



One title I really liked this year was Smoke and Fire by Julie Cannon – the trauma that one of the main characters, Nicole, had experienced and her difficulties in having intimate relationships, as well as discussion of her extensive scars and her being nervous about them, really did it for me. I just started reading lesbian romance novels, and am enjoying them, but find myself wishing for a little more angst than the typical Bold Strokes Books title offers. I have a request for book recommendations, if you don’t mind. Sometimes you want queer ladies to get a nice happily-ever-after but you want them to have to really work for it, you know? That’s where this month’s Ask Your Friendly Neighborhood Lesbrarian question comes in. Casey the Canadian Lesbrarian has curated a list of angsty romance reads for when you want queer ladies to get a nice happily-ever-after but you want them to have to really work for it-check out the full article on Autostraddle, which includes Avery Brooks’s Other Girls.
