She’s about to strike a deal with the bad lad from college. Finally, Hannah Wells has met someone who makes her feel hot. She may be self-assured in all other aspects of her life, but when it comes to sex and seduction, she is carrying a lot of baggage. She’ll have to break out of her comfort zone and grab her crush’s attention, even if that means tutoring the pompous, conceited, and obnoxious hockey team captain in exchange for a phony date.
Garrett Graham has always dreamed of joining the NHL after graduation, but his deteriorating GPA is jeopardizing all he has fought so hard to achieve. He’s willing to assist a snarky brunette and make another guy envious if it means keeping his spot on the team. But Garrett quickly realizes that pretending isn’t going to cut it as an unexpected kiss triggers the naughtiest sex of both of their lives. He only needs to persuade Hannah that the man she desires resembles him now.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Sometimes people sneak up on you and suddenly you don’t know how you ever lived without them.”
“I want to murder him in his sleep, A. No, I want to murder him when he’s awake so he can see the joy on my face when I do it.”
“Hey, come on, don’t cry,” he begs. “It breaks my fucking heart to hear you cry.”
“Living well and being happy is how we get over the shit in our past.”
“Unbelievable. Every girl at this college would cut her frickin’ arm off to help me out. But this one? Runs away like I just asked her to murder a cat so we could sacrifice it to Satan.”
Tessa is a lovely girl who lives at home with a sweet, dependable boyfriend. She has ambition, direction, and a mom who is determined to keep her on track. However, she has hardly settled into her freshman apartment when she encounters Hardin. Hardin is cute and different from what she is used to with his unkempt brown hair, cocky British accent, tattoos, and lip ring.
He is extremely rude, up to the extent of cruelty. Tessa ought to despise Hardin for all of his attitudes. And she does until she discovers that they are both alone in his room. She is drawn to his melancholy demeanor for some reason, and when they kiss, she experiences a passion she has never felt before.
He will describe her as gorgeous before insisting he is not the right person for her and repeatedly disappearing. Tessa is determined to look more and uncover the truth about Hardin hidden beneath all of his falsehoods despite the careless way he treats her. He keeps pushing her away, but each time she pushes him back, he pulls her in even more. Tessa already has the ideal man in her life. Why then is she making such a big effort to get over both Hardin’s bias against nice females like her and her own wounded pride?
Anna Todd’s After fanfiction, which has since been updated and expanded, has been read 1 billion times online and has enthralled people all over the world. See for yourself why this book is the most talked-about on the Internet! Until Tessa met Hardin, there was that, and everything that happened AFTER that. Never again will life be the same.
In the novel Ugly Love, Colleen Hoover – the author opens the story with Tate Collins recognizing that she didn’t fall in love with airline pilot Miles Archer at first sight. Even if they were to consider themselves pals, they wouldn’t. There is no denying that Tate and Miles are attracted to one another. They understand they have the ideal situation once their wishes are made clear. The only option left is sex because he doesn’t want love and she doesn’t have time for love. If Tate can follow the two guidelines Miles has for her, their arrangement might be surprisingly easy.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Never ask about the past. Don’t expect a future. They think they can handle it, but realize almost immediately they can’t handle it at all. Hearts get infiltrated. Promises get broken. Rules get shattered. Love gets ugly.”
Sometimes it is the one who loves you who hurts you the most.
Even though Lily hasn’t always found it easy, she’s never let that stop her from striving to live the life she desires. She had graduated from college, relocated to Boston, and launched her own business. She has traveled a long way from the small Maine hamlet where she was raised. So everything in Lily’s life appears almost too beautiful to be true when she gets a spark with a stunning neurosurgeon called Ryle Kincaid.
Ryle is aggressive, obstinate, and perhaps a little conceited. He is also intelligent, sensitive, and completely infatuated with Lily. And it surely doesn’t hurt that he looks good in scrubs. Lily is unable to shake him from her mind. But Ryle’s utter distaste for partnerships is unsettling. Lily cannot help but wonder what made him such a person in the first place, even as she finds herself breaking his “no dating” rule.
Her first love and a reminder of the past she left behind, Atlas Corrigan, comes to mind as uncertainty about her new relationship overwhelms her. He served as both her ally and defender. Everything Ryle and Lily have created together are in danger when Atlas arrives out of nowhere.
Lara Jean is the protagonist of the novel To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before. Rather than confessing her crushes out loud, Lara Jean wrote letters to each boy, sealed them, and put them in a box beneath her bed. But one day Lara Jean finds that her hidden box of letters has been delivered, and all of her old crushes approach her about them, including Josh, her sister’s ex-boyfriend, and the subject of her first kiss. Lara Jean realizes that something positive might come from these letters after all as she manages to deal with her former loves directly.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“When someone’s been gone a long time, at first you save up all the things you want to tell them. You try to keep track of everything in your head. But it’s like trying to hold on to a fistful of sand: all the little bits slip out of your hands, and then you’re just clutching air and grit.”
“You’d rather make up a fantasy version of somebody in your head than be with a real person.”
“Love is scary: it changes; it can go away. That’s the part of the risk. I don’t want to be scared anymore.”
“Life doesn’t have to be so planned. Just roll with it and let it happen.”
“It’s not like in the movies. It’s better, because it’s real.”
Since the fifth grade, Misha and Ryen have been pen pals. Their unusual names led their teachers to believe that Misha and Ryen were of different sexes. When Ryen and Misha start writing to each other over time, they realize that Ryen is actually a woman and Misha is a man. They became unique people they could open up to and confide in ways they couldn’t with anyone else since they lived in towns next to each other and talked about everything that happened in each other’s life.
They also exchange concepts and lyrics for Misha’s band, though they would also argue frequently. However, they always agreed to keep their correspondence private by refusing to look each other up, text each other, or accept Facebook friend requests that would allow them to see each other’s appearances. They enjoyed how anonymous it was. Up to their senior year of high school, they continue.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“We’re all ugly, Ryen. The only difference is, some hide it and some wear it.”
“She can be a nightmare, but this still feels better than any dream.”
“It gets better, you are important, and you can’t be replaced. Hang on. You’ll fing youre tribe.”
“I’m going to hell. I’m pretty sure she’d going to drag me there herself.”
“I have no life there if you’re not in it. You’re part of everything good I’ve ever done, Ryen. Please.”
The fresh Good girl Abby Abernathy is. She has the right quantity of cardigans in her wardrobe and doesn’t drink or swear. Abby thinks she has enough distance from her terrible past, but when she and her best friend arrive at college, Eastern University’s Walking One-Night Stand throws a wrench in her plans for a fresh start.
The person Travis Maddox needs to avoid—and wants to avoid—is Travis, who is trim, slim, and covered in tattoos. He spends his days being the perfect college campus charmer and his nights fighting for cash in a floating boxing ring. Travis lures Abby into his life with a simple bet because he finds it intriguing that she rejects his advances. He has to abstain for a month if he loses. If Abby loses, she’ll have to spend the same length of time in Travis’s residence. Travis is unaware that he has faced his match in each case.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“He won’t hurt you, Pigeon,” Travis said. “I won’t let him.”
“I’ll never love anyone the way I love you, Pigeon.”
“Look at him,” she said, shaking her head. “Travis Maddox: Mr. Mom.”
“I had died and woken up in High School Musical”
“I loved him, and no matter what my reasons were to live without him, I knew it wasn’t what I wanted.”
How much love is too much? Before his mother passed away, Travis Maddox learned to love deeply. Fight more ferociously. Finally, the eagerly awaited sequel to Beautiful Disaster, a New York Times bestseller. Can someone be loved too much? Before his mother passed away, Travis Maddox learned to love deeply. Fight more ferociously.
In Walking Disaster, Travis leads a violent life filled with fast women and illegal gambling. However, Abby Abernathy pulls him to his knees just when he believes he is unstoppable. Each narrative has two sides. Abby spoke in Beautiful Disaster. It’s time to view the narrative from Travis’ perspective now.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Did women deserve to be treated like sluts? No. Did sluts deserve to be treated like sluts? Yes.”
“Once she kissed me, my heart slowed, and every muscle in my body relaxed. How much I needed her terrified me. -pg 252/ARC”
“Nah. I’m going to see if I can get Abby on the back of my bike again. It’s the closest I can get to the inside of her thighs”
“I took a deep breath, and shut the bedroom door behind me. Even though we’d put each other through hell, we’d found heaven. Maybe that was more than a couple of sinners deserved, but I wasn’t going to complain.”
“I was in love with her; couldn’t imagine my life without her in it; but at the same time, I wanted her to have better.”
Everything changes in the blink of an eye. Mia, who is now seventeen, has no recollection of the disaster; all she can recall is what happened later when she saw her own wounded body being removed from the wreck. She labors to piece everything together, to understand what she has gained, what she has sacrificed, and the extremely difficult decision she must make. This will alter how you view life, love, and family because it is so exquisitely beautiful and heartbreaking. Mia’s narrative will stick with you for a very, very long time. It is now a big-budget movie starring Chloe Grace Moretz.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.”
“I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.”
“And that’s just it, isn’t it? That’s how we manage to survive the loss. Because love, it never dies, it never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it.”
“Love, it never dies. It never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it. Love can make you immortal”
“Losing me will hurt; it will be the kind of pain that won’t feel real at first, and when it does, it will take her breath away.”
Belly counts the summers throughout her life. Between June and August, everything wonderful and amazing takes place. Winters serve as nothing more than a season for counting down the days until the upcoming summer. They are a period spent away from Susannah, the beach house, and, most significantly, Jeremiah and Conrad. They are the same male’s Belly has known since the summer she spent in grade school; they have been her crushes, her brother figures, and everything between. But after one particularly awful and amazing summer, everything eventually turns out just as it should have all along.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Moments, when lost, can’t be found again. They’re just gone.”
“It’s the imperfections that make things beautiful”
“In the dark you can feel really close to a person. You can say whatever you want.”
“Best friends are important. They’re the closest thing to a sister you’ll ever have.”
“When you walk on the beach at night, you can say things you can’t say in real life.”
In this heartwarming tale, two teenagers fall in love with the exception of a small danger that prevents them from being within five feet of one another. Stella Grant prefers to be in charge, despite the fact that she has spent the majority of her life in and out of the hospital due to her completely uncontrollable lungs. At this point, Stella needs to exert the most control over maintaining herself away from anybody that could spread infection and put her chances of receiving a lung transplant in jeopardy. Six Feet Apart is without exception.
Will Newman just wants to have control over one thing: leaving this institution. He gave neither his medical treatments nor a glitzy new clinical medication study a second thought. He will soon turn eighteen, at which point he will be able to unplug all of these devices and travel outside of hospitals.
Stella needs to keep away from Will specifically. Stella might be removed from the transplant list if he even breathes on her. Either of them could pass away. The sole means of survival is seclusion. Six feet suddenly doesn’t feel safe, though. It has a punitive feeling.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“If I’m going to die, I’d like to actually live first.”
“How long will I live my life afraid of what-ifs?”
“I’m tired of living without really living.”
“Everyone in this world is breathing borrowed air.”
“If this year has taught me anything, it’s that grief can destroy a person.”
The first time the unworldly student Anastasia Steele met the ambitious and gorgeous young businessman Christian Grey, a sensuous relationship was born that would forever alter both of their lives. Ana requests a stronger commitment after being shocked, intrigued, and eventually repulsed by Christian’s peculiar sexual preferences. Christian, who is committed to keeping her, consents.
The future is now filled with love, passion, intimacy, prosperity, and endless possibilities for Ana and Christian. But Ana is aware that caring for Fifty Shades will not be simple and that sharing a relationship will present difficulties that neither of them could have predicted. Ana needs to find a way to adopt Christian’s lavish lifestyle without losing her sense of self. Christian must also fight the ghosts of his troubled past while overcoming his urge to manipulate others. When it seems as though their combined strength will overcome any difficulty, bad luck, evil, and fate work together to bring Ana’s worst nightmares to pass.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Christian, you are the state lottery, the cure for cancer, and the three wishes from Aladdin’s lamp all rolled into one”
“I want your world to begin and end with me.”
“I think you can only be truly mad at someone you really love.”
“He makes me graceful, that’s his skill. He makes me sexy, because that’s what he is. He makes me feel loved, because in spite of his fifty shades, he has a wealth of love to give.”
“It’s much easier to wear your pain on the outside…”
Tate is my name. But he doesn’t refer to me in that way. If he ever referred to me, he would never do it casually. No, he won’t even talk to me much. He still won’t let me be alone though. Once, we were best friends. Then he turned against me and set out to destroy my life. Throughout high school, I endured humiliation, exclusion, and rumors. As time went on, his jokes and gossip grew crueler, and I felt terrible trying to avoid him. To avoid him, I even spent a year in France.
However, I’m no longer running from him, and there is no chance in hell that I’ll let him sabotage my senior year. Though he may not have changed, I have. It’s time to respond in kind. I won’t put up with his bullying any longer. This book involves mature/adult situations involving young adults. Due to profanity, violence, and sexual situations, only people over the age of 18 should watch it.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“You’ve already made me cry countless times.” I raised my middle finger to him slowly, and asked, “Do you know what this is?” I took my middle finger and patted the corner of my eye with it. “It’s me, wiping away the last tear you’ll ever get.”
“Experience is the best teacher.”
“Acting like you don’t care is not letting it go.”
“You were my tempest, my thunder cloud, my tree in the downpour. I loved all those things, and I loved you. But now? You’re a fucking drought. I thought that all the assholes drove German cars, but it turns out that pricks in Mustangs can still leave scars.”
“Tate, you’re mine, and I’m yours. Every day you’re
going to realize that more and more. When you believe it without a doubt, then I’ll have earned your
trust.”
Ali Hazelwood’s romance book, The Love Hypothesis, will be available on Berkley Books’ website on September 14, 2021. Olive Smith, a third-year Ph.D. student, doesn’t think long-lasting love relationships exist, but her best friend believes so, which is how she ended up in this predicament. It was always going to require more than just hand-wavy Jedi mind tricks to persuade Anh that Olive is dating and is well on her way to a happily ever after.
Scientists need evidence. Olive panics as a result and kisses the first man she sees, just like any self-respecting biologist. Adam Carlsen, a hotshot young professor, and notorious ass is the one and only. Because of this, Olive is delightfully shocked when Stanford’s top lab tyrant offers to be her pretend lover and keep Olive’s farce a secret.
However, when a significant scientific conference goes awry, Olive’s profession is pushed to the back burner, Adam shocks Olive once more with his unconditional support and his even more unwavering… six-pack abs. Their small experiment feels as though it might explode at any moment. Olive also learns that examining her own heart is the one thing that is trickier than a theory on love.
One season, rivals in form of two, and a storyline turn they weren’t expecting. The only thing Nora Stephens has ever done in her life is read books, therefore she is not the typical heroine. Not the strong-willed woman, not the carefree dream girl, and certainly not the sweetheart. In reality, the only people who view Nora as a hero are her clients—for whom she secures sizable deals in her role as a ruthless literary agent—and her cherished little sister Libby.
So when Libby encourages her to take a sisters’ trip away, she decides to go to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina for the entire month of August. She has images of Nora going through a small-town makeover because she is certain that Nora needs to become the protagonist of her own tale. Nora, however, continues running into Charlie Lastra, a bookish, brooding editor from back in the city, instead of going on picnics in the meadows or running into gorgeous rural doctors or bulging-forearm bartenders. If they had never met before and it hadn’t been cute, it would be a meet-cute.
Charlie and Nora are repeatedly brought together—in a series of coincidences that no editor worth their salt would permit—and while Charlie is aware that he is nobody’s hero and Nora is aware that she is not the ideal heroine, what they learn may just tear apart the carefully constructed stories they have written about themselves.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Is there anything better than iced coffee and a bookstore on a sunny day? I mean, aside from hot coffee and a bookstore on a rainy day.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers
“Nora.” He just barely smiles. “You’re in books. Of course, you don’t have a life. None of us do. There’s always something too good to read.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers
“Sometimes, even when you start with the last page and you think you know everything, a book finds a way to surprise you.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers
“The last-page ache. The deep breath in after you’ve set the book aside.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers
“That’s the thing about women. There’s no good way to be one. Wear your emotions on your sleeve and you’re hysterical. Keep them tucked away where your boyfriend doesn’t have to tend to them and you’re a heartless bitch.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers
Alex Volkov is a fiend with an angel’s face who is also imprisoned by his history. His merciless ambitions of achievement and retribution, motivated by a tragedy that has plagued him for most of his life, leave little place for issues of the heart. But as he is made to take care of his closest friend’s sister, he begins to experience a strange sensation in his chest: A split. A melt. A fire that might destroy everything he knew.
Free-spirited Ava Chen is imprisoned by nightmares of an unremembered childhood. Nevertheless, she has never ceased appreciating the beauty in the world despite her troubled past including the warm heart that beats beneath a man’s cold exterior.
The closest pal of her brother, neighbors of hers, both her savior and her undoing. Theirs is a love that was never meant to be, but when it does, secrets are revealed that could endanger both of them and all the things they cherish.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“If you wanted, I would burn down the world for you.”
― Ana Huang, Twisted Love
“If you let lesser people determine your self-worth, you’ll never reach higher than their limited imagination.”
― Ana Huang, Twisted Love
“You are the light to my dark, Sunshine,” he said in a raw voice. His lips brushed against mine as he spoke. “Without you, I’m lost.”
― Ana Huang, Twisted Love
“She felt like heaven to my hell, the closest I’d ever get to salvation, and yet I still wanted to drag her into the depths of Hades with me.”
― Ana Huang, Twisted Love
“I never claimed to be Prince Charming, and my love isn’t a fairy tale type of love. I’m a fucked-up person with fucked-up morals. I won’t write you poems or serenade you beneath the moonlight. But you are the only woman I have eyes for. Your enemies are my enemies, your friends are my friends, and if you wanted, I would burn down the world for you.”
― Ana Huang, Twisted Love
The adage “you can never go home again” has felt all too true for Persephone Fraser ever since she committed the biggest error of her life ten years ago. She no longer spends her summers in the same glittering fashion as she did as a child, but rather in a chic apartment in the city, hanging out with friends and keeping everyone at a respectable distance from her heart.
Before getting the call that forces her to return to Barry’s Bay and into Sam Florek’s orbit—the man she never imagined she’d have to live without. Percy and Sam had been inseparable for six summers, spending hazy afternoons on the sea, hot summer evenings working in his family’s restaurant, and cuddling up with books—medical textbooks for him and unfinished horror short tales for her. This friendship eventually developed into something breathtakingly more before it abruptly broke down.
Their bond is as apparent as it has ever been when Percy visits the lake for Sam’s mother’s funeral. But they won’t be able to tell if their love is stronger than their worst past transgressions until Percy is willing to face the choices she made and the years she spent punishing herself for them.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Betrayals don’t cancel each other out. They just hurt more.”
― Carley Fortune, Every Summer After
“I loved you so much that the word ‘love’ didn’t seem big enough for how I felt.”
― Carley Fortune, Every Summer After
“You and I are special,” he started. “There’s no one else I’d rather spend time with than you. There’s no one else I’d rather talk to than you. And there’s no one else I’d rather kiss than you.”
― Carley Fortune, Every Summer After
“Some people are lucky like that. They meet their best friend, the love of their life, and are wise enough to never let go.”
― Carley Fortune, Every Summer After
“You came home.
I squeeze my eyes shut.
I came home.”
― Carley Fortune, Every Summer After
A struggling marriage and the one forgotten pledge that might be able to salvage it are the subjects of Colleen Hoover’s masterful new book. Quinn and Graham’s flawless relationship is jeopardized by their shoddy marriage. They are currently being torn apart by the memories, errors, and secrets that have accumulated over the years. The one thing that might be able to save them may also be the thing that breaks their marriage beyond repair.
In the thought-provoking book All Your Perfects, a broken couple’s future depends on past promises. Can a tremendous love with a perfect beginning endure a lifetime between two imperfect people? is the heartrending question posed in this page-turner?
Best Quotes from this Book:
“If you only shine a light on your flaws, all your perfects will dim.”
― Colleen Hoover, All Your Perfects
“What’s the secret to a perfect marriage?’ The old man leaned forward and looked at me very seriously. ‘Our marriage hasn’t been perfect. No marriage is perfect. There were times when she gave up on us. There were even more times when I gave up on us. The secret to our longevity is that we never gave up at the same time.”
― Colleen Hoover, All Your Perfects
“When you meet someone who is good for you, they won’t fill you with insecurities by focusing on your flaws. They’ll fill you with inspiration because they’ll focus on all the best parts of you.”
― Colleen Hoover, All Your Perfects
“And I promise . . . I swear . . . that if you choose to end things between us, I will love you more as you’re walking out the door than on the day you walked down the aisle. I hope you choose the road that will make you the happiest. Even if it’s not a choice I’ll love, I will still always love you. Whether I’m a part of your life or not. You deserve happiness more than anyone I know. I love you.”
― Colleen Hoover, All Your Perfects
“What did I miss while you were sleeping?”
― Colleen Hoover, All Your Perfects
Two years have passed when Conrad advised Belly to follow Jeremiah. Since then, she and Jeremiah have been close and even attend the same university. However, their relationship hasn’t quite turned out the way Belly had anticipated it would. Additionally, Belly is forced to reevaluate what she believed to be true love when Jeremiah commits the biggest error a boy could possibly do. Has she actually decided to stay with Jeremiah? Has she ever moved on from Conrad? The belly needs to make a final decision on who will always have her heart.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“He didn’t give me flowers or candy. He gave me the moon and the stars. Infinity
“Maybe that was how it was with all first loves. They own a little piece of your heart, always.”
“But just because you bury something, that doesn’t mean it stops existing. Those feelings, they’d been there all along. All that time. I had to face it. He was part of my DNA. I had brown hair and I had freckles and I would always have Conrad in my heart.”
“He was marrying my girl, and I couldn’t do anything about it. I just had to watch it happen, because he was my brother, because I promised. Take care of him, Connie. I’m counting on you .”
“But just because you bury something, that doesn’t mean it stops existing.”
Tiernan de Haas is no longer concerned with anything. She was raised with wealth and privilege but no affection or direction as the sole child of a film mogul and his famous wife. Being sent to boarding schools from a young age made it impossible for her to get away from the isolation and build a life for herself. She was constantly dogged by the fame of her parents.
And she understands she should be grieved when they pass away unexpectedly. Has anything actually changed, though? She hasn’t ever been alone, has she? Tiernan, who is still two months away from becoming 18, is placed under the guardianship of Jake Van der Berg, her father’s stepbrother and the only living family she has
When Tiernan is sent to live with him and his two sons, Kaleb and Noah, in the mountains of Colorado, she quickly discovers that the boys now have a say in what she decides to care about and what she chooses not to. She gradually finds her place among them as the three of them take her under their wing and educate her on how to work and survive in the isolated forests far from the outside world.
She also understands that when no one is looking, lines blur, and laws are simple to disobey. She is with one of them. The other person desires her.
But he…
She will be kept by him.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Pain always reminds us that we’re alive. And the fear along with it that we want to stay that way.”
“Avoiding the bad means you risk avoiding the good, too, and I’d rather be hurt than never not feel this.”
“People may live different realities, but the truth is always the same.”
“Because you’re still you, no matter where you go,” I retort.”
“Everyone contemplates suicide at some point, even if it’s just for a minute. And one thing is usually the root cause. Loneliness.”
The Spanish Love Deception is a classic romantic ruse that starts out as “let’s pretend to date for some reason” and ends up as “we inadvertently fell in love.” Additionally, there are several “enemies to lovers” and spice sequences in there (which were good but not the best tbh). This is the one thing that I can think of that sets “The Spanish Love Deception” apart from other contemporary romances I’ve read. It also makes an attempt to critique sexism and roles that people presume are “for women,” which I thought was intriguing.
If you’re interested in the plot, it concerns a female who serves as the chief of staff for a firm and a hot guy who persistently pursues her despite their mutual animosity (so original). Then, since she doesn’t really want her family to learn that she is single and has some conflict with her ex-boyfriend, they have to act like they are dating. You probably have an idea of what occurs next.
Because of Piper Bellinger’s status as a wild child and her influence in the fashion world, the paparazzi follow her everywhere she goes. When Piper ends up in jail after drinking too much champagne and throwing an unruly rooftop party, her stepfather thinks enough is enough. He then interrupts her and assigns Piper and her sister the duties of managing their late father’s dive bar in Washington while he is gone.
Piper meets large, bearded sea captain Brendan who believes she won’t survive a week outside of Beverly Hills before she has even been in Westport for five minutes. Even if Piper struggles with math and gets hives at the thought of sleeping in a run-down apartment with bunk beds, so what? Just how horrible could it be? She’s determined to prove that she’s more than just a lovely face to her stepfather and the hot, gruff local.
However, it’s a small town, and Brendan is everywhere she goes. Although the stern fisherman and the fun-loving socialite are complete opposites, there is an undeniable affinity between them. Piper doesn’t need any disturbances, especially affections for a man who disappears for extended periods of time. Piper starts to doubt whether the chilly, glitzy life she knew is what she really wants, though, as she makes connections with her past and starts to feel at home in Westport. LA is calling her name, but she might already be in love with Brendan and this town full of memories.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“I’ll love you until my heart gives out. I’ll be your man for a thousand years. Longer if I’m allowed.”
“You can be as high maintenance as you want, honey. But I’m the only one who does the maintenance.”
“You can wrap me as tight as you want around that little finger, but I won’t play games about what this is. Get me, Piper?”
“thrust. “Came here to be neighborly, Piper? Is there anything neighborly about the way I’m giving you this cock?”
“That sparkle was positivity and life and promise of better things, and she always, always had it, glowing within the blue of her irises, lighting up the room.”
Olive always has bad luck—in her job, in her relationships, in, uh, everything. On the other side, her identical twin sister Ami is most likely the most fortunate person in the world. She met her fiancé in a scene straight out of a romantic comedy, and she was able to win enough online competitions to pay for her entire wedding (double gag). The worst part is that Olive must spend the day with Ethan, her sworn adversary who also happens to be the greatest man.
Before she can go back to her cozy, unlucky existence, Olive must through 24hrs of wedding misery. Olive and Ethan are the only ones unaffected when the whole wedding party contracts food sickness after consuming contaminated mussels. And right now, a free honeymoon in Hawaii is up for grabs.
Olive and Ethan decide to travel to paradise despite their animosity for one another because it will be a free vacation. Olive promises her future boss a small white lie, but when they cross paths, it risks growing much more. She and Ethan now have to act like a happily married couple, and her luck appears to be getting worse. But what’s strange is that she enjoys acting out scenarios. She actually feels somewhat fortunate.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“I can appreciate my body in a bikini and still want to set fire to the patriarchy.”
“knew he was a book lover, but to be the same kind of book lover I am? It makes my insides melt.”
“I am a homebody, through and through, and there’s nothing like being home.”
“love is exhausting.”
“Don’t threaten me with a good time”
The Selection is the opportunity of their lives for 35 girls – the chance to leave the life that has been predetermined for them since birth, to get sucked into a world filled with costly diamonds and glistening garments, and to contend for the affection of charming Prince Maxon while residing in a palace.
But being chosen is a nightmare for America Singer. It entails her abandoning her covert romance with Aspen, a member of a lower caste. leaving her home to participate in a challenging contest for a crown she doesn’t desire. residing in a palace that is frequently attacked by vicious rebels. Then Prince Maxon encounters America. She gradually begins to doubt all of her expectations for herself and discovers that the life she’s constantly envisaged might not be as fulfilling as the future she could never have imagined.
Naomi wasn’t merely evading her wedding. In Knockemout, Virginia, a rough-around-the-edges community where conflicts are settled the old-fashioned way—with fists and beer—she was riding to the rescue of her estranged twin. In most cases, in that order.
Unfortunately for Naomi, her evil doppelganger has not at all changed. Tina leaves Naomi with something unexpected after taking Naomi’s car and money. Naomi was unaware of the niece she had. With an 11-year-old who is approaching 30 to care for, she is now stranded in the city without a car, a job, a plan, or a place to call home.
There is a reason Knox avoids complicated relationships and demanding women, especially romantic ones. But given that Naomi’s life fell apart in front of him, the least he can do is assist her in getting out of trouble. He can leave her alone and return to his calm, solitary life as soon as she actually gets into new trouble. That is the plan, at least, until the issue develops into a genuine threat.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“There’s a difference between taking care of someone because you love them and taking care of someone because you want them to love you,”
― Lucy Score, Things We Never Got Over
“At some point, you have got to stop worrying so much about what everyone else needs and start thinking about what you need.”
― Lucy Score, Things We Never Got Over
“When you trust someone to see you for who you really are, the betrayal is a thousand times worse than if you hadn’t handed them the weapons in the first place,”
― Lucy Score, Things We Never Got Over
“You’re the one who has to live your life. Don’t apologize to other people for the decisions you make for yourself.”
― Lucy Score, Things We Never Got Over
“You get to decide how you show up in this world. No one else gets to dictate to you who you are,”
― Lucy Score, Things We Never Got Over