This week I’m recommending you 5 of my favorites contemporary (romance) books.
They are all slightly different from
each other. But they will all blow you away. In my opinion, they are 1000 stars
worth. I loved them so much and I could read these over and over without
getting bored. I hope you will like them as much as I do!
PS: All covers are linked to Goodreads!
Making Faces by Amy Harmon
Series:
stand-alone
Genre: new
adult, contemporary, romance, drama, war.
My review: here.
Synopsis:
Ambrose Young was beautiful. He was tall and muscular, with hair that
touched his shoulders and eyes that burned right through you. The kind of
beautiful that graced the covers of romance novels, and Fern Taylor would know.
She'd been reading them since she was thirteen. But maybe because he was so
beautiful he was never someone Fern thought she could have...until he wasn't
beautiful anymore.
Making Faces is the story of a small town where five young men go off to
war, and only one comes back. It is the story of loss. Collective loss,
individual loss, loss of beauty, loss of life, loss of identity. It is the tale
of one girl's love for a broken boy, and a wounded warrior's love for an
unremarkable girl. This is a story of friendship that overcomes heartache,
heroism that defies the common definitions, and a modern tale of Beauty and the
Beast, where we discover that there is a little beauty and a little beast in
all of us.
When It Rains by Lisa De Jong
Series: book
one of a stand-alone series
Genre: new
adult, contemporary, romance, drama.
My review: here.
Synopsis:
One night changed my life forever.
Beau Bennett has been my best friend since I can remember. He was my
first crush before everything came crashing down, and now he wants more, but
it's more than I can give him. Things are different now. I wish I could tell
him why, but I can't. I haven’t told anyone.
I never knew how much I really needed him until the day he left for college,
and I was completely alone. Then one day, Asher Hunt rides into town with his
dark, captivating eyes and cocky grin. He doesn't care who I used to be, he's
simply breathing life into what’s left. People warn me to stay away from him,
but he helps me forget the pain that has held me hostage for so long; something
I thought was impossible before he walked into my life.
I’ve been hurt. I’ve been saved. And I’ve found hope.
I thought my story was written that night, but now I know it was only a
new beginning. Until one secret turns my world upside down…
Again.
One Summer by David Baldacci
Series:
stand-alone
Genre: adult
fiction, contemporary, romance, drama, family.
Synopsis:
It's almost Christmas, but there is no joy in the house of terminally
ill Jack and his family. With only a short time left to live, he spends his
last days preparing to say goodbye to his devoted wife, Lizzie, and their three
children. Then, unthinkably, tragedy strikes again: Lizzie is killed in a car
accident. With no one able to care for them, the children are separated from
each other and sent to live with family members around the country. Just when
all seems lost, Jack begins to recover in a miraculous turn of events. He rises
from what should have been his deathbed, determined to bring his fractured
family back together. Struggling to rebuild their lives after Lizzie's death,
he reunites everyone at Lizzie's childhood home on the oceanfront in South
Carolina. And there, over one unforgettable summer, Jack will begin to learn to
love again, and he and his children will learn how to become a family once
more.
Struck by Lightning by Chris Colfer
Series:
stand-alone
Genre: young
adult, contemporary, humor, high school.
My review: here.
Synopsis:
Struck By Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal follows the story of
outcast high school senior Carson Phillips, who blackmails the most popular
students in his school into contributing to his literary journal to bolster his
college application; his goal in life is to get into Northwestern and
eventually become the editor of The New Yorker. At once laugh-out-loud funny,
deliciously dark, and remarkably smart, Struck By Lightning unearths the dirt
that lies just below the surface of high school. At a time when bullying
torments so many young people today, this unique and important novel sheds
light with humor and wit on an issue that deeply resonates with countless teens
and readers.
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
Series:
stand-alone
Genre: young
adult, contemporary, romance, teens.
Synopsis:
Two misfits.
One extraordinary love.
Eleanor... Red hair, wrong clothes. Standing behind him until he turns
his head. Lying beside him until he wakes up. Making everyone else seem drabber
and flatter and never good enough...Eleanor.
Park... He knows she'll love a song before he plays it for her. He
laughs at her jokes before she ever gets to the punch line. There's a place on
his chest, just below his throat, that makes her want to keep promises...Park.
Set over the course of one school year, this is the story of two
star-crossed sixteen-year-olds—smart enough to know that first love almost
never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try.
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