(Guest post by Tamsyn and Henry – The Librarians)
This Flirty February we are celebrating the month of love! Although it may be grey and wintery outside, we have romance reads ready for you! Whether you want enemies-to-lovers romcoms, heart warming tales of second chances or something spicey, Librarian Tamsyn has pulled together a tasty list of romantic books for you!
Get a cup of tea ready and scroll through our handpicked selection of romantic reads…
Contemporary
Book Lovers by Emily Henry
One summer. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn’t see coming… She’s no heroine. He’s no hero.
Set over one sizzling August, Book Lovers is a chemistry-filled ‘rivals to lovers’ romcom!
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Insatiable by Daisy Buchanan
Stuck in a dead-end job, broken-hearted, broke and estranged from her best friend, Violet’s life is nothing like she thought it would be.
When mysterious Lottie offers Violet the chance to join her exciting start-up, she bites. Only it soon becomes clear that Lottie and her husband are not only inviting Violet into their company, they are also inviting her into their lives.
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The Hating Game by Sally Thorne
Lucy Hutton, baker-of-cakes, exemplary assistant and professional ‘nice girl’, is waging war. She’s got the whole office on her side – except for tall, dark and charmless Joshua Templeman. He’s been nothing but hostile since the moment they met and now it feels like nothing matters as much as taking him down.
Reserve the paper back of The Hating Game
Fantasy
Warrior Princess Assassin by Brigid Kemmerer
An adult romantasy with the smouldering story of a duplicitous royal betrothal and the nobleman charged with assassinating the new couple. Intrigue, magic, a scorching-hot romance and the possibilities that love brings for healing.
Reserve the eBook of Warrior Princess Assassin
Midnight Ruin by Katee Robert
A scorchingly hot modern retelling of Eurydice and Orpheus and Charon.
Eurydice Dimitriou has always been the innocent sister, but she’s finally ready to step out of the long shadow cast by her powerful family…and the ex who shattered her heart. Perhaps love and romance are exactly what she needs to forget her heartbreak once and for all?
Reserve the paperback of Midnight Ruin
Sports
Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid
The red-hot queer romcom that everybody is talking about, Heated Rivalry sees the chemistry between the captains of two competing hockey teams escalate to scandalous levels.
Publicly, they’re enemies. Privately, they can’t stop loving.
Reserve the paperback of Heated Rivalry
Historical
Two Rogues Make a Right, Seducing the Sedgwicks by Cat Sebastian read by Joel Leslie
Will Sedgwick can’t believe that after months of searching for his oldest friend, Martin Easterbrook is found hiding in an attic like a gothic nightmare. As a lifetime of love transforms into a tender passion, can they envision a life free from the restrictions of the past, a life with each other?
Listen to Seducing the Sedgwicks
Comedy
Love in The Time of Serial Killers by Alicia Thompson read by Lee Daniels
Turns out that reading nothing but true crime isn’t exactly conducive to modern dating – and one woman is going to have to learn how to give love a chance when she’s used to suspecting the worst.
It doesn’t help that she’s low-key convinced that her new neighbour, Sam Dennings, is a serial killer (he may dress business casual by day, but at night he’s clearly up to something).
Listen to the audiobook of Love in The Time of Serial Killers
Cowboy
Outlaw Lake by Maisey Yates
Perry Bramble has loved best friend Carson Wilder since she was seven years old. He just never seemed to feel the same way.
Cowboy Carson always knew he wasn’t good enough for Perry. Their friendship was too important to risk messing up.
Can he finally gather the courage to be true to his wild heart before it’s too late?
Reserve the paperback of Outlaw Lake
Dark Romance
Lights Out by Navessa Allen
Stalker dark romance, burning with high heat, hilarious banter, and a love story like you’ve never seen before.
Can you handle the ride?
Reserve the paperback of Lights Out
Young Adult
Mismatched by Anne Camlin illustrated by Isadora Zeferino
A modern graphic novel retelling of Jane Austen’s Emma perfect or fans of Heartstopper!
Reserve the paperback of Mismatched
Non-fiction
Want: Fantasies by anonymous compiled by Gillian Anderson
What do you want, when no one is watching? What do you want, when the lights are off? What do you want, when you are anonymous?
In this generation-defining book, Gillian Anderson collects and introduces the anonymous letters of hundreds of women from around the world (along with her own anonymous letter).
