The Sapphic Squad discussion

Hi! I'd love to read more enemies to lovers recommendations, but I just know Tryst Six Venom, please help haha✨

This is How You Lose The Time War (sci-fi), She Drives Me Crazy (YA), Gearbreakers (sci-fi), and The Henna Wars (YA) were all fantastic reads, highly recommend any and all of them!!

HI, Cata. Have you checked out this list? Best Lesbian Enemies to Lovers Books

Additionally, the characters in my book 44 Hours might fit the bill.

These also fit and are great books.

Bet Against Me (1)

Accidental Honeymoon

A Heart to Trust

Cata wrote: "Hi! I'd love to read more enemies to lovers recommendations, but I just know Tryst Six Venom, please help haha✨"

There are splendid books in this thread, but if you're looking for something more like TSV then it's hard to come up with recs. The bully romance trope isn't something common in ff. The whole "I want to hurt you but I want to f*ck you and I want to hurt you because I want to f*ck you" is rampant on wattpad but these are a few recs that might do~

Vibe by Liza James. It's not exactly enemies to lovers, but similarities:
•Lots of angst
•I am straight but I'm attracted to you
•Both these books have that "I hate misogynistic straight men who want to ogle lesbians having sex" thing going on
•The toxicity of it all
Content warning for Vibe (since the author doesn't think those are necessary at all): non-graphic but strongly implied rape of a minor and associated trauma, homophobia, cults, misogyny

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
•Power imbalance, bully relationship, intense hatred
→GTN is a space opera and there is no sexual content at all (or in the sequel for that matter) but it's one of my favorite books. Spoiler regarding ending (view spoiler)[unlike TSV, Gideon the Ninth isn't HEA (hide spoiler)].

Also, I haven't read this (nor do I plan to), but Black Iris. The first quote in Emily May's review alone tells me that it should fit the criteria :)

+1 Wilder Girls by Rory Power
I wouldn't say that Hetty and Reese were toxic, but they weren't exactly soft with each other and there was a strong I want to hate/bone you energy.

+1 Captive in the Underworld by Lianyu Tan. This one's very different from the usual hate/love relationship. The author has provided detailed content warnings—and I can't emphasise how imp. this is—so please look them up!

i would strongly recommend crier's war by Nina Varela. Ayla is a badass and she wants to take revange on the king, how could you do that better than by hurting or killing his so beloved daughter?

Ayla falling for Crier was not her plan and you can definitely sense her inner conflict, she doesn't want to start to feel these things and you cannot stop being in awe with Crier's innocence.

It has also a sequel, so even more plot, although personally I was more of a fan of that first book.

oh, and it's also real slow burn, could be bad but for me it's always a bonus :D and it's the match of a princess with a "peasant" if you so want to call it. One who (apparently) has everything she could wish for and one who has (apparently) nothing ever or lost everything that was ever important ...

The only right answer is Night Tide by Anna Burke. That book isnt talked about enough it’s too excellent. The enemies to lovers aspect of this was done so well. READ IT!!!

sweet and bitter magic ( not really ennemies but definitely hate-to-love!!) girl serpent thorn, this is how you lose the time war, the jasmine throne, Hani and Ishu's guide to fake dating, she drives me crazy ( also i loved "her name in the sky" by the same author, but her name in the sky is friends-to-lovers )