Daydream by Hannah Grace is a long and repetitive book with no clear message or image that sets itself apart from the other two books in the Maple Hills Series. This book is about Henry and Halle and how two unlikely people can come together for a mutual benefit situation. Henry gets help from her for a class he can’t seem to get and Halle gets new experiences from Henry to help her write her romance book.
Icebreaker by Hannah Grace is a different kind of romance novel. Telling from the cover, it adds a refreshing air of sports and emotional depth between the two main characters Anastasia and Nathan. Anastasia is the main protagonist in this novel. She is a likable, socially awkward, figure skater just trying to qualify for ice skating nationals. Nathan on the other hand, is popular, well-liked, and the star hockey player.
January Andrews and Augustus Everest are two authors with contrastingly different genres. January wrote romance and Augustus wrote literary fiction. These two were college rivals and hadn’t seen each other for years. However, when January moves into her father’s vacation house in Lake Michigan, she finds out that her neighbor was her academic competitor. When they meet again, they come up with a plan to resolve their writing blocks. They decide to switch genres as a competition. The book follows the adventures January and Augustus take and their ultimate love story.
The slow-burn romance throughout the book was what kept me reading. Poppy and Henry are the main characters and they have been friends since college. The book started off talking about how they hadn't talked in two years, but included well-transitioned flashbacks to when they met. They had taken annual summer trips ever since college and this is how they rekindled their friendship. This book is a well-created friends-to-lovers trope book. I really enjoyed this book because the characters were flawed and real.
The Rescue by Nicholas Sparks is a Romance Novel about a hometown hero and a city girl. Taylor McAden, a volunteer firefighter, is faced with one of the biggest challenges when rescuing Denise Holton’s son after a car accident in the forest during one of the worst storms possible. During the search for Kyle, Taylor gives all he has not to give up the fight when he gets an idea. A few weeks later Denise and Taylor reconnect sparking an interesting love story.
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.
Twisted Love by Ana Huang is the first novel in the interconnected standalones series, The Twisted Series. This first book follows Ava Chen, one of the four girl best friends that the four books are based on. Ava’s older brother, Josh, is going on a mission trip of sorts to care for people who need medical care in South America due to his medical education. Josh wants his little sister to be protected, so asks his best friend Alex Volkov to watch out for her.
Love Redesigned is an enemies to lovers romance book by Lauren Asher. It follows the story of Dahlia and Julian, two family friends who turned into childhood rivals. After years of no contact, they run into each other after Dahlia comes back to their old town. This sparks their relationship when Julian asks Dahlia to work on a project with him. Throughout the book, their past is revealed and why they stopped talking to each other all those years ago.
