Elle’s Comments (group member since Mar 15, 2018)

Elle’s comments from the The Sapphic Squad group.

Hey guys! So as you might have noticed, this book group has gone a bit dark, and I and the other mods want to change that. As we didn't have a poll for last month, this month will be two mod picks - but hopefully next month we'll go back to voting on a group book! I really hope you'll all join us for these two books, and help us to get this group back up and running <3



Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant follows a group of people attempting to figure out whether a ship tragedy from three years ago was actually the fault of a cluster of murderous mermaids. It is creepy! There is eye horror at one point! It is super interesting. It is ridiculously addicting. The romance is between a bi scientist and an autistic lesbian camera operator and it killed me and also my ghost. Oh, and also, if any of you know Seanan McGuire and her Every Heart A Doorway series, this is actually her under a different name.

This is one I adore that went super under the radar. This has been conveniently placed during this month, as it qualifies for the ever-popular Tome Topple readathon! We'll be reading it mostly from July 2nd to July 16th, but the discussion will hopefully go on throughout the month.



Girl Made of Stars by Ashley Herring Blake follows Mara, whose twin brother has just been accused of rape, as she navigates her own trauma and her complex feelings towards someone she thought she loved. This one is a really emotionally cathartic book, but it is definitely a hard read - there is extensive discussion of rape culture and sexual assault in general, and and an on-page flashback to a traumatic experience. The romance is between the bi lead and her ex-girlfriend Charlie, who is nonbinary. This is also by the author of the immensely popular and completely awesome How To Make A Wish.

This is one of my favorite books of the year and I'm so excited for the group to read it!! We'll be reading it from July 17th to July 31st and I hope you'll all join me <3

Rachael wrote: "I can confirm that Ship it has f/f that doesn't end in tragedy!! (and the romance is sO adorable)

Dear Rachel Maddow also owned my life. It's my fave contemporary from this year and 10/10 would re..."

YEESSSSSS [also does Dear Rachel Maddow have a Romance]

Emily wrote: "Nothing Happened has sapphic characters!! It's a retelling of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, and one of the main couples is f/f (and luckily it's not a Shakespeare tragedy—so..."

aaaaaaaah i heard about that!! i love Much Ado and sort of hated Claudio in the original adaptation, so i wasn't sure whether to put it on my tbr? [I WANT A SAPPHIC BEA AND BEN ADAPTATION OKAY]

Kaylin wrote: "Just dug out my copy and ready to start reading! Funny enough, when I read this book the first time it inspired me to create a, "Best-books-I-never-want-to-re-read' shelf on GR, and here I am. It's..."

haha, that's always been my favorite of your shelves. and now you ARE rereading it!

hey, thank you to everyone who recommended a book! the poll has been completed and Cameron Post won. I hope you'll join us for the group read <3

Sam wrote: "Hi!

My name's Sam. I'm bisexual and I'm so happy that I somehow found this group!! I haven't read a lot of sapphic books but this group has already lead me to some great ones to add to my TBR."

hey Sam!! I hope you find some amazing recs and friends from this group <3 <3

Hey guys! This is the new discussion area to put your notes and thoughts on chapters 1-5 of The Miseducation of Cameron Post. That way, we can all discuss even while being at different parts of the book. Please be absolutely free to discuss, reply disagree, share opinions, make friends, etc etc etc - just be polite and you're good.

@Rachael I totally am not mad *throws table* not at all :) :)

[but in all honesty the later stories were better for me and the first few were a lot of threes and fours, so maybe you’ll like the later stuff better?]

@Stella I have literally five starred ALL of those books, lmao. [Jane Unlimited my underrated fav!!] Reign of the Fallen is really fun too! not my favorite ever, but the first line is so badass and I’m super excited for book two👌👌

@WV HEARING THAT SOMEONE IS READING INTO THE DROWNING DEEP BECAUSE OF ME FEELS LIKE VALIDATION IM SO HAPPY FOR YOU 💚💚

Emma wrote: "Hi everyone! This is a buddy read discussion thread for How to Make a Wish by Ashley Herring Blake. As of now I believe it's just Mina, Elke, and myself participating, but anyone else is free to jo..."

I hope you guys love it!! this was one of my favs of last year.

@Elizabeth welcome!! and I JUST STARTED HEARING ABOUT FOOLISH HEARTS HAVING SIDE F/F AND I’M SO EXCITED TO READ IT NOW

@Grey that’s totally okay! we’ve gotten a lot of baby sapphic participation and that’s great, honestly helping people find more queer girl books is the life goal 😊 I hope you find some good ones!

@Rachael you just named THREE of my favorite f/f reads plus one of my fav anthologies I love this [also on the anthology note HAVE YOU READ ALL OUT YET]

I'm adding Cam Girl by Elliot Wake to this list, along with Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant [I'm planning on rereading it next month]!

WV wrote: "Hi, I'm Ola! I'm Polish and I'm planning to study Spanish and French in England :)
I'm kind of going through a sexuality crisis :') and I'd like to read more sapphic books! (God, I love this term ..."

these are some GOOD books Ola!! Into the Drowning Deep is one of my fav sapphic books, I think I'm annoying everyone else by how much I talk about it :') I haven't read Cam Girl yet, but I'm in the middle of Black Iris [same author] and it's SO AMAZING.

Sabrien wrote: "@Elise
K. Ancrum? Who wrote my beloved Wicker King? And MacKenzi Lee? Writing sapphic novels? Sign me up, I don't even care what they're about. Thank you for letting me know this."

yes and both are actually #ownvoices for bi girl leads!! MACKENZI LEE'S BOOK IS GOING TO KILL ME IT'S GOT SUCH A GOOD PREMISE

Sabrien wrote: "Oh ok so JLA is contributing to an anthology of short stories, some of which are f/f, but hers isn't."

yes, the Meet Cute one. the sapphic stories in that really brought it!! it's Emery Lord, Nina LaCour, Julie Murphy, and Meredith Russo. all of them were fours or fives for me!!

IM SECONDING THE ACE BOOKS THING. NEED MORE ASPEC SAPPHIC GIRLS IMMEDIATELY THANKS

also, SAME. I’ve read so many good books about mlm, but I find it so difficult to recommend them as lgbtq books because it feels like I’ll recommend one m/m book and eight f/f books and the person asking will only read the m/m book, EVERY TIME. it’s so annoying!!

@Aine there was – Lizzie by Dawn Ius – but um, I read a few spoilers and I think it might not be the best for a sapphic book :((