Could anybody reccomended a lesbian romance novel that is not YA, but rather meant for a more mature audience (I’m 25 for reference) and has a happy ending? Or happy-ish at least? Thanks!
{{The Cybernetic Tea Shop by Meredith Katz}} is sapphic/ace. Short, feel good read.
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Don’t Want You Like a Best Friend by Emma L. Alban, The Fiancée Farce by Alexandria Bellefleur, Delilah Green Doesn’t Care by Ashley Herring Blake
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{{The Ladies Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite}}.
Sometime in the 1700-1800s the daughter (Lucy) of an eminent amateur astronomer tries to carry on her fathers work (which has become her own) discovering comets after his death but is rebuffed by misogynistic learned societies in England since she is female. The key take away is that Lucy is gifted in solving Celestial Mechanics mathematics problems, a mandatory ability in this area of science.
When a fantastic new book on celestial mechanics is published only in the French language, the English learned societies look for a translator so that English-speaking astronomers and mathematicians can study the new material. Lucy is the perfect translator since she speaks French fluently and is also fluent in the mathematics required for celestial mechanics. Again Lucy is rebuffed for being female.
Lucy enlists the assistance of a Duchess, the widow of a world renowned botanist only to discover there is a huge cadre of women working in the background as their men; fathers, brothers and husbands get all the credit for scientific discoveries that the women made or significantly contributed towards.
An unlikely friendship (two vastly different social strata) turns to romance as two women from two different extremes of 1700s British society fights back against misogyny. There’s a wonderful plot twist at the end that nicely finishes the novel.
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{{The Cybernetic Tea Shop by Meredith Katz}} is sapphic/ace. Short, feel good read.
Don’t Want You Like a Best Friend by Emma L. Alban, The Fiancée Farce by Alexandria Bellefleur, Delilah Green Doesn’t Care by Ashley Herring Blake
{{The Ladies Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite}}.
Sometime in the 1700-1800s the daughter (Lucy) of an eminent amateur astronomer tries to carry on her fathers work (which has become her own) discovering comets after his death but is rebuffed by misogynistic learned societies in England since she is female. The key take away is that Lucy is gifted in solving Celestial Mechanics mathematics problems, a mandatory ability in this area of science.
When a fantastic new book on celestial mechanics is published only in the French language, the English learned societies look for a translator so that English-speaking astronomers and mathematicians can study the new material. Lucy is the perfect translator since she speaks French fluently and is also fluent in the mathematics required for celestial mechanics. Again Lucy is rebuffed for being female.
Lucy enlists the assistance of a Duchess, the widow of a world renowned botanist only to discover there is a huge cadre of women working in the background as their men; fathers, brothers and husbands get all the credit for scientific discoveries that the women made or significantly contributed towards.
An unlikely friendship (two vastly different social strata) turns to romance as two women from two different extremes of 1700s British society fights back against misogyny. There’s a wonderful plot twist at the end that nicely finishes the novel.
This is also the first in a trilogy of books.