Genre 📚: YA Contemporary, Romance
Tropes 💁♀️: Enemies to lovers, Best friend’s ex, Secret pen pals
Rep ✔️: POC side characters
CW ⚠️: Messy divorce, emotionally distant parents
Rating ⭐️: 4.5/5
Review: P.S. I Like You by Kasie West
Tag: Book Review
Review: Twin Tides by Hien Nguyen
Genre 📚: YA/NA Horror, Thriller, Paranormal
Tropes 💁♀️: Long-lost twins, Family secrets, Murder mystery
Rep ✔️: Vietnamese American main characters, POC side characters
CW ⚠️: Loss of a loved one, grief, intergenerational trauma, brutal deaths/kidnapping
Rating ⭐️: 3.5/5
Review: Daddy Issues by Kate Goldbeck
Genre 📚: Adult Contemporary, Romance
Tropes 💁♀️: Age gap romance, Single dad, Forced proximity
Rep ✔️: Queer side characters
CW ⚠️: Descriptive sex scenes, abandonment, emotionally distant parent
Rating ⭐️: 4/5
Review: The Cuffing Game by Lyla Lee
Genre 📚: YA/NA Contemporary, Romance
Tropes 💁♀️: Reality TV romance, Showrunner x Contestant, Enemies to lovers
Rep ✔️: Korean/Korean American main characters, Bisexual main character, BIPOC and queer side characters
CW ⚠️: Brief mention of homophobic parent
Rating ⭐️: 3.5/5
Review: My Roommate From Hell by Cale Dietrich
Genre 📚: YA/NA Contemporary, Paranormal, Fantasy
Tropes 💁♀️: Demon x Human, Opposites attract, Forced proximity, Fake dating
Rep ✔️: Queer main characters and side characters
CW ⚠️: Religious bigotry, drugging/kidnapping
Rating ⭐️: 3.5/5
Review: And the River Drags Her Down by Jihyun Yun
Genre 📚: YA Horror, Paranormal, Fantasy
Tropes 💁♀️: Family curse, Resurrection, Revenge
Rep ✔️: Korean American main characters
CW ⚠️: Loss of a loved one, grief, body horror, animal mutilation
Rating ⭐️: 4/5
Review: Overdue by Stephanie Perkins
Genre 📚: Adult Contemporary, Women’s Fiction, Romance
Tropes 💁♀️: Workplace romance, Slow burn, Books about books, Grumpy x Sunshine
Rep ✔️: BIPOC and queer side characters
CW ⚠️: Parent with agoraphobia, loss of a loved one, panic attacks
Rating ⭐️: 3.5/5
Review: Fake Skating by Lynn Painter
Genre 📚: YA Contemporary, Romance
Tropes 💁♀️: Sports romance, Fake dating, Former friends to lovers
CW ⚠️: Social anxiety, panic attacks
Rating ⭐️: 4.5/5
Review: All the Way Around the Sun by Xixi Tian
Genre 📚: YA Contemporary, Coming-of-age, Romance
Tropes 💁♀️: College road trip, Former friends to lovers
Rep ✔️: Chinese American main characters
CW ⚠️: Loss of a loved one, grief, anxiety, diaspora, brief moment of racism
Rating ⭐️: 4.5/5
Review: Game On by Ki Stephens
Genre 📚: New Adult Contemporary, Romance
Tropes 💁♀️: Sports romance, College romance, Friends with benefits, Football player x Cheerleader
Rep ✔️: Main character with OCD
CW ⚠️: Descriptive sex scenes, house fire, abandonment, emotionally distant parents
Rating ⭐️: 3/5
Sara Bechtol 