By Emily Henry
Berkley, 2024. 387 pages. Romance
Daphne always loved the way Peter told their story. Too bad it turned out to be more of a prequel, a complication to Peter's actual love story, the one that ends with him dumping Daphne before their wedding to begin a relationship with his lifelong best friend, Petra. And so that's how Daphne's story really begins: stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a children's librarian, and proposing to be roommates with Petra's heartbroken ex, Miles Nowak. Scruffy and chaotic, Miles is entirely the opposite of buttoned-up Daphne until one night, while drowning their sorrows, they form a tenuous friendship. Miles decides he will convince Daphne to give Waning Bay a real shot. He'll show her why he loves this idyllic town and its residents, and if they happen to post deliberately misleading photos of their adventures together who could blame them?
In this opposites attract romance, I was absolutely smitten with Daphne and Miles' relationship. I was worried at first because the premise seemed a little outlandish, but Emily Henry never misses. She excels at adding emotional depth to her characters while exploring heartbreak and mental health in ways that never feel heavy handed or unnecessary to the story. While it is a forced proximity story, Daphne and Miles's relationship never felt forced with the perfect amount of slow burn and angst. Funny Story is another great read from Emily Henry!
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By Abby Jimenez
Hatchett Book Group, 2024. 418 pages. Romance
Justin has a curse, and thanks to a Reddit thread, it's all over the internet. Every woman he dates goes on to find their soul mate the second they break up. When a woman slides into his DMs with the same problem, they come up with a plan: They'll date each other and break up. Their curses will cancel each other's out, and they'll both go on to find the love of their lives. Emma hadn't planned that her next assignment as a traveling nurse would be in Minnesota, but she and her best friend agree that dating Justin is too good of an opportunity to pass up. It's supposed to be a quick fling, just for the summer. But when Emma's toxic mother shows up and Justin has to assume guardianship of his three siblings, they're suddenly navigating a lot more than they expected including catching real feelings for each other.
By Christina Lauren
Gallery Books, 2024. 349 pages. Romance
Anna Green thought she was marrying Liam "West" Weston for access to subsidized family housing while at UCLA. She also thought she'd signed divorce papers when the graduation caps were tossed, and they both went on their merry ways. Three years later, Anna is a starving artist living paycheck to paycheck while West is a Stanford professor. He may be one of four heirs to the Weston Foods conglomerate, but he has little interest in working for the heartless corporation his family built from the ground up. He is interested, however, in his one-hundred-million-dollar inheritance. There's just one catch. Due to an antiquated clause in his grandfather's will, Liam won't see a penny until he's been happily married for five years. Just when Liam thinks he's in the home stretch, pressure mounts from his family to see this mysterious spouse, and he has no choice but to turn to the one person he's afraid to introduce to his one-percenter parents - his unpolished, not-so-ex-wife. But in the presence of his family, Liam's fears quickly shift from whether the feisty, foul-mouthed, paint-splattered Anna can play the part to whether the toxic world of wealth will corrupt someone as pure of heart as his surprisingly grounded and loyal wife.
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