Ages 18+
Elizabeth, Andrew and Zoe are college friends and former bandmates who have grown up together and helped each other through it all. Now they’re parents with their own kids and things get tough as they teach them all about the big bad world.
Category: Romance
I Take You by Eliza Kennedy
Ages 18+
Lily Wilder is about to get married to Will, the love of her life. Or is she? Lily is a New Yorker and a lawyer, and Will is an archaeologist. Everything seems perfect, but Lily has one big flaw – she likes to party a little too hard, and this in turn makes her do many questionable things. She wonders if she really loves Will, and he wonders if he knows her at all.
Thanks to BloggingForBooks.com for a review copy of this book.
Suite Scarlett by Maureen Johnson
Grades 9-12
Scarlett’s family owns the Hopewell, a small hotel in New York City. When she and her siblings each turn 15, they are expected to care for a suite. Mrs. Amberson is the permanent guest that Scarlett inherits along with her suite, the Empire Suite. On top of that, Scarlett meets a gorgeous actor who is new to the city whom she falls hard for. Will she be able to handle it all?
A Paris Apartment by Michelle Gable
Ages 18+
April Vogt is a continental furniture specialist who works for Southeby’s. When her boss tells her about an apartment that has been abandoned for the last 70 years in Paris, she immediately signs on to take the job. She can’t wait to get there!
Once she does, she finds a goldmine of furniture and artifacts that belonged to the late owner of the apartment. The most interesting piece, by far, is a painting done by the famous artist, Giovanni Boldini. And not only does April discover the painting, she discovers the journals of the woman in the painting herself, Marthe de Florian, who lived in the late 1800s.
April’s mission now isn’t so much about the furniture that will make Southeby’s millions at auction, however it’s to discover Marthe’s story. Read this book for a bit of romance, and lots of Parisian charm.
Love & Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch
Grades 9-12
Lina’s mother’s dying wish is for her daughter to spend the summer in Tuscany so that she can get to know her father. The man that’s been absent from her life for 16 years. Even though it’s Italy, it’s the last place Lina wants to be right now. She doesn’t know anyone, doesn’t care to meet her father, and least of all, doesn’t care to live in the house in the cemetery that her father runs.
Then Lina receives her mother’s journal, where she reads all about her time in Italy as a photography student. It’s also where she became pregnant with Lina. The journal reveals a lot of things about Lina’s mother’s life, but it also leaves a huge question unanswered. Will Lina be able to find the answer while navigating her own love life?
Slammed by Colleen Hoover
Grades 9-12
Layken Cohen’s father has just died and she, her mother and little brother move to Michigan from Texas. She quickly falls for her neighbor, Will, who also lives with his little brother. Will and Layken start hanging out, and he introduces her to a local club that hosts a poetry slam once a week, where he loves to perform. Read this book to experience all the feels!
First Comes Love by Emily Giffin
Ages 18+
Josie and Meredith Garland are a pair of sisters who were close growing up, and now, fifteen years later, have taken different paths. Josie is a first grade teacher who is single and is about to swear off dating for good. What she really wants is to be a mother, and her plan is to find a sperm donor. Meredith is a successful lawyer who’s married with a beautiful four-year-old daughter. The two sisters must face the issues that divide them, as well as the choices they have made.
Thanks to Netgalley.com for a review copy of this book.
You Are Here by Jennifer E. Smith
Grades 9-12
Emma Healy absolutely knew there was something in her life was missing. She finds out what that something, or rather, someone is when she finds a birth certificate with the name of her twin brother, and a death certificate for him two days later. Suddenly she realized why she’s felt so empty all her life. She and her neighbor Peter embark on a trip to find her brother’s grave, and when they do, learn more about each other and become closer than ever before.
Starry Night by Isabel Gillies
Grades 9-12
Starry Night by Isabel Gillies is a book about friendship, love, and life lessons. The main character, Wren, is attending a black tie event at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where her father curated a major exhibit. Then she meets a new friend of her brother Oliver’s. That friend’s name is Nolan. Wren finds herself in love with Nolan, and everything changes for her.
Of course, everything changes. That’s what love does to a person, especially a teenage person, like herself. Wren’s life is consumed by Nolan, her art, her schoolwork, and her three best friends, Farah, Vati and Reagan.
Wren has a chance to go to a specialized art program in France, and her whole future seems to be riding on her submission of the application. Does she follow her dream? Or follow her heart? Read Starry Night by Isabel Gillies and find out.
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
Grades 9-12
This is a book about an upper class family named the Sinclairs who live on a private island. Well, at least they stay there during the summer. The book hooks you from the first sentence, and gets juicier by the page.
The liars are a group of kids—all the same age—who become best friends, and spend each summer together on Beechwood Island in Massachusetts. Their names are Johnny, Mirren, Gat, and Cady, the narrator.
Then Cady realizes she has romantic feelings for Gat, and the dynamic in the group of friends changes. They spend more and more time together and seem to be falling in love.
Things change forever for Cady when she has an accident and can’t spend summers on the island with her group of friends. She travels Europe and the rest of the world, but misses her friends terribly.
If you like books with a large family of characters interwoven to make a great story, read We Were Liars by E. Lockhart, but be careful because you never know which is the truth and which is a lie.
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