Valentine’s Day is the perfect time to celebrate love in all its forms, including fictional love and our love of reading! There’s nothing more heartwarming than the kind of love found between the pages of a romance book. Today’s list features one book you can dive into right away, and three upcoming releases that are well worth the wait!
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Cruel Summer By Elizabeth Eulberg
Swiftie fans unite! The Taylors Version series is back with Cruel Summer! We’re back with the Taylors, a group of friends all named Taylor, as they’re separated over the summer. Follow the girls as they each have their own summer filled with first love, heartbreak, and new friendships. It’s a love story, and baby, we’re saying yes to this new release that’s available now!
Order Cruel Summer here!
Content warnings: bullying, emotional abuse, toxic relationship, gaslighting, classism, mention of panic attacks, attempted SA, violence
TO LEARN MORE ABOUT ELIZABETH EULBERG:
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Burn The Water By Billy Ray
Enemies-to-lovers fans, this is your time to shine! Set in a futuristic world where the oceans rose and submerged London underwater, two Houses, the Crowns and the Rogues, have been battling for sole power for three centuries. Sworn enemies Rafe and Jule are powerful fighters and leaders on opposing sides. But when they fall in love, they face threats that could tear their Houses apart. Mysterious foreigners have arrived and are stirring up chaos and hatred like never before. It’ll be up to Rafe and Jule to show their people that they aren’t so different after all. Written by the screenwriter of The Hunger Games, we are already fangirling over this epic love story!
Release Date: March 3
Preorder Burn the Water here!
Content warnings: violence
The Gravewood By Kelly Andrew
This next romance book is for all our paranormal romance lovers! Best-selling author Kelly Andrew is back with a journey into a dark forest. We follow Shea Parker, who has been cut off from her town by a deadly forest called the Gravewood. With her supplies running low, including her hearing aid batteries, she’s desperate to get more before she is left in silence. She turns to vampire leader Oliver, whose gang of vampires rule the Gravewood. All she has to do is give him her blood, and he gets her batteries.
Except things get complicated when Shea’s best friend enters the Gravewood. And her brother Asher, upon returning from the frontlines, threatens to expose Shea’s secrets to save his sister. Now Oliver has some new bargains: a missing girl for Asher, killing a vampire rival, and a cure for Shea’s ill mother if she agrees to Turn. Shea will need to hold tight onto her humanity if she hopes to get what she wants. We’re a sucker for a good vampire romance, and we’re dying to read this one!
Release Date: April 7
Preorder The Gravewood here!
Content warnings: child abuse, abandonment, fictionalized substance addiction, domestic abuse, allusions to self-harm, ableism, bullying, paranormal horror elements, blood and gore depiction, pandemic/plague/ contagion depiction
TO LEARN MORE ABOUT KELLY ANDREW:
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The New Girl: First Crush By Cassandra Calin
Last but not least, we have a romantic middle-grade graphic novel! First Crush is the second book in The New Girl series. And it follows Lia as she gets used to her new Canadian life, full of new friends, periods, and everything in between. Plus, Lia’s crush, Julien, finally seems to be noticing her and might even like her back?! But while she constantly worries about Julien, Lia is missing the fact that someone else has a crush on her. We are here for all the chaotic, messy relationships and coming-of-age hijinks in this next installment of the series!
Release Date: May 5
Order The New Girl: First Crush here!
TO LEARN MORE ABOUT CASSANDRA CALIN:
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