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: YA Reads
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: 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: 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: 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
Review: Nobody in Particular by Sophie Gonzales
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
Review: And They Were Roommates by Page Powars
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
Review: You Started It by Jackie Khalilieh
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
Sara Bechtol 