Reviews by Category: Romance

Teen Review
Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren

Love and Other Words

By Christina Lauren
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Alyssa F.
Jan 25, 2022

This story follows the past and present of main characters, Macy Sorenson and Elliott Petropoulos. For years the two spend weekends and summer vacations spending time together and growing closer as they navigate high school together but separately. One night changes everything and they become strangers for 11 years until they run into each other again.

Teen Review
The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

The Cruel Prince

By Holly Black
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Elyea S.
Jan 8, 2022

When she was younger, Jude and her sisters were taken to a strange land, different from their earth. The High Courts of Faerie where different types of fey live. Though, her and her sisters were the only humans in this kingdom. The fey are not fond of humans and think of them as inferior. Jude wants to prove herself worthy and become a knight in the court. As she tries to make her way up, betrayal happens within the court, making it crumble.

Teen Review
It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover

It Ends With Us

By Colleen Hoover
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Mandy G.
Jan 5, 2022

It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover is a romantic fiction novel that is extremely realistic. The book is told through the perspective of Lily who is a woman that moved to Boston and is ready to start her own flower shop. As she lives in the aftermath of her father’s death, Ryle Kincaid enters her life. Ryle is a handsome neurosurgeon who works long hours and is against romantic relationships. However, Lily may just be the exception to his aversion. Their relationship becomes complicated when Atlas Corrigan shows up.

Teen Review
The Hating Game by Sally Thorne

The Hating Game

By Sally Thorne
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Mandy G.
Jan 5, 2022

The Hating Game by Sally Thorne is a romantic realistic fiction novel following the story of two coworkers who are enemies. The coworkers Lucy Hutton and Joshua Templeman are assistants to the co-CEOs that run a publishing company. The publishing company was established when the Gamin and Bexley publishing companies merged. Each company had a set way of doing business and even after the merger, the employees don’t get along and often keep to themselves.

Teen Review
Verity by Colleen Hoover

Verity

By Colleen Hoover
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Mandy G.
Jan 5, 2022

Verity, by Colleen Hoover, is a fiction novel filled with suspense and romance. The book is told from the perspective of Lowen who is an author with a struggling career in New York. However, her career takes an unexpected turn when Jeremy Crawford shows up in her life. He offers her the job of a lifetime: finishing his wife’s famous book series. As Lowen begins her new job she is faced with challenges along the way. Lowen discovers secrets that Jeremy’s hurt wife, Verity Crawford, never intended to get out.

Teen Review
Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

Cemetery Boys

By Aiden Thomas
Star Rating
★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Jan 4, 2022

Yadriel is a Blacksheep. His whole family brujos and brujas fit into their roles as spirit savers and healers respectfully. But Yadriel, a transgender boy, is stuck in the middle identifying as a brujo but being acknowledged as a bruja by most of his family. To prove he is a brujo, Yadriel appoints his cousin (the other Blacksheep of the family) in saving the day through the powers of the brujos. Yadriel succeeds in using the brujo powers but summons the wrong spirit. Instead of helping his family, he summoned the spirit of bad boy Julian...

Teen Review

Cinder

By Marissa Meyer
Star Rating
★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Jan 4, 2022

The disease, Letumosis, is eating away at the shining city of New Beijing. Kai, the Prince, of New Beijing is holding a ball in a few days. And the Lunar Queen Levana is plotting. Meanwhile, Cinder, part metal and full-time mechanic, is facing her malicious family, prejudice, and mounting chores with only her tools and her android with a “flawed personality” Iko...

Teen Review
Sour by Olivia Rodrigo

Sour

By Olivia Rodrigo
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Emery S.
Dec 13, 2021

Sour

1.brutal - 3/10 - The song itself is very punk rock and is a great song for this genre, however it does not fit the style of the album. It is different instrumentation and is a completely different genre from the majority of the album.

Teen Review
Cover photo of the book The Selection

The Selection

By Kiera Cass
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
N.A. Singh
Dec 9, 2021

Taking place in the future, we follow American Singer, a sixteen-year old girl, who is given the ultimate chance of a lifetime. The kingdom has offered thirty-five girls a spot to potentially marry Prince Maxon. American Singer is one of the thirty-five that is chosen, but unlike her peers who would kill for this part, she is unhappy. She cannot bear to think of leaving her lover, Ashton, for some man she doesn’t know at all. However, things start to change when she meets Prince Maxon in real life.

Teen Review
Normal People by Sally Rooney

Normal People

By Sally Rooney
Star Rating
★★

Rated by
Emily N.
Dec 7, 2021

The story of love, heartbreak, betrayal, and reunion between the two main characters, Connell and Marianne. Told over the course of a few years, readers follow their journey through high school and college as they navigate their ever-changing relationship. I really wanted to like this book. After everything I had heard about Sally Rooney, I had high expectations for this book, and unfortunately, I feel like it didn’t quite live up to the hype. Normally I am a big fan of romance, but this one just didn’t cut it for me.

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