Hey friends, its Top Ten Tuesday time! This week the prompt is a ‘Love’ freebie so I figured that’s the perfect time to pick 5 Romance books I want to try and prioritise in 2025!
The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston
Bride by Ali Hazelwood
Magnolia Parks by Jessa Hastings
Delilah Green Doesn’t Care by Ashley Herring-Blake
Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry
This time last year I made a post about some 5 star predictions. I went back and had a look I’ve read 6 of the 10 books on my list and I feel like it’s been pretty successful so far… Hopefully I can get around to reading the other 4 sometime this year, but we shall see!
Honey and Spice by Bolu Babalola – ⭐️5/5 stars
I LOVED this!
The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood – ⭐️5/5 stars
This was fresh, dramatic and Adam was everything!
The Writing Retreat by Julia Bartz – ⭐️4/5 stars
The ending was WILD!
The Burning Girls by C.J. Tudor – ⭐️4/5 stars
I was on the edge of my seat throughout this!
Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree – ⭐️4/5 stars
The coziest fantasy you will ever read!
Chain of Gold by Cassandra Clare – ⭐️3/5 stars
Exactly what you expect from a Shadowhunter book!
Back in February I picked 5 romance books that are high on my TBR that I wanted to try to prioritize and I’ve actually finished them all which I am stoked about! They definitely weren’t all wins but I am glad I stuck to it and completed my list.
Happy Place by Emily Henry – Overall this was ok. I just couldn’t get over the fact that if these two would of communicated when they were going through their rough patch in San Francisco then all of the drama wouldn’t of happened. Both of them didn’t want to burden the other and they just kept kept this false sense of happiness to keep the status quo. There was definitely some cute and semi-steamy moments, but I don’t think second chance romances are for me. ⭐️2/5 stars
The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood – I really like this, I thought the premise was fun and the stakes weren’t too high. I wanted Olive to have a little more confidence in herself and stand up for herself a bit more. I liked the banter between out two main protagonists and learning about Adam more thoroughly and finding out there’s more to him than meets the eye was very cute. ⭐️4/5 stars
Honey & Spice by Bolu Babalola – This was amazing! I loved all of the characters, they each felt unique and distinct and had a purpose within the plot. There was a lot of social commentary and the plot as a whole felt realistic and wasn’t forced. I loved Kiki’s attitude and the way that Malakai wormed his way into her heart was so endearing and gave me all the feels! ⭐️5/5 stars
Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert – just like the title I found this to be incredibly cute! These two teens actually communicated to each other instead of assuming what the other is feeling and there was more to the story than just their romance! Probably not going to be picking up any more YA romance but this I definitely wasn’t disappointed this give me all the warm fuzzy feels. ⭐️4/5 stars
The Heart Principle by Helen Hoang – unfortunately this was a very forgettable read! I didn’t really enjoy our main protagonist as much as the other female leads in this series. She let her family walk all over her and didn’t stand by her boundaries leading to this stagnant nature of the book that dragged all of the conflict out unnecessarily in my opinion. ⭐️2/5 stars
Every year I am definitely influenced by social media to pick up certain books that are super popular or just generally hyped! And for some reason all the girlies have been gravitating towards romance, or at least that’s whats coming up on my FYP over the last year or so. I have 5 books that I thought were worth the hype and another five that I didn’t quite like or understand as much as the masses…
Ice Planet Barbarian’s by Ruby Dixon – this was just a fun time, it’s silly, smutty and a fast paced!
Zodiac Academy by Caroline Peckham & Susanne Valenti– This was super long, descriptions were confusing, I was bored the whole time and I hated all the characters
The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood – this was fresh, dramatic and Adam was everything!
Twisted Love by Ana Huang – forgettable, boring & I didn’t feel any chemistry!
Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree – a cozy, warm, great book with low stakes with a lil romance sprinkled in!
The Fine Print by Lauren Asher – Just ok… don’t really understand how hard people stan this series?!
A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J Maas – I am definitely a few years behind the hype for this but one of her best books I think!
Icebreaker by Hannah Grace – another ok one.. was wayyy too long!
Book Lovers by Emily Henry – my favourite Emily Henry book for sure, this was a perfect read for me!
The Spanish Love Deception by Elena Armas – another unnecessary long book with unlikeable characters!
Back in February I picked 5 romance books that are high on my TBR that I wanted to try to prioritize and actually read! And so far this year I’ve read three of the five so I figured this was a good chance to do a little recap of the five and give my thoughts on the ones I’ve completed so far.
Happy Place by Emily Henry – Overall this was ok. I just couldn’t get over the fact that if these two would of communicated when they were going through their rough patch in San Francisco then all of the drama wouldn’t of happened. Both of them didn’t want to burden the other and they just kept kept this false sense of happiness to keep the status quo. There was definitely some cute and semi-steamy moments, but I don’t think second chance romances are for me. ⭐️3/5 stars
The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood – I really like this, I thought the premise was fun and the stakes weren’t too high. I wanted Olive to have a little more confidence in herself and stand up for herself a bit more. I liked the banter between out two main protagonists and learning about Adam more thoroughly and finding out there’s more to him than meets the eye was very cute. ⭐️4/5 stars
Honey & Spice by Bolu Babalola – This was amazing! I loved all of the characters, they each felt unique and distinct and had a purpose within the plot. There was a lot of social commentary and the plot as a whole felt realistic and wasn’t forced. I loved Kiki’s attitude and the way that Malakai wormed his way into her heart was so endearing and gave me all the feels! ⭐️5/5 stars
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