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 Contemporary, Fantasy, Queer Lit, Romance
Tropes 💁♀️: Fated love, Forbidden love, Past lives
Rep ✔️: Queer main characters, POC side characters
CW ⚠️: Homophobia, bullying, off-page hazing
Rating ⭐️: 4.5/5
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
Genre 📚: YA Contemporary, Fantasy, Romance
Tropes 💁♀️: Fated love, Family curse, Friends to lovers
Rep ✔️: Disabled main character, queer side characters
Rating ⭐️: 4/5
Genre 📚: YA Contemporary, Sci-fi, Romance
Tropes 💁♀️: Friends to lovers, Amnesia (à la Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
Rep ✔️: Korean-Canadian main characters
CW ⚠️: PTSD, Loved one with Alzheimer’s, brief discussions of grief and abuse
Rating ⭐️: 5/5
Genre 📚: YA Contemporary, Queer Lit, Romance
Tropes 💁♀️: Forbidden love, Friends to lovers, Falling for pastor’s daughter
Rep ✔️: Bisexual main character, POC side character
CW ⚠️: Religious trauma, Homophobia
Rating ⭐️: 4/5
Sara Bechtol 