10 romance books on my TBR list – Top Ten Tuesday

You Have a Match has been on my TBR list for a while and I like that romance doesn’t seem to be the only theme in the book. Even though this is a romance books on my TBR blog post haha!

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When Abby signs up for a DNA service, it’s mainly to give her friend and secret love interest, Leo, a nudge. After all, she knows who she is already: Avid photographer. Injury-prone tree climber. Best friend to Leo and Connie…although ever since the B.E.I. (Big Embarrassing Incident) with Leo, things have been awkward on that front.

But she didn’t know she’s a younger sister.

When the DNA service reveals Abby has a secret sister, shimmery-haired Instagram star Savannah Tully, it’s hard to believe they’re from the same planet, never mind the same parents — especially considering Savannah, queen of green smoothies, is only a year and a half older than Abby herself.

The logical course of action? Meet up at summer camp (obviously) and figure out why Abby’s parents gave Savvy up for adoption. But there are complications: Savvy is a rigid rule-follower and total narc. Leo is the camp’s co-chef, putting Abby’s growing feelings for him on blast. And her parents have a secret that threatens to unravel everything.

But part of life is showing up, leaning in, and learning to fit all your awkward pieces together. Because sometimes, the hardest things can also be the best ones.

I spotted this book when I was browsing on BorrowBox and then saw that it had only just been published. It came out on the 6th of February, so a very new book. I managed to reserve it to read in May. The book sounds similar to The Flat Share so I’m very excited to read it as that is my favourite book.

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Rosie had the perfect evening lined up: she’d come home early, slip into a sexy dress and surprise her boyfriend with date night. What she was not expecting was to find his bags packed and herself unceremoniously dumped.

But she can’t even think about her heartbreak when she faces the more pressing matter of making rent this month. And in desperate times, she agrees to let her spare room out to her elusive upstairs neighbour.

Aled needs somewhere to stay while his place is being renovated, and she gets to keep her home. It’s a win-win situation… At least in theory.

For Rosie has sworn off men indefinitely, and never saw herself living with one so soon after her breakup. But being in Aled’s company day in, day out has this annoying habit of playing havoc with her heart…

On paper they’re just flatmates, but could there be room for more between them?

I saw this book on World of Books and thought it sounded good. Then went to check on BorrowBox and it is there! So I have reserved it for June. My monthly eBooks are really stacking up now 🙂

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Tara and Colin were instant soulmates. But after six years of marriage and many failed IVF attempts, Tara feels unloved and unsexy, while Colin believes his best days are behind him. Neither Tara nor Colin is the cheating type, but they’re both desperate to shake things up. It seems the relationship is over–until they each secretly download a controversial new dating app, Fling, where married people can find discreet, anonymous affairs online. The rules: no tell-tale photos, no real names, and absolutely no distinguishing details. Soon, Colin and Tara are each sent 100% perfect-match profiles, dream partners–but is true love too good to be real?

Had to include a classic. I have said that I will read it this year for the past 2 years, but I think 2024 is finally the year! I started reading Pride and Prejudice on the weekend and I’m about 20% through. I’m enjoying it so far, and the edition I’m reading has lovely illustrations.

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Since its immediate success in 1813, Pride and Prejudice has remained one of the most popular novels in the English language. Jane Austen called this brilliant work “her own darling child” and its vivacious heroine, Elizabeth Bennet, “as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print.” The romantic clash between the opinionated Elizabeth and her proud beau, Mr. Darcy, is a splendid performance of civilized sparring. And Jane Austen’s radiant wit sparkles as her characters dance a delicate quadrille of flirtation and intrigue, making this book the most superb comedy of manners of Regency England.

The last book on my romance books TBR list is Finding Gene Kelly by Torie Jean. I actually pre-ordered this book back in September 2022, but have not found the time to read it. I think I have been putting it off because I know it is going to be a good book. (if that makes sense?).

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When five-year-old Evie O’Shea married her next-door neighbor in the wedding of the century, she had no idea she was swearing an oath to love the man who would grow into the bane of her existence until the end of time.

 Or that she would be ushered into a large community of people with endometriosis shortly. 

 Now, aged twenty-six, Evie O’Shea lives in Paris, balancing precariously close to her Charlotte Lucas birthday. A burden to her parents, with no prospects and no money, Evie’s humdrum life needs a shake-up. 

 Enter Liam Kelly, the man Evie married at the age of five and promptly divorced at seven when he had the audacity to throw a muddy football at her while she was reading Eloise in Paris and ruined the whole darn book. Clad in a Henley and equipped with toned forearms and eye crinkles that rival Gene Kelly himself, Evie is determined to keep her ultimate temptation at a distance while she flails wildly navigating life, love, and endometriosis on the banks of the Seine. 

 But when a family secret is revealed weeks before her brother’s wedding, Evie seeks Liam’s help to get through the wedding with some semblance of sanity intact. 

 Her request? Fake date. 

 But making a deal with the Devil always comes with a cost, and when Liam’s conditions which include elaborate backstories and practice dates, reignite passions her disease smothered long ago, Evie has to learn to fight for her dreams and break free from her life measured in ibuprofen pills and heating pad settings. Or else risk being alive but never truly living.