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Friday, 24 May 2013

But She's My Student & Instigations (the Kat and Freya series) by Kiki Archer


"Feel good lesbian romance"

It's not very often we get lesbian romance stories with a happy ending, and that is what Kiki Archer offers us through these two journeys of Kat and Freya's relationship as it blossoms from a kiss in a nightclub to a lifetime of happiness.

Told in typical chick-lit style, a genre that is traditionally weak for lesbian audiences, the two novels are a good romp through the ups and downs life can throw at relationship, including dealing with some of the key problems many of us will know about: coming out, institutional and social homophobia, parents who don't quite get it, friends and their dramas. It's all here as well as a little contraversy to start off the story.

The central characters are warm and likeable, and you can't help root for the happy ending they deserve after always doing the right thing throughout the novels.

These novels are ideal for escapist fun, holiday reads. Download your copies before you hit the sun this summer!


Available in e-format, you can buy the books for just a few pounds here:

Friday, 3 May 2013

Book Review: Leap by Z Egloff

Published: March 2013, Bywater Press. Available in paperback and e-book format

It's the start of Summer 1979 and Rowan Marks is in what should be the start of a carefree yawning gulf between high school graduation and College starting.

However, it turns on its head and becomes a summer of discovery, of past secrets, self identification, sex and first love.

LEAP is a well written coming-of-age novel set in that mysterious yet exotic small-town American summer. Rowan is the cool girl - the one we would have all been in love with at high school - smart, progressive, spunky and a lesbian. She prides herself on building a wall around her inner-most self, but we as readers are invited in behind the scenes, and soon newcomer Cathering dismantles the bricks one by one as well, planting herself in Rowan's heart. 

This is the kind of novel I've been waiting for - well written, imagery that speaks to the soul, and a coming-of-age story I can relate to on the surface as well as underneath. Rowan is a delightful character - not perfect, but real. The kind of 18-year-old we all wish we could have been. 

As lesbian, coming-of-age and coming out literary fiction this book stands out as one of the best.

By Katie
 

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