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>>4473208after much deliberation I've removed Nevernight from the fantasy recs list. I still greatly enjoy it, but I would admittedly recommend it less than the othersHiyodori is still boring as fuck and does not deserve a spot
Has anyone got any recs or a chart with wlw audiobooks? It helps a lot when I'm sick and can't keep my eyes open which is pretty frequently
>>4473277Why not throw on Crier's War and Iron Heart instead, they are surprisingly fun and you don't have to go through an entire book of het to get to the /u/ relevant content.
>>4473640because both those books are shit. Actually, I've only read Crier's War and it was awful, so I have less than zero desire to read the second book
>Daughter of the Bone Forest (book 1 in Witch Hall series)It's somewhat entertaining, I'm surprised there are only 2 mentions of this book in the archives.Setting is medieval, mostly at a school, with familiars who can transform into animals, and witches who bond with familiars to become stronger. The protagonist Rosy is a peasant familiar who is more powerful than her war hero grandparents, and the crown princess (a necromancer) wants to bond with her ahead of a looming war. But Rosy is a tsundere, and also doesn't want to go to war.The book is easy to read and predictable, with a fun setting. The romance is slow paced, the relationships are emotional, the main couple never show interest in anyone else. I like that Rosy and the princess are strong minded. What I don't like is that the princess repeatedly claims she wants to understand Rosy (the only one she doesn't understand), but they never talk about their core disagreement to resolve it.The book is unpolished and has a lot of flaws. Many of them are details not thought out properly, or characters behaving artificially, or contrivances. The world building is amateurish. Lesser characters are one dimensional NPCs. The author was one shot by the woke mind virus, so you'll see gender confusion of the highest order, obsession over pronouns (funnily the author used the wrong pronoun a few times), rural medieval villages with populations resembling a US university with many foreign students, oppression olympics, antinatalism, and other silliness, but it is easily ignored.It's a respectable accomplishment for a first book. There will be a sequel in 2026.
>>4473651I thought they were cute and fun. And if anyone has any other robot/human yuri recommendations, I'd appreciate them.
Is locked tomb recommended read for yuri books or should i start somewhere else ?
>>4473698It depends what you want from your yuri. They're good books, and they have a lot of gay women in them, but if you're looking for capital r Romance then you're better off looking at another title.
>>4473698>>4473699to add to this, every book after the first book is incomprehensible
I'll admit that as an ESL, The Locked Tomb is like the hardest book I've picked up so far, everything feels barely comprehensive and I don't get what's so witty about it.
>>4473702Same here. Felt like being back in school and doing english class homework, always having the translator and context-reverso tabs open while reading it to the point where it was becoming a chore at times, lmao.> I don't get what's so witty about it.What, you mean you don't see how smart and erudite Tamsyn is? Did le ebin big words not clue you in?!Ironically, when I was in school and doing the same whole "thesaurus word hunt" as Tamsyn to make my essays sound smarter I was rebuked for it and told my attempts at coming off as smart were obvious and pretentious, but I guess once's you're a published author the same rules suddenly no longer apply.
Got recommended Someone you can build a nest in by John Wiswell on Spotify. I'll listen because it's free. Has anyone read it? The synopsis is too long and gives too much away but a female shapeshifting monster is saved by a human woman and falls in love with her. She considers implanting her eggs in the woman so that their young can eat her from inside out.
>>4473736>a female shapeshifting monster is saved by a human woman and falls in love with her.Pretty normal so fa->She considers implanting her eggs in the woman so that their young can eat her from inside out.... nvm.
>>4473736I started reading it, didn't like it. I don't recommend it.
I'm an ESL but shouldn't this be Falling for Whom
>>4474160I've seen no american after Hemingway say whom
>>4473736I enjoyed it. The monster has some neat attributes and the romance ends up being quite sweet.
>>4474160https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoCcDi8zH8M
>>4474160In formal contexts or in the vocabulary of a minority of people. "Whom" reads as a bit stuffy even it's still observed in modern English.The tone of this book, the voice of its narrator or even just its writer is likely such that "whom" would read awkwardly, especially in a book title.>>4474173That's definitely not true.
>>4474160"Who" can be seen as a nominalised free relative clause in this context, not as an interrogative pronoun.
>>4474393I'm afraid /u/ loves to interrogate pronouns
>>4474393Why would that be relevant?>Whoever falls for me>Whomever I fall for
>>4474476In a relative clause, the case of the relative pronoun is determined by its function within the relative clause, not the main clause.>Falling for whoever falls for me.>Falling for whomever I meet.
Who = Normal person speechWhom = Dark Souls NPC speech
>>4473698Yes they're great. Second book is a masterpiece.>>4473700sorry you have the literacy of a rock and need everything spelled out for you.
>>4473736I read it last year, it was ok but seriously flawed. It's like if Saya no Uta was made by 2015 tumblr and Saya asked for consent before hugging the protagonist. Personally I wouldn't recommend it, I liked the protagonist but everything else was mid at best.
>>4473724>>4473702understandable the ESL would hate it.>Ironically, when I was in school and doing the same whole "thesaurus word hunt" as Tamsyn to make my essays sound smarter I was rebuked for it and told my attempts at coming off as smart were obvious and pretentious, but I guess once's you're a published author the same rules suddenly no longer apply.randomly choosing words you don't understand the nuances of and why you would use that word over another is different from using more specific words correctly because they're the word that best fits the idea and mood you want to convey. you're just salty you don't understand them. i don't bitch about Japanese authors using vocabulary i don't know when i read their work, they're choosing those words for a reason and as a non native speaker im not fluent enough to understand why, that's it.
>>4474484Oh, that's what you meant by "floating". Yeah, it always gets me when people write "whom" when the pronoun is the subject of the clause. "Falling for whomever falls for me", using your example.Like, you don't sound unsophisticated using "who" where "whom" is correct, but you sure do when you use "whom" when "who" is. Like this guy I know who exclusively uses semicolons to introduce dependent clauses.
>>4474510Holy fuck, who laced your breakfast with the schizo spergout juice, schizo? Calm down you don't need to white knight your precious tamsyn from the mildest of critiques. Also most if not all thesauruses come with the definition of the words written along them, so "ur just salty you don't understanding them" angle is mostly just your fanfic.
>>4474601>Holy fuck, who laced your breakfast with the schizo spergout juice, schizo?As someone with no horse in this race, you come off as way more schizo than the poster you're replying to lol
>>4474640Of course, whatever you say " totally uninvolved third party".
Elizabeth Watasin - Die Furious... after a billion years finally something worth talking about again. But also really mainly because it's a sequel novelette to Monster Stalker. As a novelette, it's unfortunately rather contained: Nico (and Virtual Bear) are locked in a hotel that undergoes sorta magical renovation. Last minute a cult of fetish nuns carrying a coffin containing a succubus check in, and, well, the rest of the novel is Nico fighting those nuns in almost one long action sequence.While that does probably sound rather simplistic it actually reveals some surprising depth especially towards the end. It's about misuse of trust, personal freedom, how power uses people, and whatnot. There is more going on that one might expect at first.There's some proofreading misses, it introduces too many new characters that do too little; it doesn't show enough of Dargueworld, and Nico's lovers are barely there. Much of this is of course due to it being a novelette.But if you like Monster Stalker (and what sort of person doesn't) it's still a worthwhile read. Now gimme another proper novel!
I read this book when it first came out, reread it and yeah, it's pretty good, so I figured I would share cause it's really underrated.Posh small white girl and a taller brown girl from the poorer side of town.
>>4474849I like what I've read of her stuff (Indecent Promposal, The Matchmaker, and Nobody Quite Like You). They're always fun and witty and well made.
>>4473685premise sounds interesting anon, ill give it a shot
>>4474876True, I wish she wrote some more HS / College stuff though
>>4474764>The Bone Raiders by Jackson FordReally enjoyed this one. An unchallenging read set in a nomadic steppe about a bandit gang that hit hard times and try to tame a dragon and so kidnap an animal tamer.The gang is all female and two of them are in a relationship at the start and the MC has the start of a romance which might develop in a sequel.The gang are that brand of Jack Sparrow like criminal who love freedom and hate the government trying to put them down so not a realistic look at bandits. It's got some nice dragon taming scenes and a lot of pretty good action, though I thought the book was a bit rushed at parts. Looking forward to the sequel.
>>4475027Didn't mean to quote.
>>4474510Based. I agree on all accounts.
>>4474601complaining about writing quality in a language you self-admittedly can't read without a dictionary and google translate tab open is the peak of dunning-kruger schizophrenia. There are lots of legitimate criticisms of Tamsyn's writing, but "too many words I don't understand" is not one of them, that's a you problem. The average literate English speaker has no problem understanding those books it's not fucking Finnegans Wake it's glorified Homestuck fanfiction.
>>4475162>language you self-admittedly can't read withoutStarting off with a strawman, not a good look for your argument. Didn't read the rest.I do find it pleasing that ESLs give people like you psychic damage just by existing. Seethe.
>>4475162I'm an ESL tard as well and had zero issues reading The Locked Tomb. It's not some high-brow Victorian novel.>>4475251Time to hit the (text)books again.
>>4464716Caitlin Kiernan - The Drowning Girlmeh. this is annoying to read since the MC takes such ubiquitous detours and goes off on so many things. she's also unrealiable in that she doesn't always tell the truth and then backtracks later to say so. the story is really boring and it doesn't feel like there's much of a conclusion even after we find out what was going on. purefag warnings: the MC mentions she's slept with at least one guy even though she knew she was a lesbian. "girlfriend" is a tranny and it's especially irritating since it comes up so much and they have to talk about it.Mira Grant - Into the Drowning Deepthis was really enjoyable. the horror wasn't overdone and all the characters are pretty well done.purefag warning: MC is bi and the ex-bf is a (thankfully) minor character.Emily Danforth - Plain Bad Heroinesmeh. didn't really like any of the present timeline characters much and that storyline doesn't really explain much. it stops right at what seems like should be the interesting part and we should get some explanation, but we don't and it jumps a bit and then just ends.... the past storyline is more interesting and we get some explanations, but the horror just feels campy
>>4475464purefag here1 ? isnt that just being bi ?2 still a characterI respect you can read non purefag material my hats off to you
>>4475464>Caitlin KiernanIs that a motherfucking Arcane reference?!
>>4475251>>4473724>felt like being back in school and doing english class homework, always having the translator and context-reverso tabs open while reading it to the point where it was becoming a chore at times
>>4475573It's very schizophrenic of you to quote the words that poster wrote.
>>4475573Was it too much of me to expect le ebin native english speaker like you to understand that using a translator for unfamiliar words =/ can't read the language without it? Seems obvious since I'm writing to you in it, no? But I guess being a native speaker doesn't make you all that smart, after all.
>>4473685Hey anon I finished reading this, had to ignore the pronoun garbage thrown around but otherwise I enjoyed the book!
>>4474883>>4476236Wow you read it in 3 days? Glad you enjoyed it, was my review accurate?
>>4473685>(funnily the author used the wrong pronoun a few times)That's unforgivable lmao, I can get past shoehorning modern day social issues into the book but at least keep it fucking consistent. I remember the second Baru book called characters by the wrong pronoun a couple times and it's literally like ffs did you never even bother to get an editor to read over it? Grammar errors in a professionally published book are insane to me, it's like the bare minimum bar.
>>4476457>modern day social issuesExplain
Just finished reading Her Spell that Binds Me, by Luna Oblonsky. It had lots of flaws, but the stuff I liked I really, really liked. There were editing/grammar mistakes, the prose could be a little thesaurus-y, and it sort of fell off in the last third, but honestly, the dynamic between the leads for those first two thirds was so tasty I can't even complain. They go from genuine hated rivals to True Love, and the transition between them is great, especially with the MC resisting it so strongly to start with. I'm in the mood now for something toxic and/or taboo, if anyone has any recommendations.
>>4476263Yup the book was a good read and wasnt too terribly long. I would say your review was spot on, especially about the author being one shot by the woke virus, but easily ignored. I would only add that it ends on a cliffhanger and the romance isnt as satisfying but hopefully it becomes better in the sequel(s). Hope to see you write more reviews anon!
Because the 'woke' mob are so pronoun I decided to stick to them by going full anti-noun, I skip every noun and only read the adverb, verb and adjectives. It really speeds up the reading process.
>>4476678Based. Libtards fucking owned.
Anyone got recs for classic lit with outright lesbianism or lesbian undertones? Something that's not Camilla.
>>4477112Different person, but this, please. I don't like modern romantasy all that much. I'll take a modern historical fiction too... just please, enough with the magic.For you, I'll suggest Anne of Green Gables if you haven't yet read it. Just forget the ending and enjoy the first 90% of the book that's all Anne and Diana.I picked up a new version of The Count of Monte Cristo when I heard that the version most often found is the Victorian shit translation that censors the lesbian couple. I just can't bring myself to start something that thick right now though, especially when I know it's a side could amongst a giant cast.
>>4477112As far as I know, The Price of Salt (ie. Carol), by Patricia Highsmith, is the first explicit lesbian novel to have a happy ending for the pair. It was published in 1952, so keep that in mind for the rest of this list.The Well of Loneliness, by Radcliffe Hall. Spoiler warning: miserable.The Hotel, by Elizabeth Bowen.Extraordinary Women, by Compton Mackenzie.I Am A Woman, by Ann Bannon.Der Skorpion, by Anna Elisabet Weirauch.Regiment of Women, by Clemence Dane. Warning: het ending.Jill, by Amy Dillwyn.>>4477114Some historical fiction I liked:Fingersmith, by Sarah Waters.The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics, by Olivia Waite.More Than A Best Friend, by Emma R. AlbanThe Safekeep, by Yael van der Wouden.I didn't know there were lesbians in Monte Cristo. Is there a particular translation to look out for that includes them?
>>4476567So far this book feels almost autistically designed to go from points A to B to C, devoid of flair or colour or personality. The masturbation "scene" was so matter-of-factly dumped in there I almost laughted.>“I pushed this vessel to its very limit of speed to get to you because of the urgency of your mother’s summons but on the journey back I thought a mild 400 knots per hour would be more comfortable for you,” Samuel says as he wraps a second blanket around himself, “We should arrive at the college in about three hours, right before sunset.”It's not difficult but the dialogue is flat at as a pancake and the prose is so uninspired it's like trying to read dry white toast. It's also jarring and odd that it's in present tense, but maybe there's a creative reason for that.Hopefully things pick up when Iona meets the other lead, who I assume is called Ruuko.
>>4477134>Monte CristoYes, there are, but I think Eugenie Danglars is a common victim of editors abridging the story.The translation I read was the one published was back when it was first published in England and was heavily censored for politics and society of the time. This is the one most published because it is in the public domain (free).A more recent translation doesn't have to take into account the readership of Victorian newspapers and can translate more accurately. The version I have is the Buss translation which the Internet seems to agree is the best.
>>4477242Following from this:I just re-read an online version of chapter 53 (her proper introduction, no idea who translated) and it's obvious as all heck. You almost feel bad for Albert (fiance) and her oblivious mother.>Wow my daughter is such an artistOk, mom
>>4477237This is what happens when people who don't read try to write. "This happened and then this happened and then I looked at the camera and rolled my eyes to the audience while making a sarcastic quip." So many of these trashy books these days are written like fucking Parkour Civilization.
>>4477242Whaaat. I read a, like, children's version of it as a kid, I had no idea of all this. Let me put it on my list
>>4476457I just finished reading this and I didn't catch any pronoun inconsistencies even though I was looking for them.I enjoyed it. As soon as I started and the character's regular life started instead of belabored, clumsy exposition, and no "She did this and then she did this. Then she did this and did this." I was sold. Just competent writing is so rare...But agree with the criticism above, given the level of detail in some interactions and dynamics, it felt like important convos were skipped at times.
Among the Burning Flowers by Samantha ShannonThird entry in her Roots of Chaos series, best known for The Priory of the Orange Tree. This one functions as a prequel that follows Marosa, the leader of Yscalin from the first book, and her kingdom's descent into evil dragon-worship. First thing: the book does NOT stand alone. The story doesn't form a complete narrative arc at all. If you didn't read Priory the whole thing will feel aimless. There are several callbacks to the original series. For me, Priory came out 6 years ago and I've forgotten most of it. In fact, I had to read a summary of Priory just to figure out what was going on. If Priory is fresher on your mind you'll no doubt enjoy it more.Marosa is the main character and she's pretty good. You empathize with her watching her entire kingdom suffer a fate arguably worse than death. The book follows multiple POVs (including a guy) but Marosa is by far the biggest. The lesbian portion of the book comes from another POV character, Melaugo, who kills dragons. Her relationship with her (former) GF is already established, which I never like. I like seeing relationships develop instead of already being a couple. The biggest problem with these characters is that they just...vanish halfway. They share screen space equally with Marosa in the first half and then are literally never seen again. I can't remember if they showed up in Priory, but this is another example of Burning Flowers being an incomplete narrative by itself.Overall, would not recommend. If you literally just finished Priory, you'll probably enjoy this more than I did, but for most people the story will just feel incomplete.It's hard to recommend even for the /u/ content since there's so little of it. The lesbian MC is Melaugo, who disappears halfway through. Marosa herself is straight and there's an annoyingly large emphasis on her male fiance.
>>4479157She shouldn’t have ended Priory in one book, now it’s all prequels and you already have a huge hint where the endgame is going. I would rather follow a story going forward.
>>4479218A much bigger problem is that her books are boring and badly written.
>>4479157That publishing company is one of the ones that have been asking authors to limit lgbtq content in their books in order to continue being published, this explains why the lesbian couple mysteriously vanished in the middle of the book
>>4479157I didn't even know she was making a third book. I kinda get how it would be weird to try and make an epic fantasy series like that but it's known for lesbians so you have to force lesbian protagonists into every storyline, but at the same time sorry bestie but I picked up the series for the lesbians, there's a million other dragon fantasy series without lesbians.The best thing about this series is the cover art though, it's always absolutely stunning in person. I didn't even like the first book that much but I bought the second one anyway cause it looked so good on the shelf
>>4479277boring? arguable. badly written? Samantha Shannon's prose and characterization is a cut above typical /u/ schlock
Nice YA book
i recall seeing this mentioned here a long time ago and it's been in my to-read list for a while. not really /u, but there's some /u undertones and you can definitely look at the relationship with the AI and the Fury through yuri goggles (as well as maybe with one of the friends as well).still, i really enjoyed this book. starts out as a very /k sci-fi and then gains a fantasy element in the second half.
>>4479772I stopped reading at that comment because exactly. She's genuine mainstream.Though I will say, an editor should have made her split Priory in two and flesh out the last half.
Anything in both German and English that isn't terribly cliche and generic?
>>4481158You'll read booktok enemies to lovers and you'll love it.
>>4479998Bissexual crap?
>>4481172If the book doesn't go like this:>first kiss/hookup at 20%>they get together at 50%>breakup drama at 80%>make up (sex) at 90%then don't @ me.
>>4481177Bisexuality is /u/
>>4481211No.
>>4481211this is the literally the single most controversial take on all of /u/
>>4481211Yes.
>>4481211Yes but also no
>>4479998I didn't enjoy, personally. The leads have very little chemistry, and most of the plot is dedicated to the vampire's political issues around blood distribution, which I didn't find intriguing or engaging. If anything, having blood supplements play such a fundamental role in this universe strips vampires of a lot of what makes them compelling to me, without replacing it with anything interesting. Kat is a non-presence, and I would have genuinely preferred if Taylor had ended up with the mean girl she hooks up with for most of the novel (who is, btw, the only one who has a satisfying character arc).
>>4481211Bisexuals are the "vegan leather" of yuri.
>>4481369You mean good?
>>4481369Soft to the touch, yet bad for the environment?
Any good friends to lovers reads? I really liked In The Long Run by Haley Cass.
>>4481385Haley Cass is fantastic, for sure. I'd recommend On The Same Page, also by her.More recs:The Secret Chord, Virginia HaleMore Than A Best Friend, Emma R. AlbanAll The Reasons I Need, Jaime ClevengerAnnie On My Mind, Nancy GardenMeeting Millie, Ashton ClareFalling Into Place, Sheryn MunirAll The Wrong Places, Karin KallmakerLove Is For Losers, Wibke Breuggemann (YA)Chemistry Lessons, Jae
>>4481387Thanks anon! On the Same Page was also very good. I think I've read all her stuff except Midnight Rain because the AU angle puts me off a bit... I will check those out for sure. Secret Chord looks promising
Recommending The Devils from Joe Abercrombie. Probably my favorite fantasy author. Related note, if you haven't read The First Law series it's unreal. Next to no yuri, but its so good and has some of the best characters writing in fantasy.
>>4481420>Next to no yuri, Huh?>but its so good and has some of the best characters writing in fantasy.Meh.
>>4481420>Recommending The Devils from Joe Abercrombie.Any yuri in it?
>>4481424>>4481425>Any yuri?Yes you cucks, that's why I'm recommending it!
>>4481420>The Devils from Joe AbercrombieIs the lesbian at least the main POV
>>4481420Wow, that's a lot of male characters and very few female characters. What made you think it was appropriate to post about it here of all places.>Next to no yurihas to be a shitpost.
>>4475464You don't have to be a purefag to deny tranny content anon. It is literally against the rules of this board. Tranny content will always be deleted, so anyone who recommends it should reconsider.
>>4481640They're obviously saying The Devils is a yuri rec and that they recommend another series by the same author despite the relative lack of yuri.
>>4481680It sure would be nice if anon could keep such recommendations to themself next time.
>>4481420I read the first book of first law and it was sooooo boring. no idea why people like it so much
>>4481680This is why I'm asking. There's plenty of fantasy books where I can read about a man leading a ragtag bunch. The summary doesn't even indicate that there's a lesbian protagonist. So can the recommender actually confirm if she's the main pov or something.
>>4481753>So can the recommender actually confirm if she's the main pov or something.I'm expecting that recommender being some light troll seeing his previous replies.
>>4481420Fuck off with that overrated asshole.
>>4481211 except its not, already had this fight a long time ago.
>>4479157I enjoyed the couple in Priory somewhat, even through the hetshit, but Shannon's style lost me with that one book. There's actually maybe 60 pages of story in her 1000-page doorstoppers, padded out with endless head-hopping and pointless "worldbuilding" filler chapters that exposit about made-up traditions and don't take the narrative anywhere. Just looking at the thickness of her other works shows she's learned absolutely nothing and has no intention to change.
>>4484016burning flowers is much shorter (a quarter of the length) but still has the same issue, so much worldbuilding. I didn't mind it in Priory, in fact even enjoyed it since worldbuilding is a huge part of fantasy, but it just felt pointless in burning flowers since you know it's not going to lead anywhere
>>4484016Exactly this.
Read Her Name in the Sky by Kelly Quindlen and feel bound to report on it. This is a novel about a close group of friends at an american christcuck high school. The protagonist has feelings for her best friend and the feeling is mutual, but conservative attitudes and teen spirit get in the way. The story starts relatively grounded and casual but builds up into a ludicrous farce where teachers are fired, football prizes lost, and somebody goes to the hospital. The girl gets the girl in the end and it's beautiful, but there's a purgatory of hetshit and sermons of hellfire on the way there. You have to get crucified before you can ascend to heaven.I honestly have no idea why I finished this. The main culprit is the author's passionate, fast-paced prose that hooks you from the beginning and keeps you turning pages. The characters feel alive and are all pretty sympathetic, making you effectively feel like you're there being NTR'd in person. The book is quickly finished, but I'm not sure even Jesus could forgive all the author's creative decisions. Hold tight to your pictures of Mother Mary if you plan to cross this valley.
>>4484480>author's passionate, fast-paced prose that hooks you from the beginning and keeps you turning pages>I'm not sure even Jesus could forgive all the author's creative decisionsDamn, that sounds promising.
>>4484480I have this one my list. How was the smut?
>>4484585Very tame and non-explicit. There's mainly just kissing.
Read Empress of the World by Sara Ryan. An award winning YA novel with a stupendously bombastic title that fails to describe the contents.The story is about a mixed group of high schoolers who meet on a summer study camp for gifted youth. Gifted seems to mean autistic clown in the author's dictionary. Nicola finds herself attracted to a girl called Battle (pfft), who so happens to be attracted to her too. Or is she, really? That's it. That's the story.Most of the book is dialogue. Godless tons of dialogue. Most of the banter between the friends is fairly amusing and lively, and makes finishing this read quick and light. The romance itself is unfortunately very meh. When the pair get together early, that's usually a big alarm sign that they will inevitably fall apart for a "maybe I'm not actually gay" episode, because otherwise the book would end up less than 100 pages long. I have no idea who wants to read this crap. If I got dumped like a hot potato for arbitrary reasons, or none, and the girl went out with a dude the next day, there's no snowball's chance in hell I'd ever forgive it, but when the characters in these stories say it didn't mean anything, it really didn't mean anything and they always forgive and forget and it's water under the bridge. But it takes me out of the story every time and afterwards I can't really give a damn about their rambling anymore. I'd personally award Ms Ryan a big donkey hat and tell people to only read her works if you had a condition that killed you if you didn't read books with lesbians and all the other such works were magically snapped out of existence.
>>4477237>It's also jarring and odd that it's in present tenseI know nothing about the author but this reeks of someone who got their start in fanfiction. Using the present tense in novel-length writing can work in certain types of literary fiction but for plot-heavy genre fiction it's incredibly bizarre and distracting as you said
She Who Devours the Stars by Danica MoureauxThis book is psychedelics on text, Dali paintings in writing. The book takes place some thousand years in the future after humanity has explored the star system. After leaving Earth, some people started getting powers by resonating with Astral Bodies, basically getting the powers associated with the thing. Our protagonist starts by resonating with the Black Hole at the center of our system and the book goes from there because she basically wants nothing to do with it and the ruling body of the system wants her dead. The book barely explains anything and you start realizing you're not going to be told anything halfway through, so better accept what you can infer and suppose the rest. All in all it's probably the most fun I've had with a /u/ book this year and I hope there's a sequel just as crazy and just as fun. If you want some crazy lesbian polyamorous space opera and didn't mind Tamsyn Muir writing, this is for you.10/10
>>4484937Sounds great, I love this kind of wacky shit. Will definitely give it a try
>>4481420I like grimdark but i haven't delve into Abercrombieslop yet.
>>4484920I've read a lot of novels, even serious litfic by authors who certainly have never written any fanfic, which were in present tense, and never thought there was anything weird about it.
>>4484920It can work in some sorts of stories. I think it works in a setting like a noir detective story, something tense to make it feel like everything's happening as it's being described, especially if it's narrated first-person.It's just another one of those things that if it's done well you don't even notice and if it isn't, it feels weird.
>>4484480I enjoyed this one. Worth the ride
>tyrant baru in 2020>nona the ninth in 2022>no word of either sequel/u/ sisters, are we doomed?
>>4486083Don't care about those.
New Hiyodori novel is out
>>4486116Read the first one, but it wasn't so great that I'd want to see it milked endlessly
>>4484480Your review is spot on and I think everyone here should suffer this book as a rite of passage. Now go to the author's tumblr and read the fluffly one shots and truly enjoy your acomplishment in surving till the end.
>>4484480Genuinely the most painful /u/ book I've read, makes shit like TOWEM seem like fluff by comparison.
>>4480052any other /k yuri? i vaguely remember one about a marine sniper and of course kiera dellacroix's books, but that's all i know of
Brought up on classics, I'm cursed with good taste and can't bring myself to read most of what romance writers put out, especially in the year of our Lord 2k25. Last month I DNF'ed maybe 15 random lesbian books off Amazon because the writing was subpar.Could you please recommend me something that is genuinely well written? I don't even mind bisexuals as long as f/f is the end game.Thanks.
an anon-nii on here once said that she reads lesbian romance because the emotional impact is stronger than it'll ever feel in an irl relationship and I've never felt more understood in my life.If anon-nii is still here, or anyone willing, can recommend me a yuri book where the two main ladies are so in love and yearning, I'd be eternally grateful. I want to all the feels. No sad endings or tragedy though. my heart can't take it.
Finished The Headmistress by Milena McKay.Sam is a math professor at a remote all-girls boarding school. Due to management fuckery, the school's finances are neck-deep in the red, and a modern, haughty businesswoman, Magdalena, steps in as the new dictator to fix things. And it so happens Maggie is Sam's former one night stand. Awkward!The Headmistress is deliberately hammed up, corny, exceedingly horny, and funny. If you've ever read a book with a romance that you liked, but thought there just wasn't enough of it, McKay understands your pain. Trust me, there is enough of it. The sex scenes are aggressively, ticklishly juicy and electrifying, and there's never any doubt the heroines love each other passionately. I personally found it immensely refreshing to read a story about grown adults confident in their sexuality after all those soul-searching teens.Of course, nothing's perfect. The plot serves mostly as a vehicle for the cozy snogging, chatting, and love-making, but we have to get the mandatory arc of drama out of the way too. The school's situation makes a shaky allegory for the american political climate. McKay can't help but whiteknight transsexuals and take some weak shots at the orange man. An author should be opinionated, but the political commentary is so cautious and noncommittal, it makes you only wonder why she even tried. There's also something of a crime mystery going on in the background, but the culprit is glaringly obvious and the big "reveal" in the end shocks less than a blood sugar test. Anyway, back to cuddling.Being too hung up on Current Age stuff, which goes out of date before the print has dried, instead of developing a toothier fictional nemesis, is the only obstacle on The Headmistress's road to cult classic status. Otherwise, this is one of the few lesfic books I've found so far that I can safely recommend to just about anyone who doesn't live with a permanent frown.
>>4486921"Good writing" is such an ambiguous term and means different things to anyone you ask, I'm reluctant to recommend anything based purely on that criteria, and I don't trust anyone's else's word on it either. I'm afraid you'll have to do your own searching.I'm probably the number one pickiest reader in this thread and have shut out genre fiction from my reading lists entirely. My method is to google novels that have lesbian characters, check the summary, check reviews, then take a look at the first few pages to see if the prose is readable at all, before getting the full book. But the ones that do survive the process are at least "competent" and I don't regret reading them.That said, my search for a F/F novel that I'd consider "genuinely well written" is still on-going. They all require you to flip off a critical thinking switch or two or three in your brain, and maybe some alcohol, before they get enjoyable.
>>4486921Post books that you like so people can have an actual understanding of what is "good writing" in your opinion.
>>4486948Happy endings and peak mutual yearning:Basically all of Haley Cass' books fit that definition. I haven't read her latest, because Amazon is being a prick about ebook conversion, but everything else of hers has left me feeling so full of feelings and happiness. It's like getting a rich, satisfying meal, but with lesbians. Also:Sweet Home Alabarden Park, by TJ O'SheaThe No Kiss Contract, by Nan Campbell (starts out with dislike, but the shift to friends to being in love is smooth and swift, and the rest is just lovely)Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburg, by Rachel Lippincott (YA) (published under a different title where I live, if you can't find it just check Lippincott's work and it's the time-travelling regency romance)Chemistry Lessons, by JaeBehind the Pine Curtain, by Gerri Hill>>4486921Fair warning in advance: my taste is terrible and my standards are low. But I did find all of these to be beautiful and well-written:The Safekeep, by Yael Vand Der WoedenThe Midnight Lie, and Ordinary Love, by Marie RutkoskiHungerstone, by Kat DunnFar From Home, by Lorelai BrownFingersmith, by Sarah WatersLast True Poets of the Sea, by Julia Drake (YA)This Is How You Lose The Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
>>4486921You need to post an example of what you like and the kind of thing you're looking for. When genre? What do you consider as good writing?
>>4486980>>4487395Do you mean yuri or books in general?>Steinbeck, Hemingway, Joyce, Woolf, the whole bunchAs for yuri, I liked Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe. Not that I have much to compare it against.>>4487074Thank you! Will download all of them.>>4486959Sadly, I'm a teetotaler.
Anyone got recommendations for cyberpunk or cyberpunk-adjacent stuff? By cyberpunk adjacent I mean like William Gibson's post-Sprawl works
Any recommendations for lit with oneeloli?
Fate's Bane by C. L. Clark is Romeo and Juliet story in a tribal setting as two women from opposing clans fall in love. It also has a dash of fantasy thrown in with the two women finding a magic only they can harness together. This book is quite short, only 120 pages or so and its length is not a disservice. There's a lot packed in, with a rich setting, without anything being distracting or feeling undercooked. I liked the main character and the love interest, I especially liked how the mc's attraction is described, in that she's super into her broad muscular gf. If you like low fantasy, very concise works, with a lot of subtlety this one's for you. 7:10
>>4488001The self-insert is brutal.
>>4487536Would also like this as a big Gibson and cyberpunk fan
>>4488142>>4487536The Fortunate Fall is apparently yuri but I haven't read it yet.
>>4484937This is the first novel I've read where I'd fail to be able to provide a good, concise summary. It's just a blur of words strung together that pretend they are a story, but if you try to grasp their meaning they run away and hide in embarrassment. "Coffee that tastes of regret" is probably as close as I'd get. Great find and entertaining read.ps: "Perfect for fans of Gideon the Ninth, Mass Effect, and kissing while the stars collapse."Says the blurb. This is the biggest nonsense I've heard this year. Gideon is just YA, Mass Effect perfectly normal scifi. The blurb should read "Perfect if you want to do drugs without doing drugs."
Just finished “The Snowball Effect” by Haley Cass. It was a fun read with misunderstandings, a bit of family drama and a few steamy scenes towards the end. I love that most of the book is about them and not some stupid side plot/characters. The interaction between the two mains is a bit over the top, but the thirst from their povs is really good. Are the other books from Haley equally good?
>>4489521I liked On the Same Page and In the Long Run.
>>4489596Thanks, I will read those next.
The Devil She Knows, by Alexandria BellefleurIt's basically It's A Wonderful Life, but instead of an angel trying to convince a dude not to kill himself it's a cunty little demon trying to get the dumbest lesbian on Sappho's green earth to realise that her ex-girlfriend is really just the absolute worst.My main issue with it is that the romance between Sam, the MC, and Daphne, said demon, takes a back seat for too much of the story, and isn't given time to believably develop. Sam is still very much hung up on her ex for the first half. For that part she and Daphne have a very snarky, screwball-esque dynamic, and while it's fun to read, it didn't come across as especially thick with tension or developing feelings. Then, around the two-thirds mark, they almost flip a switch and their relationship kicks into soft romance territory. It's lovely once it gets there, but I really think it needed more time to cook.Smaller complaints are that Daphne's monstrous nature wasn't well taken advantage of. Other than a couple of small moments, her main demonic trait is being untrustworthy. It's probably not fair to expect full monster-fucker from an author who has previously only done fairly standard contemporary romance, but still. I wanted more. What does feel like fair game is the single sex scene. I've really like ABs previous explicit writing, but here it's short and underwhelming. Very sad.That sounds like a lot of griping but I did really enjoy my time with it. It zipped by, and the plot felt very well constructed to me. The light foreshadowing sprinkled through the first half was done well, and there were plenty of callbacks to previously mentioned details that connected it all together. It really is more of a rom-com than a romance, and the lightness of depth that comes with that would lend itself really well to a movie adaptation imo.
A long time ago a kind anon told me the name of a vampire series but warned me it was kinda smutty. I broke my phone before I got around to reading it and now I can't find it even when searching in the archives...If someone could tell me what it might have been, I would be really happy!
>>4492799How on earth is anyone supposed to remember "a smutty vampire series"? There's literally not one that isn't ...
>>4492899Fair.....I dunno I just remembered asking if anons had any recommendations for a vampire yuri and there was one that I got recommend but anon said "be warned it's kinda smutty"
>>4492944Nta. Was it Kate Kane by Alexis Hall?
>>4493034No but would you recommend that series? It turns out it was called "The Wicked and the Willing"
>>4493036not that anon but I enjoyed Kate Kane. It's fun supernatural schlock that doesn't take itself seriously
>>4493132I wish she would finish the series. There was a massive cliff hanger on the last book and she decided to go write het slop the whole time instead
One interesting thing I've noticed about fantasy is that 10 to 15 years ago, if the book had a butch femme dynamic, the protagonist was the butch, because most fantasy writers were either inspired by traditional fantasy with male protagonists and transplanted that role onto the butch or inspired by Xena and had the Xena stand in as the main character. Nowadays, because YA and fantasy romance is so big, most writers are inspired by that and have the femme be the main pov.
>>4493725I was interested by this, so I did a quick survey of the fantasy books I've read. I logged all the ones published post-2010, but the majority are from 2017 onward. In cases where there wasn't a clear butch identity, but one (or both) of the characters was more, say, tomboy-ish, I logged those as characters as butch, owing to the Xena factor.Butch/femme pairing, butch protagonist: 9Butch/femme pairing, femme protagonist: 9Femme/femme pairing: 31Butch/butch pairing: 2Butch/femme pairing, no singular protagonist/pov: 9This isn't a massive sample, but it does reflect what I've personally noticed in fiction generally which is that butches are seriously underrepresented in general. I'm not sure if that reflects general taste, societal shifts etc.
>>4493736Uuuh, can i have the titles of the books with the Butch/Femme dynamic, femme protagonist parings... o.o
>>4493725>>4493736What does Xena have to do with being butch?
Some shameless self-promotion incoming:I just put out my newest self-published yuri/sci-fi novel. It focuses on two characters, a human and her android companion, while they're stuck together in a remote factory on a barren planet. The human girl continually rewrites her robot friend's memories and personality, trying to use her to remake a person that she used to know, but lost. And over time, the android starts to degrade and spiral into weird techno-madness, and things get increasingly toxic and abusive from there.TL;DR it's "toxic yuri about psychologically torturing your ChatGPT-powered gf." Figured I'd share here since I've gotten positive responses from /u/ readers in the past on previous stuff I've put out.
>>4494413Ooh, sounds awesome. I loved the Lonesome Nights duology(?). They have the paperback on Amazon here in Australia – guessing there's not a better way to support the author?
>>4494185Being an action woman in a shitty production TV show at the time was enough to be a lesbian icon, like Buffy the Vampire Slayer
>>4494166The Fate of Stars, by SD SimperThe Midnight Lie, by Marie RutkoskiGwen and Art are not in Love, by Lex Croucher (YA. Also, fair warning: has two protagonists, one of whom is a dude. He's also gay, if that helps.)Cinderella is Dead, by Kalynn Bayron (YA)The Winter Duke, by Claire Eliza Bartlett (YA)Girls of Paper and Fire, by Natasha Ngan (Warning: contains off-page het rape.)The Traitor Baru Cormorant, by Seth DickinsonNights of Silk and Sapphire, by Amber JacobsI can't for the life of me remember what the last title was, sorry anon. I might have counted One Last Stop, by Casey Mcquiston, and if that is the case then I am an asshole, because One Last Stop is not fantasy, it's contemporary romance with a slightly fantastical twist. Still a cute butch/femme couple, though.
>>4494486Please tell me what you enjoy about femme/butch romance in particular, for research purposes.
>>4494486>One Last Stop, by Casey McquistonThat train-floor fuck was something else
>>4494487It's either:a) I like contrast in couples. Height gap, age gap, butch/femme--all delightful.b) I watched Xena at a formative time and now warrior/maiden pairings are my personal crack.c) Butch girls are just goddamn delicious, I mean they're strong and cool and gallant and tough. And there's so many good couple dynamics. The prince/princess, rough and rowdy/prim and proper, the labourer and nobleman's daughter, knight/maiden, tough rogue/sheltered acolyte etc etc etc. When it's done well, it just sings.d) I want a hot butch to throw me in the back of her truck and ruin me so I won't be good for anyone else.It's definitely one of those, for sure.>>4494488Yes! It's been too long, I need to re-read it. Speaking of, it's not quite the same but I'll take any recommendations for books with public/exhibitionist sex if anyone has them.
>>4494413>>4494449Couldn't find an alternative anyway so I've ordered it. Keen to start reading it in 3–4 days!
>>4493725I'm also pretty sure there's a huge gap between male and female writers in terms of which POV they will pick. Especially if any sort of power dynamics are involved.... but again just anecdotal; I don't pay that much attention to who writes what so might be distorted.
>>4493736Honestly, now that I've really thought about it, I'm not sure if I can even really defend my thesis here, because it was more vibes based than evidence. When I think of old school butch femme, I think of like Sword of the Guardian, Celaeno and Lady Knight, but older Butch Femme with a femme MC came to my mind like Fire Logic and When Women Were Warriors (does this count).I think there may be a deeper thing to talk about like lineage, because Fire Logic and WWWW were more inspired by like, LeGuin, Lackey and Marion Zimmer Bradley but honestly, everything with a female protagonist was at that time.
>>4494483>shitty>Buffy the Vampire SlayerEx-fucking-cuse me?? Buffy is a masterpiece.
>>4494805Yes, we all wanted Buffy to hatefuck Faith, but that never happened, did it?
>>4494815>hatefuck**lovefuck
ｷﾀ―――(ﾟ∀ﾟ)――――!!
Leave It on the Track by Margot FisherIt's about a 16 year old girl whose 2 dads die in a fire that she barely makes it out of. She goes to live with her half-sister whom she doesn't know that well.This one was super highly rated, but it left me feeling quite whelmed. I kept waiting for it to make me fall in love with the relationship between the MC and LI but it never happened.Most of the book was spent on dealing with the trauma and the MC being an asshole because of it, leaving not enough time for the romance to develop naturally.I was expecting some nice high-school angst, and while some of it was fine, I do feel like there was way too much of it, and it would often repeat>MC would do something stupid>her sister would chastise her>MC brings up the dead dads passive-aggressively>sister apologizes or points out she lost a dad too>MC storms offx10The book also is super gay in the sense that everyone everywhere is gay, and everyone from the HS teacher to the boomer waiter at a restaurant asks for pronouns etc.Also a lot of preaching about super left-leaning ideologies that you wonder why they're there. No one who is against gay relationships is going to buy this book.The LI's thing is that she's super perfect, but has a problem where she is "parentified" after her mom died. MC tells her "Hey, maybe you shouldn't be taking on all the responsibilities that your mom had", and in the next scene she's like, hey I did all that and now my whole family supports me, tnxI wish the trauma staff was less in your face and less dramatic, and that the author spent more time on slowly growing the relationships.Thanks for reading my ESL ass review
>>4496227>everyone from the HS teacher to the boomer waiter at a restaurant asks for pronouns etc.Also a lot of preaching about super left-leaning ideologies that you wonder why they're thereThis is unbearable to me, I hate it when every random character talks like they're at a DSA convention.
>>4494815Maybe the reboot will have a Faith expy and they'll hook up this time.
>>4496227>The book also is super gay in the sense that everyone everywhere is gay, and everyone from the HS teacher to the boomer waiter at a restaurant asks for pronouns etc.>Also a lot of preaching about super left-leaning ideologiesNoice, picked up.
>>4496291FUCK I knew the cover reminded me of something, kek
>>4496291Angela had it so bad for NanetteImagine being so tsundere you not only imagine humiliating your gay crush but fantasise about grinding her up in a meat processing plant or all the shit that went on in her sick little head
>>4496291Fucking LMAO
>>4496227>waiter at a restaurant asks for pronouns etc.>Also a lot of preaching about super left-leaning ideologies that you wonder why they're there. No one who is against gay relationships is going to buy this book.Ew, thanks for the heads up. No romance was already a deal-breaker though.
Iris Kelly Doesn't Date Ashley Herring BlakeSomehow I've missed this book, despite it having tens of thousands of reviews. I quite enjoyed this one, it was well written, and the author does a great job of quickly describing the many characters in ways where you can immediately imagine what they're like. The dialogue can be both witty and funny at times.The pairing is hot. A cripplingly shy tall lanky girl (Stevie) and a shorter, curvier and aggressively confident redhead (Iris).Unlike a lot of books they both have annoying, maybe even ugly flaws. Stevie was so cringy in the beginning I had to drop the book, pace around my room before getting back to it a few times. Iris was both insecure and green with envy at times, but I liked the idea of them getting together so much I knew I had to finish the book.It's a fake-dating scenario, which I generally avoid, but the book readily acknowledges how unrealistic and silly the cliche can be. I readily suspended my disbelief so that I could see how the love interests get together.The book does a similar things to >>4496227 where everyone is gay, and it's super progressive, but it does it more skillfully in a way where it feels it makes sense, I never felt like I was being preached to.The sex scenes were surprisingly "steamy". It used appropriately adult, even crude language which I liked. I much prefer that over terms like "her heat" or "wetness".Not to be too corny, but it kind of brought me back to when I had first started reading romance books and how enjoyable I found them.Maybe it's because the last few books I've read have been kind of disappointing.If there was something to complain about, it's that I wish it hadn't gone the fake-dating route, but maybe the author's other books will be more style.All in all, it's nothing mind-blowingly unique, it's just well executed and an enjoyable read for sappy romantics which I can easily recommend.
>read all the Garoul books>none of the other books by the author seems interestingBoo
>>4498131So still enjoyed 4-5 books? That's still more good books (assuming here) than a lot of authors.
>>4498344Yeah, was in a bit of phase and havent really read anything in 2~ yearsLooked up a few similar WW books yesterday and nothing seemed interesting. Also good god, I'm once again reminded how many books in this genre seem to have a gender neutral (that's more commonly male...) name for one of the leads. Just give me my Selena's and Jennifer's, not Caden and Billy
When They Burned the Butterfly by Wen-yi LeeUrban fantasy set in 1970s Singapore underworld, where gangs are imbued with the magic of gods. Our MC is Adeline, a rich girl who becomes involved with the Red Butterfly gang, and their leader Tian.The book was great. Above all else, it aims to transport you into 1970s Singapore. The setting is the star, rife with unexplained slang, and utterly unique as far as I know (I can't think of any other book that uses this setting). Reminds me a lot of Last Night at the Telegraph Club, which also used an Asian (-American) setting to immense effect.Adeline and Tian's relationship evolves naturally, with tons of /u/ content. Prose is great, at times bordering on superb. My biggest criticism is that, for some reason, I don't love it as much as I feel like I should. The plot sprawls 500 pages, and while parts of it are excellent, other parts feel aimless. Plot feels like it's been rewritten too many times - some plot lines don't have gratifying conclusions, and the final climax especially reads like a move voice-over tacked on at the last minute. There's too many side characters, few of whom are characterized properly - the Red Butterfly gang has 20-some members and yet besides the four main ones, none of the others leave any impression. Side characters from 200 pages ago will show up and you don't even remember who they are. The prose also has a tendency to tell more than show, albeit it in a poetic, well-written style. But these are small complaints in an overall excellent urban fantasy brimming with /u/ content. However it does have a downer ending, so beware. For the purityfags, there's no het at all involving our MCs. It's set in a crime-ridden underworld, so there's mentions of abuse/prostitution/sexual assault of women, but our MCs go through unscathed.
>>4498387do the side characters sideline the main couple often
>>4498418no. the novel takes place entirely in 3rd person limited following Adeline's POV
Where do people get Thai GLs novels from?Paying? wattapad? scribe?Because i found some stuff but the thing i wanted, Denied Love, was hilariously down lmaoIt feels so damn bad that libgen is never going to come back...
>>4494815No, in the comic by Joss Sweden, Buffy fucks a teen girl, in the reboot comics, that started pretty solid, Willow is a lesbian from the start, she dates Kendra, another chick, then Tara...who is a troon...Faith is bi and has something going on with somebody, and an altBuffy from a doomed earth was dating Cordelia from s1 until their Hellmouth got opened.
>>4488001Bane?
>>4498425But libgen is still here? .la extension was working for me as of yesterday.
>>4498428She’s a big girl
>>4498420>novel takes place entirely in 3rd personWhat a crazy concept
>>4498435I was talking about the website, i don't fuck with extensions for a russian pirate site anon...
>At 26, Brooke McVay has made what everyone calls "the responsible choice." She's rented an apartment in her girlfriend's small New England hometown, determined to finally make their relationship work. Four years of being on and off, of trying long-distance, of missed calls and broken promises... It's all left Brooke exhausted. Yet here she is, trying one more time.>Then she meets Emily's mother.>Vanessa Mitchell is everything Brooke never knew she needed. At 48, recently divorced and still discovering who she is outside of being someone's wife and mother, Vanessa should be off-limits in every possible way. She's also the most captivating woman Brooke has ever encountered. Confident, intelligent, and stirring feelings Brooke's never experienced in four years with Emily.Nahh who is this book for? Come on, raise your hands.
>>4498425https://lily-house.com/product-category/english-book/
My Norwegian special ops lesbian soldier stops a horrible eldritch apocalypse novel hasn't panned out despite getting quite a few manuscripts requests from agents. Too esoteric I guess. Might just publish it online. So I'm moving on to my next project. A Nazi heiress gets lost in the Carpathian mountains with a stranded platoon of German soldiers, while they get hunted by a sapphic monster.
>>4498858Is it a vampire anon?
>>4498858Is it werewolves chief?
>>4498858Please don't be either a Vampire or a Werewolf.
>>4498858Stop teasing us and give us a link.
>>4498858>>4498910Seconding this. A Yuri horror story with cute lesbian Nord's sounds cool. You should post it on Wattpad if you keep getting rejected last minute by agents, sister.
>>4498858>First ideaSounds cool.>Second ideaLess so.
>>4498772An age gap that's not a Student/Teacher or Boss/Employee? Sign me up.
Are there any good yuri fantasy books? Preferably ones with actual fleshed out charactersnand maybe a sex scene
>>4498772This sounds perfect
>>4498858Maybe stop with the dumb premises and write something for actual adults .
>>4498858Please keep going, I really want to see more works with strange and interesting premises.
>>4498985Like what? A book about a lesbian couple doing their taxes while smoking, drinking beer and watching sports while complaining about how stupid children are and how they're gonna ruin the world?
>>4498985>Maybe stop with the dumb premises and write something for actual adults .Hard agree. The world NEEDS a story about 2 women who hate each other getting snowed in in a cabin together during Christmas and slowly falling in love.
>>4498994>>4499038That's on you if you can't imagine a grounded story that's not a generic rom-com.
>>4498985>>4498858Ignore this idiot. Keep writing your lesbian-themed horror pulp. It's dumb but interesting.
>>4498772It's for old cat ladies.
>>4498853I'm looking forward to Ditto and its prequel/sequel.
I know you hags frown on smut, and I've read countless smut because I'm a part of a book club plus I have a habit of buying overpriced books at the airport. Smut that would make you tell me to get the fuck out like Colleen Hoover or Taylor Reid. I latest book I picked up was from Reid called Atmosphere. I loved space books like The Martian or Project Hail Mary, so I thought this space book would be right up my alley. I wasn't expecting any romance since it was a hard sci-fi thriller but to my surprised, at half way through the book we find out that the two main leads are gay. I'm floored a bestseller with two lesbian leads, I think the time has come for LGBT to go mainstream.*Inb4GTFO
>>4499040Well, anon, tell us a good premise for an adult book you would write! Don't be shy!
>>4499223tbf Reid is not really a smutpeddler, she more popsy/drama/edgy in a cool way with a cinematic universe...she does gives men a ton of focus tho even when she does books with bis/les like Seven Husbands or Atmosphere.Hoover is literal dreck.
>>4499223I like smut occasionally, I just finished reading the sequels to Nights of Silk and Sapphire, pretty hot.
>>4499223>book club>calling others hagsOkay Grandma.
>>4499223I like smut if it's well written. I'm a sucker for floral writing I guess
>interesting premise>read sample>it's first person povSigh
>>4499223What kind of book club only reads Colleen Hoover?
>>4498858What's a Nazi heiress?
>>4499356It's more of a drink wine club. Curious though, we went from Broken Country and everyone silently agreed to skip Atmosphere and went with the next Hoover Book in the top seller lists. I am thinking someone is kinda already knew what Atmosphere was about
>>4499345>it's first person povSo?
>>4499376The daughter of a Prussian Captain whose family, in the past, were nobles. Stinking rich, and party members. Honestly though, I doubt I'll be able to find anyone willing to publish it, so I'm going to keep it short and move on when I'm done.
>>4499966>>4498858How do you frame her being a nazi?
A little girl who's the daughter of a Nazi officer reads the Diary of Anne Frank and becomes obsessed with her, eventually meeting her in her dreams where they fall in love and then the things that happen in the dreams start to appear in the diary because it turns out their gay adolescent love is rewriting history and the last quarter of the book is as hard a swerve as possible into an over-the-top action story where they carve a bloody trail through Nazis to kill Hitler himself and it looks like the protagonist will be erased from history after her Nazi officer parent(s) die in the collateral damage but Anne Frank says fuck causality and time paradoxes I'm not losing you and with a final epic kiss pulls her out of the erased timeline so they live happily ever after.
>>4500042You should write this as a story.>>4500036She's a Nazi because she's been taught supremist belief and has internalized national socialism (She's currently a member of the League of German Girls, which I may or not change in later drafts). I define her racism as being a lot more "paternalistic" compared to her fellows; but it's treated as moral corruption regardless.
>>4500101What are the sapphic elements?
>>4500102The heiress begins to have a deep crush on her servant girl (they're a closeted homosexual who hates themself.) After that ends in tragedy, she falls in love with the female monster stalking and killing her countrymen (who've fled into the Carpathian mountains.)
>>4500103>they're a closeted homosexual who hates themselfShe's crushing on multiple servant girls?
>>4500103>>4500101I don't think you'll be able to find anyone willing to publish a story with a Nazi protagonist, anon. Even if its portrayed as a bad thing.
>>4500107Yeah, you probably need an already in built audience that can tolerate it or need to make it a nazi allegory in a sci-fi story.
>>4473724i dont want to be mean but thats probably because you didnt have a good enough grasp of the language to make it sound natural. big words are fine when they belong and the vocabulary in the locked tomb isnt really esoteric or anything
>>4475027>the MC has the start of a romance which might develop in a sequel>mightHMm
Helen Burns should have survive and turn Jane Eyre into victorian yuri
>>4500105Your deliberate misinterpretation would be less stupid if anon hadn't written "A closeted homosexual" and "themSELF".
>>4498858Author anon here. Decided to upload my sapphic, gothic vampire romance as a tool for feedback. Will be on Inkitt as soon as its approved. Please give it a look when I do and tell me what you think!
>>4498858>my sapphic, gothic vampire romanceIs this the same thing as your Norwegian special ops lesbian soldier book?
>>4505486 https://www.inkitt.com/stories/1616159?preview=trueHere it is!
>>4505679I enjoyed it, but I say that as a sucker for the writing style of this era.
>>4505712>>4505679I enjoyed this too, but I do think it's a little bit too wordy, if that makes sense. The prose is quite heavy. Which makes sense as it seems to be a gothic novel. That being said, I can see why you've had difficulty getting it published, even if it's mostly well-written.Anyways, I'm on chapter 4 and I think its pretty good so far. Elfriede seems to be a self-righteous hypocrite though. One question, is Judith and her family supposed to be Jewish? Might have missed that confirmation.
>>4501422I find it incredibly funny when an author just naturally uses "long words" because they are educated and think its normal and then clowns like the one you are replying to come along and act like their lack of education means the author has to be pretentious.
The zombie one with the blind girl is pretty good...
>>4506289Which one's that?
>>4506356Hearing Red by Nicole Maser
>>4505679It's well written, better than a lot of published books. What I don't like is that the writing is inefficient, the characterization seems exaggerated, and inkitt is cancer. You should focus at the start on getting readers curious and interested, and try more to evoke emotions with your writing.
>>4506952>using AI for the cover
>StormhorseOh come on, I was so intrigued by the art (yes I'm aware that's literally judging a book by its cover) and then I get to this word and I just had to laugh and probably wont read it now, how are you suppose to take this seriouslyCouldnt the author have come up with literally any other title for our love interest to pursue before presumably abandoning for her one true lesbian love
>>4505679I don't want to be rude, but it's hard to get into a work of prose with stuff like semicolons used to introduced dependent clauses, hyphen/minus characters being used for dashes and constructions like "a desk wrought in uncomfortable splinters". Choice of preposition and specifying the splinters were uncomfortable (as if there were comfortable splinters) aside, you're saying the desk was made out of splinters? Like why wouldn't you just write that the desk had splinters? Every second sentence feels overwritten and unnatural.
>>4505712Thank you! >>4505761Yes, the Uffermann's are Jewish. I thought I'd be interesting contrast to have Elfy's employers be a religious minority, but still very wealthy. >>4506972I think I might have leaned a little bit towards the caricature when I decided to go with a gothic styling. I inherently like dramatic and emotional characters, but I do think I went too far with my first novel. I'm a little obsessed with atmosphere. >>4507189Continuing with this point, I believe that spirit of gothicness and atmosphere caused the pace to suffer with redundancies. During my drafting, I tried to remove some of it, but I clearly wasn't completely successful. I got shredded for my use of excessive semi-colons by one of my beta-readers, so that's an area I'll have to work on. Thank you for the feedback, and please continue to critique. It was the sole reason I posted it on Inkitt. It's very helpful. Oh and what's so cancerous about the website?
>>4507432>I thought I'd be interesting contrast to have jews be portrait as a wealthy eliteTruly groundbreaking.
>>4507548Things were very different in the Austrian Empire.
>>4507432>Oh and what's so cancerous about the website?They force you to make an account to read more than the first few chapters.
>https://web.archive.org/web/20120117160139/http://www.yorku.ca/caitlin/waves/navigate.htmlI found a lesbian hypertext novel from 2001. Has anyone here read it?
>>4507758>hypertextIs that like an upgrade from maintext? Noice.
>>4507548It is. Historically Jews were ostracized and often lived in worse lower class conditions. The whole Jewish banker thing was a very specific time period. And even then the majority was always lower middle class.
>>4508239You do realize that the stereotype's accuracy has no bearing on the fact that it's old and trite, right? You're arguing besides the point.
>>4508245But that's just the thing, a realistic depiction of Jewish upper class in such a scenario defies reality and is thus a novel concept. Just going by the rich greedy Jew stereotype has no value, sure, but anybody who read a historical novel set in this era should be halfway away of the true circumstances.I'm not the writer, I don't understand why this is so important to their story, but for some even mildly historically inclined at least, this detail would stand out.
>>4508239>>4508268why do you waste your time trying to reason with a karen
>>4496643damn, I remember reading delilah and thinking how I'd like a book with iris. unfortunately the middle book with astrid is when the author went the >>4496227 route and it really felt... meh. The first book was pretty good tho. Guess I'll give this one a chance then.
>>4508268>depicting jews along the lines of the centuries-old stereotype as rich and greedy is novel>a realistic depiction... defies realityHow high are you?
>>4508667Your reading comprehension must be even worse than your brain damage if that is what you got from my comments.
>>4508674Concession accepted.
>>4508680Aw cool, what kinda concessions they got? I could go for some punch.
Any human girl/eldritch monster books?
So I read some "The Society for Soulless Girls" and it's a mess. The characters feel very high school age or even middle school age to me, definitely not college. Lottie the sporty outgoing type that wants to go to that particular college because a girl from her hometown died there when she was nine who has doubts about belonging there because it's all so posh would have worked in a boarding school story but like this she just feels immature. That goes double for Alice the self-conscious edgy girl with trauma who is bad at comunicating and wants to become a judge (which is so important that she says it twice in the first 50 pages, probably because that is supposed to make her more of a character and less of an archetype. Which didn't work.). I'm not a snob but the writing itself doesn't help.So Lottie our protagonist gets drunk at her first night at college and get drawn to the the tower where ten years ago four college kids died. The next day Lottie describes this as>Then there was what happened last night; the invisible lasso of the North Tower.This novel is advertised as gothic and sure the setting is, but an "invisible lasso"? This isn't how you get your readers into a gothic mood.The very next sentence:>It was one thing telling my dad I'd be safe, that I'd do my best to avoid anyone who seemed a bit murder-y, but what if that killer was a sentient tower whose will could not be overridden. Let's ignore that the dad thing feels again very much like a high school setting, but "a sentient tower whose will could not be overridden" is not something that belongs in a gothic or a dark academia novel. The book feels like it is made of parts that do not fit together.
>>4509662>Then there was what happened last night; the invisible lasso of the North Tower.Does the book use a semicolon?
>>4509665Yes, it's on page 57.
>>4509586I actually wrote something like that as my final project for my creative writing degree. So far it's just been gathering dust on my hard drive, since it still needs a lot more work and I'm not really sure who would want to publish it anyway.It's about a girl in a pseudo-Catholic cult of an eldritch goddess, who's initially planning to kill the being she worships, but ends up falling for her instead.If anyone actually feels like reading 450 pages of dark fantasy (with heavy /u/ elements and no het romance outside of the MC's dead parents), here's the file: https://gofile.io/d/HMH9Rn
>>4510086Sounds really cool, anon. Gonna try to read it some time this week.
>>4473208How the heck is the Avatar book relevant? No way they made Kyoshi a lesbian.
>>4510351>No way they made Kyoshi a lesbianYou're right, they threw that in the chart as a goof. Definitely not the fiercely independent Avatar who trained a whole woman-only society of warriors.She's not gay, but her girlfriend is.
>>4510369Literally all we knew about her in the show is that she was a murderous maniac with a no nonsense attitude. If you think a woman-only society should mean that everyone in there is gay, then why the fuck were all of them het in the show and wanted Sokka's dick?What I am saying is there was no actual reason to believe she is gay. If the book did that, then it's something that they could have never done back then. The Korra era could barely scrape by with Korrasami in the final episode.>threw that in the chart as a goofFrankly I have no idea who makes these and I have seen too many anons here spread works that have either only subtext or have some minor lesbian side-couple in them, neither of which I consider worth recommending a book over.
>>4510373>If you think a woman-only society should mean that everyone in there is gayI didn't say that, just implied that being a lesbian would fit neatly into that. You don't seem very – how do I put this politey? – good at... imagining things?
