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Top /u/ fantasy list, since no one else bothered with making the thread I followed what was discussed in the previous ones and removed Nevernight and added Clem & Wist Series

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>>4473208
after 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 others

Hiyodori 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

>>4473277
Why 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.

>>4473640
because 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

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>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.

>>4473651
I 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 ?

>>4473698
It 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
>>4473699
to 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.

>>4473702
Same 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.

>>4473736
I started reading it, didn't like it. I don't recommend it.

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I'm an ESL but shouldn't this be Falling for Whom

>>4474160
I've seen no american after Hemingway say whom

>>4473736
I enjoyed it. The monster has some neat attributes and the romance ends up being quite sweet.

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>>4474160
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoCcDi8zH8M

>>4474160
In 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.
>>4474173
That's definitely not true.

>>4474160
"Who" can be seen as a nominalised free relative clause in this context, not as an interrogative pronoun.

>>4474393
I'm afraid /u/ loves to interrogate pronouns

>>4474393
Why would that be relevant?
>Whoever falls for me
>Whomever I fall for

>>4474476
In 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 speech
Whom = Dark Souls NPC speech

>>4473698
Yes they're great. Second book is a masterpiece.
>>4473700
sorry you have the literacy of a rock and need everything spelled out for you.

>>4473736
I 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
>>4473702
understandable 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.

>>4474484
Oh, 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.

>>4474510
Holy 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

>>4474640
Of 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!

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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.

>>4474849
I 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.

>>4473685
premise sounds interesting anon, ill give it a shot

>>4474876
True, I wish she wrote some more HS / College stuff though

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>>4474764
>The Bone Raiders by Jackson Ford

Really 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.

>>4475027
Didn't mean to quote.

>>4474510
Based. I agree on all accounts.

>>4474601
complaining 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 without
Starting 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.

>>4475162
I'm an ESL tard as well and had zero issues reading The Locked Tomb. It's not some high-brow Victorian novel.
>>4475251
Time to hit the (text)books again.

>>4464716
Caitlin Kiernan - The Drowning Girl
meh. 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 Deep
this 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 Heroines
meh. 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

>>4475464
purefag here
1 ? isnt that just being bi ?
2 still a character
I respect you can read non purefag material my hats off to you

>>4475464
>Caitlin Kiernan
Is 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

>>4475573
It's very schizophrenic of you to quote the words that poster wrote.

>>4475573
Was 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.

>>4473685
Hey anon I finished reading this, had to ignore the pronoun garbage thrown around but otherwise I enjoyed the book!

>>4474883
>>4476236
Wow 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 issues
Explain

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.

>>4476263
Yup 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.

>>4476678
Based. Libtards fucking owned.

Anyone got recs for classic lit with outright lesbianism or lesbian undertones? Something that's not Camilla.

>>4477112
Different 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.

>>4477112
As 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.

>>4477114
Some 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. Alban
The 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?

>>4476567
So 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 Cristo
Yes, 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.

>>4477242
Following 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 artist
Ok, mom

>>4477237
This 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.

>>4477242
Whaaat. 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

>>4476457
I 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.

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Among the Burning Flowers by Samantha Shannon

Third 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.

>>4479157
She 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.

>>4479218
A much bigger problem is that her books are boring and badly written.

>>4479157
That 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

>>4479157
I 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

>>4479277
boring? arguable. badly written? Samantha Shannon's prose and characterization is a cut above typical /u/ schlock

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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.

>>4479772
I 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?

>>4481158
You'll read booktok enemies to lovers and you'll love it.

>>4479998
Bissexual crap?

>>4481172
If 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.

>>4481177
Bisexuality is /u/

>>4481211
No.

>>4481211
this is the literally the single most controversial take on all of /u/

>>4481211
Yes.

>>4481211
Yes but also no

>>4479998
I 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).

>>4481211
No.

>>4481211
Bisexuals are the "vegan leather" of yuri.

>>4481369
You mean good?

>>4481369
Soft to the touch, yet bad for the environment?

Any good friends to lovers reads? I really liked In The Long Run by Haley Cass.

>>4481385
Haley Cass is fantastic, for sure. I'd recommend On The Same Page, also by her.

More recs:

The Secret Chord, Virginia Hale
More Than A Best Friend, Emma R. Alban
All The Reasons I Need, Jaime Clevenger
Annie On My Mind, Nancy Garden
Meeting Millie, Ashton Clare
Falling Into Place, Sheryn Munir
All The Wrong Places, Karin Kallmaker
Love Is For Losers, Wibke Breuggemann (YA)
Chemistry Lessons, Jae

>>4481387
Thanks 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

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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 Abercrombie
Is the lesbian at least the main POV

>>4481420
Wow, 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 yuri
has to be a shitpost.

>>4475464
You 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.

>>4481640
They'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.

>>4481680
It sure would be nice if anon could keep such recommendations to themself next time.

>>4481420
I read the first book of first law and it was sooooo boring. no idea why people like it so much

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>>4481680
This 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.

>>4481420
Fuck off with that overrated asshole.

>>4481211
except its not, already had this fight a long time ago.

>>4479157
I 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.

>>4484016
burning 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

>>4484016
Exactly 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 decisions
Damn, that sounds promising.

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>>4484480
I have this one my list. How was the smut?

>>4484585
Very 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 tense
I 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 Moureaux

This 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

>>4484937
Sounds great, I love this kind of wacky shit. Will definitely give it a try

>>4481420
I like grimdark but i haven't delve into Abercrombieslop yet.

>>4484920
I'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.

>>4484920
It 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.

>>4484480
I 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?

>>4486083
Don't care about those.

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New Hiyodori novel is out

>>4486116
Read the first one, but it wasn't so great that I'd want to see it milked endlessly

>>4484480
Your 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.

>>4484480
Genuinely the most painful /u/ book I've read, makes shit like TOWEM seem like fluff by comparison.

>>4480052
any 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.

>>4486921
Post books that you like so people can have an actual understanding of what is "good writing" in your opinion.

>>4486948
Happy 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'Shea
The 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 Jae
Behind the Pine Curtain, by Gerri Hill

>>4486921
Fair 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 Woeden
The Midnight Lie, and Ordinary Love, by Marie Rutkoski
Hungerstone, by Kat Dunn
Far From Home, by Lorelai Brown
Fingersmith, by Sarah Waters
Last True Poets of the Sea, by Julia Drake (YA)
This Is How You Lose The Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

>>4486921
You 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
>>4487395
Do you mean yuri or books in general?
>Steinbeck, Hemingway, Joyce, Woolf, the whole bunch
As for yuri, I liked Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe. Not that I have much to compare it against.

>>4487074
Thank you! Will download all of them.

>>4486959
Sadly, 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?

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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

>>4488001
The self-insert is brutal.

>>4487536
Would also like this as a big Gibson and cyberpunk fan

>>4488142
>>4487536
The Fortunate Fall is apparently yuri but I haven't read it yet.

>>4484937
This 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."