In 2022, I was, in the best way, destroyed by Gabrille Zevin’s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. I thought it was my first experience with her fiction—until I came across… The post Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin appeared first on All About Romance ..read more

The Rules of Royalty takes one drop of Red, White and Royal Blue, one drop of The Princess Diaries, and then it swishes it about in a beaker. The end… The post The Rules of Royalty by Cale Dietrich appeared first on All About Romance ..read more

Narrated by Joe Jameson, Will M. Watt & Benjamin Crow Against the Stars is an inventive and heartrending YA romance set in a world in which everyone is offered the… The post AUDIO: Against the Stars by Christopher Hartland appeared first on All About Romance ..read more

I really enjoyed this first title in Sabaa Tahir’s An Ember in the Ashes young adult fantasy series. While it offers many of the tropes familiar to a fantasy, it… The post An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir appeared first on All About Romance ..read more

The Prince and the Apocalypse was a fantastic road trip romance that had a unique premise, a genuine sense of suspense, and a couple worth rooting for, but its follow-up, Heir, Apparently, has a little less spirit, zip and originality on tap. It’s still a fun ride. When last we saw Wren Wheeler, she’d just survived an apocalypse which fizzled out. She’d successfully made it home to her American family, and now, nine months later, she’s off to Northwestern for her freshman year. The problem is that she can’t settle in, can’t forget Prince Theo, to whom she may have been married to in a Greek c ..read more

Amber Chen’s Of Jade and Dragons is the sort of novel I would have loved back when I was fourteen. At its best, it’s a YA Mulan with delightful worldbuilding and a compelling mystery to be solved, but at its worst… well, we’ll get into that. Eighteen-year-old Aihui Ying is the oldest daughter of an engineer who left the Engineers Guild a long time ago and now lives with his family in a rural village. Ying shares his fascination with building mechanical devices, from a fan that shoots darts (a success) to silk-and-bamboo wings that will enable her to fly (not such a success). But one day, a sc ..read more

I’m a longtime fan of Emma Lord’s books so I was excited to read The Getaway List, her latest YA novel. While I enjoyed watching the characters as they had adventures and found their way in the world, I didn’t love this one as much as her other books. Riley is graduating from high school and is feeling low because she didn’t get into any of the schools she applied for. She decides what she really needs is an adventure and the best person to do it with is Tom, her best friend who moved away to Manhattan with his famous Indie director mom after Freshman year in high school. Riley’s mom doesn’t ..read more

Brynn Whitaker is a senior at Greenlough Academy where she is known as the Flirt Expert. Brynn helps students write texts to their crushes and, in return, they Venmo her $20 per text and $50 if they end up with a date. Students at her school are wealthy but Brynn is not. Her parents are divorced and her mom works as an assistant day care manager. Her father remarried and has a new family–he quit paying child support when Brynn turned eighteen. They live in an old home where there is always something that needs repair. She has an older brother Smith who has been in and out of expensive drug re ..read more

In this not-quite stand-alone sequel to An Improbable Season, Eleanor, friend to Thalia, Kaliope and Charis, the debutantes who featured in the previous book finds true love. Well-done and sweet-natured, this boon is nonetheless a little less compelling than its predecessor. Eleanor Lockhart has one big plan for her first season now that a proper amount of time has lapsed since she was widowed – to have as much fun as the ton can offer her. Her late husband’s nephew desperately wants her to marry him so he can use her inheritance to pay off his debts, but Eleanor is in no hurry to lose her in ..read more

Valentina Tran, raised by her single dad after her mother died, used to love Valentine’s Day. She even had an imaginary friend, a cherubic Cupid. But when revelations about her mother come to light, Valentina discovers love isn’t what she thought it was – and her companion isn’t a sweet greeting-card baby, but the frightening spirit of the martyred St. Valentine, who informs her that her family is cursed in love. St. Valentine makes a bet with Val: find true love within a year, or give up on love forever, and give her heart to him. You can tell what my primary complaint will be from the plot ..read more