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A review by corrie
League of Lesbians: Frankie by Em Stevens, Jea Hawkins
4.0
League of Lesbians: Frankie picks up after the dust has settled a bit around our 6 Femi Nacho Book Club friends now turned super heroes. This story (as the title suggests) will focus on Frankie with the super hearing and Rose the technopath.
Em Stevens does a good job keeping Book Club Buddie D. and me entertained as we see Frankie struggle to get a grip on dealing with her super power which is pretty debilitating. Then having super baddy Gale (she of the red shoes and the nefarious deeds) stepping in and giving Frankie something to focus on. She and Rose have to test their new found power and hone it, see how far they can go. And because Frankie has no job and rent needs to be paid soon, to the casino they go. And there is where Frankie meets the beautiful Audrey. And after a one-night stand (Frankie does not do relationships and Audrey is looking for a forever girl) they part ways. But the easy money she wins at the poker tables and the many nameless women it seems to attract are pretty bland after a while and she kind of misses that special connection she felt she had with Audrey.
Then Gale ups the ante by giving them a new challenge, one they can’t refuse. Frankie and Rose are to break into a very state-of-the-art-secured bank. A bank that has some files Gale really needs to get her hands on. As Frankie and Rose go to stake out the place in the guise of opening a new account, who is there to meet them but Frankie’s dream woman Audrey. Looks like things just have become much more complicated.
f/f
Themes: some super powers suck, press-ganged yet again by evil Gale, Frankie re-thinks her life, is she really made for a life of crime? Or is the love of one woman more precious to her, a very entertaining crime caper with villains and a sweet bit of romance.
4.3 stars
Em Stevens does a good job keeping Book Club Buddie D. and me entertained as we see Frankie struggle to get a grip on dealing with her super power which is pretty debilitating. Then having super baddy Gale (she of the red shoes and the nefarious deeds) stepping in and giving Frankie something to focus on. She and Rose have to test their new found power and hone it, see how far they can go. And because Frankie has no job and rent needs to be paid soon, to the casino they go. And there is where Frankie meets the beautiful Audrey. And after a one-night stand (Frankie does not do relationships and Audrey is looking for a forever girl) they part ways. But the easy money she wins at the poker tables and the many nameless women it seems to attract are pretty bland after a while and she kind of misses that special connection she felt she had with Audrey.
Then Gale ups the ante by giving them a new challenge, one they can’t refuse. Frankie and Rose are to break into a very state-of-the-art-secured bank. A bank that has some files Gale really needs to get her hands on. As Frankie and Rose go to stake out the place in the guise of opening a new account, who is there to meet them but Frankie’s dream woman Audrey. Looks like things just have become much more complicated.
f/f
Themes: some super powers suck, press-ganged yet again by evil Gale, Frankie re-thinks her life, is she really made for a life of crime? Or is the love of one woman more precious to her, a very entertaining crime caper with villains and a sweet bit of romance.
4.3 stars