Anne’s House of Dreams, the fifth book in the Anne series, packs quite a punch. My favorite novel of the series, Anne’s House of Dreams begins with Anne’s lovely wedding to Gilbert in the orchard of Green Gables. The story continues as they move to their first home on the other side of Prince Edward Island, as Gilbert begins his medical practice, and as Gilbert and Anne start their family and their married life together.
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas is the first book in a widely known fantasy romance series. This first novel follows Feyre, and her wishes to help her family. In an unfortunate incident with a bow and arrow, Feyre finds herself in the deadly land of the Fae, where as a human she is subject to the magic of the powerful creatures that live there. She ends up in the Spring Court, with the mysterious Lord Tamlin as her captor.
Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover is a romance novel that explores the complexities of love, loss and the challenges of emotional vulnerability. The story follows Tate Collins, a nursing student who recently moved in with her brother in San Francisco. She quickly meets Miles Archer, a handsome yet guarded pilot who lives across the hall. There is an immediate strong connection between the two, however Miles refuses to explore their connection because of his last relationship pains.
Evangeline Fox is in love. She’s never known love before, but she can tell this is the real thing. Unfortunately, her lover is betrothed to her stepsister. Evangeline knows that he would rather run away with her, as he insists what they have is true love. In order to save their relationship, Evangeline makes a risky deal with the Prince of Hearts, Jacks, which leaves her stuck as a statue for weeks. When she finally rejoins society, she learns that her lover has left her. Heartbroken, she meets with Jacks to accuse him of ruining her chance at a life with love.
Better Than the Movies by Lynn Painter is a sweet high school rom-com that touches your heart from start to finish. In the book, you follow Liz, a high school senior who has been through more than most of her peers. When she was younger, her mother sadly passed away and left behind Liz and her father. One of the things Liz’s mother instilled in Liz was a love of movies, especially rom-coms. This leads to a bit of an obsession, and her appearing odd to most other students.
Fourth Wing is a high fantasy novel that follows a cadet named Violet Sorrengail as she braves Basgiath War College, where the only goal is to bond with a dragon or die trying. As the daughter of a commanding general, she has an immediate target on her back. Throughout the book, we see Violet try to make her way through this college, forging friendships and navigating enemies.
Paedyn Gray is Ordinary. Normally, this isn’t a problem for the thieving eighteen-year-old, as she’s able to slip under the radar of the Elites. Luckily so, as being an Ordinary among the Elites is punishable by death. But her encounter with a mysterious stranger is anything but normal. Sticking her neck out for someone isn’t usually her style, but Pae decides to save the poor man she had recently robbed in an alley fight, one that escalated quickly after the stranger was recognized.
Twisted Lies is the final installment of the Twisted series by Ana Huang. Stella Alonso is a social media influencer with quite a few followers. However, with being famous comes some problems. Stella has a stalker, and as such needs protection. The man who owns the building she lives in, Christian Harper, agrees to pretend to be her fake boyfriend. In addition, Christian owns a business called Harper Security, making it so much easier to protect Stella.
Twisted Hate by Ana Huang is the third book in the popular Twisted Series. This novel follows Jules Ambrose, one of the four friends, and also a law student at Thayer Law. She has a shadowed past, including an abusive ex-boyfriend named Max. Josh Chen is Ava’s (from the first book, Twisted Love) older brother. Josh and Jules have not been friendly ever since college, when Jules got Ava into a few scrapes.
Twisted Games is in my opinion, the best out of the four novels that make up Ana Huang’s Twisted Series. This particular book follows Princess Bridget. Yes, Princess. Bridget is royalty from a fictional country called Eldorra and so has a security detail that comes with the title. When Bridget’s personal bodyguard, Booth, is stepping down to have a family, Rhys Larsen comes into the picture.
