Reviews by Category: Romance

This book will pull on all your heartstrings in the best way possible. Colleen Hoover tackles lots

of hardships in this novel, such as fixing family relationships, grief, and making amends with the

past. This book hooks you from the very beginning, and it has lots of complex parts to the plot

that keep you wanting more. I read this book in one day, and I think that mostly speaks for itself.

Another Colleen Hoover book that you should add to your want-to-read list.

Holding Up the Universe by Jennifer Niven is a sweet story about two characters who have their

own personal struggles and over the course of the book they come together to accept their

differences and form an amazing bond. This book deals with important issues such as

self-confidence, and it will definitely make you smile by the end. I only gave it 3 stars because it

was a little bit more difficult for me to stay interested than with other novels, but overall it's a

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas is a YA realistic fantasy. Meaning that it takes place in the

modern day but has fantasy elements and is led by a young adult cast. The book is led by

Yadriel- a trans boy who accidentally raises a spirit and only wants to prove himself to his family.

As the book goes along Yadriel’s relationship with the spirit he summoned grows while they try

to uncover the mysterious circumstances reloving the spirit’s death along with other members of

Pride and Prejudice; a historical fiction by Jane Austen. The book is about the Bennet

family, specifically the Bennet sisters and their paths of romance. The struggle through finding

their desires within a strict class system and society. The reader follows Elizabeth Bennet and

her relationship with Mr. Darcy. Austen has a very captivating writing style. The way she

connects meaning within descriptions is beautiful and makes it an intriguing read. She

Red, White & Royal Blue, by Casey McQuiston, is a wonderful combination of scandals, romance, and

politics.

A beautiful story, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab takes you away to a new

world--one where a girl named Addie makes a deal with the “devil”. The book takes you on an

adventure as Addie tells her story of how she lives to hundreds of years old, experiencing wars,

corruption, and success--and finds love within it. Schwab’s writing style of building off of mainly

flashbacks draws readers tightly into the story, with its ups and downs and chapters full of

This book is about a trans boy trying to prove himself as a boy and be accepted by his family so

that he can become a brujo. Well trying to prove himself he summons the spirit of Julian, a

recently deceased bad boy from his high school, instead of his cousin Miguel who is missing.

Now he has to help Julian make amends with his friends and figure out how he died, try to find

his cousin, and prove himself to his traditional family. This book starts off slowly but then

Stardust is an intriguing and truly fantastical novel by Neil Gaiman. Its about a boy name Tristan

Thorn who was born from an unusual circumstance in an unusual town. A wall on one side

blocks his town from the world of the Fae. While being in love with a girl, he believes if he finds

her a star in the faerie land he’ll finally have her become his wife. What comes next is a

fascinating, dark, and whimsical adventure with talking trees, tinkerers, and powerful witches

Summary:

This story follows the life of Jude Duarte, an individual whose life took a very drastic turn of

events, very quickly. One minute she was living happily with her parents, twin sister, and elder

sister, the next, a strange man comes into their lives, kills her parents, and takes her and her

sisters away to a strange land, in which magic exists. Jude and her sister Taryn are humans, they

have little to do with this new land of Faerie apart from keep themselves safe from it, but