Reviews by Category: Romance

Teen Review
Love & Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch

Love & Gelato

By Jenna Evans Welch
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Natalie M.
Feb 3, 2023

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

Teen Review
The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han

The Summer I Turned Pretty

By Jenny Han
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Natalie M.
Feb 3, 2023

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

Teen Review
Sick Kids in Love by Hannah Moskowitz

Sick Kids in Love

By Hannah Moskowitz
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Natalie M.
Feb 3, 2023

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

Teen Review
Kids Like Us by Hilary Reyl

Kids Like Us

By Hilary Reyl
Star Rating
★★★

Rated by
Leena D.
Feb 2, 2023

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

Teen Review
Alex & Eliza by Melissa de la Cruz

Alex & Eliza

By Melissa de la Cruz
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Leilani G.
Feb 2, 2023

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

Teen Review
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

Children of Blood and Bone

By Tomi Adeyemi
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Leilani G.
Jan 28, 2023

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

Teen Review
Chain of Gold by Cassandra Clare

Chain of Gold

By Cassandra Clare
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Leilani G.
Jan 28, 2023

Chain of Gold, by Cassandra Clare, follows a group of shadowhunters,

descendants of angels whose main goal is to kill demons, in 1903 London. Cordelia

Carstairs is a young shadowhunter moving to England with her family. While there she

reunites with her childhood love, James Herondale, his sister and Cordelia’s best friend,

Lucie, and a host of new characters. While Cordelia gets acclimated to her new home, a

Teen Review
Amelia Unabridged

Amelia Unabridged

By Ashley Schumacher
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Abby S.
Jan 26, 2023

Summary: Amelia Griffin became best friends with Jenna Williams after her father left and her

family fell apart. They bonded over their love of books their favorite ones being a series called

the Orman Chronicles. They are very excited to be able to meet the author at a book festival the

summer before college. However, not everything goes as planned. While Amelia is in the

bathroom, Jenna gets to meet the author, N. E. Endsley, who is having a panic attack. Jenna is

Teen Review
The Ballad of Never After by Stephanie Garber

The Ballad of Never After

By Stephanie Garber
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Maggie S.
Jan 26, 2023

The Ballad of Never After picks up right where the first book, Once Upon a Broken Heart, left off.

Apollo is still under a curse and Evangeline is determined to cure him on her own. However,

after he unexpectedly wakes up, she realizes he is now under two other curses: a curse where

he will continuously hunt her against his will, as well as a curse where he and Evangeline are

Teen Review
Once Upon a Broken Heart by Stephanie Garber

Once Upon a Broken Heart

By Stephanie Garber
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Maggie S.
Jan 26, 2023

Stephanie Garber’s Once Upon a Broken Heart stars Evangeline Fox, a young, optimistic,

hopeless romantic girl with rose gold hair. After learning of her step sister’s engagement to her

first and only love, Evangeline seeks out the assistance of the notorious Prince of Hearts, Jacks,

known for killing people with a single kiss. In exchange for stopping the wedding, she will owe

him three kisses of which he will choose the time, place, and person. After her plans go south,

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