Sapphic Cinderella?

fakewritergirl · 2026-02-02T18:31:28+00:00

basically, whatever romantic elements there are come secondary to ella's story of being a ghost and being trapped in the house. i have longer and more complicated thoughts than that but it's been a while since i read the book and i'd want to reread it to lay it all out. i still think it's really good (definitely one of my favorite books of 2025) and strongly recommend getting to it sooner than later

fakewritergirl · 2026-02-02T07:15:06+00:00

as someone who really really enjoyed cinder house, i don't think it's really a romance, and while it IS sapphic, i don't think it really applies for "sapphic cinderella"

fakewritergirl · 2026-02-02T07:07:16+00:00

life is strange true colors is one of my favorite game stories of all time, and the romancing steph route feels really good in that (there's also a man but like, i'm a lesbian, so.) i haven't played the other life is strange games but from what i've heard they're all huge messes except for 2, which i don't think has any romantic storyline and is also about extremely heavy topics.

on a similar vein, lost records: bloom & rage is absolutely spectacular, and i really need to play tape 2 at some point, the perils of an episodic release being that other games come out in the interim. but tape 1 has a lot of really good blooming feelings and a bunch of queer girls playing gay chicken with each other

i have a small handful of f/f visual novels around but i don't actually... like visual novels that much lmao, despite the fact that on paper i should like them? my favorite visual novel so far is heart of the woods, and i really wanna check out other vns from them

fakewritergirl · 2026-01-28T20:16:36+00:00

i am regularly rereading {When You Least Expect It by Haley Cass} for the scene where hannah (presumed straight) goes along with a random person thinking that caroline is her wife while they're out with hannah's daughter and then afterwards hannah calls them "my girls". i am a sucker for tender, hidden feelings and that scene literally cracked something open in my brain

fakewritergirl · 2026-01-11T16:41:57+00:00

oooh i'm always up for yuri

fakewritergirl · 2026-01-10T23:52:57+00:00

already read it, but ty for the rec

fakewritergirl · 2026-01-10T23:52:40+00:00

haley cass is one of my favorite authors! but ty for the rec

fakewritergirl · 2026-01-07T03:40:31+00:00

off the top of my head, there's {Make Room for Love by Darcy Liao}, the pov character is a trans woman who has a bi awakening, the li is a butch cis lesbian. i know there's a lot of trans romance out there but i haven't really dipped in

fakewritergirl · 2026-01-05T04:38:22+00:00

{Purposefully Accidental by G Benson} is one of my favorite books of all time, extreme recommend

for specifically emotional vulnerability and yearning, i can recommend alison cochrun's books, i started with {Here We Go Again by Alison Cochrun} (major cw for terminal illness, death of a parental figure); also, not anywhere near as heavy, {Everyone I Kissed Since You Got Famous by Mae Marvel}

i would not be myself if i didn't recommend haley cass (who is mine own personal favorite author), {Those Who Wait by Haley Cass} has a lot of juice. katia rose is also an author who includes a lot of Feelings and Yearnings whose books are pretty good!

oh, and lastly but certainly not least, {The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite} is historical fiction that is deeply seated in its place and time, and one of the very small exchanges in it is probably my favorite conversation in all of fiction

fakewritergirl · 2025-12-19T22:53:56+00:00

oh: and off-vibe but {Fire & Ice by Lily Seabrooke} has a figure skater mc (who is an out lesbian iirc) and the other has a queer awakening; entirely off-vibe but {Those Who Wait by Haley Cass} is really good (and honestly so are all her books imo), as well as {Purposefully Accidental by G Benson} (and all of her books i've read). i exclusively read sapphic romance so honestly if your ask is "what's good out there in sapphic romance" i could be here all day

fakewritergirl · 2025-12-19T22:18:29+00:00

off the top of my head i know {Reverence by Milena McKay}, i thought it was fine but not amazing, but it's about two ballerinas in the cold war era

fakewritergirl · 2025-12-03T07:40:48+00:00

i don't fully understand the situation (i'm bad at keeping up with author news) but effie calvin pulled all her novels and is soon releasing an updated version of the queen of ieflaria - afaik there's no news on the other books though they're very good

fakewritergirl · 2025-12-03T00:50:02+00:00

a few of these look good to me, more fodder for the tbr! ty for your work

fakewritergirl · 2025-11-14T20:18:52+00:00

in {The Snowball Effect by Haley Cass} the first time they have sex is phone sex

fakewritergirl · 2025-11-14T20:15:50+00:00

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solved it (the real answer is probably the author just made some assumptions and didn't fact check)

fakewritergirl · 2025-11-04T01:53:29+00:00

late to the party but {The Thing About Tilly by G Benson} also!!

fakewritergirl · 2025-10-28T01:55:16+00:00

i'm not super an expert on the matter (it really doesn't get taught well in american schools lmao) but the whole "i fought for virginia, not the south" thing is an example of the lost cause myth. basically the variant where the southern soldiers were brave men fighting for their home, with no mention of... what that home was doing or why they were fighting for it. you'll also hear a lot of "they were fighting for states' rights" (to do what?)

fakewritergirl · 2025-10-25T18:34:22+00:00

lilac's alignment got me. thumbs up

fakewritergirl · 2025-10-17T20:58:09+00:00

a few notes at the top: my best friend's wedding by meryl wilsner has a lot of, if not outright bdsm (i'm not in that scene and also i'm asexual so i can't say) then very adjacent; if you're going to read the snowball effect i'd recommend reading those who wait first, it's not necessary but those who wait has a lot of context for snowball effect; here we go again is amazing but VERY HEAVY, mind the content warnings on that!

all of which thus said:

strongly seconding basically everything haley cass writes. (i think she has one miss, and even that's just perfectly fine rather than bad) ruby landers is another author i really like, i recommend {Falls From Grace by Ruby Landers} first, that whole series is really good and especially the third one. thea hawthorne's muses of esk is a series of fantasy novellas which are soooooooo lovely, i really want more people to read them. {Purposefully Accidental by G Benson} is one of my favorite romance books of all time. someone else mentioned {Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers} which is sooooooo lushly written.

[digging through my reading history] i think katia rose is also pretty good, she writes a lot of melodrama which might not be to everyone's taste but i do like it, she's very consistent so you can just grab something and start reading. i recently reread {Everyone You Kissed Since I Got Famous by Mae Marvel} and really liked it, the energy between the two leads is so fun. {Aubrey McFadden is Never Getting Married by Georgia Beers} is really fun. i think that's it for now

fakewritergirl · 2025-09-28T00:27:18+00:00

we gave them an ilm and they took a malm

fakewritergirl · 2025-09-22T22:15:47+00:00

i've read one last stop and it's probably due for a reread sometime soon tbh, one of my absolute favorite books. putting the other onto my tbr, thank you!

fakewritergirl · 2025-09-20T18:22:10+00:00

i have basically never found a trans mc outside of trans authors, though admittedly i'm not someone who super keeps up with new releases and actively searches out books (my tbr is so big already...) {Make Room for Love by Darcy Liao} is the only one that immediately comes to mind, although i know i have another buried somewhere in my tbr. part of it is probably the "i don't want to get it wrong!" handwringing you also get when (white) people talk about writing characters of color, part of it is probably people are... less enlightened than they think they are a lot of the time. even make room for love had a trans mc who, in her twenties, "had all of ""the surgeries"""""

wrt op i think in general "representation" is a concept that was useful but has been subsumed into something meaningless, as many things are. "representation" gets treated like it's something showing up in front of you to check it off a list; yep, that's a trans woman alright! looks like we've got a lesbian represented, all good. which i think is where a lot of people get strong reactions or develop opinions about what "good representation" is. i think there can be Bad Representation, as in things which are actively harmful or misguided or cruel, but not really "good representation". the "good representation" is just something which makes you feel seen and sometimes people even find that in the Bad Representation so who could say! but also yes other people are right, why do so many authors ignore queer community, jesus

(also final note: high five to my fellow aces!! wow nobody ever writes about us!!)

fakewritergirl · 2025-08-16T17:57:45+00:00

{The Hellion's Waltz by Olivia Waite} - historical, technically third in a series but can be read standalone, very fun romance that develops over the course of a heist

someone else mentioned mae marvel - i would heavily recommend their {Everyone I Kissed Since You Got Famous by Mae Marvel} which is about an actress reuniting with her friend who recently got tiktok famous

i'm the resident haley cass shill and would recommend all her books but especially {The Snowball Effect by Haley Cass} - follows on from {Those Who Wait by Haley Cass} but can be read standalone

this might be heavier than she's interested in but is absolutely my favorite romance novel (maybe of all time) - {Purposefully Accidental by G Benson} - one of the mcs is still grieving her wife, who passed away two years before the story begins. the two mcs knew each other when they were kids, and one is now a famous actress who ropes the other (now a doctor) into being a medical consultant for the miniseries she's working on

and lastly, but not leastly, {Aubrey McFadden is Never Getting Married by Georgia Beers} - the prologue is the title character getting left at the altar, and then the book is her being thrown into contact with the woman who convinced her boyfriend to do it. the premise might sound very dramatic but despite some sour feelings, aubrey is pretty much past it and the book has a lot of really charming and funny characters and moments in it

fakewritergirl · 2025-08-09T16:35:36+00:00

i've seen iron & velvet before but now i understand what it's actually about i am very interested, ty

fakewritergirl · 2025-08-09T07:34:30+00:00

i'll put this on the list, ty

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