Fans of THE ULTIMATUM: QUEER LOVE

Read if: You wished to see Yoly threat all of it for somebody she met 5 seconds in the past.

Kris is striving to interrupt via as an influencer. D’Vaughn is on the lookout for a strategy to lastly come out to her mother. Enter Instant I Do, a actuality present the place Kris and D’Vaughn can each get what they need — plus $100,000 — if they will plan a tremendous marriage ceremony in simply six weeks. If you’re keen on a very conceived actuality TV present that pushes folks to get married to finish strangers (ahem, The Ultimatum), you’ll adore D’Vaughn and Kris’ pleasant and surprising chemistry.

Read if: You watched Rae select her trial spouse via the cracks in your fingers, understanding it may solely finish in catastrophe.

Damani is barely scraping by as a RideShare driver, particularly with protestors blocking streets and supposedly talking on behalf of folks like her. When she picks up an attractive, politically energetic girl named Jolene, Damani falls exhausting. But Damani and Jolene come from very totally different worlds, and so they’re certain to collide sooner or later. This is one of these wild fever dream books the place you understand one thing huge is lurking simply across the subsequent web page. Damani is a nuanced and morally grey character that attracts you into her world instantly.

Read if: You secretly hoped all of the trial wives would sleep collectively simply to see what drama would ensue.

Greta’s emotional detachment makes it simpler for her to keep up a way of removing from her job transcribing affected person classes for a intercourse and relationship therapist. But she’s new to Hudson, New York, and doesn’t know the way typically she would possibly hear a well-known voice round city, solely to appreciate she is aware of that stranger’s most sexually charged secrets and techniques. Greta turns into obsessive about one affected person she calls Big Swiss, and when she runs into her on the canine park, they type a tenuous friendship full of sophisticated secrets and techniques and lies. Messy, uncomfortable, generally gross, and all the time utterly weird, this story will sweep you right into a world of sapphic chaos proper from the beginning.

Read if: You thought, “Anyone who would even consider breaking up with Mal is a damn fool.”

Mickey’s life was lastly going in response to plan, because of her affected person companion Lex and her covetable media job bringing her goals of being an influential author inside attain. But then she received fired. Furious sufficient to disclose the anti-Black racism she’d confronted in her job, she posted a searing open letter on-line…which nobody learn. It isn’t till Mickey returns to her hometown and considers giving up her dream that drama within the business brings her nearly forgotten letter into the highlight. It’s a searing indictment of the present media panorama via the eyes of a protagonist prepared to go away all of it behind.

Read if: You puzzled why the hell Lexi is so hellbent on marriage on the age of 24 when it clearly looks as if a foul thought.

Caroline needs a chill, laidback marriage ceremony. Her fiancé Tiny isn’t actually certain what type of marriage ceremony she needs. But their dad and mom have tons of huge plans for his or her lavish vacation spot marriage ceremony in Bermuda. As friends arrive with their very own messy drama in tow, the marriage occasion spirals out of Tiny and Caroline’s management. Full of twists, laughs, and characters you like to hate, it is a gossipy rich-people-problems novel that can preserve you guessing if the protagonists will actually undergo with the marriage in opposition to the chances to the very finish.

Read if: You have been deeply invested in Tiff and Mildred’s on-again off-again drama.

Summer and Aiko shared a steamy kiss at their highschool senior dance, and neither of them have forgotten it years later. Now that Summer’s transferring again to city to show, they may have an opportunity to reignite the flame they’d. But Summer’s livid to study Aiko is on the architectural crew planning to tear down their previous highschool — the varsity Summer’s grandmother based. Is romance of their future after they can’t cease preventing about their shared previous and future?

Read if: You audibly begged Aussie to cease actually operating away from her emotions and simply go to remedy already.

After surviving a mindless act of violence, Bonnie turns into fixated on the TV present Three’s Company, falling additional and additional into the secure, retro world of Jack, Janet, and Chrissy. When she wins a large lottery jackpot, she spends it recreating not simply the condominium constructing, however the entire world of Three’s Company for her to dwell out her days alone and in secret on a rural mountain. But a secret as huge as Bonnie’s customized TV land is bound to get out in some way, and Bonnie will do something to defend it from intruders.

Read if: You’re secretly on Team Vanessa.

Jane is eighteen, pregnant, uncertain of what she needs in life, and vaguely sad in her pizza supply job. But then she will get a frenzied name from a girl whose son refuses to eat something except it’s a pepperoni and pickle pizza. Jane goes above and past to ship, however her want to assist turns right into a darkish, messy, harmful obsession. If you get pleasure from an “unlikable” morally grey protagonist who makes all of the mistaken selections, you’ll love this weird, darkish, fantastic, wild trip of a novel.

Read if: You’re brazenly on Team Vanessa.

Twenty-something lesbian couple Sasha and Jesse are happy to simply accept an invite to stick with a wealthy, older lesbian couple of their nation residence over the vacations. They’ll even cope with the awkward dynamics with one other younger couple, one of whom is an influencer. But as jealousy, obsession, and all kinds of tensions rise, it’s unclear if any of the three {couples} will find yourself collectively on the finish of all of the chaos. It’s a sizzling, messy, ridiculous journey via gender and trendy lesbian relationships. (Sound acquainted, The Ultimatum followers?)

Read if: You have been always pressured for Xander as a result of they’re too candy and delicate for this extraordinarily manipulative experiment.

Liz loves her job writing listicles and recommendation columns for The Nether Fields, a queer journal the place most of her associates and roommates work as properly. But when it seems to be just like the journal will probably be pressured to close down, she wonders if it’s time to pursue her secret dream of writing a novel. Instead, a pair of new traders step in to avoid wasting the journal, one of whom is dangerously sizzling — and appears to deeply hate Liz and her articles. This queer Pride and Prejudice retelling has a lot humor, coronary heart, gender exploration, and authenticity. I like how Camille Kellogg breathes recent (and really queer) air into acquainted characters, making Liz and her associates relatable and endearing.

Read if: You received just a little misty eyed at Tiff’s admittedly overwritten monologue about love.

Grace has all the time been a disciplined over-achiever, as evidenced by her new PhD in Astronomy. That’s why she’s shocked by her personal actions at a drunken women’ journey to Vegas that finish along with her married to a girl she doesn’t know. Struggling to determine the subsequent transfer in her profession, she spends a summer season in New York along with her new spouse and learns to embrace the surprising. It’s a wild trip that forces two strangers into an surprising relationship that forces them to consider what they need out of a wedding — and out of life.

Read if: You’re nonetheless questioning how the post-Ultimatum trauma is enjoying out for all the celebrities.

In the earlier than instances, Miri was the troublesome spouse, the one who went via durations of withdrawal and melancholy. But when Leah’s analysis journey aboard a submarine goes terribly mistaken, leaving her trapped on the backside of the ocean for months, she returns modified. She can’t appear to elucidate something about her expertise, as an alternative spending hours within the bathtub, operating the faucets, and ingesting salt water. Alternating between Miri and Leah’s views, Our Wives Under the Sea explores the risks of the deep, the way in which trauma reshapes us, and the surprising turns in intimate relationships.