Happy Valentine’s Day! On this special day, I decided to share with you my top 3 picks for YA and Adult Romance. Some of these books are fun and light-hearted, and some are contemporary novels that will make you bleed. All I can say is that I love each and every one of this book with a fiery passion. Hope you do too!

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Happy Valentine’s Day!

My Top 3 Young Adult and Adult

Romance novels

 

 

 

My Top 3 Young Adult Romance

 

Love, Life, and The List by Kasie West

 

Synopsis:

Seventeen-year-old Abby Turner’s summer isn’t going the way she’d planned. She has a not-so-secret but definitely unrequited crush on her best friend, Cooper. She hasn’t been able to manage her mother’s growing issues with anxiety. And now she’s been rejected from an art show because her work “has no heart.” So when she gets another opportunity to show her paintings Abby isn’t going to take any chances.

Which is where the list comes in.

Abby gives herself one month to do ten things, ranging from face a fear (#3) to learn a stranger’s story (#5) to fall in love (#8). She knows that if she can complete the list she’ll become the kind of artist she’s always dreamed of being. But as the deadline approaches, Abby realizes that getting through the list isn’t as straightforward as it seems… and that maybe—just maybe—she can’t change her art if she isn’t first willing to change herself.

This is the first in a set of three standalone books with crossover characters.

 

Note:

I said it before, and I say it again: Kasie West is one of my auto-buy authors. I’m in love with her books. This book is one of my favorite books from her. It’s a swooning romance with light-hearted and heart-breaking moments.

 

 

Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum

 

Synopsis:

Everything about Jessie is wrong. At least, that’s what it feels like during her first week of junior year at her new ultra-intimidating prep school in Los Angeles. Just when she’s thinking about hightailing it back to Chicago, she gets an email from a person calling themselves Somebody/Nobody (SN for short), offering to help her navigate the wilds of Wood Valley High School. Is it an elaborate hoax? Or can she rely on SN for some much-needed help?

It’s been barely two years since her mother’s death, and because her father eloped with a woman he met online, Jessie has been forced to move across the country to live with her stepmonster and her pretentious teenage son.

In a leap of faith—or an act of complete desperation—Jessie begins to rely on SN, and SN quickly becomes her lifeline and closest ally. Jessie can’t help wanting to meet SN in person. But are some mysteries better left unsolved?

 

 

Note:

I don’t remember why I picked this book up, but whatever the reason was, it was a wonderful idea. This cute story reminds me a little of Simon Vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda, but with straight characters. You guys know how much I LOVE Simon.

 

Instruction for a second-hand heart by Tamsyn Murray

 

Synopsis:

Jonny knows better than anyone that life is full of cruel ironies. He’s spent every day in a hospital hooked up to machines to keep his heart ticking. Then when a donor match is found for Jonny’s heart, that turns out to be the cruelest irony of all. Because for Jonny’s life to finally start, someone else’s had to end.

That someone turns out to be Neve’s twin brother, Leo. When Leo was alive, all Neve wanted was for him (and all his glorious, overshadowing perfection) to leave. Now that Leo’s actually gone forever, Neve has no idea how to move forward. Then Jonny walks into her life looking for answers, her brother’s heart beating in his chest, and everything starts to change.

Together, Neve and Jonny will have to face the future, no matter how frightening it is, while also learning to heal their hearts, no matter how much it hurts.

 

 

Note:

I want to warn you. Brace yourself because you’re going to ugly cry in this book. I probably cried for 2/3 of the book. I know I’m not the only one who lost it on this book. It’s a beautiful story!

 

 

My Top 3 Adult Romance

 

Can you keep a secret? by Sophie Kinsella

 

Synopsis:

Meet Emma Corrigan, a young woman with a huge heart, an irrepressible spirit, and a few little secrets: Secrets from her boyfriend: I’ve always thought Connor looks a bit like Ken. As in Barbie and Ken. Secrets from her mother: I lost my virginity in the spare bedroom with Danny Nussbaum while Mum and Dad were downstairs watching Ben-Hur. Secrets she wouldn’t share with anyone in the world: I have no idea what NATO stands for. Or even what it is. Until she spills them all to a handsome stranger on a plane. At least, she thought he was a stranger.…Until Emma comes face-to-face with Jack Harper, the company’s elusive CEO, a man who knows every single humiliating detail about her…

 

Note:

This book made me laugh in a way I was glad I wasn’t in a public place. If you want to have a good laugh and some tears too while reading a swooning romance, this is it. This romance is perfect.

 

 

The Hating Game by Sally Thorne

 

Synopsis:

Nemesis (n.)
1) An opponent or rival whom a person cannot best or overcome;
2) A person’s undoing;
3) Joshua Templeman.

Lucy Hutton and Joshua Templeman hate each other. Not dislike. Not begrudgingly tolerate. Hate. And they have no problem displaying their feelings through a series of ritualistic passive-aggressive maneuvers as they sit across from each other, executive assistants to co-CEOs of a publishing company. Lucy can’t understand Joshua’s joyless, uptight, meticulous approach to his job. Joshua is clearly baffled by Lucy’s overly bright clothes, quirkiness, and Pollyanna attitude.

Now up for the same promotion, their battle of wills has come to a head and Lucy refuses to back down when their latest game could cost her her dream job…But the tension between Lucy and Joshua has also reached its boiling point, and Lucy is discovering that maybe she doesn’t hate Joshua. And maybe, he doesn’t hate her either. Or maybe this is just another game.

 

Note:

This book is also a romantic comedy. I laughed a lot in this book. It’s a wonderful story that I believe I read in one sitting. Totally worth reading!

 

Archer’s voice by Mia Sheridan

 

Synopsis:

When Bree Prescott arrives in the sleepy, lakeside town of Pelion, Maine, she hopes against hope that this is the place where she will finally find the peace she so desperately seeks. On her first day there, her life collides with Archer Hale, an isolated man who holds a secret agony of his own. A man no one else sees.

Archer’s Voice is the story of a woman chained to the memory of one horrifying night and the man whose love is the key to her freedom. It is the story of a silent man who lives with an excruciating wound and the woman who helps him find his voice. It is the story of suffering, fate, and the transformative power of love.

As diplomatic ties manage to just barely hold, the two teens struggle to remain loyal to their families and each other as they learn that war is not as black and white as they’ve been raised to believe.

 

Note:

This story will always remain one of my favorites. Definitely not a comedy! This story is unique, raw, pure and dark at once. I haven’t read anything like it before. The characters are two broken vases, and as a reader, you witness this amazing reconstruction as all the pieces get back together. An incredible story!

 

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What’s the best romance novel you’ve ever read? If you have a chance to read this arc, Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren, read it. It was also a fantastic read too, but it won’t be available just yet.  Stay tuned!

 

Happy Reading all!

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