Tag: Lou's Review
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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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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: House of Crimson Hearts, by Ruby Roe
“Reading this book made me understand why people claim that indifference, rather than hatred, is the opposite of love… The passion between them transcends Red’s strict moral code, heightened by rivalry and tipping into something deeper.”
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Lou’s Review: One Last Stop, by Casey McQuiston
“One Last Stop is glorious, uplifting sapphic romance novel unlike anything I’ve ever read. The speculative elements as much as the sweeping love story make it a truly unforgettable book…”
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Lou’s Review: Two is a Pattern, by Emily Waters
“What starts off feeling like a wholesome slow-burn quickly shifts into fierce, can’t-keep-their-hands-off-each-other passion. And all the while that initial tenderness remains, flowering into something beautiful.”
Lou Morgan 