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Latest commute audiobook: Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield. This novel is about a woman, Miri, whose wife is a marine biologist, and goes on a submarine expedition for work meant to last three weeks. Six months later, Leah's sub finally resurfaces, but she isn't the same person Miri remembers.

This is another WIN for online queer recs - I thoroughly enjoyed it. I may even buy a copy for myself. There is a horror element to this story—for Miri, our primary narrator, the horror of watching someone you love become something you don't recognize or understand—but mostly Our Wives Under the Sea is a meditation on grief and loss. It is so easy to transform this story into a metaphor for anyone with a loved one who is terminally ill, or missing, or otherwise there, but not there.

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Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield is a 2022 debut novel, partly cosmic horror and partly a book about grief. In one timeline, Leah, a deep sea researcher, is trapped under the ocean in a submarine for months in a bizarre accident, increasingly suspicious that she and her team were set up. In the other, Miri, Leah's wife, struggles to understand Leah's strange behavior after her return, while navigating bizarre interactions with Leah's employers - and, at the same time, to mask her own resentment over a delay she was repeatedly told was routine and intentional. But it becomes increasingly clear that Leah may have returned without being saved.

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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.

rachelmanija

Absolutely fantastic, terrifying literary horror. Sarah Crowe, a depressed lesbian writer, moves into a spooky house with a spooky tree to recover from her girlfriend's suicide; her roommate is an artist with some odd resemblances to her dead girlfriend...

No happy endings - the entire book is Sarah's journal found after her own suicide - but if you like horror and metafiction, you will love it.

The Red Tree.

rachelmanija

I reviewed The Wilder Girls by Rory Power, an Annihilation-esque YA horror/sf novel about a girls' boarding school infected by a bizarre disease that mutates them. It's got lots of vivid imagery (much of it so nauseating that I had to skim) and an excellently hothouse atmosphere of desperately intense emotion, until YA dystopian plot tropes dissolve it all into a barrage of nonsensical plot twists.

F/F content: central F/F romantic relationship, equally or more important female relationship that may be platonic or may be romantic but not sexual.

The Wilder Girls.

hebethen

Happy FFFriday! I finally got around to reading my FemslashEx 2019 bookmarks, so here's five recs for stories that clock in under 5,000 words. (The Original Works are essentially just short stories that happen to be published under AO3, and I recommend them even if you aren't usually a fic person!)

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5. The Heat That I Know (4992 words) by runobody2
Fandom: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
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"Catra redemption" is probably right up there with "Catradora" as juggernaut tropes in SPOP fandom go. This is not so much the story of that redemption as it is a slice of the aftermath: cleaning up the pieces, wrestling and reconciling with the damage. It's also a very compelling view of Catra's interiority.

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Entries tagged with genre: horror

Recent Reading: Our Wives Under the Sea

Book Review: Our Wives Under the Sea, Julia Armfield

8 reviews!

The Red Tree, by Caitlin Kiernan

The Wilder Girls, by Rory Power

FemslashREx: 5 under 5k

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