8 reviews!

[sophia_sol]

Just realized I've been forgetting to let you folks know about the f/f book reviews I've written in the....year since I last posted here, whoops. Here's links to my reviews, along with a brief description of each!

1. A Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics, by Olivia Waite - Absolutely delightful historical romance featuring one woman who's a scientist and one who's an artist.

2. The Wolf and the Girl, by Aster Glenn Gray - The ending is ambiguous about whether it ships the two women or not but I think it falls under the spirit of this community. Historical fantasy featuring the early silent film industry and werewolves. Lovely.

3. In the Vanishers' Palace, by Aliette de Bodard - A Beauty & the Beast inspired novella. The worldbuilding is compelling, but the romance doesn't quite work for me personally.

4. Gideon the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir - Okay everyone's already heard about the lesbian necromancers, right? Anyway it's great as advertised, though a bit too far in the horror direction for me to be really happy with personally.

5. Catfishing on Catnet, by Naomi Kritzer - YA novel featuring lots of queer characters as well beyond the f/f relationship. Also a major character is an AI! Fun.

6. A Memory Called Empire, by Arkady Martine - far-future SF, my favourite book I read last year, completely brilliant and riveting.

7. Once Ghosted, Twice Shy, by Alyssa Cole - modern romance novel, I liked the characters but the romance arc doesn't work for me personally.

8. The True Queen, by Zen Cho - historical fantasy, absolutely delightful.

Comments

[alithea]

I absolutely adored 'The Ladies Guide to Celestial Mechanics', it's a beautiful romance and beautifully written.

'In the Vanishers' Palace' worked for me on all levels but obviously YMMV.

I'd very much recommend both anyway :)

[sophia_sol]

Yeah, whether the romance arc in a book works for someone or not can be highly subjective! I'm perhaps more prone to it not working than most due to being aro-ace and Not Understanding people being attracted to each other if they don't seem to like each other :P

[alithea]

It also wasn't the first of de Bodard's work I've read which may be a factor, because it's not the first time I've come across her writing romantic relationships that start off with the characters not appearing to like each other.

But yes, I can understand that issue - much like as a bi woman I don't really understand rejecting partners on the basis of plumbing 😉

[sophia_sol]

Yeah I'm with you on not understanding rejecting partners on the basis of plumbing! It just seems so....irrelevant, to me :)