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🩷 LESBIAN BOOKS FOR EVERY READER 🩷

QOTD: What’s your favourite book with a lesbian main character?

It’s lesbian visibility week and that means it’s time to add some lesbian books to your tbr!

No matter your favourite genre, I’ve got you covered with this rec list, so no more excuses for not reading lesbian stories!

Please note that a main character is the character(s) whose POV the story is from, not love interests or other key characters.

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The defeat of the wizard who made people choose how they’d be to be executed

The woman who raised the changeling alongside her biological child

Cinderella finding Araura (and falling in love)

The God of Arepo (graphic novel 1 / 2 / 3) (ebook)

The Monster of Sentan

The Witch’s Cat

Raise Both Children

Stabby the Roomba (honorable mention)

Cinderella Marries the Prince (comic)

My Arch Nemesis Cynthia

Pirates and Mermaid

Eindred and the Witch

The Demon King

The Cornerwitch

Grandmother Beetroot

Apocalypse Daycare Worker

Grandmother Accidentally Summons a Demon

New Year Saga

A Story About Changelings

Ranger in the King’s Forest

The Difference Between a Hare and a Rabbit

A black man and a white woman take the stage together to perform a slam poem.

Both speak together in unison for the first few words, before the black man begins feigning shock, as though he suddenly lost the ability to speak, though he continues mouthing along as she speaks. The poem begins:

“The first day I realized I was black. It was 2000. We had just learned about blacks for the first time in second grade. At recess, all the white kids chased me into the woods, chanting ‘slave.’ My mother said I refused to come out for three hours. She said she thinks I was lost in the trees, but I just needed to be closer to my roots.”

Both begin speaking in unison for a few words again, before this time, the white woman feigns loss of speech, but continues mouthing along just as the black man did before. He continues speaking:

“As a woman, having a boyfriend is a battle. If 70% of us are abused in a lifetime, what is the number of men doing it? The answer is not one man, running faster than light to complete a mission, and that is what leaves me sick.”

Again, the white woman begins speaking as the black man mouths along.

“The second day I realized I was black was in a gas station. I only had twenty five cents, so I searched for what to spend it on. The cashier floated from isle to isle, eyes fixed on my hands.”

The black man begins speaking again, and they continue in unison.

“That was the first time I realized skin color was a crime.”

Now the black man continues speaking as the white woman mouths along with him again.

“My body has become cause to write legislation. Cause for ass smacks in the back of a class. My body has demanded everything except respect. I’ve been asked, ‘what makes you feel unsafe?’ And I struggle not to yell ‘everything!’”

They switch again, so the white woman is now speaking as the black man mouths along.

“The third time I realized I was black was in an all white cafeteria. I gathered my legs under me, made rockets of my feet, and approached a girl. She told me she was not into ‘my type of guy.’ I felt the words shoot daggers into my melanin. I have never wanted to disappear so bad.”

They switch so the black man is speaking and the white woman is mouthing along.

“As a woman, I’ve learned to answer to everything except my name. ‘Little lady’ is not said to mean ‘equal,’ but to make sure I remember my place. I battle between wanting to own my body, and accepting there is a one-in-four chance a man will lay claim to my skin, a plot of land for the taking.”

Now the white woman speaks as the black man mouths along.

“The last day I realized I was black was in an elevator in California. To the white woman that told me she knows what it feels like to be black because she grew up poor:”

They speak now in unison.

“I would tell you to think before you speak.”

The black man begins mouthing along again.

“But your mind has got to be bacteria infected. And any filter through that labyrinth of nothingness might be worse than no thought at all.”

Now he speaks as she mouths.

“There’s a group of women going around the room, sharing their personal definition of feminism. He is the only man in the room, and all of a sudden, the tone switches to destroying the patriarchy by annihilating all men.”

She speaks now as he mouths.

“Do you know what it feels like to be black? To pop lock your way in and out of hugs? It is not a problem you want to sympathize.”

They speak in unison.

“But to tell me that you know my pain is-”

He falls silent again and mouths along as she continues speaking.

“-to stab yourself in the leg because you saw me get shot. We have two different wounds, and looking at yours does nothing to heal mine.”

She now mouths along as he speaks.

“Never will I turn away an ally.”

She speaks.

“But when a man speaks on my behalf, it only proves my point!”

He speaks.

“Movements are driven by passion, not by asserting yourself dominant by a world that already puts you there.”

They speak in unison.

“You speak to know pain that you only fathom because we told you it was there. You know nothing of silence until someone who cannot know your pain tells you how to fix it.”

They continue to speak in unison, but now slowly back away from the microphones with their arms held straight out to their sides, parallel to the ground, to mimic the pose of Jesus on the cross, in order to highlight the next line.

“Every day is a crucification. But there is no regards for lives crossed.”

They now quickly swap places and return to the microphones. This is symbolic of them switching places to speak for themselves and not each other. The white woman begins speaking alone.

“I fight so my voice can be heard. I fight for the voices you silence, all in the name of what is right.”

They speak in unison for a few words before he speaks alone as she mouths along again.

“The problem is, you assume the struggles attached to a social class. I am black, and bold, and beautiful by nature. Ain’t no income that can change that.”

She begins the next sentence alone.

“The problem with speaking up for each other-”

He speaks alone.

“is that everyone is left-”

They speak in unison.

“without a voice.”

New Young Adult Releases Coming Out Today! (February 16th, 2021)

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Have I missed any new Young Adult releases? Have you added any of these books to your TBR? Let me know! ___

New Standalones/First in a Series:

Amelia Unabridged by Ashley Schumacher

Of Silver & Shadow by Jennifer Gruenke 

The Wide Starlight by Nicole Lesperance

We Are the Fire by Sam Taylor

A Shot at Normal by Marisa Reichardt

All Girls by Emily Layden

New Sequels: 

Reaper of Souls (Kingdom of Souls #2) by Rena Barron

Blood Sworn (Ashlords #2) by Scott Reintgen

A Court of Silver Flames (A Court of Thorns and Roses #4) by Sarah J. Maas 

Renegade Flight (Rebelwing #2) by Andrea Tang 

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New Young Adult Releases Coming Out Today! (January 19th, 2021)

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Have I missed any new Young Adult releases? Have you added any of these books to your TBR? Let me know! ___

New Standalones/First in a Series:

Wider than the Sky by Katherine Field Rothschild

Cast in Firelight by Dana Swift 

If I Tell You the Truth by Jasmin Kaur

This Will Be Funny Someday by Katie Henry

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

A Complicated Love Story Set in Space by Shaun David Hutchinson

Your Corner Dark by Desmond Hall

Playing with Fire by April Henry

Girl On the Line by Faith Gardner 

Rise of the Red Hand by Olivia Chadha

Wench by Maxine Kaplan

New Sequels: 

Get a Clue (Bookish Boyfriends #4) by Tiffany Schmidt

We Free the Stars (Sands of Arawiya #2) by Hafsah Faizal

Winterkeep (Graceling Realm #4) by Kristin Cashore  

The Gates of Guinée (The Casquette Girls #4) by Alys Arden   

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Brandon Sanderson: There’s always another secret.

The entire Cosmere fandom: There’s always another secret.

Me: There’s always another secret.

Me when I find another secret:

And instead, he immediately saves his adoptive son’s life, kicks his nephew’s ass down to the ground, re-awakens his zombie soldier, gets his own ass kicked by his brother who killed him and has a romantic reunion with the love of his life with a beautiful music score, all within 2 days.

SPOILERS

Well, God King is cute and sweet. Didn't think I would say something like that in the start of the book lol. I loved him so much. He was so nice. His character surprised me. I thought Siri's character would annoy me but I LOVED HER. She was amazing and I love her and susebron together. They are so cute!!!

And Vivienne. I thought her story line would be boring but I was so wrong. I loved it. I kept suspecting Dent for sometime but then I actually liked him. I even thought him and Vivenna would end up together. And I couldn't decide what Vasher was. But God! Dents betrayal shocked me. It was so good.

Then of course I liked Vasher. He was really nice. And he was called the warbreaker! That was a surprise too. (I didn't read the synopsis of the book and I guess this part was me mentioned there. I'm glad I didn't read that)

I kinda figured out that bluefingure was lying and priests were nice. And that was the only think I was right about. Well I was right about something.

Anyways, how sweet was lightsong? Like really. He was so good! Loved him! And blushweaver. But I didn't like her in start. I suspected her too but she was actually really nice and loved her and lightsong together. And lightsong's story was just too good. He saved God King!

There is so much more I want to know. We don't know what happened to the war. Did they succeed in stopping it? What about Siri and Susebron? What happened to them? Are Vasher and Vivenna together (like couple). And there were many other things too. Like Yasteel. (Or whatever his name was) Vasher and Vivenna are going after him, right?

For those of you wondering what the Swift rule is, every time Taylor releases an album, Corinthians (one of the big soccer teams in Brazil) doesn’t lose the previous and upcoming game. Like, never. And this weekend they were going to play the currently best team in Brazil, and regional rival. The other team was on a winning streak, but the swift rule is unbeatable.

“saint george in heaven (patreon saint of Corinthians) and taylor swift on earth. go miss corinthiana”

“it was never luck it was always taylor swift. go corinthians!”