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About Abi

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London based transfemme who suddenly got back into reading way more than she has since forever ago when she realised the extremely obvious fact that girls get to kiss girls way more in books than in movies

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Just Because You’re A Therapist, Doesn’t Mean That You Know What You’re Doing With Your Life

Tell Me Everything by Laura Kay

December 12, 2022 by Abi Leave a Comment

Natasha is a mess. A very specific type of queer mess. She’s a therapist, and if she’s being honest, she would have a lot to say to herself if she was one of her own clients. As is, she’s finally moving out of the place she’s been sharing with her ex even since they broke up, continuing to be flatmates in the time since, moving out as Georgia wants to move her current girlfriend in instead. Then she meets a girl at work, kind of. […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Brighton, exes, Laura Kay, LGBTQ, messy feelings, messy relationships, slice of life

Abi's CBR14 Review No:21 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Brighton, exes, Laura Kay, LGBTQ, messy feelings, messy relationships, slice of life ·
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Two Sapphics on a Roadtrip, They Might Kiss?

No Rings Attached by Rachel Lacey

December 12, 2022 by Abi Leave a Comment

Honestly, I have read fics with basically this premise a lot over the years. Someone needs a date to a wedding to avoid awkward family reactions and questions. Someone is asked by a mutual friend to fake it, as a favour. Romance ensues. Fortunately for everyone involved (me, you, other readers, the author), No Rings Attached has way more nuance and way less badly written gender identities than those examples. No Rings Attached is Rachel Lacey’s follow up to Read Between the Lines focusing on […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: demi-coding (kinda), fake relationship, lesbian, LGBTQ, looking for a place to belong and it's right in front of you, only one bed, oops we're in love, pining, Rachel Lacey, Wedding Date, yearning

Abi's CBR14 Review No:20 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: demi-coding (kinda), fake relationship, lesbian, LGBTQ, looking for a place to belong and it's right in front of you, only one bed, oops we're in love, pining, Rachel Lacey, Wedding Date, yearning ·
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Abi’s Accidental Grand Unified Theory of 2022 (kidding, sort of)

This Used To Be Easier by Katia Rose

December 11, 2022 by Abi Leave a Comment

It feels kind of silly to be writing another review of a Katia Rose queer romance after I have already submitted my “Farewell for now Katia” review of the last one of them that I read, but I sort of forgot to review This Used To Be Easier so here we are. That is no knock against the book itself, a masc4femme lesbian romance about two girls who were best friends growing up, but were forced apart by circumstance and expectations. Meg is returning to […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: abi jamming all her 2022 bullshit into one review, comphet, Katia Rose, LGBTQ, long lost friends, messing about it boats, returning to hometown trauma, the one that got away

Abi's CBR14 Review No:19 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: abi jamming all her 2022 bullshit into one review, comphet, Katia Rose, LGBTQ, long lost friends, messing about it boats, returning to hometown trauma, the one that got away ·
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Astrid Parker’s No Good, Very Bad Case of Comphet

Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail by Ashley Herring Blake

December 11, 2022 by Abi 3 Comments

I have been waiting for Astrid Parker Doesn’t Fail for months. Ever since I read Delilah Green Doesn’t Care back in June as the first in my spree of reading every sapphic romance I could get my hands on. I realise this isn’t as long as many people wait for books, I myself used to be someone waiting for Winds of Winter before losing interest some years back, but I’ve been impatient, and I’ve been a good girl and sometimes I get nice things, even […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: Ashley Herring Blake, comphet is a hell of a drug, delilahverse, rivals to lovers, shoutouts to ruby the purest of them all, they're all gay your honor, two of cups

Abi's CBR14 Review No:18 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: Ashley Herring Blake, comphet is a hell of a drug, delilahverse, rivals to lovers, shoutouts to ruby the purest of them all, they're all gay your honor, two of cups ·
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That beautiful moment when you wake up feeling safe for the first time in years

the most remarkable thing about you standing in the doorway is that it’s you by greatunironic

December 11, 2022 by Abi Leave a Comment

I wasn’t going to write any more Stranger Things fic reviews this year. I’m behind on my reviews but I have read enough novels to get me to my half cannonball in six months target. But then I read this fic last night and this morning and did a filthy amount of crying, so with apologies to such read books as When Katie met Cassidy (which was, to microreview, like, fine and ok and other such synonyms) here we are. Set in 2002, many years after the […]

Filed Under: Fanfiction Tagged With: a wedding and a funeral, finally finding peace for Steve Harrington let that boy have one good nights sleep I swear, greatunironic, hurt/comfort, Steve is everyone's brother everyone's dad, Stranger things fic

Abi's CBR14 Review No:17 · Genres: Fanfiction · Tags: a wedding and a funeral, finally finding peace for Steve Harrington let that boy have one good nights sleep I swear, greatunironic, hurt/comfort, Steve is everyone's brother everyone's dad, Stranger things fic ·
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Farewell Katia, See You As Soon As You Publish The Next One

Just Might Work by Katia Rose

November 30, 2022 by Abi 1 Comment

And so, my journey through the sapphic romances of Katia Rose comes to an end. Originally this review of Just Might Work was going to be “Oh hey so this one has the best smut of the lot” but then I read Mistakes Were Made by Meryl Wilsner and frankly that blew everyone out of the water in the smut department, so with all due respect to the smut, I will be forced to talk about the way in which I liked the characters, very much […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: catching feelings, enemies to lovers, fake dating, Katia Rose, LGBTQ author, LGBTQ romance, non-binary character, sapphic romance, they were roommates, transgender, transgender characters

Abi's CBR14 Review No:16 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: catching feelings, enemies to lovers, fake dating, Katia Rose, LGBTQ author, LGBTQ romance, non-binary character, sapphic romance, they were roommates, transgender, transgender characters ·
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