Reviews by Category: Romance

Holly Black’s The Cruel Prince features Jude Duarte, a girl who was stolen from the mortal world

alongside her twin and older sister, Taryn and Vivi, by a Redcap Fae named Madoc. Years later,

Jude and Taryn now attend school among the higher ranked fae, including Prince Cardan

Greenbriar, the cruel prince of Elfhame (get it?). He and his friends, Nicasia, Valerian, and

Locke, do whatever they can to make Jude and Taryn miserable for their human heritage. The

Crush is about a boy named Jorge Ruiz who has middle school life under control. At

least until he runs into a possible crush on a theatre girl, Jazmine. He has to figure out a way to

ask her to the athletics ball without everyone noticing since Jorge hates gossip. I really enjoyed

this book because it was funny and exciting. My favorite part is when Jorge helps the drama

club move boxes and they get pizza. I would recommend this book to 5th, 6th, or 7th graders.

Love & Olives follows main character Olive, who goes by Liv. Liv’s dad left

her and her mom when she was little, leaving them with next to nothing.

Now, it’s the summer before her last year of highschool, and suddenly her

dad wants to reconnect with her. But Liv is a different person than she used

to be. She never mentions her dad, and tries her best not to think of him.

Now Liv is taking a trip to Greece to see him. But even in beautiful Santorini,

This book is truly amazing. The Sun Is Also a Star is written from two

different perspectives; Natasha and Daniel. Natasha is less of a dreamer,

more of a realistic thinker. She’s just trying to keep her family from being

suddenly deported to Jamaica. Daniel, on the other hand, is a poet of all

that’s good in life. He’s been trying to live up to his parents expectations his

whole life.

This book hooked me from the start. I love it when a book can immediately

draw you in, and this book did just that. Love & Gelato is full of so many

loveable characters, and it’s so heartwarming to watch them bond. While I

did feel that for a romance book it did take a while to fully uncover the whole

romance, it is very well written, and has many other factors other than just

the main romance. We learn more about the main character's distrust with

Most people know this book series from the tv series made after the books. I

know a lot of people who watched the show first, then read the books.

Personally, I would never do that. I hate watching the remaking of books as

shows first, just because when you do go to read the books, your entire

perspective is altered due to the show. So as soon as I discovered the show,

and the books it was created for, I went out and got myself a copy of the

books first. Me and my best friend read them together, and when we both

This book is amazing. Although the title is pretty cheesy, this book really

does show what a true relationship can look like, full of ups and downs. Sick

Kids in Love is written from the perspective of main character Isabel. Isabel

isn’t your average teenager, which adds so much more to the book. She has a

hard home life, which is explained throughout the book. Not only that, but

she deals with rheumatoid arthritis on a regular basis, something that most

Martin Dubois, a teenage boy who has autism, travels to France during the summer for his

mother’s new movie production. His sister, Elizabeth, accompanies him and helps him through

the first few days of summer school. Martin has never been in a “normal” school environment,

so it’s tricky for him to deal with so many different students. Martin believes that the book,

Search, is a story of his life from the main character’s point of view. So when he meets a girl

Alex & Eliza, by Melissa de la Cruz, tells the story of Alexander Hamilton and Eliza Schuyler’s

romance. Set in the late eighteenth century, Eliza is the daughter of a high standing family that

has lost most of their money. She meets Alexander, a poor young soldier from the West Indies,

at her family’s ball. The two immediately disagree and separate as enemies. As one of three

Children of Blood and Bone, by Tomi Adeyemi, is a fantasy book with a gripping plot. Zélie is a

young girl living in Orïsha, a fictional country where magic exists. Zélie is a maji, a group of

outlawed people born with magic. All magic was destroyed when Zélie was just a child. For her

entire life, she has faced discrimination due to her magic. However, when runaway princess

Amari finds a magical scroll, Zélie unlocks her powers for the first time in years. Together, the