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Going to recommend this again because it was my favourite book I read last year and it's extremely wholesome. Middle grade yuri is best yuri.

>>4138683
Thanks for rec

>>4138662
Does light novels count?

>>4138727
No.

>>4138980
But she got shot in the head by an unwashed middle school girl.

Am I misremembering or was there a locked tomb general thread at some point? Can that happen again since so much of the discussion around it is fandom orientated.

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ITS HERE

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>>4138683
>This cover
I suddenly got a flashback about that one book about friendship between two girls I had as required reading in primary school. It probably caused my very first thoughts about yuri.
To say anything on the topic, I can't really talk about Polish books. Currently, the market is filled with trash adapted straight from Wattpad. Alicia Jasinska is an Aussie, so I don't count her.

>>4139017
Nice booster pack, show the pulls.

>>4139017
>ITS HERE
No spoilers, just short info, if MC is a lesbian or not?

>>4139034
>I can't really talk about Polish books
Honestly I can't find any with lesbian MCs which is a shame.

>>4139044
reading it TODAY

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>>4139017
You sure this is relevant? Amazon describes it as non-romantic.

>>4139050
After doing a LOT of digging I found two positions.
>Córki tamtych Wiedźm by Weronika Łodyga
Which seems like an inoffensive middle-grade book with a sequel planned to release the next month.
>Fluff by Natalia Osińska
Which seems like an unholy combination of Becky Albertalli's "write the first book about gay dudes then shoehorn a lesbian romance in a spin-off" and "what's up fellow kids" energy.
There's a solid number of translated lesbian books, and stuff like The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo became decently popular so there's hope that sooner or later more books will pop up.

>>4139062
I' about 70 pages in and can't comment quite yet. There's certainly nothing that points towards any romance. There's an early het romance at the start that gets shut down hard and fast

I was NOT prepared for this thiccness. The book's over 500 pages and it's small print, large pages. Holy fuck. I was hoping to finish it in a day or two but I'm not sure if I can finish it by the end of the week

>>4139017
Did you defeat Seto Kaiba, anon?

Any good YA audiobooks you guys can recommend? A lot of the stuff I see recommended on here isn't available in audio format. I'm going on holiday soon and I want to listen to cute yuri novels while I watch the countryside go by out my train window.

>>4138995
Why'd it get locked?

>>4138995
>>4139271
>>4139322
Hop in

>>4138991
I have read the first 2 books but fail to comprehend this string of words
what are you talking about or when did this happen

>>4139103
Adding to this anon's assessment I'm just going to go ahead and say this book isn't going to be for everyone. You have to have a specific mindset and it's very very out there. The first Baru book is probably going to be the most accessible book he's written(the other two go pretty out there but not too weird)

I'm not saying it's 2deep4u, but it's densely written scifi where it might be a good idea to write things down as you go.

Anyone know of the book where the two love interests are stranded in the arctic (antarctica?) and some disease is spreading throughout the facility and they have to survive

>>4139858
Icehole by Kiera Dellacroix?

>>4139929
- The "freezer"? Hey gals, the "freezer"! Well, ooh la di da, Ms. French Woman.
- Well, what do you call it?
- Icehole

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>>4139932

>>4139929
this is it anon! thank you!

>>4139017
I'm 50% through, only started reading this morning. Slight spoilers for /u/ status: It's ensemble cast which I wasn't aware of going I'm, including male POV characters. MC shows no signs of being gay. There are other lesbians though. The alien also has had very little presence as a character.

So far I would say probably not a book to read for any kind of romance.

>>4140078
>>4139742
>>4139103
Lol

>>4138662
>/lit/
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

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>>4140079
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQeezCdF4mk

>>4140078
Ok so no worth of reading for /u/ related content, lets hope future final Baru book won't disappoint in that direction.

>>4139339
It happens in Nona. It's actually the third time that day she gets killed. Nona had a bad day.

I hate to be a negative Nancy but is the Locked Tomb series really supposed to be all that good? I'm partway through Gideon and the /u/ content is subtext at best while the rest of the book is a below average whodunit with some painfully cringe prose and dialogue. Is it just slim pickings in this subgenre making TLT seem great by comparison? Or are the people on Goodreads just morons?

>>4140240
You just have shit taste, and unfortunately it's terminal

>>4140240
You are definitely not the only one, but I don't have a high opinion of that sorta YA writing in general.

>>4140240
Man taste. Get out.

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To the anon who posted this last year or earlier. You are the best. I didn't think I'd like it this much but it surprised me. Very likable MC and the romance was complex and refreshing.

Any other book like it? I'm already reading the sequel and it's also good, if not following the same formula of the 1st one.

>>4140240
Careful before TLTurds skin you alive. It is overrated as fuck and barely /u/.

>>4140240
It's just fandom bullshit, to be expected since the author and her husband are homestuck freaks.

>>4140517
I hate baru too, it's written like rational fiction which is gross.

>>4140490
That author is a goldmine for fantasy girl x girl romance, damn, I read the first one 'The Lowest Healer and the Highest Mage' and I see Hiyodori has a lot of more books to go as this particular genre goes.
'The First and Last Demon'
'The Forest at the Heart of Her Mage.
'The Reverse Healer Case Files.
'Clematis and the Queen of the Void.
These by descriptions are girl x girl related, don't know about 'No One Else Could Heal Her' title, anyone knows if this is the same?

>>4140078
Finished Exordia now. Spoilers:
Definitely not /u/. Even the teased side-couple leaves off with a 'maybe we're not right for each other'. I didn't mind too much since I wasn't expecting it going in and enjoyed the book overall. Although I will say it did a dick move and steered hard het at literally the 98% mark with a FMM threesome no less. So really no point discussing it here.

The more worrying thing for me is that it is very clearly set up for sequels, almost surely multiple. Unless some hot alien babes show up they also wont be /u/, and worse it reads to me like the classic 'I can't figure out how to end this series so let's just write something else that interests me more' kind of move. Even though I personally liked the book despite it being het, I didn't prefer it to Baru and I definitely am not excited about sequels.

>>4140566
I feel afraid for Baru final book then, if author will fuck it up with making Baru get killed or end with a guy in any way or combination of threesomes I'm gonna be mad as hell.
Truth to be told this Exordia book was never advertised as lesbian/bi related in any way so hard to blame the author for pandering for other fandoms with it.

>>4140516
Your mom looks crappy.

>>4140486
wait till this anon figures out who the other 50% is on this board, not defending that other anon's position though

Reading Makint it Count by Nicole Pyland... I'm about halfway through and I'm not sure I'll finish this thing.
It's a romance between 2 teammates on a college basketball team, but the author decided to have it set in the middle of covid. Result is that you have main characters who... don't interact with on another and just text for half the book? The author could've chosen any other difficulty to them being together that would've at least had them interact more.

>>4140670
>the other 50% is on this board
Me and my proxies.

>>4140675
Damn I like sports romance but that sounds rough

>>4140524
>Clematis and the Queen of the Void.
That's the name of the MC from the 1st book. I didn't know that the author had more books published, and if the rest are set in the same universe as the 1st book then Christmas came early for me!

>These by descriptions are girl x girl related, don't know about 'No One Else Could Heal Her' title, anyone knows if this is the same?
This is a prequel book about younger times for main characters from main trilogy, it is of course ff related.

>>4140688
i knew the dead internet theory was becoming more real by the day

>>4140490
You're welcome anon. Glad you enjoyed it! After the sequel you MUST read the prequel. It's really good as well.
>>4140524
>>4140697
>Clematis and the Queen of the Void
Oh shit, thats a new one. I will read it.

All Hiyodori's books are set in the same universe. 'The First and Last Demon' and 'The Forest at the Heart of Her Mage' are set in Jacia, a continent mentioned in the Clem & Wist saga where the mage/healer hierarchy is kind of inverted.
Clem and Wist have some cameos in those books as well.

>>4140720
>After the sequel you MUST read the prequel. It's really good as well.
Isn't it better to first read the prequel book, then 1st/2nd/3rd one and spinoffs according to how they were released?

>>4140573
I really doubt Baru would steer in the same direction since they're fundamentally different. The character writing is very consistent.

I'm always on the lookout for new stories about dominance and submission. Here is a short list of stories I found, curated to include only relevant to the topic at hand (i.e. yuri). Always open to suggestions to add to this list. A story marked with an asterisk denotes a particularly good story that I would recommend.

With strings attached
https://www.literotica.com/s/with-strings-attached
F/f. Girl gets tricked into becoming a slave for a lesbian.

My very own *
http://bdsmlibrary.com/stories/story.php?storyid=9317
F/f. Girl gets blackmailed by her schoolmate into becoming her slave.

Kelly's birthday surprise
http://bdsmlibrary.com/stories/story.php?storyid=4234
F/f. Girl gets blackmailed into becoming the slave of her former best friend.

Allie and Nicole
http://bdsmlibrary.com/stories/story.php?storyid=578
F/f. Aunt enslaves her niece after her parents die.

Tracy in Trouble
http://bdsmlibrary.com/stories/story.php?storyid=954
F/f. Girl gets blackmailed by her friends into becoming their slave.

Exposed to the Bottom *
https://www.literotica.com/s/exposed-to-the-bottom-ch-01
F+/f. A group of girls find their friend's tumblr and discover she wants to be enslaved.

Giving in to My Best Friend
http://bdsmlibrary.com/stories/story.php?storyid=4232
F/f, F+/f. A girl gets dominated by her friend.

Sweet Gwendoline
https://www.literotica.com/s/sweet-gwendoline-ch-01
F/f. F+/f. A girl gets blackmailed by an older woman into becoming her slave.

Katie's Devious Mind
https://www.literotica.com/s/katies-devious-mind
F/f+. A girl enslaves her submissive stepmother and stepsister.

Sisterhood
https://www.literotica.com/s/sisterhood-1
F/f. Sister finds younger sister masturbating to bdsm porn and decides to take control of the situation.

Ms. Cane's Game
https://www.literotica.com/s/ms-canes-game-ch-01
F/f. A student submits to her teacher.

Damage Control Pt. 01
https://www.literotica.com/s/damage-control-pt-01
F/f+. A girl enslaves her best friend's mother.

>>4140922
An Endless Competition
https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/themousepad/an-endless-competition-f-f-completed-t155782.html
F+/f. Girl submits to her aunt.

The Sun in her Sky *
https://www.literotica.com/s/the-sun-in-her-sky-ch-01
F/f. A girl loses a bet and becomes a slave to her teammate for a week but things escalate.

Owning Professor Ballard
https://www.literotica.com/s/owning-professor-ballard-pt-01
F/f, F+/f+. A teacher is dominated by her student.

Royal Flush
https://www.literotica.com/s/royal-flush-ch-01
F/f, F+/f+. A pair of journalists infiltrate a secret BDSM sorority.

Anne and Alicia *
http://bdsmlibrary.com/stories/story.php?storyid=258
F/f. A mother and her daughter try slavery with the mom's old mistress.

Roommates? Friends? Not anymore
https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/themousepad/roommates-friends-not-anymore-f-f-t189572.html
F+/f. A girl submits to her roommate after an experience she has with a very dominant woman at work.

Learning to Serve
https://www.literotica.com/s/learning-to-serve-2
F/f. A girl becomes a servant to a rich girl. This story is based on (or almost blatantly ripped off from):

Slave to a White Girl
https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/themousepad/slave-to-a-white-girl-t116157.html
F/f, F+/f+. A black girl submits to a white girl.

Autumn Labyrinth *
https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/themousepad/autumn-labyrinth-f-f-high-school-best-friends-fict-t165238.html
F/f. Girl gets dominated by her best friend.

Darla's Games Day 01
https://www.literotica.com/s/darlas-games-day-01
F+/f+. A girl gets dominated after losing a bet.

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>>4140566
I just finished it too, definitely not a /u/ book although there's a throwaway line about Anna being bi. Anna/Ssrin is goggleable if you have really, really tight goggles

THAT BEING SAID it's a fantastic book. Seth Dickinson is great and he wrote a great sci-fi novel. Fantastic characterization, really far out-there, original concepts. I also wasn't aware it was an ensemble cast and I thought it was going to be standealone also, but yeah the end definitely sets up sequels (which I will definitely read). Despite hyping it up on /u/ I was fully expecting it to not really be /u/ so I wasn't terribly disappointed.

The beginning of Exordia with Anna meeting Ssrin is definitely the best part of the book by far. Such a fun, original, unique tale of first contact. After that it goes into more traditional sci-fi territory. It surprised me how small a role Anna played in the story. The blurb makes it seem like she's the main character when maybe 20% of the book is from her POV.

In fact, Chaya - one of the side characters - arguably has as much screentime as Anna. And Chaya is 100% lesbian so Exordia still qualifies for some discussion on /u/. Her shortstack asian GF is also les. In fact, if you break it up by percentage, of the 8 main characters, 25% of them are lesbian.

>>4140922
>>4140923
thx for the effort anon! ill be checking some of these out

>>4140751
I'd say that is better to read them in release date order.
There are some things in the prequel that you'll enjoy better if you already know the characters.
Of course, you can read them in whatever order you want, that's up to you.

>>4138665
I read The One Who Eats Monsters and that was sublimely terrible. The writing style kind of remind of how Garth Ennis writes villains where they can't just be a bad guy, they also have to eat babies, fuck dogs, and rape people every other day.

>>4140446
>>4140486
TLTfans must not read non-YA books if they get this defensive over a series with such cringe prose.

>>4141000
I haven't touched a YA book in years but go off queen. I normally read pretentious shit like House of Leaves and Blindsight.
>b-but TLT is YA!!
No it isn't and even if it was, it doesn't change the fact that the quality is undeniable in spite of the fact that the prose reads like a fanfiction

>>4140997
>The One Who Eats Monsters is terrible because it has monsters in it
I don't know what you were expecting.

>>4140922

Thanks for the links, here's some from ao3 that I remembered.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/9560873/chapters/21617288
https://archiveofourown.org/works/38502661
https://archiveofourown.org/works/49665484/chapters/125354467
https://archiveofourown.org/works/44853856/chapters/112855126

>prosefags

>>4141019
A story about a girl that consumes Monster energy drinks.

>>4140997
>Garth Ennis invented rapists
You're so fucking retarded.

>>4141019
I feel like there's a difference between someone who is an objectively bad person and someone who is so ridiculously evil that it becomes comical and dissolves all stakes in the story.
>>4141432
I get that you're in an incoherent state of anger where you make up shit to get even angrier, but I am using this amazing invention called "comparison", in which I liken something to something else I have read. I did not say that Garth Ennis invented rape in stories, I merely say that the villains in TOWEM are reminiscent of his villains. Now that I think about it, at least Garth Ennis is trying to be funny, so honestly TOWEM comes off worse.

>>4141446
I’m genuinely curious. So what counts as a bad person? Should Ryan eat people who are rude to cashiers? Raping, drugging, human experimentation, and murdering are all pretty standard bad guy stuff. The whole point is that they’re like evil, not poor people who rob stores to feed their ten children.

>>4141529
>Should Ryan eat people who are rude to cashiers?
Yes.
t. former customer service worker

>>4141529
>So what counts as a bad person?
People who end their books with a sequel hook but then leave their readers hanging. Ryn should definitely eat those people.

Anyone got a recommendation for a realistic cop/thief book with good detective work? I’m talking about the actual workings of law enforcement when it comes to catching someone.

>>4140490
I really want to enjoy this author, but even after all this time having read all of their books, I can't get into the way they write romance. Personally, Clem is insufferable, and the worldbuilding falls apart if you inspect it a bit much. I found the standalone stories a bit better though. Glad you could enjoy it.

>>4140566
>>4140954
honestly wasn't expecting it to be /u/. I'm just waiting for Seth to finish Baru. I might read it later tho
>>4140573
the only way Baru ends up with a guy is if Seth wanted to spite us

>>4143443
>the only way Baru ends up with a guy is if Seth wanted to spite us
Well it would go against everything Baru did so far and why her character grew up, basically author would hrow away all 3 books he had written before if that happened.
But I expect getting killed/dying for ending for Baru than having a happy life with some woman or two.

>>4142101
>actual workings of law enforcement when it comes to catching someone
turning off the body camera "by accident" and then shooting them?

>>4143462
lol. No, I mean the boring part, narrowing down the suspects, looking for clues, not running around shooting people.

>>4143454
I feel like he's not going to give our girl a bad end. She's gonna explore the world with her two wives

Is there a name for the type of story where a person from modern times ends up in the past and uses their advanced knowledge to invent things or to "predict" the future?

>>4143977
Shit?

>>4143977
Isekai would cover that but you could also refer to it as >>4143996

There's literally nothing to read. Nothing. I'm in despair. Why is lesbian romance so niche?

>>4148237
Read JWQS/Clear and Muddy Loss of Love. Historical palace drama scheming lesbian vengeance poetry romance novel.
https://jwqs.carrd.co/

>>4148341
>Chapters: 303
I know it says "slow burn", but damn, that's barely a smolder.

>>4148348
They get married in chapter 10

I got rused into reading unadulterated hetshit and need a palate cleanser. Please recommend well-written literary fiction with actual lesbians. No fantasy, no rape, no baby-making drama.

>>4149012
Well then that's not a slow burn at all.

>>4149233
No, it’s extremely glacier slow burn. I’m not even kidding. It takes 10+ years for them to finally fuck. The levels of angst is unreal. I read it once and it was enough slow burn to last for three lifetimes.

>>4148341
I have mixed feelings about it. It’s incredibly good, when it can be. But most of it is just emotional torture porn. Also the gender dynamics brings in the worst interpretations/readers.

>>4148341
Was thinking of reading this, but I wanted to read Female General and Eldest Princess first. Anyone here read both? Which one did you like more?

>>4142101
you might like the dark peak series by Cari Hunter.

>>4150502
Thanks anon, searching right now.

Anyone got any recs where a girl NTRs a girl away from a guy?

>>4150586
Does an abusive father count? There's that book that anon wrote whose full version I keep meaning to get around to, Kill Your Girlfriend's Father or something.
Also Friends, though Carol and Susan aren't the main characters.

>>4150620
Not really what I was looking for, but I'll check it out anyways.

>>4138683
Thanks for the rec, Iiked it enough that I'm checking out some of her other books.

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Does anyone have The Early Life of Miss Anne Lister and the Curious Tale of Miss Eliza Raine by Patricia Hughes?

Alison N. Holt - Credo's Honor/Bandidos/Run
... bit of a catching up on this mystery series. But not much to say about these three books, honestly.

The main thing the series has got going is that the heroine is "friends" with a mafia boss, which naturally can easily cause tensions. Especially the cases that got anything to do with organized crime. But in these three books she only appears for 1 or maybe 2 scenes, and there's no particular tension or conflict.

The investigations themselves aren't written to puzzle along; there isn't really any character development or otherwise anything developing really ...
... they are okay as a sorta police procedural, but even there it's not very deep.

Nothing too exasperating stupid either, though.
Just fairly forgettable overall.

>>4154950
I believe in bad first books, but why continue after the second one?

>>4155610
These are 6, 7, 8 in the series. So it's rather that there was some good stuff earlier on (as far as I remember) and I wasn't sure whether this is just a blip or a "forget it and move on" sorta situation, plus, nothing else on my radar really ...

Also, "bad" is relative. The writing is fine. There's some good moments. You can read them without feeling the need to strangle the author. Should have been better books, but could have been much worse. By the standards of lesfic, it wasn't anything too awful. Just a bit dull.

>>4155908
>more than 3 books in a single series
Nothing kills my interest more. What kinda quality are we talking about here if they just shit out books left and right. Want books not telenovellas.

Darva Green - She Came From the Swamp
Heroine goes live in the house of her grandmother, situated in a nice, uh, swamp. Well, she wants to be left alone, so okay.

A strange presence scares her which ... naturally makes her quite horny. Obviously, if you suspect there's some sort of monster out there in the swamp you'd immediately think about whether in some way you can have sex with it. Her.

It's a quite simple, horny monster romance. Hints at some larger setting and all that but doesn't really do anything in that regard. Nothing too exciting, but hey. Swamp monster "romance".

Emily Alter - Herding Love 1/2
The search for a good poly romance continues. Written by a Spanish writer and set in Spain these two books are about kinky women finding some sort of poly romance arrangement.

In theory I'd have been interested but the style of writing felt so clunky and the "plot" so slow ... maybe someone else has better tolerance and finds something worthwhile here; I couldn't finish either of them.

Any recs for books with a boarding school setting?

Someone has any good newer suggestions for fantasy or sci-fi or criminal/true crime type books with lesbian protags which end with girls in them?
I read recently all Hiyodori books and loved them and read all older entries from the fantasy recomendation chart.

Empire of the Damned is coming out in 2 days
knowing the author we'll probably get some /u/ out of it

>>4159895
>probably
>some
Get some standards

is there any non-feminist /u/ book that I can read?

I dropped Baru when it was released. But after so many years /u/ still loves it. So I wanted to give it an other chance. And I still don't get it. Baru's so unlikable. Why should I care about her? Traitorous selfish drunkard with plot armor.

>>4160465
>Baru's so unlikable. Why should I care about her?
That's why, I love seeing her getting what she deserved for doing that to her first perfect strong waifu.
I wish we get Baru tv series done by HBO or Amazon or hell even Netflix adapting all books into 4 TV seasons when last one would be released but we all know it will never happen.

Finished Daughter of Mystery. Not bad. The pacing was pretty rushed and the autistic attention to titles and family relations and properties wasn't my cup of tea, but it still entertained me from start to end. After picking up and dropping a solid dozen books at page one for being too shit, it was very satisfying to find something readable at last.

How are the other parts in the series? I fear it can only be downhill from here.

>>4160465
The character development throughout the books is pretty good. She's an interesting main character to follow around

>>4159975
I get the feeling you're destined to be unhappy.

>>4160540
The second one is still pretty decent. I can't say anything for the others since I've not read them yet though.

>>4162120
I checked the blurbs for the other parts and some reviews, and it sounds like they only double down on the elements I disliked about the first one. The author seems more interested in assembling over-convoluted plot threads than exploring human relationships. I think I'll stop while I can still think fondly about the book and characters.

>>4159975
no

>>4159975
Idk. What is your definition of feminism? Third wave feminism, fourth wave feminism or just feminism in general? Maybe some really old books like Carmilla?

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"Two girls reluctantly bound by fate must weather a dangerous courtship as a prophesied war grows ever closer in Jasmine Skye's high-stakes, queernormative dark fantasy debut, Daughter of the Bone Forest.

Rosy is a bone familiar, gifted with the power to shift into animals marked with exposed bone. She spends most of her days in the magical Bone Forest, caring for her feral grandmother and hiding her powers to avoid conscription by the Witch King’s army. Until the day that Princess Shaw, a witch known as Death’s Heir, visits the Forest. When Rosy saves Shaw’s life, the princess offers her the chance to attend the prestigious school, Witch Hall, as payment. Though Rosy is wary of Shaw’s intentions, she cannot pass up the opportunity to find the cure for her grandmother’s affliction.

But at Witch Hall, Rosy finds herself embroiled in political games she doesn't understand. Shaw wants Rosy for her entourage, a partner to help lead the coming war. All Rosy wants is to stay out of trouble until she can graduate and save her grandmother, but she can't deny her attraction to Shaw or the comfort Shaw’s magic gives her. Will Rosy give in to her destiny, or will the Bone Forest call her home once and for all?"

Just finished this book right this minute. It was pretty good but with some flaws. I liked the world and the magic system, just wished that the author took more time to polish it since the school and the magic system was a bit hard to take seriously sometimes. But maybe I'm going too hard on a book for Teenagers.

>>4162161
Good decision. I made the same many years ago when I read the first book.

>>4162161
I remember the second one being much more focused on the romance than the first one. I also like all the autistic attention to worldbuilding though so my standards may be different than yours.

>>4162320
The only part I really liked about the "worldbuilding" was the profession of butler-bodyguards licensed to kill without question for the honor of their master, which was delicious but unfortunately underutilized. The saint magic thing was just kind of cringe.

>>4162453
I think christian thaumaturgy as a magic system is a neat concept and almost refreshing in a sea of generic fantasy settings but I get why it wouldn't be everyone's cup of tea.

>>4159895
There was some yuri involving Dior. But it was with a tertiary character I didn't give a shit about and neither should you. I never really got invested in Dior as a character. I'd really hoped she'd get it on with Celene. Also she dies at the very end and comes back fron the dead. But its been obvious from the start, considering the heavy christian parallels and foreshadowing. Overall the book was worse than the first 1, really dragged on and shouldve been like half as long, or just not waste so much pages on pointless and repetitive shit. Overall I kinda lost interest in the series, will chceck out the final tome only to see how it ends abd for Celene whos awesome.

>>4162509
Well, it is a neat concept, but...
>praying hard to Jesus saves the day
Instead of Alpennia, I was suddenly in California.

Tried reading The Gracekeepers by Kirsty Logan. It was on some list of recommended books with lesbians and seemed vaguely interesting.

The writing was technically quite skilled, but hundreds of pages later, there were two pregnant women, forced marriage drama, and no sign of /u/. Then the main character randomly has sex with a courier man to pay for a letter delivery and felt too sick to go on. What possesses a person to write such a thing? I hate to leave things unfinished but am not drinking the rest of this piss, thanks.

>>4163535
>It was on some list of recommended books with lesbians and seemed vaguely interesting.
Honestly most books recommended with "lesbian" tag isn't about lesbians at all.

>>4163535
If you see that on a Goodreads list then its probably a missfile.
Goodreads usually has at least two or more titles misfiled on their lists.

>>4163535
The way I used to find books on goodreads was going into the reviews of a book I knew was for lesbians, clicking on the butchiest profile picture I could find and then browsing through their shelves.

>>4163707
It was some lifestyle website's curated list. I did check the goodreads page too and none of the glowing reviews suggested it was such a bear trap of a book. Supposedly it IS about a lesbian romance, but everyone can ask themselves how much they are willing to put up with to get there and are the returns worth the investment.

>>4163535
People randomly tag shit as lesbian to get more people to pick up their slop.

Silly question but are there any good yuri/wlw/lesbian vampire novels?

>>4163999
>good
>yuri/wlw/lesbian
>vampire novels
You can only pick two

>>4153129
Glad you liked it! Let us know if any of her other books are worth reading, that's the only one of hers I've read.

>>4164015
Our Lonesome Nights Together is pretty cool, and the sequel's even better.

>>4163999
Hayes' Redamancy is pretty good. Watasin Monster Stalker is good, but very strange.

>>4163999
The Wicked and the Willing, be warned it's pretty smutty at times but the characters prose and story are very solid

>>4164347
>be warned it's pretty smutty at times
Oh no, this is surely a deal-breaker

>>4163999
Just My Type by Lucy Bexley

>>4164359
some people are disgusting prudes even on a red board. I don't understand them but I feel the warning is owed because there straight up lesbian sex depicted in all its wet detail multiple times throughout

>>4164359
I mean I was also going to recommend that one and I’d also attach a warning that it’s very much not for someone who wants a vanilla romance.

>>4164371
Well, you're definitely selling it

>>4164259
>>4164030
>>4164347
>>4164363
Thank you anons!! I've always liked vampire stuff but when I looked online I got some really meh recommendations.
Also I don't mind smutty stuff just long as it's well written and not something I'd find in a fanfic written by a 13 year old

>>4164781
>The Wicked and the Willing
have "fun" with that one

>>4140923
>Autumn Labyrinth
Even with the het content, this one was really good. It's a shame it looks like it won't be completed.

Is there a book written from the point of view of a blind character? I'm interested in this concept and I'm sure someone has written a book fitting this description, but as with any concept I'd enjoy it more if it were about a gay girl.

>>4169405
There are some, but my memory seems to be on strike. The one I remember is Diane Anderson-Minshall's Blind Eye Detective series, though there it's about the lead character going blind, not yet being entirely blind.

Ah. Right. There's also La Zorra Ciega ... which is basically lesbian blind Zorro. Which sounds really random and is very much very random, but I do remember it being decent.

How do I deal with the fact I will never have a cute highschool yuri romance it's literally killing me

>>4169864
If you'd had one you'd realized how imperfect they are and you'd be disillusioned with them. You can actually enjoy them vicariously because you haven't had the experience yourself.

>>4169864
You can still have a cute office romance with your department rival.

>>4170200
I'm not a girl tho

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Apparently this is actually good but I would definitely get stares if I read it on the train

>>4170219
What kind of a maniac designs stalls with gaps that go all the way up to your knees?

>>4169864
Use this life to stack good karma for a reincarnation into yuri paradise.

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Any recommendations for this vibe?

>>4172375
Books by Nicole Melleby are really good.

>>4172669

She's definitely the best writer for that age range imo

Any good enemies-to-lovers books? I just read She Gets the Girl which was very cute.

>>4172669
>>4172705
Thanks friends

>>4172909
I greatly enjoyed Reality in Check by Emily Banting recently.

>>4173941
ty, I'll check it out

Is Last Night at the Telegraph Club any good? I don't want anything too feminist/preachy.

>>4174300
it's absolutely fantastic. I say this as someone that doesn't even like Malinda Lo, YA, or historical fiction

>>4174319
Awesome thanks, I'll read it then. I worry about some yuri with historical settings because they tend to get very preachy about how oppressed they were thanks to evil men. Just not the kind of vibe I look for in a yuri novel.

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I have a flight coming up and I haven't touched my kindle in almost a year. These are the best selling LGBT books in 2023-2024. What can /u/ recommend to me?

>>4175259
Why is green manga on Goodreads' list of bestsellers?

>>4175259
Priory, last night at the telegraph club, harrow the ninth (and gideon the ninth), kyoshi, are all solid books

also you are retarded for that screenshot with the blurb blocking out half the top row

>>4175260
I was in Japan last month and that manga is advertised EVERYWHERE. Every book store I went into it was front and centre with it's own dedicated display.

>>4175402
I should also mention I bought the first 2 volumes despite not being able to read Japanese so the advertising worked.

>>4175402
>>4175404
I don't know why, it's not that good 2 b h

>>4175412
I think most people just buy it because the art really stands out. That's why I bought it. I haven't even read it.

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I really like yuri books but they make me super depressed so I'm always hesitant to start one. It's nice to experience those relationships through media but it kind of fucks me up knowing it's something I'll never get IRL.

Emily K Hardy - Bloodmoon: Bound

Even by the standards of urban fantasy that didn't deliver much. Naive girl goes to the big city because her friend disappeared and she feels guilty; seedy vampire pawns her off to his subordinate sexy vampire woman to investigate this because contrived reasons.

... contrivances are one of the main problems this narrative have. How do you investigate a disappearing girl? Well, obviously, the ONLY thing you do is go to seedy vampire-human clubs and see if something turns up. And obviously you can only go into these if you do the vampire-master-human-pet thing, there's literally no other way. What a fortunate coincidence that the heroines are into each other ...

A particular stupid moment is when they do actually meet the vampire who posed as the friend's boyfriend. There plan then is to ... uh ... there is no plan. Because he's an asshole they later kill him. They don't see the fact that they just killed their mean lead as any sort of issue at all. Wow.

Also good is the usual romantic misunderstanding. Asshole guy tells human girl that her vamp girlfriend is a monster. Naturally she immediately believes him. Big tragic drama! Very next conversation vampire's friend tells her that, you know, there's mitigating circumstances. So then it's immediately fine again. Wow, that was totally worth it.

There's more but it's all this sorta level. Oh, yeah, and some sequel bait at the end. Writing is okay, but that's about it.

>>4175412
It has good art, went viral internationally on pre Elon twitter(so the buzz around it is actually real) and the premise draws people in. In addition to that the author is good enough in english to interact with.

>>4175267
>read last night at the telegraph club
Loved it, anything in a similar theme? I don't really like fantasy.

>>4175731
Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating is good. Hits similar kind of notes and it's about an Indian and a Bengali girl in Ireland.

>>4175267
>>4175731
>last night at the telegraph club
Honestly didn't pick it up because the synopsis felt like it was just going to be ideological and political. Glad I did because it was just a nice coming of age story.

>>4176762
Yeah I'm always scared to pick up a western yuri title because a lot of them read as man hating manifestos. Luckily they are usually easy to spot because they have pretty low ratings. Shock horror, most lesbians don't actually want to hear about how much the author hates men. They want a cute lesbian story.

>>4177157
>a lot of them read as man hating manifestos
That's a good thing.

>>4176592
Henna Wars from that author was the single worst lesrom book I have read.
It was constantly shoving white people bad in your face.
A book with an indian girl that i liked was She drives me crazy from Kelly Quindlen

>>4177520
That sounds like a you problem.

>>4177520
>>4177157
Hmmm... I'm starting to see a pattern with these posts. What could it be....?

>>4177527
They both have reasonable opinions that if you disagree with you should provide a sound argument!

>>4175259
Here, so I am half way through Last Night at The Telegraph Club, an unfortunately I'll probably finish it before my flight this Easter Sunday. Does anyone have something similar, I am really enjoying it so far. And I sincerely hope the MC doesn't fuck a guy in order to half assedly prove to herself or her family she's not gay or something.

>>4175259
Is the green manga only in Japanese or is there a translation somewhere?

>>4177628
https://mangadex.org/title/9d3d3403-1a87-4737-9803-bc3d99db1424/the-guy-she-was-interested-in-wasn-t-a-guy-at-all

>>4177630
Is there an EPUB?

>>4177631
No. Somehow it hasn't been officially licensed yet.

>>4177632
>best web series by Kadokawa
That's surprising really. There are few mangas I physically buy I think the last ones was the Yokohama Kaidashi Kikō series(doubt anyone heard of it here in lit). This one seems to be right up my alley, thanks.

>>4177628
Reading in Japanese is generally a lot better; I'd recommend that. Only the best translations approach the experience of reading the actual dialogue.
>>4177633
Surely everyone knows YKK.

>>4177637
I might get into duolingo or rosetta but right now I'm way too busy with finishing up work and home obligations that I only have time to read books that would relax me. On the weekends someone comes to pick up the home obligations so I have a bit of time to myself so I might get into that. Maybe I'll do it during my trip to Japan.

>>4177644
>duolingo or rosetta
Don't do it, it's not effective.
Read https://tatsumoto.neocities.org/blog/why-shouldnt-i-just-keep-using-an-app-instead

>>4177648
I did kinda try Duolingo and kinda like it, still I also enjoy time wasters like candy crush simply because people on my FB group are also playing it and it's fun to beat them. Honestly I'd probably be fluent if more people on my FB group plays Duolingo.

>>4177649
Unfortunately no one has ever got fluent by playing duolingo.

>>4177644
>Duolingo
>candy crush
>FB group
Not to bully you or anything but don't even bother, you can't learn Japanese.

>>4177471
>Women complain about books always being about men
>Write a lesbian romance novel and spend most of it talking about men
How is that a good thing? The best lesbian romance novels are the ones where men don't exist.

>>4177764
This.

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These three are surprisingly good for how short they are.

I think Last Night at the Telegraph Club is a bit too historical fiction for my liking. I just want to read about cute girls kissing I don't care about Chinese American relations in the 1950s

>>4177764
>strawaman: the post
(You) need to go back, male. Male hating is based and /u/.

Ressentiment is cringe.

>>4178390
I mean I liked it but there's a lot of filler. Like TBQH I didn't really give a shit about the flash backs with her parents and aunt. However I think she puts it there to explain why the aunt did what she did for Lily.

I think by included that she wanted to be taken as a serious author. Her other works are all fantasy smut and I think this is her first serious work. I'm gonna Kindle A Scatter of Light, I hope its good.

>>4178551
Shut up femoid

>>4178748
Okay I take that back A Scatter of Light is terrible, the MC is a bislut that goes back n forth to men and females. No wonder it's not on the LGBT recommended books. The Telegraph Club is the only good book from her.

>>4179293
Okay but is it a bad book for any reason other than not giving you what you want?

>>4179350
I mean /u/ wise. Unless you like a novel that is mostly het with a bit of /u/ stuff.

>>4179404
I'll generally not be interested, but I don't dislike all books that aren't /u/ on that basis alone.

>>4178551
wait till this anon finds out who constitutes atleast >50% of this board

Do we have anything noteworthy pre 20th century except for Carmilla?

>>4179901
No, no one wrote books with lesbians in them until the year 2000.

>>4180100
Too bad. Haven't seen good western literature since 90s.

This Horror / Dark Academia phase that is going on right now is really making me miss the old days when all we had were bland A meets B romance.

>>4181151
Yeah, I hate gimmicky shit too.

Anyone else here read Her Name in The Sky? Got it as a recommendation but I was dissapointed. Felt like torture porn at one point, and the romantic interest was kind of a jerk. One of the few times I wished the main couple didn't end up together.

>>4181289
Read it years ago. It actually made me feel sick. Who needs horror when you have lesbian teen in the deep south angst? I get that's what the author was going for, but then the "happy" ending ruins it.

>>4181302
Yeah, I wish someone actually made a fanfic or something where the love interest and her boyfriend don't get their happy ending. Felt completely undeserved. What Baker (what a weird name) did to the MC made her feel like the antagonist of the story at many points.

Anyone know any good detective stories?

Don’t Want You Like a Best Friend is pretty good so far but I’m scared it might have some weird arrange marriage to men but they both sneak out to fuck type of ending. Or are they going to forget about the elephant in the room in that the girls need men in this time period or else they die or something. The novel can’t stress that shit enough in the first few chapters.

>>4181590
Swiftie fanfiction ugh

>>4181590
Well I finished it, cool part is there wasn’t a het wedding for either girls. The bad part is how unrealistic everything was, like saying to fuck other girls in the 1900th century would probably get you stoned to death or something.

>>4182331
The title is literally a line from her song and the book is full of other references. So yeah, wouldn't exactly expext it be a literary masterpiece.

Just randomly remembered I never finished Saints Astray

>>4181668
Metal as hell

Any "Straight" woman x "Straight" woman with adults from the past three or four years? I feel like everyone knows they're bi already in every bi x bi I've read this decade.

>>4183004
Seconding the question. I love stories where women fall for women for the first time. Its my preferred kind of romance. I think it makes it extra special and romantic, it's delicious.

>>4183004
>>4183043
I love that, the confusion, the helpless longing and both waiting for the other one to finally do something about it.

Well I'm having a little trouble shopping around my Sapphic Vampire Horror/Romance. In my last iteration, I got it down to about 105,000 words, so I guess that's still too much. But I'm going to stay positive and keep trying!

>>4183512
I think publishers are just biased against GL works, anon.

>>4180100
20th Century started in the year 1900 my dude

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Any good books about gun lesbiens?
Dont need anything deep, just want some pulp shit where I can pine over some sexy badass woman.

Regarding webnovels, I decided to finally read Necroepilogos and damn it's really good. No LitRPG elements and 350k in there's barely any powerlevel autism. It's mostly heigtened action movie stuff, an epic mecha/tank battle and really interesting world and cast. Only issue is that it looks like it's made to last so it moves really slowly, but the first major climax just happened so if you want to read a complete 'book 1' then that's now there.

>>4181438
I can sincerely recommend both Requiem For Immortals and The Red Files by Lee Winter.

>>4187278
Their chapter naming convention makes me believe they're from the wildbow school of web fiction writing which I do enjoy but for completely different reasons than lesfic.
Is their other story lesfic too?

>>4187278
I remember giving Katalepsis a try when it only had a few chapters. I thought it was kinda boring. But I guess I should give this one a try.

>>4187382
>wildbow
I regret the wasted time giving his shit a try when I was searching for good ratfic. I really hope Necroepilogos is not anything like that.

I need review anon to come back because a lot of these recent books have been hot garbage to try to get into. There's always SOMETHING with the protagonist the author has to include that adds nothing to their character. Forgot the book name but the MC was a former sellsword that was burned by a former lover and gets bonded to a dragon. Sounds mildly interesting already right? So the author decides to add unnecessary prostitution with men to it as well which serves zero purpose to the story. Is this a fetish thing or are people trying to be as inclusive as humanly possible but with only the MC you have to follow and none of the side characters. Why did the MC have to do prostitution on top of mercenary work? Wouldn't dangerous mercenary work be enough money to set the premise here? "I know what will round out my LESBIAN protagonist I marketed as lesbian, sex with men!" I'm not even that much of a purityfag but it's fucking everywhere

Either that or the book full on opening with a smut scene with a guy despite being marketed as a slow burn romance. I feel like ever since inclusion became more important above everything these books get away with using the "sapphic" or "wlw" tags to bait people into reading them. Yeah of course what I want out of my lesbian stories are explicit opening scenes where the protagonist has sex with men for dozens of pages that's what I'm reading this for of course. Thank god for kindle unlimited so I can skim through shit without fully committing.

Anyway, review anon please come home. We need you, filtering this shit out is so hard.

>>4187516
>reads smut
>this has too many fetishes in it

>>4187527
Here's the plot twist. It's not smut. It's not even marketed as smut. Go be stupid elsewhere

>>4187382
Haven't read it but from what I know it's a lesbian harem urban fantasy. It's huge so I haven't tried it out yet.

>>4187278
Yeah it's pretty good. Which is more than you can say for most /u/-related webserials. Or webserials in general really. Like I tried reading Benearh the Dragoneye Moons because I heard it went yuri eventually and it does, but it is so much of what's terrible about litrpgs except IIRC the prose is okay. Horrific pacing, tons and tons of powefantasy nonsense, the garbage numbers and stats and shit, bloated casts, etc. Also smatterings of het in between for those allergic to that. I honestly regret reading all the way to the yuri because obviously even that couldn't salvage a train wreck (and I do not kid about it being really far in).

My favorite /u/-related webserial atm is definitely The Flower That Bloomed Nowhere which I highly recommend with the caveat that it's 100% yuri but has had no relationships so far. But Necroepilogos is cool too. Sadly both of these update somewhat slowly, I think both are once/week.

>>4187516
>review anon
there's a bunch of review anons, anon

>>4187516
drop the titles so we know not to waste time with them

>>4187278
>an epic mecha/tank battle
>it's really good

what the hell, this isn't /m/

>>4189125
Hey, cram it, I'd love to see more quality mecha yuri, even in literature form.

Does anyone have any recs for girls with social anxiety? I'm reading She Gets The Girl at the moment and I'm really loving it so far.

>>4189817
/m/ and /u/ rarely mix though, when did we ever have an /m/ series with /u/ elements in it?

>>4190058
Literally last year.

>>4190059
What book or movie?

>>4190060
Neither of those, I'm talking about Gundam.

>>4190063
Why are you talking about Gundam in a /lit/ thread?

>>4190064
Why are you asking about a movie in a /lit/ thread?

>>4190058
>>4190064
The local reading comprehension seems a little thin for a thread that's ostensibly about reading books. I said I wanted to see more mecha series, even in literature. It's not as if it's impossible to have such a thing. Battletech has had novels for decades. There actually was a mech-based lesbian novel series not too long ago but this is where I have to let go of my smugness here and admit I can't seem to find the damn thing again. I never actually got around to reading it, to be honest, the reviews seemed a little mixed.

But it did exist and I feel justified in wanting more of such content. The fact that they RARELY mix is exactly the point I was trying to make - they don't mix often but they occasionally do, and I would like to see it happen more often.

>>4190011
In the most recent Ashley Herring Blake book, one of the coprotagonist's has a pretty realistic depiction of being an adult with an anxiety disorder. It's the third in the trilogy, and all of the books more-or-less work as standalones, but I'd heavily recommend the others. Imo it's peak WLW romantic comedy.

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>>4190458
Meant to post a pic of the cover too oops.

>>4190459
Thanks! I loved The Mighty Heart of Sunny St James but I haven't checked out any of her other stuff yet. I'll give this a shot.
I wish I had someone who helped me through my anxiety in University like Molly does in She Gets The Girl but I just spent the whole time alone so I get to just be depressed and re-live my uni life through books.

>>4140922
Kelly's Birthday Surprise is really familiar to another story I read that's 4F/4f. I suspect it copied the premise.

>>4187278
I tried reading Necroepilogos, but it has the same problem as Katalepsis, i.e., the author's obsession with revolting guro sex stuff and polyamory gradually takes over the story. It's a shame because his horror writing is actually really good, but he can't seem to prevent his terrible fetishes from intruding into everything.

>>4193182
>polyamory
can't stand this shit. how prominent is it? instant skip for me

can a German-knowing anon PLEASE recommend me any yuri novels written in or translated into German? I'm (seriously) trying to learn the language and I'm at a stage where I can read books but I can only read about lesbians. I tried looking myself but I only came across wattpad tier trash

I was in doubt of wether to post this here or in the fanfic thread, however, since this is mostly original work I think it fits here better. This author is pretty average to good, on level with some B level stuff that gets published in my opinion. There are a lot of works with varing lengths and themes.

>https://archiveofourown.org/series/3035604

On other news found out that Zoe Reed transitioned and is now doing F/F but with trans stuff, oh well. Always thought her stuff was kind of mid, the final act of Charon Docks is to this day a mess.

>>4194771
>f/f but with trans stuff
*m/f

>>4190058
Oh by the way I remembered which series I was thinking about, it's Gearbreakers.

>>4185929
Here you go! https://archiveofourown.org/works/47236045/chapters/119020720

>>4194771
>On other news found out that Zoe Reed transitioned and is now doing F/F but with trans stuff
This is why its getting harder for me to find stuff I like. It's seems like you can't get a lesbian book nowadays without the GBT+ garbage, especially troon and nonbinary stuff being forced on you like some kinda cursed package deal. I want lesbian romance, nothing else. I hate this all encompasing LGBT tag, it should fucking die.

>>4185929
some classics:
cassandry duffy - raven ladies series
kiera dellacroix - icehole, engravings of wraith

Any good ya romance books that have come out in the past year or so? Cause I haven't found any. Stuff like Not My Problem,
Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake dating,
She Drives Me Crazy, Falling in Love Montage, Youngblood...

>>4195439
I try to be open-minded and accepting of transgender people. That being said, like you, I'm not really into reading about transgender F/F relationships. Also, I'm not a fan of the trend where masculine lesbians transition to being transgender individuals.

But I'm curious, which books are you referring to? I agree that simply seeking out F/F content usually screens out most other types, however, it's generally not difficult to filter. The telltale signs are pretty obvious. Do you intentionally read material you know you won't like? Personally, I tend to steer clear of books I'm certain contain elements I dislike.

The last books I read were "Violet Moon," a werewolf story, and "Clematis and the Queen of the Void." They were both relatively new releases and were alright, nothing too extraordinary, but they didn't have any extremely obvious transgender or non-binary themes from what I recall.

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>>4195963
Late Bloomer just came out. Idk if it's YA though.

>>4196319
>I try to be open-minded and accepting of transgender people.
You shouldn't, you're making the world a worse place by playing their game.

Am I missing out on anything by only reading lesbian romance books with cartoon covers? All the ones with real people on them look so trashy.

>>4197610
Nothing wrong with judging a book by its cover.
>All the ones with real people on them look so trashy.
Chances are, they will be.

>>4197610
Read enough books of any genre, and you'll know the story exactly based on just the cover, I guarantee it.

>>4193899
Incredibly prominent, in Katalepsis at least every major character eventually gets drawn into the MC's polyamorous group, even one that initially had her own perfectly good romantic subplot with a cute werewolf. And the MC is obsessed with becoming a tentacle monster and eventually starts using plural pronouns for herself, so it gets really, really weird.

anyone got any decent werewolf recs? smut preferred; a lot of what i saw seemed to be kindle self-published garbage

>>4198605
>I'm looking at Compass Rose by Anna Burke next. Anyone know if it's good?

Been too long, to be honest, but it should be competently written at least. I think there was something about the story or characters that kinda bugged me, but it shouldn't be awful. Thorn by her also isn't bad.

>>4198353
Second book of the Kate Kane Paranormal Investigator series features a fling with a werewolf.

>>4198353
I remember Ambereye being really fun, though it was more romcom than smut. Part of a series but it stands on its own.

any recs where the mcs are awkward friends/not compatible but have sexual chemistry? Any genre