
she/her 🏳️🌈 i read a little bit of everything but my mainstays are fantasy, romance, and sci-fi. always at the mercy of my library holds. 2026 goals: read one nonfic/month, read away my owned TBR.
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While overall, I don’t think I rated a single story above a three, I want to give this collection some love because it brought the diversity I crave to monster romance. I would highly recommend picking this up if you’re tired of the same dynamics in monster romance. Its biggest failing is being a collection of short stories: romance is a hard genre to do in such limited page count.
Y’all, it’s almost that time again.
Last year someone in my book club introduced me to the Sapphic September readathon, which is run by @manicfemme and @evilqueen reads on Instagram.
While they haven’t released the board for this year yet, they teased the prompts in their stories.
The prompts are as follows: butchfemme age gap small town romance smutty pirates quick reads part of a series 2026 release related to another interest/hobby indigenous author new or new to you author indie or small press author book you’ve been avoiding out of your comfort zone murder lesbians choose your own
Do you all have any plans for the readathon? Any prompts you’re looking forward to? Any prompts you’re find daunting? Are you going for blackout? Any suggestions? 👀

grace_b_3 commented...
@sillyprince has a whole 🔗sapphic monsters list.
personally, i’ve read and can recommend: the warts & claws series by clio evans is a series of 5 novella with a mix of throuples including a MMM and a WWW book. first book is MMF and i do recommend reading in order. the second book is MFNB, so some trans rep in the series. afterglow by emily antionette is a sapphic vampire romance. second in a series but can be read a a standalone (the first book is bi4bi MF). she came from the swamp by darva green (and its sequels) are all sapphic romances with various monsters. the books vary in length from novella to novel. my summer girl by maeve black is MMFNB. mainly bringing it up for the nonbinary representation. part of a series of interconnected standalones. some of the stories in the she was mosntress anthologies are sapphic. none feature trans representation to the best of my memory though.
edited to add: @PowahWom has an 🔗achillian mosnter list that i found. i can’t vouch for most of the books as i don’t personally read a lot of achillian books but figured i’d add the link as a resource.
I was hoping some people might have some good wlw/mlm Monster Lover book reccomendations?? or advice on where to find them! I'd also really love some with trans characters !! but i have much less hope in finding those unfortunately 🫠
Ive seen quests/lists but they mainly seem to be straight and if there is any wlw/mlm and/or trans rep ones I havent found them </3
Smut and no smut welcome, i just wanna read about queer werewolves* that like to smooch
*any monster, aliens, ect
horror and angst vibes also welcome 🕷
I'd also appreciate authors that are lgbt+ themselves :]