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  • The Moment by T.C. Anderson

    The Moment by T.C. Anderson

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    She does the robot around your kitchen. You love her...
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    high-school  queer  young adult  f-f  contemporary  dark  angst  abuse
  • Dear Medusa by Olivia A. Cole

    Dear Medusa by Olivia A. Cole

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This searing and intimate novel in verse follows a sixteen-year-old girl coping with sexual abuse as she grapples with how to reclaim her story, her anger, and her body in a world that seems determined to punish her for the sin of surviving.I'm starting to realizethat a woman doesn't get that madso mad that her hair turns to snakesso mad that her rage turns blood to boulderall on her own...
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  • Girl Made of Stars by Ashley Herring Blake

    Girl Made of Stars by Ashley Herring Blake

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    For readers of Girl in Pieces and The Way I Used to Be comes an emotionally gripping story about facing hard truths in the aftermath of sexual assault. Mara and Owen are as close as twins can get, so when Mara’s friend Hannah accuses Owen of rape, Mara doesn't know what to think...
    Categorized as:
    high-school  queer  contemporary  young adult  abuse  rape  dark  f-f
  • Anger Is a Gift by Mark Oshiro

    Anger Is a Gift by Mark Oshiro

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Six years ago, Moss Jefferies' father was murdered by an Oakland police officer. Along with losing a parent, the media's vilification of his father and lack of accountability has left Moss with near crippling panic attacks.Now, in his sophomore year of high school, Moss and his fellow classmates find themselves increasingly treated like criminals by their own school. New rules...
  • Second Chances by Alisha Williams

    Second Chances by Alisha Williams

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    “Hang on to your panties because apparently, I keep losing mine. It's gonna be a sexy ride”Okay! So breaking into my workplace after hours to steal money and then running from the cops, may not have been my brightest idea...
  • Secrets Revealed by Alisha Williams

    Secrets Revealed by Alisha Williams

    Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 13 ratings
    One secret down, only one more to go.This wasn’t the way I wanted them to find out, but the universe doesn't seem to be on my side these days.But now they know, both of my secrets. I'll need to learn to balance the new changes in my life, while battling with the old wounds of the past.They say they don’t hate me anymore, and that they just want to start over...
  • The Falling Girls by Hayley Krischer

    The Falling Girls by Hayley Krischer

    Rated: 3.65 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Shade and Jadis are everything to each other. They share clothes, toothbrushes, and even matching stick-and-poke tattoos. So when Shade unexpectedly joins the cheerleading team, Jadis can hardly recognize who her best friend is becoming.Shade loves the idea of falling into a group of girls; she loves the discipline it takes to push her body to the limits alongside these athletes...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  queer  contemporary  young adult  f-f  sports  dark
  • Rage: A Love Story by Julie Anne Peters

    Rage: A Love Story by Julie Anne Peters

    Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    A National Book Award Finalist offers an intense portrait of an abusive relationship. Johanna is steadfast, patient, reliable; the go-to girl, the one everyone can count on. But always being there for others can’t give Johanna everything she needs—it can’t give her Reeve Hartt. Reeve is fierce, beautiful, wounded, elusive; a flame that draws Johanna’s fluttering moth...
    Categorized as:
    queer  contemporary  abuse  dark  f-f  young adult  usa  north-america
  • Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier

    Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier

    Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    In the tradition of audacious and wryly funny novels like The Idiot and Convenience Store Woman comes the wildly original coming-of-age story of a pregnant pizza delivery girl who becomes obsessed with one of her customers...
  • Acts of Service: A Novel by Lillian Fishman

    Acts of Service: A Novel by Lillian Fishman

    Rated: 3.12 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    A “bold and unflinchingly sexy” ( Vogue ) debut novel about a young woman who follows her desires into a world of pleasure, decadence, and privilege, unraveling everything she thought she knew about sex . . . and herself. “One of the most entertaining books about sex I’ve ever read . . . The perfect read for fans of Raven Leilani and Ottessa Moshfegh, this is a book that will have people talking...
    Categorized as:
    queer  contemporary  f-f  dark  young adult
  • Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

    Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 80 ratings
    The Emperor needs necromancers.The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman.Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead nonsense.Tamsyn Muir’s Gideon the Ninth, first in The Locked Tomb Trilogy, unveils a solar system of swordplay, cut-throat politics, and lesbian necromancers. Her characters leap off the page, as skillfully animated as arcane revenants...
  • Nightfall by Penelope Douglas

    Nightfall by Penelope Douglas

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 59 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Penelope Douglas comes the thrilling, final installment in the Devil’s Night series… What happens when it's five against one and nowhere to run? EMORY They call it Blackchurch. A secluded mansion in a remote, undisclosed location where the wealthy and powerful send their misbehaving sons to cool off away from prying eyes...
  • A Cruel and Fated Light by Ashley Shuttleworth

    A Cruel and Fated Light by Ashley Shuttleworth

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 13 ratings
    Half-fae Arlo becomes entangled in the courtly intrigue at the Seelie Summer palace as danger for ironborns mounts in this “beautifully written and deliciously complex” (Nicki Pau Preto, author of the Crown of Feathers trilogy) sequel to A Dark and Hollow Star that’s The Cruel Prince meets City of Bones...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  queer  fantasy  young adult  f-f  urban fantasy  fae  magic
  • A Grim and Sunken Vow by Ashley Shuttleworth

    A Grim and Sunken Vow by Ashley Shuttleworth

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Arlo and her friends must decide how far they’re willing to go to depose a cruel ruler in this third book in the Hollow Star Saga that’s The Cruel Prince meets City of Bones .The die is cast.The era of Spring is over.Riadne’s bloody coup on the Summer Solstice changed Arlo’s life forever...
  • Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh

    Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    A thrillingly told queer space opera about the wreckage of war, the family you find, and who you must become when every choice is stripped from you, Some Desperate Glory is Astounding Award Winner Emily Tesh’s highly anticipated debut novel. While we live, the enemy shall fear us. Since she was born, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth...
  • The Dead and the Dark by Courtney Gould

    The Dead and the Dark by Courtney Gould

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Courtney Gould’s thrilling debut The Dead and the Dark is about the things that lurk in dark corners, the parts of you that can’t remain hidden, and about finding home in places―and people―you didn’t expect.The Dark has been waiting for far too long, and it won't stay hidden any longer. Something is wrong in Snakebite, Oregon...
  • Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle

    Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    From beloved internet icon Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus is a searing and earnest horror debut about the demons the queer community faces in America, the price of keeping secrets, and finding the courage to burn it all down.Welcome to Neverton, Montana: home to a God-fearing community with a heart of gold...
  • Tryst Six Venom by Penelope Douglas

    Tryst Six Venom by Penelope Douglas

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 55 ratings
    𝘾𝙇𝘼𝙔: Marymount girls are good girls. We’re chaste, we’re untouched, and even if we weren’t, no one would know, because we keep our mouths shut.Not that I have anything to share anyway. I never let guys go too far. I’m behaved. Beautiful, smart, talented, popular, my skirt’s always pressed, and I never have a hair out of place...
  • Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant

    Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Mira Grant, author of the renowned Newsflesh series, returns with a novel that takes us to a new world of ancient mysteries and mythological dangers come to life. Seven years ago, the Atargatis set off on a voyage to the Mariana Trench to film a "mockumentary" bringing to life ancient sea creatures of legend. It was lost at sea with all hands...
  • Every Exquisite Thing by Laura Steven

    Every Exquisite Thing by Laura Steven

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A feminist YA horror-thriller-romance retelling of The Picture of Dorian Gray by the TikTok sensation and author of The Society for Soulless Girls… Penny Paxton is the daughter of an icon. Her supermodel mother has legions of adoring fans around the world, and Penny is ready to begin her journey to international adoration, starting with joining the elite Dorian Drama School...
  • All That Consumes Us by Erica Waters

    All That Consumes Us by Erica Waters

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Everyone knows the students in Corbin College’s elite academic society, Magni Viri, have it all—free tuition, inspirational professors, and dream jobs once they graduate. So when Tara is offered a chance to enroll, she takes it. But once she’s settled into the gorgeous Victorian dormitory the academy calls home, something strange starts to happen...
  • Damned If You Do by Alex Brown

    Damned If You Do by Alex Brown

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Queer Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Filipino folklore in this horror comedy about a high school stage manager who accidentally sells her soul to a demon.Seven years ago, Cordelia Scott’s abusive father left without a word, and life has been normal ever since...
  • Poison Ivy: Thorns by Kody Keplinger

    Poison Ivy: Thorns by Kody Keplinger

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author of The DUFF Kody Keplinger and artist Sara Kipin reimagine an iconic DC antihero with a gothic-horror twist.There's something unusual about Pamela Isley—the girl who hides behind her bright red hair. The girl who won't let anyone inside to see what's lurking behind the curtains. The girl who goes to extreme lengths to care for a few plants...
  • Black Iris by Leah Raeder, Elliot Wake

    Black Iris by Leah Raeder, Elliot Wake

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 19 ratings
    The next dark and sexy romantic suspense novel from the USA Today bestselling author of Unteachable. It only took one moment of weakness for Laney Keating’s world to fall apart. One stupid gesture for a hopeless crush. Then the rumors began. Slut, they called her. Queer. Psycho. Mentally ill, messed up, so messed up even her own mother decided she wasn't worth sticking around for...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  mystery  queer  young adult  f-f  dark  college  new adult
  • All the Dead Lie Down by Kyrie McCauley

    All the Dead Lie Down by Kyrie McCauley

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    The Haunting of Bly Manor meets House of Salt and Sorrows in award-winning author Kyrie McCauley’s contemporary YA gothic romance about a dark family lineage, the ghosts of grief, and the lines we’ll cross for love.The Sleeping House was very much awake . .
    Categorized as:
    mystery  queer  young adult  fantasy  f-f  paranormal  magic  dark
  • Gorgeous Gruesome Faces by Linda Cheng

    Gorgeous Gruesome Faces by Linda Cheng

    Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Yellowjackets meets She Is a Haunting in this debut speculative thriller that follows a disgraced teen idol who comes face-to-face with the demons of her past in a glittering, cutthroat K-pop competition.After a shocking scandal that abruptly ended her teen popstar career, eighteen-year-old Sunny Lee spends her days longing for her former life and cyberstalking her ex-BFF and groupmate, Candie...
  • This Eternity of Masks and Shadows by Karsten Knight

    This Eternity of Masks and Shadows by Karsten Knight

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In a city of gods and mortals, secrets never die.The gods walk among us. Some lurk in the shadows, masquerading as mortals; others embrace their celebrity status, launching careers from Hollywood to Capitol Hill.One of them just murdered Cairn Delacroix's mother...
  • To Break a Covenant by Alison Ames

    To Break a Covenant by Alison Ames

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Debut voice Alison Ames delivers with a chilling, feminist thriller, perfect for fans of Wilder Girls and Sawkill Girls .Moon Basin has been haunted for as long as anyone can remember. It started when an explosion in the mine killed sixteen people. The disaster made it impossible to live in town, with underground fires spewing ash into the sky. But life in New Basin is just as fraught...
  • The River Has Teeth by Erica Waters

    The River Has Teeth by Erica Waters

    Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Natasha’s sister is missing.Her car was found abandoned on the edge of a local nature preserve known as the Bend, but as the case goes cold, Natasha’s loss turns to burning anger.She’ll do anything to find answers.Della’s family has channeled magic from the Bend for generations, providing spells for the desperate...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  queer  fantasy  young adult  f-f  paranormal  witches  magic
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