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
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
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
Genre 📚: Adult Contemporary, Romance
Tropes 💁♀️: Second chance romance, Talk show host x Influencer, Black cat x Golden retriever
Rep ✔️: Pansexual main character, bisexual love interest, BIPOC and queer side characters
CW ⚠️: Off-page death of a loved one, grief, internalized biphobia, workplace abuse
Rating ⭐️: 4/5
Genre 📚: Adult Contemporary, Romance
Tropes 💁♀️: Celebrity romance, Second chance romance, Love triangle
Rep ✔️: Korean American main characters, BIPOC side characters
CW ⚠️: Off-page death of a parent, emotionally distant family
Rating ⭐️: 3/5
Genre 📚: YA Contemporary, Queer Lit, Light Academia, Romance
Tropes 💁♀️: Royal romance, Forbidden love
Rep ✔️: Gay and bisexual main characters, Korean side character
CW ⚠️: Anxiety, grief, drug overdose, bullying/cyberbullying
Rating ⭐️: 5/5
Genre 📚: YA Contemporary, Queer Lit, Light Academia, Romance
Tropes 💁♀️: Second chance romance, Hidden identity, Forced proximity
Rep ✔️: Trans main character, gay side character
CW ⚠️: Body dysmorphia
Rating ⭐️: 3.5/5
Genre 📚: YA Contemporary, Romance, Coming-of-age
Tropes 💁♀️: Fake dating, Opposites attract
Rep ✔️: Palestinian-Canadian main character, Lebanese-Canadian love interest
CW ⚠️: Anxiety, claustrophobia, panic attacks, alcoholism
Rating ⭐️: 4/5
Genre 📚: YA/NA Contemporary, Romance
Tropes 💁♀️: Literally all the tropes (Main ones being Rivals to lovers, Fake dating)
Rep ✔️: Korean American main characters
CW ⚠️: Anxiety
Rating ⭐️: 4/5
Genre 📚: YA Contemporary, Queer Lit, Romance
Tropes 💁♀️: Workplace romance, Former friends to lovers, Opposites attract
Rep ✔️: Black and queer main characters, Korean American side characters, nonbinary and aroace side characters
CW ⚠️: Off-page death of a parent
Rating ⭐️: 3.5/5
Sara Bechtol 