#the safekeep

[derangedrhythms]

There isn’t a version of me that could’ve looked away from you.

Yael van der Wouden, The Safekeep

[chaoticmiserablelover]

Nothing pairs better with lesbian fiction than a sense of impending doom.

[lanzhanfan]

the safekeep by yael van der wouden ★

the sapphic read that has swept through my life and overturned everything. incredible show-stopping world-bending gorgeous stunning. the most affecting, beautiful prose! felt so inspired and tender and remade after this book.

pls read it & chat with me!!!🚪🐇🍐

[thewavesbrokeontheshore]

I think she wants to eat me. I think she would inhale me if she could. I think she'd crawl herself inside of me if she thought that's where she'd find something that I've kept hidden from her. God help me. Would I let her? I would let her. God help me she looks at me. God help me I don't want her to look away.

The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden

[cassmouse]

The Safekeep has murdered me. It has killed me. The way Eva and Isabel's relationship is so heavy with their trauma and the weight of their family and the way they have to learn to accept and forgive and are able to coexist in this house that came from such great tragedy and they're so fucking in love and they yearn for each other so badly I am actually going to be sick in a corner this was so beautiful what the fuck

Absolutely by no means what I was expecting but my GOD. It gives you this beautiful hazy desire filled summer section with beautifully written scenes with these two women and then it fucking hits you with a historical freight train and then runs you over repeatedly with longing for these two women to be somehow happy and then you sob again at the end

[mrkestis]

Happy pride month here are some of my favorite queer books:

This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone - two agents on opposite sides of a time war fall in love.

The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun - The Bachelor but he falls in love with the producer of the show.

A Sweet Sting of Salt by Rose Sutherland - a sapphic retelling of the Selkie Wife.

Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield - Miri’s wife has finally come back from a disastrous deep-sea expedition, but she has not come back unchanged.

The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden - a woman in the Netherlands lives alone in her late mother’s house after World War II. Everything changes when her brother’s girlfriend comes to stay with her.

Delilah Green Doesn’t Care by Ashley Herring Blake- Delilah returns to her small hometown to photograph her estranged stepsister’s wedding, and accidentally falls for one of her sister’s friends.

The Sea Witch by Katee Robert - THE best erotic romance author out there. They write for all kinds of pairings, many of them queer, and this book is just one example.

Magnus Chase and the Hammer of Thor by Rick Riordan - Alex Fierro was the first gender-fluid character I ever got to read about. Also shoutout to Nico di Angelo and Will Solace from the Percy Jackson series you were integral to my queer journey.

[kwannibalism]

I think she wants to eat me. I think she would inhale me if she could. I think she’d crawl herself inside of me

if she thought that’s where she’d find something that I’ve kept hidden from her. God help me [..] I would let her [..] I don’t want her to look away.

[chucklepea-hotpot]

call me by your name peach son or the safekeep pear daughter