Genre 📚: Adult Contemporary, Romance
Tropes 💁♀️: Sports romance, Football fan x Football player, Fake dating/PR stunt
CW ⚠️: Dementia, loss of a loved one, grief
Rating ⭐️: 3/5
Review: First and Forever by Lynn Painter
Author: Sara B.
...is a Korean-Jewish American writer, fangirl, and dog mom. She loves romance in all mediums, whether in books or k-dramas -- on a good day, maybe even The Bachelor.
Review: You’re Dead to Me, Reed Walker by Gwenyth Reitz
Genre 📚: YA Paranormal Romance, Mystery, Thriller
Tropes 💁♀️: (Ghost) Rivals to lovers, Forced proximity, Haunted mansion, Murder mystery
Rep ✔️: Hispanic main character, BIPOC side characters
CW ⚠️: Loss of a loved one, grief, murder, stalking, divorce
Rating ⭐️: 3.5/5
Review: Rolls and Rivalry by Kristy Boyce
Genre 📚: YA Contemporary, Romance
Tropes 💁♀️: Former friends to lovers, Rivals to lovers, Forced proximity
Rep ✔️: BIPOC side characters
CW ⚠️: Divorce, emotionally distant parent
Rating ⭐️: 4.5/5
Review: Like We Were in Paris by Stephan Lee
Genre 📚: YA Contemporary, Romance
Tropes 💁♀️: Former friends to lovers, Forced proximity, Travel romance, Bucket list
Rep ✔️: Korean American gay main character, gay love interest, BIPOC and queer side characters
CW ⚠️: Loss of a loved one, grief, homophobia, racism
Rating ⭐️: 3.5/5
Review: Until We Meet Again by Lily Kim Qian
Genre 📚: Memoir, Nonfiction, Graphic Novel
CW ⚠️: Parents fighting, messy divorce/custody battles, depression, ED, body image issues
Rating ⭐️: 5/5
Review: I Could Give You the Moon by Ann Liang
Genre 📚: YA Contemporary Fantasy, Romance
Tropes 💁♀️: Fighting fate, Rich girl x Bad boy, Golden retriever x Black cat, “Touch her and die”
Rep ✔️: Full cast of Chinese characters
CW ⚠️: Messy divorce, emotionally distant parent, violence, child exploitation, house fire
Rating ⭐️: 4/5
Review: While You Were Seething by Charlotte Stein
Genre 📚: Adult Contemporary, Romance
Tropes 💁♀️: Enemies to lovers, Fake dating, Forced proximity, Road trip
CW ⚠️: Descriptive sex scenes, off-page violence
Rating ⭐️: 2.5/5
Review: Seyoon and Dean, Unscripted by Sujin Witherspoon
Genre 📚: YA Contemporary, Romance
Tropes 💁♀️: Reality TV romance, Rivals to lovers, Fake dating
Rep ✔️: Korean American main character, BIPOC and queer side characters
CW ⚠️: Anxiety, emotionally distant parent
Rating ⭐️: 4/5
Review: Someone to Daydream About by Sydney Langford
Genre 📚: YA Contemporary, Romance
Tropes 💁♀️: Celebrity/Boy band romance, Forced proximity, Grumpy x Sunshine
Rep ✔️: Disabled main characters, demi-romantic FMC, Korean-Australian and pansexual MMC, BIPOC and queer side characters
CW ⚠️: Loss of a loved one, grief, cyber bullying, brief mention of parent being ableist and queerphobic
Rating ⭐️: 3.5/5
Review: Right as Rain by Tashie Bhuiyan
Genre 📚: YA Speculative Fiction, Coming-of-age, Romance
Tropes 💁♀️: Empathetic environment, Family drama, Grumpy x Sunshine
Rep ✔️: Bangladeshi American main character, Turkish American love interest, queer side character
CW ⚠️: Depression, suicidal ideation, anxiety, panic attacks, emotional (and some physical) abuse
Rating ⭐️: 4.5/5
Sara Bechtol 