I want some good novels to read throughout the summer. I like romance, especially when the book is based during summer. I’ve read The Summer I Turned Pretty, and Its Not Summer Without You both by Jenny Han, and I loved them. Thank you!
Just Listen by Sarah Dessen
Along For The Ride by Sarah Dessen
The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen
Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen
The Last Song by Nicolas Sparks
Dear John by Nicolas Sparks
Hope it helps!
New Book Trailer for Madison Adler’s “The Glass Wall” – Young Adult Paranormal Romance/Urban Fantasy
Beauty and the Beast: One of the Top Romance Movies
Since romance movies have started to be available to watch in front of your TV screens or through the use of a personal computer, it has undergone several changes as well. Each romantic movie varies on its theme.
Some are tragic, comedy, full of pain and even sad. One of the best romantic movies ever made besides Cinderella and Snow White is Beauty and the Beast animated or not. The top secret why a certain romance movie can attract a lot of viewers is the characters and how they portray their roles.
Beauty and the Beast is a fairy tale that was based in France. The story is about a girl named Belle who earns disrespect and contempt by her townsfolk despite of her incomparable beauty mainly because of her oddness.
She is considered weird for she spend most of her time reading books if not helping her father, Maurice, inventing things. Having read all of the things in the town are not something usual for a person to do but these eccentricities of Belle cannot hinder men to desire of marrying her including the conceited plus egoistic Gaston.
Like other best romance movies’ main characters, Belle is a strong woman as well. Belle’s dream of running away from all of these comes true when her father got vanished in the woods. She goes her way to search for him later finds herself inside a daunting castle containing creatures and things with magical features.
The castle is owned by a prince who was turned into a beast by an evil witch and the spell will just be broken once a woman will truly love him despite his awful look. The beast captured Maurice and will just let him go if Belle promises to remain in the castle. Without any further ado, Belle agrees to stay in the castle and Maurice was set free. Their love for each other started to bloom and develop as Belle spends the days in the castle.
There is no wonder why the movie Beauty and the Beast is included in every person’s romantic movies list that really made a big impression and mark on their mind and heart.
About the Author
Cathy Greene loves to share her insights about how romance movies can entertain us from the bittersweet experiences of life and at the same time, how it can affect our way of thinking when it comes to dating, relationships and the likes. Check out for a bunch of new romance movies here!
What are some good romance novels? I’m currently reading the Outlander series but after that, I have nothing. I’ve read all of Jane Austen’s stuff. I’ve just finished Wuthering Heights before I started with the Outlander series.
Could anyone give me a good list? I don’t care if they are Young Adult, classical, or modern adult. Just give me a list
Thanks!
1. Vampire Diaries by : L.J Smith********
Elena: the golden girl, the leader, the one who can have any boy she wants.
Stefan: brooding and mysterious, he seems to be the only one who can resist Elena, even as he struggles to protect her from the horrors that haunt his past.
Damon: sexy, dangerous, and driven by an urge for revenge against Stefan, the brother who betrayed him. Determined to have Elena, he’d kill to possess her.
2. Supernatural
Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead
After two years on the run, best friends Rose, half-human/half-vampire, and Lissa, a mortal vampire princess, are caught and returned to St. Vladimir’s Academy. Up until then, Rose had kept Lissa safe from her enemies; school, however, brings both girls additional challenges and responsibilities. How they handle peer pressure, nasty gossip, new relationships, and anonymous threats may mean life or death. Likable narrator Rose hides doubts about her friend behind a tough exterior; orphan Lissa, while coping with difficult emotional issues such as depression and survivor’s guilt, uses her emerging gifts for good.
3. Romantic x 9 / Supernatural
Mediator Series by Meg Cabot*********
Susannah Simon is 16 years old, a lonely New York City girl who has to move from her beloved East Coast to live with her mother and new step-family in Carmel, California. Traumatic enough for any teenager, this adjustment to a new family and environment is complicated even more by Susannah’s natural gift for talking to the dead. Susannah is a mediator, a contact point for the dead who can’t (or won’t) make it to the other side. The family home is a beautiful old house harbouring its own resident unsettled spirit, which has set up residence in Susannah’s bedroom. There is also the small matter of the angry ghost haunting the locker room in her new school, desperate for revenge on an ex-boyfriend, not to mention the discovery that her school principal, Father Dominic, is also a mediator.
4. Romantic x 15
The Luxe by Anna Godbersen
A big, sumptuous tale of catty girls, dark secrets and windswept romance unfurls in this compulsively readable novel of late-19th-century New York City socialites. Godbersen weaves a tenuous web of deceit, backstabbing and pretense that follows four teens: Elizabeth Holland, a prim and proper lady of old-money society, is betrothed to one man, though furtively loves another; Henry Schoonmaker, a debauched playboy who must marry Elizabeth or be disinherited; Diana Holland, Elizabeth’s younger sister who is in love with her fiancé; and Penelope Hayes, a member of the nouveau riche who will stop at nothing to win Henry’s affections.
5. Really Romantic in the first three not in the last one
The Uglies Series by Scott Westerfield~Science fiction
6. Romantic x 2 Great action
Maximum Ride(Really good)*******
A group of genetically enhanced kids who can fly and have other unique talents are on the run from part-human, part-wolf predators called Erasers in this exciting SF thriller that’s not wholly original but is still a compelling read. Max, 14, and her adopted family–Fang and Iggy, both 13, Nudge, 11, Gazzy, 8, and Angel, 6–were all created as experiments in a lab called the School. Jeb, a sympathetic scientist, helped them escape and, since then, they’ve been living on their own. The Erasers have orders to kill them so the world will never find out they exist. Max’s old childhood friend, Ari, now an Eraser leader, tracks them down, kidnaps Angel, and transports her back to the School to live like a lab rat again. The youngsters are forced to use their special talents to rescue her as they attempt to learn about their pasts and their destinies.
7. Ultimate Love Triangle/ Supernatural
Marked ( Book 1) House of Night series
In 16-year-old Zoey Redbird’s world, vampyres not only exist but are also tolerated by humans. Those whom the creatures “mark” as special enter the House of Night school where they will either become vampyres themselves, or, if their body rejects the change, die. To Zoey, being marked is truly a blessing, though she’s scared at first. She has never fit into the human world and has always felt she is destined for something else. Her grandmother, a descendant of the Cherokee, has always supported her emotionally, and it is she who takes the girl to her new school. But even there the teen stands apart from the others. Her mark from the Goddess Nyx is a special one, showing that her powers are very strong for one so young. At the House of Night, Zoey finds true friendship, loyalty, and romance as well as mistrust and deception.
8. Not really romantic
Blue Bloods Series by Melissa De La Cruz-Skylar a vampire girl crushing on an already taken vampire, but other young vampires are dying fast and nobody knows what’s killing them, unless the silver bloods have returned.
9. Romantic x 3
The Host by: Stephanie Meyer
planet-hopping parasites are inserting their silvery centipede
Western Romance Stories – Looking For Love And Romance
Western romance involves a lot more than endless sunshine and bliss! There are many hardships and challenges as well as romantic attractions which range from the gentle and sensitive to unusual kinds of loving that are decidedly erotic. Here are some of the best – meaning most popular – books available in this genre. They’ve been selected from the bestselling lists of the world’s largest bookstore.
The authors frequently have many titles in this field, so the list has been compiled to represent a range of notable writers, as well as some of their most popular western romances which, together, have sold in their millions.
1. Branded As Trouble – Lorelei James 2. Texas! Sage – Sandra Brown 3. High Country Bride – Linda Lael Miller 4. The Husband Tree – Mary Connealy 5. Early Dawn – Catherine Anderson 6. Sarah’s Quilt – Nancy E. Turner 7. Heart Of Texas: Nell’s Cowboy and Lone Star Baby – Debbie Macomber 8. Dakota Heat: Her Dakota Men and Dakota Ranch Crude – Leah Brooke 9. Tied Up, Tied Down – Lorelei James 10. Christy – Catherine Marshall
Lest you think that western romance books occupy an area of little interest, one that is read only by lonely homesteaders, Debbie Macomber alone has sold more than 140 million copies of her books and ‘Christy’, by Catherine Marshall, was regarded highly enough to be produced as a TV series, which is now available on DVD.
Unsurprisingly, these authors all have their own individual styles and their treatments of the romantic aspects also vary from the gentle, suggestive and suspenseful to the openly erotic.
The problems and conflicts are those which women, especially, can identify with and may at times include social issues, such as alcohol, but will inevitably be concerned with personal attraction between the leading characters and the problems of trying to bridge the difficulties which prevent a lasting relationship. The heroines face jealousy, abduction, differences in social status, drought, attraction to several men at the same time, and more. Life in the Old West, through the eyes of these writers, was never dull!
A woman in modern western romance novels is usually strong and enduring, capable of surviving despite many hardships. She may be well educated, as with Sage in ‘Texas! Sage’, have her own business or ranch, be single or widowed with children. The situations she will face are many and varied. However, even if disadvantaged, she is never weak.
Despite the challenging demands of the situations which confront these women in western romance, they are capable of caring, sensitivity and loving deeply, often with great passion.
About the Author
Cover pictures, storylines and reader comments for the novels referred to above can be seen here: Western Romance You can also see details here: Romance Stories
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