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Then, their blue eyes slowly turned black. They have insatiable appetites yet never gain weight. People find them disturbingly intoxicating, unbearably beautiful, and inexplicably dangerous. But now, ten years later, seventeen-year-old Iris Hollow is doing all she can to fit in and graduate high school on time—something her two famously glamorous globe-trotting older sisters, Grey and Vivi, never managed to do. But when Grey goes missing without a trace, leaving behind bizarre clues as to what might have happened, Iris and Vivi are left to trace her last few days. They aren't the only ones looking for her though. As they brush against the supernatural they realize that the story they've been told about their past is unraveling and the world that returned them seemingly unharmed ten years ago might just be calling them home. Show more Get the Bindery app * * * Posts about this title from Celestial [Celestial\\ \\ Steph\\ \\ • Mar 23](https://celestial.binderybooks.com/) [💭 what’s your favorite horror micro trope?](https://celestial.binderybooks.com/item/c4qOe5VT8IrVzQDNPGeF/) 💭 what’s your favorite horror micro trope? here are some reads where people come back … wrong. something just … isn’t right. 📚 books mentioned: \- Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova \- Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer \- House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland 👗💄: \- dress is from ASTR the Label, rented from Nuuly \- eyeshadow is The Lord of the Rings Middle Earth Palette from Glamlite and Ellis Atlantis Palette from Blend Bunny Cosmetics \- lip combo is Suede Matte Lip Liner (Moonwalk) from NYX Cosmetics and Gloss Bomb Lip Luminizer (Rose Amber) from Fenty Beauty \- (also if you have a question about my makeup or something i’m wearing, most of it is curated in my shopmy!) #horrorbooks #disturbingbooks #scarybooks #nycinfluencer #bookstagram @zandoprojects @fsgbooks @penguinteen @astrthelabel @glamlite @blendbunnycosmetics . horror books • spooky books • disturbing books • unreliable narrators • horror trope books • horror book recommendations • diverse books • Zando Books • FSG Books • Penguin Teen * * * 3 books [1](https://celestial.binderybooks.com/item/c4qOe5VT8IrVzQDNPGeF/#comments) [Celestial\\ \\ Steph\\ \\ • Aug 9 2025](https://celestial.binderybooks.com/) [my passion is just shouting horror books at you until you read them. do it.](https://celestial.binderybooks.com/item/UnKo3vJ7fUn6Ebdh0Lxj/) my passion is just shouting horror books at you until you read them. do it. 📚 books mentioned: \- Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker \- Delicious Monsters by Liselle Sambury \- Lakewood by Megan Giddings \- Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant \- Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White \- Delicate Condition by Danielle Valentine \- Ring Shout by P. 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Modern settings. Recognizable social rules. Families that resemble the structures most of us grew up around. I wrote about this a week or two ago, about looking beyond contemporary romance for great sapphic stories.\\ \\ Those stories matter. They reflect lived experience and present-day struggles.\\ \\ Yet some of the most thought-provoking sapphic stories appear in places where the rules look completely different.\\ \\ Speculative fiction offers writers a simple but radical tool. The ability to ask what happens when the world operates under different assumptions?\\ \\ What happens when gender does not function the way our societies expect?\\ \\ What happens when colonial hierarchies collapse or never existed in the first place?\\ \\ What happens when family and community follow different structures?\\ \\ **Sapphic speculative fiction thrives in these questions.**\\ \\ What counts as speculative fiction?\\ \\ Speculative fiction serves as an umbrella term for stories that imagine worlds different from our own.\\ \\ Fantasy explores magic, mythology, and alternate societies.\\ \\ Science fiction looks at future technology, space exploration, and evolving social systems.\\ \\ Alternate history reimagines historical timelines.\\ \\ Dystopian and utopian fiction examine political systems taken to extreme outcomes.\\ \\ Magical realism blends ordinary life with elements that challenge reality.\\ \\ All of these genres share a common feature. They build worlds where the assumptions we treat as natural begin to shift.\\ \\ When those foundations move, storytelling changes.\\ \\ **Reimagining gender systems**\\ \\ Many speculative worlds question the rigid gender frameworks common in contemporary culture.\\ \\ Some settings include fluid understandings of gender. Others remove the strict gender hierarchy. Some societies organize identity through entirely different categories.\\ \\ When gender works differently, relationships evolve as well.\\ \\ Characters express attraction without the scripts that dominate many romance narratives. Partnerships develop around compatibility, trust, or shared goals rather than predetermined roles.\\ \\ For readers, this shift opens new ways of thinking about identity and connection.\\ \\ **Challenging colonial power structures**\\ \\ Speculative fiction often explores empire, conquest, and resistance.\\ \\ Many worlds center characters fighting against oppressive systems or rebuilding communities after political collapse. Some stories draw inspiration from Indigenous traditions or non-Western perspectives to imagine societies structured around different values.\\ \\ Within these settings, sapphic characters frequently appear as leaders, rebels, scholars, or explorers. Their relationships unfold inside larger struggles over power, survival, and cultural memory.\\ \\ Love does not exist in isolation. It grows alongside questions about justice, resistance, and the future of entire communities.\\ \\ **Rethinking family and community**\\ \\ Another striking feature of speculative fiction involves how stories approach family.\\ \\ The nuclear family model rarely stands as the only option. Characters often live within chosen families, cooperative communities, traveling crews, or political alliances.\\ \\ Romantic relationships exist inside these broader networks of care.\\ \\ Two people falling in love may also share responsibilities to their crew, their village, or their resistance movement. Partnership becomes part of a wider web of loyalty and support.\\ \\ For many readers, this structure feels both imaginative and deeply familiar.\\ \\ Common tropes in sapphic speculative fiction\\ \\ Speculative fiction combines romance with adventure and conflict. Certain narrative patterns recur.\\ \\ A princess guarded by a loyal warrior or knight who begins to question her duty.\\ \\ Rival soldiers from opposing factions are forced to work together.\\ \\ A scholar and a fighter navigating a dangerous quest.\\ \\ Political enemies are forming uneasy alliances during a rebellion.\\ \\ Explorers encounter unfamiliar worlds and build trust through survival.\\ \\ These tropes create tension, intimacy, and emotional growth while the larger story unfolds.\\ \\ **Why these stories expand the imagination**\\ \\ Speculative fiction does more than entertain. It shifts perspective.\\ \\ When readers step into worlds built on different assumptions, the systems shaping their own lives become visible. Gender roles, political hierarchies, and family structures reveal themselves as historical constructs rather than permanent truths.\\ \\ Sapphic speculative fiction takes this imaginative shift even further.\\ \\ Queer women appear not as side characters but as central figures in the story of the world itself. They lead revolutions. Build communities. Explore unknown territories. Fall in love while reshaping the societies around them.\\ \\ These stories ask readers to imagine something larger than representation.\\ \\ They ask us to imagine entirely different ways people live together.\\ \\ An invitation to explore\\ \\ If you have not spent time with sapphic speculative fiction, consider this an invitation.\\ \\ Explore fantasy worlds where magic reshapes power.\\ \\ Read science fiction that questions identity in future societies.\\ \\ Look for stories where love grows alongside resistance, exploration, and discovery.\\ \\ These books stretch the imagination in ways that linger long after the final page.\\ \\ I am especially interested in reading more sapphic speculative fiction this year.\\ \\ Which books expanded your worldview?\\ \\ Which stories stayed with you long after you finished them?\\ \\ Here is a list of books I've read and books on my TBR!\\ \\ \\ \\ Join for free or login](https://wanderlandreads.binderybooks.com/item/dC3Z6zlKg411NPzu2Wgr/) [Worlds Where Sapphic Stories Rewrite the Rules](https://wanderlandreads.binderybooks.com/item/dC3Z6zlKg411NPzu2Wgr/) * * * 26 books 3 [Celestial\\ \\ Steph\\ \\ • Aug 9 2025](https://celestial.binderybooks.com/) [my passion is just shouting horror books at you until you read them. do it.](https://celestial.binderybooks.com/item/UnKo3vJ7fUn6Ebdh0Lxj/) my passion is just shouting horror books at you until you read them. do it. thank you to MIRA/HPT Hive, Simon Teen, Sourcebooks, Inkyard Press, Scholastic, Bantam, and William Morrow for the gifted copies! * * * 15 books 1 [Alyssa’s Library\\ \\ alyssa\\ \\ • Jul 30 2025](https://alyssaslibrary.binderybooks.com/) Join for free [Unsettling / Gothic Summer Reads](https://alyssaslibrary.binderybooks.com/item/16mAQdwF75puBAaTEsnD/) been loving some spooky / unsettling reads for the summer recently, i have so many on my tbr that im excited to read 👀 #booktok #summerreads #gothicbooks #spookyreads * * * 9 books 1 [Wanderland Reads\\ \\ Sayer\\ \\ • Apr 7 2025](https://wanderlandreads.binderybooks.com/) Join for free [Sapphic Reaching Challenge Recommendations: Horror](https://wanderlandreads.binderybooks.com/item/vohf3U7k3QCSvbXtS18M/) Happy Sapphic Sunday! 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