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Buddy reads? Never tried that before.

Me too.

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Sounds like one to be on my TBR

I agree, the setting was haunting.

See the movie but not read the book. Will check the book out.

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Fake dating done properly. Catalina needs a date for her sister's wedding in Spain; Aaron, her tall infuriating colleague who she has never liked, offers to go.

The son of the American president falls for a British prince. The premise sounds like it should be ridiculous and instead it is completely, helplessly charming.

Enemies-to-lovers via handwritten letters — the enemies are emergency doctors sharing a hospital department, the letters start as a complaint and become something else entirely.

Two authors. One week together years ago that neither of them forgot. A reunion that neither of them was ready for. Williams writes heat and heartbreak with equal precision and the chemistry between Eva and Shane is the best I have encountered in a second-chance romance in years.

The setup is almost unbearably good — she sees him through a bus window in December, they connect, then he turns out to be her best friend's boyfriend. Silver then has to sustain that tension for an entire novel and largely does.

Stella Lane is one of my favourite romance protagonists in recent memory — her neurodivergence is written from the inside rather than as a quirk for the neurotypical love interest to be charmed by, which makes an enormous difference to how the romance reads.

Two timelines alternating between past summers and a present trip, building toward an emotional payoff that I saw coming and cried at anyway, which is the mark of a skilled author.

I have complicated feelings about this one. The writing is genuinely good and the emotional core — what Lily experiences and how she processes it — is handled with more nuance than the genre often manages on difficult subjects.

Emily Henry writes like she knows exactly what she is doing with the genre, which she does. The enemies-to-lovers setup here is given genuine emotional grounding — these two people have real reasons for their dynamic and real reasons for why it changes.

The slow burn chemistry in this novel is genuinely exquisite and I say that as someone who has read enough romance to know instantly when an author is just stalling and when they are actually building something. This is the latter.