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🏳️🌈Happy Pride!🏳️🌈
First off, happy Pride Month, everyone! The book world is teeming with recommendations, and we’re absolutely loving it. We encourage you to read diversely all year, so make sure those TBRs are not just for show 😉
We’re also happy to announce that ALL of our books are now on Kobo Plus and available via our website. Keep reading for recommendations!
Before we get into that, we wanted to update you all on the Dark Sails Kickstarter. All books have been ordered and should arrive by the end of June, depending on whether paperback or hardback were ordered.
Hedone Book Recommendations For Pride!
Craving angst and pining men sailing the high seas while encountering eldrich terrors? The Flesh of the Sea is what you need!
MM Romance elements
light spice
lots of gore
How about a grief striken daughter of a serial killer trying to find answers but all fingers point to a haunted house and Bone Knuckles. Try Bone Knuckles and the Rose Scavenger !
grief horror and sleuthing
sapphic MC
no spice
Ready for a post-apocolyptic world filled with sun-loving vampires, a selfish MC and literary prose jabbing at heteronormativity? Yeah, we’re into that too. Read Sunbathers for the perfect summer read.
Queer characters
mid-high spice
cannibalism
How about being spirited away into a second person point of view that makes you feel like you’re in a cozy survival game. But it’s filled with queer joy, horror, heartache and will basically have you staring at a wall when you’re done reading. You’re welcome. Read How To Survive This Fairytale , you’ll thank us later!
MM romance elements
Fairytale retellings that hurt
Light spice
Disability representation
Very gay
Body horror, bad decisions and pining that spans time and space itself? Reach for It Bubbles Under The Skin for another great sapphic summer read. It’ll make you go ‘eww’ and ‘aww’.
Sapphic relationships
Body horror
Romance horror with an HEA
Need more sapphic characters in your life? Of course you do. A no-nonsense pirate captain who’s discovered that someone has tagged along. But there’s something paranormal attacking the crew… Queen O’Nine Tails is waiting for you!
Sapphic cast
Supernatural elements
Action and adventure
Low spice
"Kinky, creepy, clever, queer: this erotic gothic novella is everything my little horror-craving heart could desire!"
—Johanna van Veen, author of My Darling Dreadful Thing and Blood on Her Tongue
I mean…what else can be said about Enamoured: A Triptych ? It’s currently on preorder and if you order on our site you get a bonus story!
Sapphic everything
High spice
Gross and beautiful
Fuck capitalism
Nelka wanted to share a project that they’ve been editing and just launched on Kickstarter! The Cozy Library Press is putting out their sophmore anthology and they are kind of starry-eyed that they were able to edit this. Please consider backing this project!
