Becky Albertalli was reviewed at the Lesbrary

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Okay, so remember how I've been Ded Of Editing this last year and just absolutely consumed by bookish stuff?

The bookish stuff is now out in the world.

TIME AND TIDE

Releases November 2024.

Exciting news: the eGalley is up on NetGalley and Edelweiss! This means, with the promise of an honest review, you could potentially read the book right now. However, if you're not interested in an ARC, you can preorder your Copy Here.

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Historical fiction with a touch of time travel, for fans of Diana Gabaldon, Alexis Hall, and Olivia Waite’s Feminine Pursuits series, where a modern bisexual woman is thrown into Regency England and must figure out how to survive, while she falls in love with a woman who will become a famous author.

Just a twenty-first century gal with nineteenth-century problems…

When Sam’s plane crashes catastrophically over the Atlantic, it defies all odds for Sam to be the sole survivor. But it seems impossible that she’s rescued by a warship in 1805. With a dashing sea captain as her guide, she begins to find her footing in a world she’d only seen in movies.

Then Sam is betrayed. At the mercy of the men and morals of the time, and without the means to survive on her own, she’s left with no choice but to throw herself on the charity of the captain's sisters. She resigns herself to a quiet life of forever hiding her true self. What she doesn't expect is that her new landlady is Margaret Goodenough—the world-famous author whose yet-to-be-completed novel will contain the first lesbian kiss in the history of British Literature, and a clever woman. Clever enough to know her new companion has a secret.

As the two women grow ever closer, Sam must tread the tenuous line between finding her own happiness in a place where she doesn’t think she’ll ever fit in, and possibly (accidentally) changing the course of history.

[merlina87]

Advance Reader Copies for my next book!

Hi lovely writeblr! My next book is to be released this June. How exciting and crazy that it's my 4th already!

It's a mlm romance with both characters in their 50s navigating reconnecting after 20 years and a bad breakup. It deals with things like neurodivergence, sexuality, coming out...

I'm looking for advance readers to get the word out! The ARCs will be ready in April/early May at the latest but if you're interested you can already sign up here: https://forms.gle/N4BkQTPNoUbDmBfV7

Please help me and share this as widely as you can!! All relevant info below the pics.

Blurb:

1973 –  When he signed up for that medical conference in Houston, Bill, hadn’t expected to run into Bobby. Fair to say they didn’t exactly part on good terms last time. Unable to stay away from each other, the two men reconnect, only for Bobby to leave in a hurry at the end of the conference, eager to protect his own heart.

Bill, freshly divorced from his second marriage, knows this is his only chance to get the love of his life back.

After so long, is Bill ready to finally admit his feelings, his sexuality, and to gather his courage to conquer his old lover and friend once more? A second chance romance with flashbacks to young love, addressing the struggles of coming out in an unwelcoming environment and building the life you really want.

Content Warnings

Explicit sexual content

Mentions of homophobia

Mentions of abusive family

Bullying (off page)

Mentions of WWII

This is a standalone novel. It spans out over several decades, from the 1930s to the 1970s and will therefore mention some historical events in those periods, as well as LGBTQ+ rights (or absence thereof).

If you have any questions about specific trigger warnings feel free to message me.

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actually i do have one issue with a dowry of blood but its less to do with the book itself and more a complaint towards the handful of reviewers who kept referring to it as a lesbian romance when both constanta and magdalena are bisexual. they have been bisexual the entire book.

constanta showed this once she laid eyes on hanne, the embroiderer who became a good friend of hers and who constanta said she could have loved, given the chance.

& magdalena was enraptured by both constanta and dracula upon their first meeting.

and if you don’t consider their affections and attraction to dracula to have ever been true, a fair criticism considering his manipulation and borderline grooming behavior, then their mutual and immediate desire of alexi should be enough proof that both of them are bisexual women (and alexi a bisexual man).

plus once they all won their own freedom, magdalena took on another male lover (fabrizio) and constanta took two more lovers of her own (henri and sasha).

i am scratching my head a bit because i don’t see how anyone could consider them to be lesbians without bisexual erasure. it’s just very strange to me that i’ve seen a number of people call this a lesbian romance when it’s very clearly not.

if you want to headcanon it that way, that’s of course fine. all the power to you. but that does mean erasing most of the epilogue (right up until the very last sentence) + rewriting constanta’s and magdalena’s entire history with alexi.

which is more than fine to do but i really don’t think it’s right to recommend a book to someone under the premise of it being a lesbian fantasy (which i desperately want more of) when that’s not the case.

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Quick Book Review: I Kissed Shara Wheeler

A book with a slow, meticulous start that I understood the incredibly designed purpose of more and more the longer I read. The smallest developments are as brilliantly executed as the largest, the callbacks shine with satisfaction, and the romance is flawed perfection.

10/10. It’s a Casey McQuiston book, we all knew that was coming, but still, I am amazed and in love. Please read this book!

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Quick Review: If You Still Recognise Me by Cynthia So Rating: 4/5

A sweet book about love, friendship, fandom and balancing identities. I especially loved learning a little about lesbian culture in Hong Kong through Joan's recollections of her time at school. It touches on some important topics and tackles some complex issues with care but mostly it's just a nice read. I'll be interested to see what Cynthia So writes next!

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🦇 Playing for Keeps Book Review 🦇

❓ #QOTD Soccer or baseball? ❓ 🦇 A baseball pitcher and umpire definitely aren't supposed to fall for each other, right? Especially not when star pitcher June and officiate-to-be Ivy are trying to go pro. Sometimes, life throws you a curveball, though. When Ivy is assigned as an umpire for June's elite club baseball team, they instantly clash on the field, only to find they have something in common: grief. Soon, they become enemies to friends to far more, despite the rules that prohibit them from dating each other. Will romance get in the way of them following their dreams?

💜 On the surface, Playing for Keeps seems like a fun, sweet young adult sapphic romance. The initial set-up gives us sharp, bittersweet enemies to lovers potential between a pitch and an umpire. Seems cute and fluffy, right? No one is that one-dimensional, though. Both Ivy and June are struggling with the loss of a loved one, balancing that on top of unrealistic expectations from their parents and the pressures they put on themselves to succeed. Add in the pressure you get from sports alone and it's enough to make anyone crumble. Ivy and June find happiness in each other, through stolen moments as they date in secret, wary that the conflict of interest between them will tear them apart. There's a potential for them to heal through one another, alongside one another, while learning how to navigate the external forces of loss while growing up.

💜 I loved that both Ivy and June were pursuing career paths that don't often make space for women. I would have liked to see more focus on that, though. It was sweet to see how the male players on the baseball team were quick to support June, but I expected to see more kickback (either from her team or other teams) to show (not tell us) how she struggled and still persevered.

💙 Unfortunately, the story is so rushed, so many scenes time-jumped, emotions mentioned but not illustrated, that you don't FEEL anything while reading this story. With the topic of grief, whether a character is processing it or trying to avoid it, readers should have an easy time sympathizing with the characters. Instead, the grief feels like a plot point, a reason for potential enemies to connect and eventually become more.

💙 Even with little jumps, the story lagged. Dugan has a tendency to pair selfless characters with less reasonable counterparts, which we certainly see between Ivy and June. Given that, it's difficult to root for both girls. Yes, they're both grieving, and yes, they both deserve happiness, but their actions are exhausting and (yes, I know it's YA) juvenile at times. Though the two girls had so much in common, the miscommunication trope constantly tugged them in opposite directions.

🦇 Recommended for fans of Some Girls Do, Home Field Advantage, and Cool for the Summer.

✨ The Vibes ✨ ⚾ Enemies to Lovers ⚾ Young Adult Romance ⚾ Sapphic Romance ⚾ Forbidden Love ⚾ Lesbian & Bi FMCs ⚾ Sports Romance ⚾ Grief ⚾ Pressure From Parents ⚾ Miscommunication

💬 Quotes ❝ Expecting it means I can prepare for it, plan for it, and figure out a way to keep my cool in its face. What I didn’t expect, though, was for there to be an extremely attractive girl throwing balls at about seventy-five billion miles per hour, striking out dumb boys left and right, like some kind of varsity, all-star Black Widow. ❞ ❝ There’s a lot of pressure on girls to conform, to become nice women, to do what’s expected. Smile more, whiten your teeth, lose the weight, don’t be too loud or too funny or too much. Make yourself less so the boys can feel like more. Don’t wear spaghetti straps or you might tempt them. Hold yourself accountable for the both of you, so they don’t have to. ❞

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Review: The Seven Husbands Of Evelyn Hugo

★★★★★ - 5 stars

"I'm under absolutely no obligation to make sense to you."

If Taylor Swift's Slut! was a book it would be The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - the life story of a reclusive Hollywood actress, the stories of forbidden love, pain, and heartache that made her hide away from the world.

The words heartwrenching, addictive, and shocking do not even begin to describe the experience of reading this masterpiece woven and written into existence by Taylor Jenkins Reid. The talent she holds is immense and incomprehensible. She can make the reader weep over a fictional actress - a woman who should be loathed for her lack of remorse and the terrible atrocities she committed; who is also merely a woman craving the love she struggled to garner her whole life.

Evelyn's story is of the brutal nature of female ambition and the way in which we are treated for it. Just like fictional women before her, be it Lady Macbeth of Shakespeare's timeless tragedy or It's a story of a woman painted as a slut for doing what she had to in order to survive as an actress in the cold-hearted, but glamorous grasp of Old Hollywood.

It is also a story of identity and assumption - how we as a society are too quick to create labels to brandish someone and put them into a box. The representation in this novel is wonderful, and the message told through this diversity is one that should reach out to the corners of the earth in order to be heard by all. Evelyn Hugo is a bisexual, Cuban American woman and she is powerful within her identity. She also perfectly sums up the point of this book in her own words: "I'm bisexual. Don't ignore half of me so you can fit me into a box."

Reading this book is an experience that will leave people feeling heartbroken, as though their very core has been ripped to pieces. Simultaneously, it will leave them feeling invigorated, with a fresh wave of empowerment flowing through them. The lessons that are entwined into the pages of this novel are profound and important - they are lessons of love, feminism, and power. This is a book that people should not go without and one that should be declared mandatory reading worldwide.

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Finally got around to watching Red White and Royal Blue.

Simply put, it’s amazing!

I thoroughly enjoyed it! Highly recommend!

Both Nicholas Galitzine and Taylor Zakhar Perez were excellent - they’re both pretty good looking too! 🤣🥰

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literally men be like "i'm fighting demons" and the demons be bisexuality

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2023 reads / storygraph

Ink Blood Sister Scribe

adult low fantasy

follows two sisters who grew up guarding a collection of magical and dangerous books, keeping them safe from a shadowy organisation

one is on the run across the world, staying one step ahead of the magic that killed her mother, but after deciding to stay longer at the Antarctic research base with her girlfriend quickly discovers that even there is not far enough away from the people tracking her

and the other is at home, the sole protector of the books, desperate to find out their secrets

plus a young man who’s lived his life within the Library used for his talent of writing the books

Latine & Jewish MCs, bi MCs