Reviews by Category: Romance

Teen Review
They Hate Each Other book cover

They Hate Each Other

By Amanda Woody
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
I Read for Fun
Mar 24, 2025

Jonah and Dylan hate each other. No, really, they do. Dylan hates that Jonah can’t stand not being the center of attention for even five seconds and Jonah hates that Dylan is a perfect rich boy who sucks the fun out of everything. Their hatred for each other is not lessened by the fact that everyone thinks they’d be perfect for each other. When a circumstance presents itself, Dylan proposes a plan- if they fake date, they can stage a fake breakup, and everyone will stop expecting them to go out for real.

Teen Review
Just Ella book cover

Just Ella

By Margaret Peterson Haddix
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
I Read for Fun
Mar 24, 2025

Ella was just a normal girl before she was swept away to a castle with her prince but is her life really as picture-perfect as she expected it to be? Ella Brown isn’t as happy in the palace as she expected. She’s uncomfortable about the new rules that surround her. She has spent so long doing everything herself she has no idea what to do when she is now expected to have everything done for her. Ella got to where she is now all by herself and now, she has to wonder, is here really where she wants to be?

Teen Review
Twisted Love

Twisted Love

By Ana Huang
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Mar 17, 2025

Alex Volkov is a man with a dark past and an even darker heart. His past is filled with trauma and tragedy that forced him to be closed off. However, when he is forced to look after his best friend’s sister, he begins to feel foreign emotions. Ava Chen tries to see the good in everyone, even a man who never shows kindness. They shouldn’t want each other, but they cannot resist. Secrets unravel and the past threatens to pull them apart.

Teen Review
The Ballad of Never After by Stephanie Garber

Ballad of Never After

By Stephanie Garber
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Mar 17, 2025

After her trust is shattered, Evangeline Fox swears to herself that she will never trust Jacks, the Prince of Hearts, again. However, fate has other plans. When a new curse threatens Evangeline, she has no choice but to work with the Prince of Heart risking her heart and soul. Together they will battle new challenges and magic that seem to make this an impossible mission.

Teen Review
Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross

Divine Rivals

By Rebecca Ross
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Mar 17, 2025

Iris Winnow is a journalist who is fighting for the same position as Roman Kitt, her rival. Her mother is suffering from addiction while her brother seems to be lost at war. Tension rises as she begins writing letters to her brother and slipping them under the door. Unbeknownst to her, the letters are sent to the very rival she despises, Roman Kitt, through her enchanted typewriter. As war encroaches and secrets unravel, their connection deepens leading her all the way to the front lines. 

Teen Review
Binding 13 by Chloe Walsh

Binding 13

By Chloe Walsh
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Mar 17, 2025

Shannon is a quiet girl who is severely bullied at her school. She is forced to move to a new school where she is promised a new start. However, her world has taken a turn when she meets Johnny Kavanagh, Ireland’s golden boy. Johnny’s whole life is planned out with the center of it being rugby. So, when he meets Shannon, his feet are knocked out from under him and he is trying his hardest to stick to his life’s path. Past traumas and dangers are threatening to pull them apart as they try to understand this new world they have created for each other. 

Teen Review
The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston

The Seven Year Slip

By Ashley Poston
Star Rating
★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Mar 17, 2025

When book publicist Clementine inherits her late aunt’s apartment, she notices its strange anomaly— the apartment will occasionally slip back seven years in the past. One day, she walks into her apartment, stuck in the past, and meets a charming, mysterious man who might be her perfect match. But as the lines between past and present blur, she must decide whether love can defy time or if some things are better left alone. 

Teen Review
Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover

Ugly Love

By Colleen Hoover
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Kate Horton
Mar 14, 2025

When new nurse, Tate Collins, meets an airline pilot while visiting her brother, the pair are forced to get along. They start a no-string attached agreement, but even with that in place, feeling begin to grow. As this happens, Tate discovers Mile’s past and why he says he is not emotionally available. Do Tate and Miles have a future? Or will that complicate their lives too much? I really enjoyed this book. It was a light-hearted, easy romance read. A perfect book to take on a trip or read at the end of your day. It is very easy to connect to both Tate and Mile’s varying perspectives.

Teen Review
The Davenports book cover

The Davenports

By Krystal Marquis
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Z. Ahmed
Mar 11, 2025

The Davenports is a historical romance novel set in 1910s Chicago, following the lives of four young Black women navigating love, ambition, and societal expectations. The story is about the wealthy Davenport family who built their wealth through a carriage business and was one of the few Black elites of the era. Olivia Davenport, the eldest daughter, is expected to marry well but finds herself in love with a civil rights activist. Helen, her younger sister, is more interested in mechanics than debutante balls.

Teen Review
If the Sun Never Sets book cover

If the Sun Never Sets

By Ana Huang
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Natalie C.
Mar 11, 2025

It is a second-chance romance, where the two main characters have matured since they have last met. In If the Sun Never Sets, the story is between Blake and Farrah, and when their paths cross five years later. They are both successful businesspeople with different career paths. They reunite through Blake’s friend when he contracts Farrah to be Blake’s new interior designer. Blake gets a second chance with the woman that he has loved since he met her.

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