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Lesbian Book Recs

[(Anonymous)]

what are some lesbian fiction you'd recommend?

i tried reading the alpennia series but the prose and bizarre handling of a sexual assault plotline in the first book is making me question whether i should continue the series

i'm thinking of reading some sarah waters novels since they're always so highly recommended

Re: Lesbian Book Recs

[(Anonymous)]

Of Sarah Waters I’ve read Fingersmith and Tipping the Velvet. I enjoyed them both greatly.

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[(Anonymous)]

I mean, what books I rec is really gonna depend on what you’re looking for.

Do you want light contemporary romance? Then I recommend anything by Melissa Brayden or Rachel Spangler.

Do you want a complex fantasy where the protagonist’s sexuality plays a background role in a drama about politics or war? Then I recommend Sing the Four Quarters or Fire Logic.

Do you want urban fantasy about a paranormal private investigator? Then I recommend the Kate Kane books.

Do you want a light and frothy YA fantasy? Then I recommend Of Fire and Stars.

Do you want fanficcy fantasy where everything works out and nothing ever hurts too much for the main characters? Then the Mangoverse is fun, even if it’s not actually that well written.

Do you want fantasy with subplots about politics and academia and loyalty kink like whoa? Then yeah, I recommend continuing with the Alpennia series.

Re: Lesbian Book Recs

[(Anonymous)]

i'm not even sure what i exactly want, just something with gay in a genre setting i suppose

it doesn't even need to be part of the main plot or anything

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[(Anonymous)]

NA

How is Sing the Four Quarters f/f? Seems to be a very standard m/f from the blurb.

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[(Anonymous)]

NA

The protagonist's a bi woman in a long-standing open relationship with another woman, and maintains that relationship at the end of the book, though she is separately going to have a relationship with the dude who impregnated her. I would caveat reccing it for f/f myself - her girlfriend stays behind during their adventures, and it's really not the focus of the story, but her girlfriend is definitely there for her.

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[(Anonymous)]

NA

I would consider "her main relationship in the course of the book is with a man" to be a MAJOR caveat that should be mentioned in that rec!

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[(Anonymous)]

Reccer: I think “her main relationship is with a man” is kind of misleading? They’re not romantic. They’re allies with a common goal. The main character only has a romantic relationship with her long-term female partner.

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[(Anonymous)]

SA

DA mentioned that they had a relationship at the ending which...is possible? I’m trying to remember but it’s been a little while since I read it.

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[(Anonymous)]

Am I misreading the blurb I found? Because it sounds like the book is about the pregnant protagonist traveling around with the father of her child.

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[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

As DA said above, it’s a thing where the protagonist is in a long-term open f/f relationship.

I...actually forgot that the summary didn’t give this info, because this is how it was always recced to me. Whoops!

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[(Anonymous)]

I really liked Storm Season, by Pene Henson. Fashionable society girl gets caught in a flash flood and ends up rescued by and stranded with an anti-social park ranger at the ranger's cabin for several days. Then Society Girl gets back to civilization and realizes that she needs to take her life and career more seriously and starts working on a serious music article, and eventually the park ranger decides to quit running from her past and return to civilization also.

So the first half is pure tropey goodness, and then the second half is about each of them figuring out who they are as people, both separate and together. I really liked how the book was partly about them navigating some important career choices. And it is still a romance! They do get together in the end. :)

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[(Anonymous)]

Tell me more about the sexual assault plotline?

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[(Anonymous)]

DA

It’s been a while since I read it, and tbh that part of the plot didn’t make much of an impression on me. But IIRC, one of the main characters (Margarit) is expected to marry her cousin, especially after she inherits a large amount of money and property. Her cousin attempts to sexually assault her, but doesn’t actually manage anything. This is the catalyst for Margarit leaving her terrible relatives’ home and setting up her own household with her bodyguard (and future love interest) Barbara.

It’s clumsily handled, but it was a pretty minor part of the book.

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[(Anonymous)]

nayrt there's not any more sexual assault plotlines in the books are there? i might give it another go

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[(Anonymous)]

The protagonist of the second book sleeps with a man in order to get away from her city even though she doesn't want to; she frames it in her mind as a bargain she's making/kind of like prostitution but it's still got that connotation.

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[(Anonymous)]

so no rape or anything? good enough for me i suppose

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[(Anonymous)]

If for lesbian fiction, you will accept a canon lesbian relationship but in a novel not centred on romance, I would recommend Seth Dickinson's The Traitor (Baru Cormorant). It's about a woman whose home is taken over by an empire and who grows up to join the ranks of the empire to try and take it down from within. The first book ends unhappily for the love interest; a second book is to come out later this year.

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[(Anonymous)]

I want horror novels. With lesbians. Maybe they are monsters or maybe they are normal humans, I am fine with either. But I want them not to be dead or punished at the end, but to still be lesbians together.

Nonnies, this is my unicorn horror novel. I have wanted it ever since Carmilla died and Laura was saved by a bunch of heroic men. Or Tara got shot. Or both. Just. Please? (But I don't want Carmilla the webseries movie, because I'm that nonnie who's reminded of a former friend by Carmilla the webseries' Laura and cannot even.)