Rowan Roth is an overachieving, high school student. She studies, volunteers, works, has a
million leadership positions, and is involved in just about every club at her school. It is finally
the last day of the school year and the only person stopping Rowan from becoming Valedictorian
is none other than her academic rival of the last four years, Neil McNair. Rowan and Neil have
been at each other's throats for years, to the point where several recounts of their student council
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The Book, It Ends With Us, by Colleen Hoover, follows the life of Lily Bloom. For most of her
life, Lily has had to deal with her abusive fathers action towards her and her mother--who she
believes to be too weak to safeguard her own life. When she finally decides to escape the
shackles that her unfortunate childhood has put her through, she moves to Boston to have a new
start, but not without the reminders of her past. There, she meets Dr. Ryle Kincaid, a man who
Love and Other Words is a sweet romance following Macy after running into the former
and sort-of current love of her life, Elliott, on her commute from her pediatrics job. It’s the first
time they’ve seen each other in the past eleven years. Something devastating broke them apart,
but it seems like fate has brought them back together. Except that Macy’s happily engaged to
someone else - and she still blames Elliott for what happened so long ago. They met when they
Banter that makes you giggle while swinging your feet back and forth. Witty comebacks
and relatable characters. Book Lovers is most likely one of the best contemporary romances I’ve
read this year.
Introduced as a historical fiction romance, The Poetry of Secrets by Cambria Gordon
becomes much more than just a love story: it is the story of identity, family, loyalty, feminism,
religion, and internal conflict, all during the Spanish Inquisition in Spain in 1481. This novel follows
Isabel Perez, a converso, or a Jew forced to convert to Catholicism. But like many conversos in Spain
during that time, her family, although attending church every Sunday, still practices Judaism in the
Entwined is a fairy-tale inspired fiction of the story The Twelve Dancing Princesses. It's a suspenseful retelling. If I'm honest, the folktale that inspired this fantasy fiction was never been one of my favorites. This author manages to take a rather thin story and turn it into something interesting with a hero that is a strong woman of steel! This atmospheric version is my favorite retelling.
The Flatshare is a often funny and always cute romance about broke and
fresh-out-of-a-breakup Tiffy and her new roommate, night-shift nurse and total sweetheart Leon.
They work out an arrangement that satisfies their budgeting needs as well as Leon’s jealous
girlfriend: Tiffy gets the room the nights and weekends, and Leon gets the day. And to ensure
that they never meet, Leon’s girlfriend forbids him from ever seeing Tiffy. But they have to
