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It’s Pride Month, y’all!! While Pride has been important since its inception successful 1970, 1 twelvemonth aft the infamous Stonewall Riots, it seems particularly indispensable aft events of the past fewer years. There person been aggregate hateful and narrow-minded legislative attempts to fundamentally eradicate members of the LGBTQ+ assemblage and propulsion others backmost into the closet.
But determination has been conscionable arsenic overmuch pushback astatine these close-minded attempts, and it volition proceed to hap until it is nary longer an issue. Everyone has a close to emotion who they love; the lone request is that each parties beryllium consenting adults. As Lin Manuel said successful his 2016 Tony acceptance speech, 1 time aft the tragic Pulse Nightclub shooting, “Love is emotion is emotion is emotion is emotion is emotion is emotion is love.”
With that close connection successful mind, I wanted to instrumentality a infinitesimal to item a fewer F/F friends to lovers romances retired there. This is 1 of my favourite tropes successful the romance genre. Funnily enough, it is tied with its polar opposite, enemies/rivals to lovers. And erstwhile it’s besides sapphic? Chef’s kiss. Without further delay, onto the books!
Adult
Count Your Lucky Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur
Margot and Olivia utilized to beryllium champion friends and, for 1 weekend, thing more. However, that didn’t enactment out, and the 2 mislaid interaction implicit the years. When Olivia moves to Seattle for a caller commencement aft a divorce, a bid of circumstances leads to Margot offering her a spot to stay. With the 2 being successful specified adjacent quarters, it is the cleanable setup for going implicit what happened each those years agone and seeing if this caller play of their beingness is the cleanable accidental for a 2nd chance.
Show Off by Renee Dahlia
Burlesque dancer Charlie is blessed that the pandemic is implicit since it means she tin erstwhile again instrumentality to the signifier and restart her friends-with-benefits narration with Elle. However, Elle has resigned herself to the information that the carefree Charlie doesn’t privation a relationship, and vows to support their narration strictly business. Charlie has since realized she does privation more, though, and sets retired to beryllium this to Elle.
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Can’t Let Her Go by Kianna Alexander (June 20)
Peaches and Jamie person truthful overmuch successful common, it makes consciousness that they are besides specified bully friends. In the existent play of their lives, though, some women are looking down the roadworthy of possibilities that could effect successful drastic beingness changes that volition instrumentality a batch of adjustment. Do they truly privation to adhd much unit to that by trying to alteration their narration from friends to lovers, and volition it beryllium palmy if they do?
Fall Into You by Georgina Kiersten
After Imari leaves her fiancé astatine the altar, she has to contend with disfigured whispers from the assemblage arsenic good arsenic passive assertive comments from her mother. Wanting to beryllium wholly done with that portion of her life, she moves to the tiny municipality of Appeley and happens to tally into Cassidy, a puerility friend. While she was initially looking guardant to picking up their platonic narration from wherever they near it, she wonders if this acceptable up is the blueprint for thing much to develop.
Girlfriend Material by Katia Rose
Best friends Allison and Kate person a batch of things successful common. But their attack to relationships is not 1 of them. While Kate prefers one-time hook-ups, Allison is holding retired for a dependable girlfriend. When she asks Kate for assistance with flirting, the second readily agrees. But the lessons soon pb to feelings some person been trying to contradict and they’re near needing to look the facts that their feelings for 1 different are acold from platonic.
Young Adult
The Dos and Donuts of Love by Adiba Jaigirdar
Shireen is caller disconnected a break-up with her ex-girlfriend Chris erstwhile she finds retired she’s been chosen arsenic a contestant for a caller world baking amusement — thing she knows volition assistance her family’s business. Things rapidly get analyzable erstwhile she finds retired that Chris is besides a contestant. And erstwhile she begins to make feelings for her caller person Niamh, it’s each she tin bash to support her oculus connected the prize wealth and debar reasoning astir past and imaginable aboriginal emotion interests.
Prom and Other Hazards by Jamie Sullivan
Between the over-the-top “promposals” and associated terms tags, Sam is not a instrumentality of the yearly dance. However her champion person and concealed crush Tash is. When Sam spots the cleanable suit successful a storefront, she becomes determined to acquisition it, hoping it volition springiness her the overmuch needed assurance to spot if Tash is consenting to instrumentality their narration from friends to more.
Hot Dog Girl by Jennifer Dugan
Lou is determined to person the champion summertime contempt everything moving against her, including her crush and co-worker astatine Magic Castle Playland Nick already having a dependable girlfriend. Through a bid of misunderstandings, Nick comes to deliberation that Lou and her champion person Seeley are dating, a facade Lou begs her bestie to support up. As the summertime progresses, much changes happen, including Lou wondering if she truly wants Nick and if happiness has been close determination successful beforehand of her each this time.
And determination you person it! Just a fewer F/F friends to lovers you tin prime up and commencement speechmaking close away. I genuinely anticipation you find 1 that is to your liking. Happy speechmaking and enactment hydrated.
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