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: While You Were Seething by Charlotte Stein
Tag: Contemporary
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: P.S. I Like You by Kasie West
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: 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: 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: 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
Review: Wish You Were Her by Elle McNicoll
Genre 📚: YA Contemporary, Romance
Tropes 💁♀️: Celebrity romance, Small town romance, Rivals to lovers, Secret pen pals
Rep ✔️: Autistic main characters
CW ⚠️: Ableism, cyberbullying and harassment
Rating ⭐️: 4/5
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