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Previous thread: >>4325779

New to /u/lit? Here's a small chart to get you started.

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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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This link doesn't have the last Jasmine Throne books or the Hyodori ones.

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>>4398544
>making edits to my fantasy list
keep your hands off my list. the fantasy list has never been about catering to /u/'s shit taste

>>4398587
I dislike this chart, I will make a better one once I discover a few more good books.

>Baru
Obnoxious protagonist who kills her main love interest.
>WWWW
Protagonist is a side bitch, relationships are meaningless and creepy.
>TOWEM
Well written but the author is obsessed with rape and sequel i̶n̶ ̶2̶0̶1̶8 never.
>Priory
Many POV, slow and boring.
>Gideon
A theater kid's attempt at writing smart sci-fi mystery, except theater kids aren't smart enough to do that and don't understand science.
>Tiger's Daughter
Tried to get into it two times but it's too boring and badly written. All tell no show, and gives the reader no reason to care or continue.
>Kyoshi
Never tried it but heard good things about it.
>Jasmine Throne
Unimpressive and forgettable. I read the first book and barely remember what it's about.
>Nevernight
Isn't this the book that starts with the protagonist visiting a brothel to lose her virginity? It's very cringy, I stopped a few chapters in. I don't hate myself enough to go through this torture.

If you like these books I am happy for you.

>>4398587
Based

>>4398544
>hiyodori somehow got big
>my works never did

>>4398619
post your favs so we can make fun of it

>>4398587
>/u/'s shit taste
Well Nevernight is one of the shittiest things I forced myself to read in a long time cause people said it gets better in book 2 cause the romance turn lesbian related, and no it didn't get better thanks to that, especialy with what happens in 3rd book and the writing is really weak, especially with the 1st person bullshit.

>>4398804
I'm gonna have to agree with this, Hiyodori's stuff is like 6/10 for me but Nevernight book 1 so far is genuinely 3/10 and I'm not even at the het yet (just finished part 1). I'm not sure even /u/ could save this shit.

>>4398862
>Hiyodori's stuff is like 6/10
With this I have some problem, yeah it's simple easy enjoyable read each new book, but the best book for me is still that one when they are in the school, and the rest I just read as loyal reader wanting to see what happens with the characters I enjoyed as leads from there.
So yeah if author will throw new books I'm gonna buy them, but there's no magic for me there anymore like it was at the beginning.

>>4398804
>>4398862
Hiyodori's stuff is a fucking snoozefest. Nevernight has some lows but it's got some excellent highs. The /u/ is fantastic, friends-to-enemies-to-lovers. The plot is great by /u/ fantasy standards. How much you enjoy Nevernight depends entirely on whether you like the prose, which can admittedly turn some people away, and how much you can stomach het.

So is the Gideon tomb series a good start if someone wants to read for pure yuri i dont even mind bad world building just good yuri with no het

>>4398867
>Hiyodori's stuff is a fucking snoozefest.
You have to be joking here.

>>4398877
I've tried reading 2 of her books and cannot get through it. It reads like a webnovel and not in a good way

>>4398619
Agreed, most of this list is a /u/ deterrent. Let us know what you find.

>>4398787
No, I'm a coward. Actually the issue is that I wouldn't give any board related book I've tried more than a 6/10. Nothing comes close to the first two Madoka movies or Simoun, which I'd rate 9 and 8 respectively.

>>4398869
>So is the Gideon tomb series a good start if someone wants to read for pure yuri
I'm the wrong person to answer this because I think Gideon is overrated. But don't read it if you want yuri because there is basically none. Just give it a try for half an hour and keep going if you like the prose, because that seems to be what people like most about it.

Generally, if you want "pure yuri" you have to avoid western media because most western artists want to represent below average people. You often get obnoxious, ugly losers with a history of failed relationships. Meanwhile East Asian artists are more likely to create desirable characters who are hard working, competent, beautiful, and devoted only to one romantic interest.

>>4398992
>Nothing comes close to the first two Madoka movies or Simoun, which I'd rate 9 and 8 respectively.
Have you read the Simoun LNs? Apparently the story is slightly different from the anime, I've been meaning to read them for years but never got around to it

Not the best book I've ever read of this type (teenage enemies to lovers, coming of age), but it's been so long since I've read something I liked that I can recommend it if you're bored.
I like the whole butch troublemaker + ice princess redhead pairing, and while there are know-it-all side characters, overall they weren't annoying.
A few problems with the plot though, or things I disliked:
>the love interest making a move on MC felt a bit rushed, I think this book could've benefited from perspectives of both the MC and LI
>I suspended my disbelief as much as I could, but even then the ending felt too hallmark christmas-movie-happy-ending-y
>while the mom abandoning her plotline was resolved, I feel like it also kinda wasn't?
>Same with the bully boyfriend who's so stereotypical I kinda forgot his name. I'm both grateful that he didn't do some cliche revenge, but also felt like he was forgotten about. Book would've been better without him

I don't think my rating is gonna be useful since I haven't posted in months, but it's a 3.5/5 for me. Maybe it'd go lower if I had read anything good in recent times.

>Love Points to You - Alice Lin
One funny coincidence, both books feature a character who wish to go to the same art college I haven't heard of before.

Anyways, I dropped this one half-way through

>I think it's meant to be set in the real world, but it felt more like an episode of an anime romcom, like i was reading a script with cues for the voice actors instead of a book at times. the author really likes otome games I guess, so they made making one the main plot device
>MC goes through some first world privilege "torture porn" where the whole world is against her and I guess
>the LI doesn't really feel like a real teenager, they have that" sage wisdom of someone who lived 10 lifetimes" vibe to them, and while I haven't gotten to that part I can guess that she's secretly the writer or whatever
>again, I don't think there was enough setup for the timing of the confession to have felt right

Wouldn't recommend.

Some anon was looking for a polyamory book last thread and I just read a new one: The Loves of her Life by Sage Donnell.

Woman's wife who was supposed to be dead is found alive years later and is coming back to her. The problem is that she now has a girlfriend. Drama ensues and she must choose. Spoiler: She picks both.

The books is not that great but I did finish it. I guess the rarity of the theme is enought to keep the interest.

>>4398992
>Madoka movies or Simoun

>>4398992
What's the point in being in here when there's a dedicated LN translation thread on the board? You clearly don't like what gets recommended and discussed here. You'll probably have a better time not looking at this thread at all.

Anything of note before 21st century? Aside from Carmilla

>>4399671
No. Everyone knows lesbians were invented in 1920s in Weimar Republic.

>>4400556
Well, Weimar Republic yuri would indeed satisfy the request. If there was one

>>4400965
There were, but the Nazis burned all the books so you can't read them.

>>4401045
Well, let the nazis burn in hell then

>>4398619
>who kills her main love interest
which book does this happen in? I just started the series and now i feel a bit less eager to continue it

Is the ulit archive link broken? It takes me to some Asian shopping website

>>4399671
I really love the lesbian overtones in Thomas Lodge's Rosalynde (1590), the novel Shakespeare adapted into As You Like It. The basic premise is that two women fuck off to live in the woods together with one of them disguised as a page, then later on a peasant girl sees the fake page and falls madly in love with her, ranting about about how she's never been attracted to a man before but the page's beauty is somehow irresistible. They kiss and frequently visit each other to have "the discourse of many passions" and ultimately become engaged but sadly they don't get married in the end (because yeah, it's from 1590)

As You Like It itself has subtext but much less than the book

>>4402090
I have to be extremely desperate to try and look for les crumbs in ancient literature

>>4402093
>people talking about actual literature in /u/lit
i know, shocking

>>4398675
I know I cannot fathom why - it's hardly better than the average content posted here. It's not even a proper romance. Would you post your work? I'd like to read it, please.

>>4398869
It's great, one of my favorite series ever, but if you only care about romance there isn't that much. It's more sci-fi fantasy with yuri flavor. Definitely worth a read if you just want a fun and good series, but if you specifically want romance there's stuff with a lot more. No het though.

>>4401971
Give it a chance, it's not my favorite but it's still fun. The protagonist being the worst person on earth is what makes it entertaining.

>>4401971
First book ending
Third book she has multiple interests though and is probably going to be a poly/harem end in the fourth book

I really wanted to like this cause the character seemed interesting (and hot), but the writing was so dull and cliche I dropped it at at the start.

The author includes way too many details about everything that just don't matter. Within a few pages we learn why 10 different people won't be attending some party for their own different reasons, and the author describes the side character's entire thought process and way they view the MC.

If your plan on how the MC and LI will meet is that some super rapey dude boxes one of them in, and then the other character comes in and saves them, a laser should vaporize your head from a satellite or something.

>>4403620
The character looks derpy as fuck.

I haven't read any yuri since December. I'm depressed again so I have the urge. I need something cute and wholesome to cheer me up but I know from experience it will just make me even more depressed. I'm so lonely.

Something New by Jacqueline Ramsden

I can only describe this book as sweet. It's a love at first sight lesbian awakening thing (sister of a bride falls in love with the wedding planner). Every interaction between the love interests is adorable and wholesome. No drama, no angst.

>>4404019
You will like this, maybe?

>>4404053
not the anon but
Anything like that but with the girl being gay from the start without having her first time with a man ?

>>4404079
I was stunned when I tried using AI to find arranged marriage lesbian books between two women with no man involved whatsoever & it could only really recommend ideas for rewriting Priory to be about Sabran in a lesbian arranged marriage instead. Lesbian lit is completely cut off from the fanfic scene for the worse. None of these people actually read lesbian fanfics and it shows. There are tons of arranged lesbian marriage fics and meanwhile the AI could only find 4 of those types of books and 3/4 had a man and the last one seemed more smut than actual well written romance.

>>4404113
There's one book where the MC is given to the LI as a hostage by her father (king being conquered by the LI), it's the closest thing to a /u/ arranged marriage I can think about.

Sky Cutter by S.L. Kassidy if you're interested.

>>4404113
Because arranged marriage is a shit premise for a serious book and it belongs in the realm of fanfiction slop. Now if only that applied to fake dating too.

>>4404113
Nights of Silk and Sapphire by Amber Jacobs kinda fits. MC is taken to the harem of a female ruler.

>>4404113
Just FYI a lot of people are really anti AI and have taken measures to either remove their fics or place their fics in places where AI cannot be trained to even look for their works let alone be used to train on. You're probably not having success because of that

Apologies if this is a topic that's come up before since I don't really browse the thread, but thoughts on Yael van der Wouden's "The Safekeep"?

>>4404113
The Winter Duke, by Claire Eliza Bartlett is a YA mystery/political drama where the MC is left to run her kingdom after her entire shitty family is put into a coma. There's a subplot about her inheriting her older brother's fiancee (details: there was a group of potential matches to choose from, and the MC picked the cute warrior girl because she has good taste). It's not a romance-focused story, but the LI gets a decent amount of screen time, and I liked her personality.

>>4398541 (OP)
>8 day gap between threads
Grim

Anything like worm but yuri ?

>>4402618
Yeah I do plan on continuing it thanks, i'm about 70% through the first book rn. It's taking me longer to get through mostly because the politics/accounting isn't super my genre but I've been feeling recently like i'm exhausting more and more options for popular /u/ fantasy so i wanted to give it a try. i agree that the mc is entertaining and i think the world building is cool, it's also not going in the direction i thought it would at the start which surprised me
>>4402773
eh i guess that's okay, I'm glad it happens early on at least. don't know how i feel about a harem situation with no real focus on one person but whatever i'm sure it will still be interesting

>>4406644
Personally I haven't read a book I can recommend in like a year.

>>4406795
I think women are just garbage at making threads to be desu, the only other thread I care about often goes two days with no thread.

>>4406795
Same.

>>4406795
The standards are low, the category is niche, and modern writers' talent gets decimated by the exposure to intent and absorbing shitty writing. As for me, I also read other genres and non-fiction too, which means the lesbian books are less than 10% of the list.

4chan is back and I need fantasy /u/ lit other than >>4398544

I was going through an upcoming f/f releases list for 2025 list and someone mentioned one those Chinese novels, being translated officially, and that opened the world of baihe to me, but it seems even more confusing than the original fan translations. There are different companies licensing them and publishing them in different languages and places and some are canceling their releases and whatnot? Anyone else familiar with this?

Where do you get the list of good books by year?

>>4409684
>Chinese novels being translated officially
Which ones? I haven't read many chinese novels either and I'd be interested in reading some

Heard a lot of praise for this novel

>>4410004
One of them was Female General and Eldest Princess, which is the one I've heard of the most as a fan translation too, another is At the World's Mercy

It's official:
>Magia Baiser has a shadow

Don't ask how I keep up

>>4409283
These are some of my recent reads. Can't promise they'll all be classics, but I did enjoy them.

Dame Ophis, by Merlina Garance (novella, butch knight x witch, no het)
Master of Djinn, by P. Djeli Clarke (murder mystery in an alternate history fantasy Cairo, no het)
Bitterthorn, by Kat Dunn (YA, fairytale fantasy, no het)
Longshadow, by Olivia Atwater (regency era fantasy England, third standalone book in a series with books 1 and 2 being about het couples, but neither MC in LS is het)
The Midnight Lie, by Marie Rutkoski (contains het)

>>4398619
>but the author is obsessed with rape
Of and by women?

>>4404162
I enjoyed this, any more recs?

has seth started the last baru book or is he still writing honor harrington fanfiction?

You know how normally there is good girl x bad girl? I want bad girl x bad girl romance, with two overly confident, cool characters, where nobody turns into a bottom bitch. Why is it so rare.

>>4410544
Relationships without a bottom simply break up after a while.

>>4410549
Works on my machine.

>>4410544
nevernight

>>4410544

>>4398869
gideon has tons of lusting, but no actual romance so YMMV. the worldbuilding is good tho (or at the very least original).

>>4410232
bitterthorn was fantastic. one of the best recent releases imo.

>>4405848
kept me entertained long enough to finish it, but the MC can be quite unlikable at times. also there's a bit of het so proceed with caution.

>>4399671
the price of salt is the classic of the 20th century.

>>4410248
No sadly.
Not op but she's exaggerating. It wasn't that bad. I'd tell you but I'm on mobile and I don't know how to hide spoilers

Any source on some good audiobooks? Since I've been driving way more these days due to work, that's become kind of my to go to way and was thinking of adding more /u/ to that list.

I bought How to Flirt with a Witch because an age-gap romance between a witch and an impressionable college girl seems right up my alley, but there's a list of trigger warnings on the first page that says that no animals were harmed in the book. You know, fictional animals in the book of fiction. The sad thing is that it's probably not even made in jest. It also points out that all of the lesbian sex in the book in consensual, which seems like a bit of a spoiler. I wasn't going into this expecting lesbian rape, but, like finding money on the street, I wouldn't pass it up if I stumbled across it in the wild.

>>4419707
I asked about audiobooks here before and this response lists some >>3881300
The Burning Kingdom audiobooks are also very good, I don't think I would have enjoyed the series as much if I hadn't listened to the audiobook. Bitterthorn is a nice one too with a good narrator. This Is How You Lose the Time War is done very well. I remember Tryst Six Venom being a pretty nice audiobook if that's your thing. That's all I can remember off the top of my head right now

>>4419707
The locked tomb audiobooks are by far the best ive ever heard, Moira Quirk is an amazing voice actress it's almost like an audio drama.

>>4419724
Tryst Six was so very much my thing. Most lesfic is very clean, very neat, and I don't hate that most of the time. But apparently what I was missing was a grubby little soap opera written by a sweaty bisexual. Such a good time.

>>4419716
That sounds very gay and I don't mean in the sexual sense.

Say a little prayer by Jenna Voris was an unexpectedly earnest depiction of being gay in a conservative Christian town. The cover made me think it would be a farce, like a lot of those gay's at the Christian camp movies are, but it played it mostly straight. The protagonist is very much an idiotic 16 year old which I liked because the plot gives her idiocy consequences. The author mentions too many contemporary references and the prose is whatever but I enjoyed it.

>>4419716
But is the book good?

>>4419894
Yes I agree, there's not many books that are similar in the /u/ genre. I think the key was that the author already wrote trashy dark romance for het so had a good grasp on how to make them. I wish more typical romance authors would try branching out to /u/.

>>4420314
If you have any recommendations for more like it, I'd love to see them.

Pride or Die by CL Montblanc is not great. There is a lot of things thrown into this attempted murder mystery but they don't all work to the point it feels unfocused and messy. The main cast are all distinct and fun and the romance is cute, it's everything else that feels lost at sea. The trauma of the MC never really clicked for me, it felt tacked on, like it's supposed to be their reason for doing what they do but their actions feel reasonable regardless. It also includes homophobia both institutionalized and interpersonal and honestly it does not come across the way it should, it's more annoyance than my life fucking sucks. Also the ending is just a bit too everything's good now, we solved homophobia which leaves a bad taste. 4:10

>>4420292
Who cares? It's annoying and woke, so it's worthless.

>>4420488
Inb4 someone who completely understands what you mean, overused term or not, goes "but homosexuality is inherently woke? I don't get it?"

>>4420500
They're still retarded for using it wrong

Can someone recommend me a book where the main character is bullied by the love interest because the love interest is in the closet/has internalized homophobia?

Seconding the above, I especially want hate sex or dubcon before they healthily resolve their feelings (if they ever even do).

>>4420920
Tryst Six Venom, by Penelope Douglas (dark romance/soap opera, both mains are lesbians but there are a lotta dudes that, like, exist)
The Follow Through, by Michele L. Rivera (YA, contains het)
Glass Houses, by Ciaran Lachlan Leavitt (Hollywood romance. The bullying is debatable, but one of them is definitely homophobic. One of the mains has had past relationships with men. It's also out of print, but you can access the archive epub here: https://archive.org/details/leavitt_glass_houses_images/leavitt_glass_houses_derived/)

>>4420260
>made me think it would be a farce, like a lot of those gay's at the Christian camp movies
what do you mean by farce here? As in, christian camps being played off as unrealistic in a jokey/unserious sense or a too edgy/bad sense?

>>4398542
too small i'm afraid

>>4419724
>The Burning Kingdom
Oh, that's the Fantasy India one, right? I actually saw the first book in a local book store the other day translated into my language, too. I gotta say, I'm intrigued.

>>4422190
>that's the Fantasy India one, right?
Yeah it is. I think it's a really solid series. The writing and world building is something I enjoyed and the pacing was perfect to me. I mainly loved the characters, at first I wasn't sure of the multiple POVs of random side characters but it all contributes to the story and by the end i was attached to some. The two MCs are great imo and work very well together. Also know that for some portion of a couple of the books the two are separated. But again I think those parts are easier to get through with the multiple POVs.
Oh also there's a lot of politicking in book 2 and 3 (mainly 2) but after reading baru it's really nothing in comparison if you don't like that.

I've seen some anons here who aren't a fan of it but I would definitely recommend checking it out. If your local book store stocks it too that's pretty cool.
And like I said, the audiobooks are well done and enhanced the experience for me. But I also read through some parts and it was still okay

>>4422190
I love it and was surprised people here didn't, it's so classic fantasy with all the tropes of orphan chosen one with enormous magic potential and the princess who needs to overthrow the unjust emperor, all with lesbian mains. And the prose is good too, though YMMV on some of the flourishes.

I figured the issue might be because of instead of taking from medieval Europe, it's taking from India, including a lot of vocab/names, so that makes it a higher barrier of entry (for fantasy, it'd be pretty typical for space scifi, lol, aliens can be weird as hell).

>>4422255
>>4422268
Nice. Adding it to my list. I've recently listened to The Tiger's Daughter so I've gotten an appetite for lesbian fantasy.
Interesting cover art my language version has.

>>4422358
Oh, that's beautiful. All the covers have been, it sucks that the illumicrate versions are super basic

>>4406810
>he thinks there are women in this board

>>4422394
I know two different women (female) aside from myself that post here.

Any good bdsm?

recc me some enemies-to-lovers trash. doesn't have to be good

>>4422268
> surprised people here didn't, it's so classic fantasy with all the tropes
Hugely agree with you, all the classic tropes are well executed. I think if people could get over their reservations about the setting they'd really enjoy it. It's one of my favourite books from the /u/ fantasy list

>>4422642
Proper enemies-to-lovers:
Night Tide - Anna Burke (contemporary, no het as far as I can remember)
Sweet and Bitter Magic - Adrienne Tooley (YA, fantasy, no het)
The Dark Tide - Alicia Jasinska (YA, fantasy, contains het)

Well they're more like rivals-to-lovers:
Bachelorette No. 12 - Jae (contemporary, fake dating, no het)
I Kissed Shara Wheeler - Casey McQuiston (YA, contains het, sorta)
Amelia Westlake - Erin Gough (YA, no het)

>>4422690
Thank you, I'll check them out. Night Tide looks good. Did you read the first one?

Sometimes I'll have AI generate what characters in a book look like so I can better immerse myself.

>>4422394
Kys.

>>4422725
Do you just copy & paste passages to feed them to the AI?

>>4422748
Just the relevant sentences, maaaaaybe some light editing. I haven't experimented with being lazier.

I hate AI slop with a passion.

>>4419707
the audible version of carmilla has a great cast. It's still carmilla though.

also fuck off the carmilla webseries is 10 years old where did the time go

Tarnished by Erica Rose Eberhart is a fairly typical hero's journey fantasy novel with a fun twist that the love interest becomes a dragon. I enjoyed reading it, though I have gripes with the prose, it might just be a me thing but it never is vivid enough for my tastes. Also there isn't a very good sense of distance in the work, everything feels way too close together. It's a multi perspective work between the mc, their love interest and the love interests sister and they are all interesting characters who feel real, like the mc can't keep eye contact with anyone it's adorable. Decent fair 6:10.
>>4421089
I meant I thought it would play it for a joke rather than treat the subject seriously. It does have humor and jokes, but it keeps the tone dramatic rather than silly.

>>4422707
I haven't yet, no. The author has a new book coming out this month I think, so maybe I'll get it then.

>>4422978
>I thought it would play it for a joke rather than treat the subject seriously
Ohh I see. Yeah I haven't watched many gay movies with Christian themes but all the /u/ books I've read involving religion have all taken it pretty seriously.
>>4420260
I read it and this really reminded me of Her Name In The Sky. Down to the public outing of the (more repressed) love interest from reading a written confession that the MC takes responsibility for, a supportive sister with a 1 year age gap and a fight that splits them up in the later half of the book. It was like if HNITS was set a decade later with less angst and a camp. I liked it thanks for the recommendation anon. and damn now I want to reread HNITS

>>4425243
Not that anon but they might have expected comedy because But I'm a Cheerleader is such a formative movie and then that cover seems pretty light hearted

>>4425344
Ah I see it.. But I'm A Cheerleader would make sense for that sort of vibe, I don't watch many movies so I kinda forgot about that one. The cover is light-hearted but I also think that's just what stereotypical modern romance covers look like

I can tell this will be peak from the cover alone

Lovely Dark and Deep by Elisa A. Bonnin is a delightful read. It's got eldritch horrors, colonialism, magical school, immigrant trauma, autism & lesbians. All these elements blend together really well to create a compelling narrative of a girl finding her place in the world. The characters are likable, the horror elements are scary, the prose vivid and the romance nonexistent. The only complaint I have is that we don't get enough of the mc and her love interest to really understand why the mc likes her so much. It's a bit too bare bones for my tastes. 8:10

>>4425984
I thought so too based on the effort put into the cover and the style
I hope you like it more than I did.
>>4399102

>>4426026
>colonialism
>immigrant trauma
>the romance nonexistent
>delightful read 8/10
The fuck is this post?

Where do you anons hear/find out about new releases? like >>4425984

>>4426052
Weren't you paying attention? They said,
>8:10
8 divided by 10 = 0.8
Sounds accurate enough.

>>4426101
This thread.

>>4426140
I know I mean those who are first to post about it on this thread

>>4426147
That book isn't even about significant mental illness, more just being a lil traumatized.
>>4426052
It's a good book dunno what to tell you.
>>4426101
I just look at the list of 2025 lgbt books on goodreads. There's a Christian boarding school romance coming out soon which I'm excited for.

>>4426173
>I just look at the list of 2025 lgbt books on goodreads
thanks anon
>Christian boarding school romance
this one? don't want to judge a book by it's cover but damn it looks good

>>4426101
I look at goodreads lesbian tag (updates every month but 50% of the books aren't even lesbian focused to begin with), mobilism with the "Lesbian FF" search and amazon in the lgbt books with lesbian filter and sorted by last 30 days.

Out of step, into you by Ciera Burch is nice teenage romantic fluff. It's essentially about two characters repairing a damaged relationship and realizing they can pick it up where they left off. It has a rich girl poor girl dynamic that helps make the story interesting and fleshes out the characters. I wouldn't really say it's a sports story despite revolving around cross country, it feels more like set dressing. Also there's a hot toxic side character who seems possessive of one of the mcs but that never gets resolved. She just kind of disappears after serving her role in the plot. I doubt I'll remember this book in a week but it's a nice read 5:10.

>>4426176
That's the one and yeah the cover's got me convinced it'll be spicy.

>>4426316
every time i've looked at the lesbian tag on goodreads it seems that it always displays the same popular books and not new releases. and i don't think it has filters? unless they improved it i wish goodreads tagging system was better.
i think following goodreads lists is probably the way to go

>>4426173
>more just being a lil traumatized.

A lot of western authors write about traumas, have protagonists with clear autism traits, crippling self-confidence issues, depression, anxiety, etc, to the point that the romance takes a back seat. The more mentally balanced characters tend to be found in fantasy, which I'm just not that interested in.

I actually got fucking banned for off-topic. How is this off-topic? I've read more books about lesbians than the retard who reported me

I'm looking for some literature that involves a modeling agency. Does it exist?

>>4427099
Here's the Thing by Emily O'Beirne has a love interest who's a model under a modelling agency ran by the MC's mother. It's not really a core theme though, it more just plays into the LI's character and is there to connect her to the MC. Someone may have a better suggestion than me

Is there a way to search leabians in Royal Road?

Any good (or at least entertaining) detective/noir themed recommendations? Mystery too I guess but I'd prefer more on the serious side than the "cozy mystery" trend.

Fable for the End of the World By Ava Reid is tragic and beautiful despite minor hiccups in the narrative that I personally disliked. There were a number of releases this year that were along the lines of a hunter and the hunted falling in love but I doubt any were as bleak. Its ending reminds me a lot of the ending of parasite, where we are left with a fantasy that will never happen. The theme that this book hits you over the head with is survival, what it takes to survive and whether you can blame someone for doing what they must. But there is a more insidious theme that becomes more and more apparent as the book reaches its conclusion. This book is not as other commentators call it "the lesbian hunger games" because there is no subverting of the system, no moment where the mc, like Katness, forces the system to accommodate her. No, everything they do is reincorporated, adjusted for. And so the title of this novel is apt, for as a fable it exceeds in selling its message; hope can get you to survive but it won't let you succeed. Also white haired cyborg assassins are kinda hot. 8:10

>>4427678
This is one of the books where I felt like the romance made it worse. It's a cool concept and I like /u/ in my books but the romance in this one felt too forced for me.

>>4427976
That seems more like an issue with the execution. I hit that in fics sometimes, where the plot and character work are so good, even the actual non-romantic relationship part being interesting and then you get the romance feeling rushed and forced. Almost always, they should have taken longer, at least in fics. In books, they should have seeded it better and earlier

>>4426176
>>4426317
I just saw that on goodreads and came here to ask if it's any good. Cover art is good shit.

>>4426101
I get all my audiobooks from anonymouse. I just check the lgbt tag every few days and grab whatever looks good.

>>4428698
Reading it now. will see

>>4427678
This one was interesting. I liked the romance but didn't like how it was incorporated (with it never reaching a conclusion and them being totally exposed). The theme of survival was pretty clearly the main point which was okay for me I guess. I do think the concept of the "corporation that owns everything" was a bit too heavy handed

>>4426042
Reading it now, I'm only a third of the way in but I'm really enjoying it. We need more books about anime/otome nerds. I also don't mind the first world angst. All teenagers are like that, we don't really get that perspective until later in life. I'm definitely a sucker for high school angst though so it might just be me.

>>4426026
Liked it enough I would read a sequel (that will not exist), but nothing to fawn over, pretty basic and light read.
Romance is TLT-level non-existent, though, don't know if I would recommend it to /u/lit crowd.

A Ballad for Slayers & Mosters by Rita A. Rubin is a fun adventure romance with likable characters and great action scenes. The prose isn't exactly amazing, but it's clear and concise and while the plot is predictable, it was enjoyable. The romance in this book feels very genuine and it has a big muscle woman which is hot. Where this book falls flat for me is the relationship between the mc and the antagonist, we are supposed to believe they have this deep bond as sisters but it doesn't feel significant in the way it should. 7:10
>>4428781
>>4427976
I agree the romance in that book came on too quick, too strong and when it came it was extremely generic. I rolled my eyes when they kissed and one of them said "do you know how long I waited to do that?" It should have been much more understated. The sibling relationship felt way more real and vivid to me.

>>4429139
looks like it was made by ai

>>4429147
Yeah the hardcover is way better.

>>4429189
Fucking disgusting.

not sure if it's been discussed here, but I recently finished pic related (released last year).

enemy-to-lovers historical fantasy following the granddaughter of robin hood and the girl she kidnapped in retribution for her guardian helping the sheriff.

I guess it's one of those hit or miss books, at least seeing how the goodreads reviews are either 4/5 or dnf. it's a historical fantasy but written in a "modern" way, with a "woke" approach (diversity, gay/trans people in ye olde shire) and a quirky MC, so I guess it might put some people off.

the prose was very good, and the MC's terrible jokes totally worked for me. YMMV, but worth a read imo.

>>4429228
i tried starting it a couple months ago and it definitely did not hit for me. I couldn't get into it, which was sad because i liked the authors other book

>>4429228
I enjoyed it, but would agree with the hit or miss assessment. I found it funny and entertaining, but the romance aspect was pretty spare, and I would have liked it better if their feelings got more attention.

>>4429228
It's on my backlog, I've been meaning to read it since I quite enjoyed Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

>>4429228
>it's a historical fantasy but written in a "modern" way, with a "woke" approach
Immersion is important to me, so that's a skip. Shame, I really want more historical setting stuff that's handled in a believable way yet isn't just tragedy.

Can't believe I didn't hear about Hiyodori's new book (standalone marriage of convenience fantasy in what seems to be an entirely different universe from the magical core stuff?) here first and AMAZON had to tell me

>>4430270
Good to know, already buying it.

>>4430270
I'm so sick of this fucking font.

This sounds like it might be comfy

>A second-chance queer romance about two teens whose in-world D&D characters fall in love, but in IRL

>>4430764
Sounds like cringe just the way I like it

Where the shadows meet by Patrice Caldwell is a book about love, sacrifice and fate, they only say it about a billion times. I liked ideas in this book: hot black mermaids who dive for fate, vampire queendoms descendent from evil gods, & toxic relationships informed by familial trauma. But in execution, I can't say I cared very much for the characters or the overarching plot nor the romance. There isn't much subtly either, the author preferring to smack you with the messages she wants to impart. 4:10 needed more toxic abuse and less paint by numbers romance. It's also a duology so it ends of a cliffhanger.

>>4429119
Finished it. I enjoyed it, the cover art is definitely a bit deceiving though. Lots of angst, but I like angst so it was a good read for me. The relationship aspect of it was a bit unsatisfying but it was nice to read something that had visual novels as a central plot point. That was neat.

>>4428698
I quit after a few dozen pages, the romance with royalty thing just doesn't feel real.

Tipping the Velvet would be my favorite /u/ book if it wasn't for THAT part

Nobody in Particular by Sophie Gonzales is honestly my favorite /u/ book I've read that came out this year. That is because I found it charming, relatable and very funny. I love the characters, every one of them struct a chord with me, even the desperate side character. I liked how the drama unfolded and the natural progression of the romance. The overarching exploration of control over one's own narrative was handled well. This book really suited my personal tastes 10:10

>>4430794
>>4431143
Also just finished it. I really liked it. Met my expectations almost perfectly. Only thing was that I was starting to find it a bit corny at the end, at the start it felt like the author was trying to keep the story fairly grounded and realistic (considering the plot) and a lot of the themes and insecurities of the characters hit surprisingly deep. Then later I got the sense that they were way too into the relationship, the love interest specifically putting all her importance on the MC. This would make sense for me as it plays into Rose's flaws but the only character who ever addresses this is her friend and it ends up being portrayed as a positive thing.

>>4431143
>>4431329
Sounds good, going to the top of my list. I'm reading through this >>4430764 at the moment. It's good so far. The audiobook is cute with a high pitched anxious mousey love interest.

Lady's Knight by Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner is a fantasy romance novel with an identity crisis. It simultaneously wants to be a comedic romp, a second wave feminist book, & a grounded tale about queer romance and bending gender roles. The tonal whiplash in this book is insane. Nail biting tension to dumb goofs to let me lecture men about what women can do. For me, these disparate elements do not come together in a satisfactory way. Rather, I enjoyed elements of this book, mostly the more grounded elements like the jousting tournament and the romance. Those felt tense and real in a way the rest of the book felt fake and tacky. 5:10 women who know how to stab people are hot.

>>4432141
>The tonal whiplash in this book is insane

that's why I'm always suspicious of books written by two authors.
this is how you lose the time war was a great exception though.

>>4432141
>>4432230
I have it when shit books have pretty covers.

It feels like there were more readable books lately

>>4432747
Speaking of readable, Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid is pretty good. Reads like a book written by a human adult and not a twitter bot.

Granted, I did eventually drop it but only because I hate anything relating to space, space travel, astronomy and the like. If you don't mind that stuff, by all means read it.

>>4433071
>space, space travel, astronomy
That's a yes from me. Thank you for the rec.

>>4430764
Finished this. It was pretty good. Standard high school angsty drama set in a small town where one of the main characters is too afraid to come out. I don't think the D&D angle really adds a whole lot to the story though, kinds of just feels like a gimmick to get D&D nerds to read it.

>>4433071
Thanks for ignoring my were/are typo, lol, but yes, that's what I was thinking of! It was a high profile release in my other f/f book circles, and there seems to be a slow but steady release of books that people are actually liking

>>4430270
It's not a different universe, The First and Last Demon's main characters appear and Clem and Wist in turn appeared in that book too, you probably didn't read far enough.

Honestly as Hiyodori number one hater I think this is my favorite book from them. Still too little romance though. Next book is going to be another Clem and Wist book which is kinda of a bummer for me.

I created a tierlist thing for unwell people as me. My main complaint is as always, they can write romantic things but can't write romance which is such a wild thing....

https://tiermaker.com/create/hiyodoris-books-18349106

Lastly, 'Masks Worn By Magical Wives' might have the worst cover and title of them all.

>>4433540
Wait, they do? Then maybe I should actually read the others, I've only read the first (and maybe second?) Clem and Wist story and then a standalone, which I did like. Maybe I should start from the beginning and go through her full bibliography, in publishing order.

Her romance is very... Normal seeming main character, awesome but aloof love interest, wait, the love interest is actually super hella almost obsessively in love with the actually very special main character, it's very wish fulfillment

>new book from my favourite yuri author
>Love interest is bi and is dating a man
bros...

>>4431143
I'm like 60% through this and I love it so much. I didn't think I'd like royalty romance but this one is really fantastic. Highly recommended. We need more boarding school yuri.

Any good mortal enemies to lover stories?

Started reading this. Cover super cute. I'm enjoying it so far. I dunno why so many people dismiss middle grade stuff but for me it's my favourite.

>>4438533
Reminds me of Riley from Inside Out

>>4438533
Too much diversity, I want stories between white girls.

Is every book just first person now?

>>4439204
As long as it's not present tense.

>>4439059
Sorry for your loss

This sounds kind of interesting.

>In this charming fantasy with a swoony friends-to-lovers romance, two soldiers must decide the futures they want in the wake of a last-chance hook-up on the night before the world was supposed to end.

>>4439263
Those are men...

>>4439263
Butch and butch-er? Lust to love? No thanks.

>>4439215
I only read second person future tensed fiction.

>>4433071
I liked the book, thanks.

>>4439273
>>4439543
The cover is definitely unfortunate. If I was looking for a lesbian book I would have passed right by this one. I had to dig to make sure it wasn't transgender as well. Apparently it's definitely women... I dunno maybe someone who's into muscle girl soldier yuri will be into it.

>>4439273
>>4439543
>>4439750
It's just a heavily stylized cover. People are somehow okay with the super butch Gideon covers, but this is over the line?

>>4438533
Finished this. It was good. Pretty typical middle grade story, the main character was cute though. Anxious neurotic shy girl with sporty tomboy is kino. Could have done without the long lectures about how women are just as good at sport as men but it is what it is. Been reading a fair bit of middle grade stuff lately and I kind of wonder, do kids actually read this stuff? Seems like most of the audience is adults. I can't image some brainrotted zoomer sitting down to read a 350 page book these days. I guess libraries are buying them at least.

>>4438533
Finished this. It was good. Pretty typical middle grade story, the main character was cute though. Anxious neurotic shy girl with sporty tomboy is kino. Could have done without the long lectures about how women are just as good at sport as men but it is what it is. Been reading a fair bit of middle grade stuff lately and I kind of wonder, do kids actually read this stuff? Seems like most of the audience is adults. I can't image some brainrotted alpha sitting down to read a 350 page book these days. I guess libraries are buying them at least.

>>4440185
>People are somehow okay with the super butch Gideon covers
I'm not.

>>4429228
>it's a historical fantasy but written in a "modern" way, with a "woke" approach (diversity, gay/trans people in ye olde shire) and a quirky MC
picked the fuck up

>>4429189
Who's the artist?

A Treachery of Swans by A. B. Poranek is a book I was interested in solely because I really liked Barbie of Swan Lake as a child. As a queer retelling it has pretty great romance, the only problem being that you have to read 100 pages of court intrigue and set up, before you get that. Which, I enjoyed it for the most part, but as this is a single perspective book, it felt a bit like a slog as there's no breaking it up with swan princess yearning or similar. The prose in the book feels half baked, you can really tell where the author was pushing themselves to create vivid imagery and where they couldn't care less. The side characters are serviceable but do not feel 3 dimensional. Still, I really enjoyed reading this book despite its problems, probably because I just like swan lake a lot, 7:10.

>>4441107
The artist is Annalise Jensen.

>>4440221
As a teacher, I can attest that while a majority of students do not enjoy or value reading, there will always be kids that are book worms. I am sure at least a few queer kids read and appreciated that book and books like them.
>>4440227
The Gideon cover is butch but she still looks like a woman. The one on the left of that cover literally just looks like a man. The choice to just have the character's silhouettes was a bad one.

>>4441878
It's a retelling of the ballet, though, not the Barbie movie... right?
Also I absolutely love the title "A Treachery of Swans".

Just started this and it seems really good so far. Seems like no one's ready it if Goodreads ratings are anything to go by.

Anxious gloomy goth girl who's scared of everything is forced to spend the summer by the beach in Malibu where she meets cheerful surfer girl who shows her how to live.

Makes me nostalgic for my own summer vacations when I was a kid.

>>4441878
Yeah I guess it's definitely a good thing this niche market exists and people are reading them. I hate how so much entertainment is going for mass market appeal this days so I'm definitely thankful to have these kind of stories. These middle grade books often have great lessons to teach as well so I do hope teenagers are reading them.

>>4441878
This book has no business having a cover this good.

>>4441936
I read this, it was good, very cute

>>4442171
Just finished it, absolutely loved it. A bit light on the yuri, but still well worth a read. Two of my favourite characters I've read in a long time. It dealt with some pretty dark topics but it never felt oppressive. Even during the darkest parts it had an upbeat kind of tone and I appreciate that. Probably my top Yuri read this year.

>>4442987
Also just noticed the author basically disappeared in 2020 and hasn't updated anything since 2021. Kind of a shame after he wrote something so good. Hope he's okay.

I'm in the mood for sports yuri any recommendations?

Why everything yall recommended me all have this weird POV of something like a narrator? they dont even appear in the story

>>4441878
>A Treachery of Swans
I liked this one, I thought the author was the same as a dark and drowning tide but I looked and I guess they're just the same cover artist that drew the characters to be almost identical. I agree the side characters feel a bit one note, though I didn't really have an issue with the prose or the build up before the romance. I didn't think there was that much court intrigue

Who are they written for? All those books in which MC is married to a man, spends half the story fucking him, but discovers her lesbian side.
They are not written for lesbians because most of us are disgusted by the trope.
They are not written for male yuri fans because afaik they prefer their books to focus on ff content right away.
Who even reads that stuff? Bisexuals?

>>4447389
People who consider being a lesbian to be a fetish and freaks who think being a lesbian is about leaving or rejecting men instead of just being about women being into women.
So basically Americans. I can say that, I'm American so I know it to be true.

>>4447389
They're written for all the women that spent half their lives fucking a man, then discovered their lesbian side.

>>4447431
They don't exist/count because I say they don't.

The Incandescent by Emily Tesh

Dark academia story about a magic teacher who teaches demon-summoning in a British boarding school. It's like Harry Potter but from the perspective of the teachers.

Really enjoyed this. Same author as Some Desperate Glory, which I thought was OK but not spectacular. This one is much better. Plot is much tighter and faster than I expected, plenty of demon-summoning and magic fights. There's a very obvious plot twist and then a very un-obvious plot twist. The middle drags a bit but even the slow-paced parts are fun because it delves so much into the details of being essentially a high school teacher/administrator.

I love the setting. Similar to Harry Potter, it's got a prosaic take on magic, making it similar to math/science. You can even major in it!

Dr Walden is a great MC, you really get a sense of who she is and you can feel her love for teaching and magic with every page. The cast size is actually quite small. I do wish Laura got a lot more screentime though. There's a FANTASTIC start to a /u/ relationship in the first act which peters out, but it does come back in the ending. I just wished there was more of it.

Prose is great. No major flaws with the exception of a few cliches.

The biggest stickler: There's a section in the middle where MC (who is bi) gets involved in a casual friends-with-benefits situation with a guy. The romance is horribly tedious (done purposefully so) but that doesn't really make it much better. There's actually plot-relevant reasons for this, but it doesn't make it any easier to tolerate. Just bear in mind the ending is ultimately /u/ again

Overall I really enjoyed it. "Harry Potter but from the perspective of the teacher who is also a lesbian" is a fantastic premise and is all you need to know whether you want to pick it up

>>4447617
Are there any cute side couples, among the students maybe? I'm imagining the Snape–Malfoy dynamic from book six except instead of a mission from Voldemort lesbian-Malfoy is angsting over some girl she likes.

>>4447617
Sounded great until the guy realtionship plot line shame.
I would 100% it it without that, setting sounds dope.

>>4447651
No, there's essentially no side cast to speak of. There's MC, her lesbian love interest, and male FWB. There's 4 students that Walden teaches but despite a fair amount of focus on them I never thought of them as anything more than bratty teenage highschoolers. There's a very inconsequential (straight) romance between two of these students.

The book really is tight, which is a good thing, but it also lacks the massive side cast of something like Harry Potter.

>>4447660
what is even the point of having male love intrest if you are doing a lesbian realtionship is it for easy rage bait, or to not make male feel excluded ?
I never understood this

>>4447662
>the point of having male love intrest
Having not read this book, a lot of the time authors just write characters and relationships in a way that is interesting to them or to provide texture to the book.
I doubt appealing to prospective readers who care massively about the presence or absence of males is a consideration.

>>4447662
the vast majority of readers are not anti-male. You have to realize the rabid anti-male viewpoints on /u/ are obsessive and definitely not the norm - that's why you guys come to a small niche board like this to begin with. Even on /u/ there's varying degrees of tolerance for het. Me, I enjoy /u/ but I can tolerate some degree of het as long as the story itself is good.

>>4447662
Seems pretty rare that it's shown as a good relationship so I assumed it's just because the angst hits hard than if it were another woman.

>>4447692
i always i assume its lesbophobia because having it be stricly gay woman would alienate part of the viewer base

>>4447694
Then they wouldn't read a book with any lesbians in the first place, retard. Not every reader is a man-hating rape victim, or feels one way or another about het.

>>4447617
I dropped this the instant it turned het, I don't care about the ending, I'm not the pov of a woman lusting after a guy for half a book. The plot is interesting but it's more a slice of life book than anything, shame about the decisions the author made though.

>>4447767
They wouldnt read the book about lesbians yes but they can excuse if there is a woman lusting after a guy

>>4447617
If it's not teacher x student then I'm not interested.

>>4448007
Based.

>>4398541 (OP)
>How to find books:
is mobilism seriously the only place you can think of? romance.io is a thing.

Has anyone here read The Fiancée Farce by Alexandria Bellefleur? Is it good?

>>4448423
Very by the numbers, I did not find it worth my time

I'm lonely and single again.

Can anyone recommend some yuri related anime that doesn't focus on yuri suffering or will she won't she?

>>4448460
>yuri related anime
This is /lit/.
>>4448436
Thank you. I like to read formulaic slop when I'm sad so I will give it a shot.

>>4448423
It felt like an american rom-com, but gay, so while it didn't change my life or anything I enjoyed my time with it.