Romantic+Fiction

What is romantic fiction?
Romantic fiction (or romance novels) tell a love story that focuses on relationships and usually have optimistic endings.

Romantic Fiction in Our Library
// Forever // by Judy Blume FIC BLU There's a first for everything. When you build up something in your mind -- really imagine it, wish for it -- sometimes, when it actually happens, it doesn't live up to your expectations. True love is nothing like that. Especially not for Katherine and Michael, who can't get enough of each other. Their relationship is unique: sincere, intense, and fun all at the same time. Although they haven't been together all that long, they know it's serious. But it's senior year of high school, and there are big changes ahead. Michael and Katherine are destined for another big "first": a decision. Is this the love of a lifetime, or the very beginning of a lifetime of love? -//Title Peek Summary//
 * 1) of Pages: 192

// Hard Cash // by Kate Cann FIC CAN What 17-year-old Rich needs more than anything is cash: for art supplies, for new clothes, and to take the hottest girl on campus out on a date. Day in and day out, he obsesses over all things financial-from the cheap cut of meat his mom serves for dinner to bumming a few pounds off his best friend to pay for half a pint at the pub. When Rich finally gets his break from a swaggeringly successful ad executive, he learns that wealth comes with a price, namely selling (out) his macabre paintings for an Alcopop commercial. Cann captures Rich's money obsession with almost annoying clarity as the teen first struggles with poverty and later fights to keep a lid on spending once fortune finally does arrive. And although Cann's unique voice is full of Briticisms, her dead-on characterization and high-speed pacing add up to a cleverly realistic, nondidactic, and sarcastic first novel in a new series about money, materialism, and their effects on the teenage psyche.-//School Library Journal,// Hillias J. Martin, New York Public Library
 * 1) of Pages: 327

// The Lucky One // by Nicholas Sparks FIC SPA I have never lived in North Carolina nor have I been in love but this book put me not only in a North Carolina love story but in the midst of drama. The book starts off telling us about the main character Logan Thibault who after leaving Iraq decides to walk cross country in search for a woman. Not just any woman but the woman from the photograph he found in Iraq. Not only himself but his friend believed it brought him luck and because of the photo he survived Iraq, so he embarks on this life changing journey to find her and repay her for all she has done for him. On his journey he ends up in a town called Hampton, North Carolina where he comes across a cop who wasn’t bad but wasn’t good either he is the antagonist of the story. After meeting the cop he realizes that Hampton is where he will finally meet the woman in the photograph. He didn’t expect to fall in love but just to repay the debt he owed her….. his life. As you go on to read the book you will see the series of events that will change the life of Logan, the woman in the photograph, and the cop forever. This book was very intriguing I couldn’t put it down. I’m one of those people that it’s hard to pick up a book and start reading but this book I had it in my hands all the time. Once you start reading it it’s hard to stop because it gives you an outlook on something other than the perfect fairytale. Not all things are easy as the glass slipper fits. In life you encounter things that can change the course of you happily ever after at any moment. It’s what you do and how you handle the situation that counts and that’s what this book makes you realize. It’s a good read and you’ll be hooked in the first couple of pages and if you haven’t read a Nicholas Sparks book your going to want to because that’s how attention grasping his books are. -G.L.
 * 1) of Pages: 336

// Why We Broke Up // by Daniel Handler FIC HAN //Why We Broke Up// is an extremely relatable story of a young adult breakup. Min and Ed are high schoolers and it’s obvious – they broke up. This sentimental and witty novel follows Min down memory lane when she gathers all of her and Ed’s possessions that remind her or had anything to do with their relationship. Handler perfectly captures the great and foolish things we all do when we think we’re grown and in a high school relationship. Everyone loves a good love story but we all know that all good things must come to an end. Reading this book, you will find yourself ceaselessly laughing out loud and even be provoked to reconcile with that ex that you still wonder about. 5 stars all around, and I demand a movie! -R.C.
 * 1) of Pages: 354