I don’t know why Season of Love (2022) by Helena Greer sat on my physical TBR shelf for a year, because I was so enthralled by this sapphic romance set at a Christmas tree farm run by a Jewish family. Miriam is an artist with an Instagram following, who spent summers growing up at herContinue reading “Season of Love”
Tag Archives: contemporary fiction
Get a Life, Chloe Brown
Get a Life, Chloe Brown (2019) by Talia Hibbert is the first of the Brown Sisters trilogy, and a sheer delight! I will be putting the other two–Take a Hint, Dani Brown (2020) and Act Your Age, Eve Brown (2021)– on my TBR list in 2024. Why was I so delighted? Hibbert checks all ofContinue reading “Get a Life, Chloe Brown”
Now You See Us
Now You See Us (2023) is the newest novel written by Balli Kaur Jaswal (Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows, The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters) and is just as good as the others of hers that I’ve read, in a completely different way. Set in Singapore, Jaswal tells the story of a murder throughContinue reading “Now You See Us”
Rise to the Sun
Rise to the Sun (2021) by Leah Johnson (You Should See Me In a Crown) is a contemporary sapphic YA romance that takes place over the three days of a summer music festival. Both Olivia and Toni are from the Indianapolis area, but they don’t know each other. Olivia goes to the festival with herContinue reading “Rise to the Sun”
Too Soon for Adiós
Too Soon for Adiós by Annette Chavez Macias (2023) was an impulse library shelf pick that surprised me with how good it was! (For being a random pick I knew nothing about.) As the book opens, twenty-nine year old Gabby is dealing with the death of her mother from cancer. She had quit her sous-chefContinue reading “Too Soon for Adiós”
Klara and the Sun
If you’re interested in a quiet story told from the perspective of an artificially intelligent robot designed to be a companion for socially awkward children, don’t miss Klara and the Sun.
Honor
Please consider reading the beautifully-written Honor to learn about what some women face around the world just because they’ve fallen in love with the “wrong” person.
Hope and Glory
Recommend if you’re interested in a family drama set in London with a Nigerian-British family and a sister who’s just come home after her father has died and her family has fallen apart.
The Girl With the Louding Voice
Recommend with reservations because of anti-fatness. Otherwise compelling read from the perspective of a Nigerian child bride forced into an arranged marriage who goes from one bad situation to a worse one, when all she wants is to go to school.
Everyone In This Room Will Someday Be Dead
Do you have a friend who tries her best but struggles all the time? Or maybe that’s you? Either way, you will enjoy the story of Gilda, a twentysomething lesbian atheist who ends up working as a receptionist in a Catholic church. It’s coming in July 2021.
Reading While Fat 