What the title says. I recently read Cleat cute and Lover Birds and I would like to read more with neurodivergent characters
SPOILERS
So, i was just reading this book and i was ABSOLUTELY loving it till i reached the 2nd last chapter and it ENTIRELY decimated the love i felt for the story!!!!😡😡
So, the book is about Caroline Bingley, who after the events of 'Pride and Prejudice', acquires the help of Georgiana Darcy to change her personality from egoistic, shrewd and rude to being kind, compassionate and generous, and in this process she ends up falling in love with Georgiana.
Now, the thing that infuriated me was that, in 2nd last chapter, after Caroline has confessed to her HORRIBLE mother about her love towards Georgiana and after she gets disowned and after she refused a loveless marriage arrangement from a wealthy viscount(cause both of them were in love with someone whom they can't have, as Georgiana initially FLAT OUT rejected Caroline's confession)
So, after sacrificing SOOO much when Caroline finally returns to meet Georgiana and get some emotional support from her lover, who does she meet??!!!! FITZWILLIAM DARCY!!!!! And, then he proceeds to be ABSOLUTELY rude, disdainful and contemptuous towards her, going as far as to insinuate that she seduced Geogiana for MONEY!!!!! And, though i knew that this was to test Caroline's "extent of love", but WHY SHE GOTTA PROVE HER LOVE WHEN SHE ALREADY PROVED IT BY HER ACTIONS???!!!!!😡😡
And, worst of all Georgiana didn't do ANYTHING to prevent this "test"???!!!! 💢💢
SMH😞😞
Edit- For all the people downvoting, here's some more context-
Fitzwillaim was soo rude to Caroline, cause if you have read that chapter YOU WOULD KNOW how horrid he was to her, he even implied that he might even kill her.
And, the biggest problem i had with this wasn't Fitzwillaim but Georgiana, cause earlier in the story time and time again Caroline has assured her that she didn't care what society thought of them and that NO MATTER what happens she would ALWAYS choose Georgiana and even more so her action of her being fine even if she gets disowned and has to struggle her whole life, she would still choose Georgiana, was more than enough to prove her love.
Not to mention the person who was actually worried about what society thought of their relationship was ALWAYS Georgiana and that's why she initially rejected Caroline and even called her "infernal", when Caroline from the get go only cared about Georgiana and nothing else.
So, i think it was HORRIBLE of Georgiana to let her brother do this 'test of love' ob Caroline.
I have an advanced author copy of this new lesbian book, The Jellyfish Problem by Tessa Yang, and it was so good. It's not often I find a sapphic book that is, like really smart, and this one is. I won't post spoilers, but the main character is a lesbian chasing an old flame while being haunted (literally) by the loss of a friend who processes grief as she discovers a new flame. It's a sci-fi/fantasy (really walks that fine line) and while I wouldn't categorize it as a romance, the fact that the character is a lesbian and how she loves who she loves is a core tenant to the story. 5/5 stars would recommend!
As anyone else read Girls Like Girls by Hayley Kiyoko? I've nearly finished it on audiobook. It look me a while to get started on it as I don't really read much but would like to change that.
I love how the song became a book and now into film!
Please help! I need new recommendations. I've read a lottttt of sapphic books, I just need to discover more and I'm so glad this subreddit exists! I just found it. I'm looking for any recs that have these factors:
• Happy ending please.
• Spice - I'm happy with vanilla or full on BDSM. Just as long as its either spicy or full of tension and yearning. No fade to black.
• Slow burn.
• NO love triangle. I am happy with anything monogamous or a throuple or more, or anything similar to Nights of Silk and Sapphire by Amber Jacobs. But no love triangle.
• I love a good plot with some tension and even some angst, but please nothing where one of the characters says or does something that should unforgivable.
• No childish toxic behaviour or red flags. This means when there is a character with the personality of a brick wall and cannot communicate for the life of them. As well as the characters purposefully trying to make each other jealous, I dislike that trope quite a lot.
• No Anna Stone (Not that I dislike her! She has quite a few books I liked. But I already know of all her books)
**What my favourites are:** This might help show what I've already read and what types of books I enjoy reading so this might help with the recs! <3
• Bloom Town 1 and 2
• Nights of Silk and Sapphire (part 1, 2, and 3)
• The Safekeep
• Iceberg
• The Lay of You
I'm also open to fanfic recommendations!
I need a book with the love interest being some kind of big bad (Female) monster, most importantly, big, demon, dragon, anything of the sort. And the other love interest can be anything, just be a woman. That's the only criterion, I'll chew up anything of the genre. Any suggestion will be incredibly appreciated. I'm so god damn hungry, please.
Would be better if it got some borderline ridiculous size gap and smut.
Roughest erotica you've read?
I've just been revisiting the original fanfic work of Truth and Measure, and I still think the published version is superior in pretty much everything but really miss the presence of Caroline and Cassidy in the revised book. I love and want melodrama in my romance stories but family bonding, I think, leaves much more of an impression on me.
Some of my other fav books that got this are The Snowball Effect (I quite often go back to to this book just to read the scenes with Emma's Grandma) and it's the same with Three Reasons to Say Yes and the kids' scenes. I think these parts are the main reason I love these stories.
Anything you'd recommend that features this kind of subplot prominently?
I'm not a fan of "good girl, you're taking me so well" or any of its variations, and maybe I'm just unlucky but the last two or three wlw romances I've read have all had a version of it. I won't dnf for it in a wlw book (on the rare occasions I read a hetero romance book I will dnf for it immediately) but it would be nice to not have to put up with it during sex scenes.
Any romance subgenre is fine as long as it's wlw. Power imbalance is fine so long as no one is saying these particular phrases or any similarly degrading version of praise kink--I know some people like this and that's fine, but it's not for me
Alternately, any books or authors that are heavy on this that I might want to avoid? Or, anyone know roughly what year this became popular in wlw romance so that I can try to read books from before that?
TIA!
I just am on the look for books that make me writhe in bed or shed some heart-squeezing tears.
I love the angst, i love when the stories have complicated and sometimes mean to each other characters, that feel hate, disgust, jealousy, selfishness, things like that. in situations that are messy, maybe filthy, i want the ugliness.
and not necessarily the worst of the worst in mafia surroundings or devil captor, it will be very welcome, but bully and college settings are also welcome as long as they're MESSY.
I remember what i felt with **Tryst Six Venom and Loathing You, Gideon and Harrow in The Locked Thomb,** i just need them to have this complicated-hateful-but-codependent thing...
pls, im dying for it, give me anything im looking for scraps I NEED TO FEEL SOMETHING
Hi I've just released an Indie sapphic slow-burn romance with emotional tension/ forbidden attraction vibes, and it's free on Kindle this weekend if anyone's looking for new WLW reads.
Thanks 😊
I absolutely hate this trope, where love interests are in a friend group, and everyone, including: family, friends, random women on a bus stop, ships them, way before they realize their feeling for each other, or have the guts to confront about it. It just feels so respectless. So I would like to read the exact opposite of that. Something where they know the same people, and all their shared friends thinks they have a beef, while their secretely making out. Even better - if one character has a crush, but she completely doesn't know how to react to it, and so she acts cold, or mean, or something, and both her love interest, and all their friends are confused, on what's her problem with the other. Great if the other is just so sweet to her though. Would really appraciated some orientation play too - like, one is openly into girl, the other's not.
My country is homophobic. My old readers are not interested in this book in my language, so I'm writing it in English. Hope you like it and show support!
Synopsis:
4 elements. And a secret.
A secret Avalon risked her life to uncover. When her ship crashed into Valor, a dying planet, its soil crushed and trembling, and lost her memory in the fall, she couldn't have known what was coming next.
Until she met Skylar. A girl with impossibly beautiful violet eyes and a smile that radiated the world. Sky dreamed of the heavens, and she found them hidden in Avalon's eyes.
But Avalon knew she didnt crash into this barren planet for no reason.
Something was coming.
And even though she didn't remember, she was the only one who could stop it.
Just found out today that this is coming out soon, the sequel to Lady's Knight by Amie Kaufman. Won't lie, I'm kinda excited.
Reading any good books? Watching something good? How's your week going? Share anything you'd like here!
It’s finally out! And on kindle unlimited too!!
Hi everyone! I’m G. Ennix, a new sapphic author, and I wanted to introduce myself now that the mods have kindly updated my author flair.
I write sapphic fiction about strong women, complicated love, emotional intensity, and happy endings—because the girl will always get the girl.
My debut, Bloodlines and Betrayals: The Awakening, is Book 1 of a dark sapphic vampire romance trilogy on Kindle/KU. It includes a vampire queen, fated-bond tension, political intrigue, explicit romance, and supernatural power struggles. Books 2 and 3 are already drafted, and I’m currently working through their final reviews.
I’m also very new to Reddit, so I’m trying to learn the etiquette and participate in good faith instead of only using this space for promotion. I’d love to connect with other sapphic readers and writers, join discussions, and learn how readers here usually discover new indie authors.
Transparency note: the manuscript/story is my own writing and in my own voice. I used editing tools similar to Grammarly for grammar, spelling, punctuation, and paragraph formatting support. The cover and author logo used AI-assisted image tools.
Thanks for having me here!
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