Reviews by Tag: contemporary romance

Teen Review
Love Redesigned

Love Redesigned

By Lauren Asher
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Mar 25, 2024

Love Redesigned is an enemies to lovers romance book by Lauren Asher. It follows the story of Dahlia and Julian, two family friends who turned into childhood rivals. After years of no contact, they run into each other after Dahlia comes back to their old town. This sparks their relationship when Julian asks Dahlia to work on a project with him. Throughout the book, their past is revealed and why they stopped talking to each other all those years ago. 

Teen Review
November 9 by Colleen Hoover

November 9

By Colleen Hoover
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Mar 25, 2024

November 9 is a fictional novel by Colleen Hoover. It follows the story of Fallon and Ben, who meet the day Fallon is going to move out of the country. They ultimately decide to spend her last day in the state together. They develop a real connection and decide to meet up every November 9th with no communication in between. One day, Fallon discovers a secret that tests their relationship and leads to a shocking discovery. 

Teen Review
Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren

Love and Other Words

By Christina Lauren
Star Rating
★★★

Rated by
Caitlin T.
Nov 20, 2023

The book Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren, is a beautifully written book about how love will always be left in your heart, no matter how much time goes by. Macy was just ten years old when she met Elliot, and after eleven years they are reunited. In what feels like a lifetime of memories since they last saw each other, they must deal with the heartache of childhood, while also learning how to be a part of each other's adult lives. 

Teen Review
Twisted Lies

Twisted Lies

By Ana Huang
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Sahavi
Oct 10, 2023

Christian Harper is a cold, calculated CEO with questionable morals and no tolerance for
romance. Except a peculiar fascination with the new tenant in his apartment complex, Stella
Alonso. Sweet, caring and introverted Stella is waiting for her perfect love story but right now
she neither has the time nor energy to have a relationship. Christian strikes up a deal with Stella
to be her fake boyfriend and the two start a fake relationship to grow Stella’s online influencer

Teen Review
Twisted Lies

Twisted Lies

By Ana Huang
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Sahavi
Aug 29, 2023

Christian Harper is a cold, calculated CEO with questionable morals and no tolerance for romance. Except a peculiar fascination with the new tenant in his apartment complex, Stella Alonso. Sweet, caring and introverted Stella is waiting for her perfect love story but right now she neither has the time nor energy to have a relationship. Christian strikes up a deal with Stella to be her fake boyfriend and the two start a fake relationship to grow Stella’s online influencer status. But the two can't deny their chemistry and fake dating turns to not so fake.

Teen Review
Happy Place

Happy Place

By Emily Henry
Star Rating
★★★

Rated by
Mariam S.
Aug 29, 2023

    Wyn and Harriet, the perfect couple much deserving of some time together after being long distance for so long, have the opportunity to spend a week at a beautiful Maine cottage as their friends get married. There's just one problem: they broke up months ago, and their friends don't know. In order to keep the cottage as a "happy place" for just one more week, they decide to fake being together rather than ruin the group's time together.

Teen Review
Icebreaker book cover

Icebreaker

By Hannah Grace
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Bella Anto
Aug 8, 2023

Icebreaker, by Hannah Grace is a college romance about a figure skater named Anastasia Allen and the hockey captain Nathan Hawkins. As both main characters strive for success and to do the best for their future, an incident results in the two teams sharing the same ice rink. 

Teen Review
Here's to Us

Here's to Us

By Adam Silvera and Becky Albertalli
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Ken
Jul 3, 2023

Here’s to Us, a novel by Adam Silvera and Becky Albertalli, shows the reunion of Ben and Arthur. They cross paths once more as Arthur arrives on Broadway for a dream internship. Even as the boys try to focus on their futures, they can't seem to help running into each other in the present. I loved this sequel to What if It's Us

Teen Review
Book Lovers

Book Lovers

By Emily Henry
Star Rating
★★★

Rated by
Ken
Jul 3, 2023

Book Lovers, written by Emily Henry, is a novel about Nora who has been through more breakups than you can count. She is a workaholic living in New York, but when her younger sister drags her into a month-long trip to Sunshine Falls North Carolina, Nora is hopeful that she'll find a summer love. That's when she meets Charlie Lastra. She's not quite sure how her story is going to end after meeting him. 

Teen Review
Things We Never Got Over

Things We Never Got Over

By Lucy Score
Star Rating
★★★

Rated by
Aubrie
Apr 19, 2023

The novel follows Naomi Witt and Knox Morgan. Naomi moved to a small town in Virginia after skipping out on her own wedding and found herself the guardian of her sister's daughter, Waylay after her sister left unexpectedly. When Naomi finds work at a bar she meets the bartender, Knox and they are instantly attracted to each other but neither of them want a relationship. Naomi’s sister shows back up and her and her boyfriend kidnap Waylay.

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