Yes, yes, it's not Friday, again, but I forgot alright! I'm in the middle of finals, I'm allowed some slack. This week covers YA romance. I realise some of these are fairly popular books, but forgive me. I'm posting late and still wanting to get some more revision done today. So without further ado, here's the list!
When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon
Synopsis: Dimple Shah has it all figured out. With graduation behind her, she’s more than ready for a break from her family, from Mamma’s inexplicable obsession with her finding the “Ideal Indian Husband.” Ugh. Dimple knows they must respect her principles on some level, though. If they truly believed she needed a husband right now, they wouldn’t have paid for her to attend a summer program for aspiring web developers…right?
Rishi Patel is a hopeless romantic. So when his parents tell him that his future wife will be attending the same summer program as him—wherein he’ll have to woo her—he’s totally on board. Because as silly as it sounds to most people in his life, Rishi wants to be arranged, believes in the power of tradition, stability, and being a part of something much bigger than himself.
The Shahs and Patels didn’t mean to start turning the wheels on this “suggested arrangement” so early in their children’s lives, but when they noticed them both gravitate toward the same summer program, they figured, Why not?
Dimple and Rishi may think they have each other figured out. But when opposites clash, love works hard to prove itself in the most unexpected ways.
Comments: Oh man, this one is really cute! It also has probably the best meet-cute in YA lit that I've read so far.
Unconventional by Maggie Harcourt
Synopsis: Lexi Angelo has grown up helping her dad with his events business. She likes to stay behind the scenes, planning and organizing...until author Aidan Green - messy haired and annoyingly arrogant - arrives unannounced at the first event of the year. Then Lexi's life is thrown into disarray.
In a flurry of late-night conversations, mixed messages and butterflies, Lexi discovers that some things can't be planned. Things like falling in love...
Comments: I am really, really weak for tropes like hate to love (or in this case, mild dislike and somewhat extreme irritation to love), so this book was right up my alley. It's also 450+ pages long but I read it in less than a day, so that's always a good sign.
Letters to the Lost by Brigid Kemmerer
Content Warnings: implied suicide attempt, child abuse of side character
Synopsis: Juliet Young always writes letters to her mother, a world-traveling photojournalist. Even after her mother's death, she leaves letters at her grave. It's the only way Juliet can cope.
Declan Murphy isn't the sort of guy you want to cross. In the midst of his court-ordered community service at the local cemetery, he's trying to escape the demons of his past.
When Declan reads a haunting letter left beside a grave, he can't resist writing back. Soon, he's opening up to a perfect stranger, and their connection is immediate. But neither Declan nor Juliet knows that they're not actually strangers. When life at school interferes with their secret life of letters, sparks will fly as Juliet and Declan discover truths that might tear them apart.
Comments: If you want a book that will really truly break your heart into a million pieces and then do a magical healing act and piece it back together again, this one's for you. I was bawling over this book, like, genuine red and itchy eyes crying. I couldn't leave my room for a good 15 minutes after I finished it.
To All The Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han
Synopsis: What if all the crushes you ever had found out how you felt about them… all at once?
Sixteen-year-old Lara Jean Song keeps her love letters in a hatbox her mother gave her. They aren’t love letters that anyone else wrote for her; these are ones she’s written. One for every boy she’s ever loved—five in all. When she writes, she pours out her heart and soul and says all the things she would never say in real life, because her letters are for her eyes only. Until the day her secret letters are mailed, and suddenly, Lara Jean’s love life goes from imaginary to out of control.
Comments: FAKE DATING. That's all I really need to say about this one. It has fake dating. I mean, what more do you need to know to convince you to read it.
Words in Deep Blue by Cath Crowley
Content Warnings: character death
Synopsis: This is a love story.
It's the story of Howling Books, where readers write letters to strangers, to lovers, to poets.
It's the story of Henry Jones and Rachel Sweetie. They were best friends once, before Rachel moved to the sea.
Now, she's back, working at the bookstore, grieving for her brother Cal and looking for the future in the books people love, and the words they leave behind.
Comments: Much in the vein of another Australian author I love deeply, Cath Crowley has taken it upon herself to break your heart into a million pieces on the basis of a single line of words. So, naturally, it was love at first line for me and this book. And it's definitely one you should read right now.
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