Tag: Lou Morgan
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Lou’s Review: The Deathless Girls, by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
“For all Dracula casts a long shadow over the story, these women find light and meaning in each other. And that is the power of a retelling – giving voice, agency, and significance to female characters previously defined in relation to men.”
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Lou’s Review: Hotel Queens, by Lee Winter
“Hotel Queens is one of the most electric Opposites Attract romances I’ve ever read, with our leading ladies’ contrast in temperaments creating a steamy hot sexual tension between them.”
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10 Sapphic YA Books Feat. Women of Colour for #Pride
“Pride should mean celebrating stories about all lesbian and bisexual women; not simply the skinny, white, feminine, young, and able-bodied.”
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Lou’s Review: My Own Worst Enemy, by Lily Lindon
“Given the rarity of Butch4Butch romances, I was ready to root for this couple. But as love interests go, to quote Jean-Ralphio Saperstein, Mae ‘is the wooooooorst.’ Her cruelty and entitlement do real damage to Emmy’s life.”
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Lou’s Review: The Mercies, by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
“While they’re centuries away from terms like ‘lesbian’ or ‘bisexual’ becoming mainstream, the nature of Maren and Ursa’s connection is clear from the intensity with which they crave one another. But love and desire between women are both seen as threatening by men…”
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Lou’s Review: Same Time Next Year, by Tessa Bailey
“Why in 2024 are we as a culture still romanticising stories where women sacrifice so that men can have everything? Spoiler alert: patriarchy.”
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Lou’s Review: The Jasmine Throne, by Tasha Suri
“Priya and Malini’s romance is one of the best I’ve yet encountered. I’m not usually one for Slow Burns, but this pacing fit perfectly with the novel’s scope, and two women who are mistrustful owing to the betrayals they’ve known.”
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Lou’s Review: Hani & Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating, by Adiba Jaigirdar
“Hani and Ishu being such polar opposites creates gorgeous chemistry between out leads. The girls go from exasperation to seeing things in each other that nobody else does.”
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Lou’s Review: Your Driver is Waiting, by Priya Guns
“It’s a rare delight, finding this story where a woman of colour has the narrative freedom to be an anti-heroine. Even when Damani is stripped of power, she always retains agency – and uses it in shocking ways.”
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Lou’s Review: The Fiancée Farce, by Alexandria Bellefleur
“This fake dating caper cements her icon status within romance, leaning into everything that makes this genre such a delight. It’s playful, uplifting… a delicious balance of sexy and sweet.”
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