The Everlasting involves jaunts through multiple versions of the same story, as our fantastic main protagonists shift and change, bravely outsmart those who would control them, dare to hope for a future together, and fight dark forces until the bitter end. This is adventure-heavy, sometimes tender, and always intriguing. I loved it. Sir Una Everlasting was a legendary knight in the kingdom of Dominion, an orphan who rose to greatness and died in service to her queen. Her bra

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This wonderfully creepy lesbian vampire story is largely about female empowerment, but also about love, discovery, reinvention, and...

I love an astronaut story, and while Reid spent far more page time on relationships than on the astronaut or space aspects, there was...

More Funny and Sweet Light Fiction Adorable rom-coms can be perfect summertime reading. These Bossy favorites from a summer past stand...

The main male protagonist was off-putting to me in his arrogance at first, but Carley Fortune is the best at developing a lakeside...

While I probably should stop reading "romantasy" because I prefer my fantasy and romance to remain separate, I was taken with the...

I loved Sunny's body positivity and her self-made-woman status. I didn't fully buy into one of her love interests but was hooked on the...

I loved the premise, in which a golden girl and barrel-racer returns home to small-town Wyoming to figure out her future. I was looking...

Katherine Center's sweet rom-com about a video producer and her reluctant hero of a subject is set against the colorful backdrop of Key...

In Ava Robinson's debut novel, she offers an appealingly imperfect main character making missteps and forging a path forward while...

Henry's story-within-a-story adds a historical fiction element to her signature big-hearted, banter-driven, steamy, intriguingly...

More of My Favorite Rom-Com Reads This is my second favorites lists of rom-coms and romantic reads from the past year. In my last list I...

In Kristy Boyce's young-adult charmer, high schoolers Riley and Nathan, coworkers who have nothing in common, end up in a fake-dating...

My Oxford Year takes a light, romantic tone and within it, explores weighty issues like serious illness, loss, grief, vulnerability, and...

My Favorite Rom-Com Reads This is my first of two favorites lists of rom-coms and romantic reads. I was just talking to my friend Martha...

Croucher's young adult queer medieval adventure romance is sweet, spunky, and full of great banter, with characters finding their way...

The reality-show setting and LGBTQIA+ representation in Ever After flips the traditional fairy tale in satisfying, heartwarming ways in...

The first in Jensen's fantasy series ticked many of my boxes--strong female main character, a tension-filled Chosen One premise, a fight...

The historical fiction story about the building of the Grove Park Inn in Asheville, North Carolina, had a romantic element that was...