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Re: Recs! - F/F novels

(Anonymous) 2018-08-07 08:17 pm (UTC)(link)
There's a lot out there I haven't read, but books with canon f/f that I love with few-to-no caveats include:

-Alpennia novels, by Heather Rose Jones
The first book, Daughter of Mystery, is FULL of loyalty kink: it's about a young woman who is unexpectedly left an inheritance by her godfather...including her godfather's bodyguard, who dresses in men's clothing and swordfights. The books do include a little bit of magic, but are really about queer women carving out a place in academia and working together, and they're really really fun.

-Kate Kane series, by Alexis Hall
Pretty standard urban fantasy with a hardboiled supernatural detective, only Kate Kane is a gay woman (whose mother is fae but that only comes up sometimes).

-Fire Logic, by Laurie J Marks
The main plot is about war, but the f/f romance makes up a big part of the character arcs. Also, loyalty kink and found family (done well).

Re: Recs! - F/F novels

(Anonymous) 2018-08-08 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
ALPENNIA! Alpennia is fantastic and I love how it builds a queer community in historical magic fake Europe.

Re: Recs! - F/F novels

(Anonymous) 2018-08-08 02:39 am (UTC)(link)
AYRT

YES, same so much! I didn’t even know that was a thing I wanted before I read the books-- I was drawn in by the loyalty kink in Daughter of Mystery-- but I love, love, love the worldbuilding the books set up. I still need to read the 3rd book, but the first two are *kisses fingers*

(Also, another rec: Steerswoman isn’t f/f, but the relationship between the two female mains is very shippy and if you like the academic bits of Alpennia, you’d probably like Steerswoman.)
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