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.
While We Were Dating, written by Jasmine Guillory, is a story about two people. One is named Ben Stevens, a man who has an advertising job and Anna Gardiner, a movie star who wants to become a household name. She accepts the job for the ad campaign that Ben Stevens works for. Nothing was serious between them until they started catching feelings for each other. Could their busy lives get in between the spark they have for each other?
After a disastrous time at Loveboat, Sophie, a freshman at Dartmouth is ready to focus on her career and swear off all boys. While Xavier was told that he wouldn’t get his trust fund, which unlocks at 18, till he finishes high school. Sophie wants to focus on doing well in Dartmouth, while Xavier wants to hold out in high school and get his diploma quickly. However, Sophie was told her project was too feminine and to prove her professor wrong she takes Xavier’s help to make her project better in Taipei.
Ever Wong is a high school senior who wants to dance despite her pre-planned path to becoming a doctor. When she gets off the waitlist and gets into Tisch, all Ever wants to do is get a scholarship and go there, even though it is against her parents’ wishes. However, her parents send her to Taipei to learn more about her culture, hindering her summer plans for a scholarship. When she learns that Chien Tan, her summer camp, isn’t what it seems and is actually Loveboat, a place where kids like her go to nightclubs and parties. She then decides to break all of the Wong rules that summer.
So you know the basic idea of the fairy-tale and folklore-inspired fiction: Princess Aurore had a christening party which was interrupted by a slighted uninvited guest who casts a curse over the poor child. In the fantasy fiction curse when she turns 16 she will prick her finger and one drop of blood will fall and Aurore will die. Another guest utters a counterspell in the suspenseful tale, and the guest at least is not a fairy in this book.
Romeo and Juliet, the unforgettable play by the brilliant William Shakespeare, is a deeply human story that tugs at the strings of our hearts. It takes place in the enchanting city of Verona, Italy, where two young souls find themselves entangled in a long-standing feud between their families.
What makes Dragon's Keep work for me is its approach: a medieval fantasy written more like historical fantasy than high fantasy. Yet it has that sliver of magic and magical creatures (dragons, of course) to spice up the lyrical story. In other words, the author avoids over-doing the chosen one approach, and instead creates very believable characters in a believable world.
Eleanor and Park is a book all about the romantic relationship between Park Sheridan and Eleanor Douglas. These two are portrayed as polar opposites inside of the books. Park being a half- Korean male and Eleanor the new shy red head from a bad background. They both met on the bus and started to bond over comic books and music and from there their relationship had a lot of ups and downs. There were a lot of emotions, and we see both characters grow as people because of the events that take place.
Romeo and Juliet is a book that starts in the City of Verona where we see a conflict between two families: the Capulets and the Montagues. These families have hated each other since the beginning of time. One day at the Capulet household there was a masquerade ball and Romeo Montague decided to go to this ball with his friends as a joke and to try and disrupt the ball. This is where Romeo and Juliet meet, and they fall in love.
Francesca Bridgerton, the Countess of Kilmartin has finally reached a kind of peace in her life. She is ready to shed the colors of half-mourning, she has found purpose in life through managing the Kilmartin estate, and she has returned to London to find a husband. But this visit unfortunately coincides with the return of her estranged best friend and late husband’s cousin, Michael. They find themselves increasingly drawn together, but a sense of guilt and duty towards the late Earl of Kilmartin keeps them apart…until it can’t.
