BEST CONTEMPORARY NOVELS BY COLLEEN HOOVER dailymorsel, 11 June 202314 July 2023 Spread the love 10. MAYBE SOMEDAY #1 – GoodReads Choice Award Nominee for Romance 2014 Get the book: https://amzn.to/3Csffdy At 22 Years old, Sydney has a great life. She’s in college, working a steady job, and In love with her wonderful boyfriend, Hunter, and rooming with her best friend, Tori. But everything changes when she discovers Hunter’s cheating on her- and she left trying to decide what to do next Sydney becomes captivated by Ridge her mysterious neighbour. She can’t take her eyes off him or stop listening to the passionate way he plays his guitar every evening out on his balcony. And there’s something about Sydney that Ridge can’t ignore, Either. when their inevitable encounter happens, they soon find themselves needing each other in more ways than one… 9. ALL YOUR PERFECTS – Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Romance 2018 Get the book: https://amzn.to/43BYEjM Quinn and Graham’s perfect love is threatened by their imperfect marriage. The memories, mistakes, and secrets that they have built up over the years are now tearing them apart. The one thing that could save them might also be the very thing that pushes their marriage beyond the point of repair. All Your Perfects is a profound novel about a damaged couple whose potential future hinges on promises made in the past. This is a heartbreaking page-turner that asks: Can a resounding love with a perfect beginning survive a lifetime between two imperfect people? 8. HEART BONES Get the book: https://amzn.to/42yMlmM Life and a dismal last name are the only two things Beyah Grim’s parents ever gave her. After craving her path all on her own, Beyah is well on her way to bigger and better things, thanks to no one but herself. With only two short months separating her from the future she’s built and the past she desperately wants to leave behind, an unexpected death leaves Beyah with no place to go during the interim. Forced to reach out to her last resort, Beyah has to spend the remainder of her summer on a peninsula in Texas with a father she barely knows. Beyah plans to keep her head down and let the summer slip by seamlessly, but her new neighbour Samson throws a wrench in that plan, Samson and Beyah have nothing in common on the surface. She comes from a life of poverty and neglect; he comes from a family of wealth and privilege. But one thing they do have in common is that they’re both drawn to sad things. Which means they’re drawn to each other. With an almost immediate connection too intense for them to continue denying, Beyah and Samson agree to stay in the shallow end of the summer fling. What Beyah doesn’t realize is that a rip current s coming, and it’s about to drag her heart out to sea. 7. HOPELESS Get the book: https://amzn.to/3P32g9Z Sometimes discovering the truth can leave you more hopeless than believing the lies… That’s what seventeen-year-old Sky realizes after she meets Dean Holder. He terrifies her and captivates her all in the span of her just one encounter, and something about the way he makes her feel sparks of buried memories from a past that she wishes could just stay buried. Sky struggles to keep him at a distance knowing he’s nothing but trouble but Holder insists on learning everything about her. After finally caving to his unwavering pursuit, Sky soon finds that Holder isn’t at all who he is been claiming to be. When the secrets he’s been keeping are finally revealed, every single facet of Sky’s life will change forever. 6. NOVEMBER 9 Get the book: https://amzn.to/3J7bvCj Fallon meets Ben, an aspiring novelist, the day before her scheduled cross-country move. Their untimely attraction leads them to spend Fallon’s last day in L.A. together, and her eventful life becomes the creative inspiration Ben has always sought for his novel. Over time and amidst the various relationships and tribulations of their own separate lives, they continue to meet on the same date every year. Until one day Fallon becomes unsure if Ben has been telling her the truth or fabricating a perfect reality for the sake of the ultimate plot twist. Can Ben’s relationship with Fallon-and simultaneously his novel-be considered a love story if it ends in heartbreak? 5. IT STARTS WITH US #2 – Goodreads Choice Award for Romance 2022 Get the book: https://amzn.to/3P6ZjoF Lily and her ex-husband, Ryle, have just settled into a civil co-parenting rhythm when she suddenly bumps into her first love, Atlas, again. Switching between the perspectives of Lily and Atlas, It Starts With Us picks up right where the epilogue for the bestselling phenomenon It Ends With Us left off. Revealing more about Atlas’s past and following Lily as she embraces a second chance at true love while navigating a jealous ex-husband. 4. REMINDERS OF HIM – Goodreads Choice Award for Romance 2022 Get the book: https://amzn.to/3J3b244 A troubled young mother yearns for a shot at redemption in this heartbreaking yet hopeful story. After serving five years in prison for a tragic mistake, Kenna Rowan returns to the town where it all went wrong, hoping to reunite with her four-year-old daughter. But the bridges Kenna burned are proving impossible to rebuild. The only person who hasn’t closed the door on her completely is Ledger Ward. The two form a connection despite the pressure surrounding them, but as their romance grows, so does the risk. Kenna must find a way to absolve the mistakes of her past in order to build a future out of hope and healing. 3. UGLY LOVE – Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Romance 2014 Get the book: https://amzn.to/460c62c When Tate Collins meets airline pilot Miles Archer, she knows it isn’t love at first sight. They wouldn’t even go so far as to consider themselves friends. The only thing Tate and Miles have in common is an undeniable mutual attraction. Once their desires are out in the open, they realize they have a perfect set-up. He doesn’t want love, she doesn’t have time for love, so that just leaves the sex. To continue their hideous relationship Tate has to stick to two rules Miles has for her. Never ask about the past. Don’t expect a future. They think they can handle it, but realize almost immediately they can’t handle it at all… 2. VERITY – British Book Award for Pageturner 2023, Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Romance 2019, Lovely Books Leserpreis for Romance 2020 Get the book: https://amzn.to/45YsIr5 Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin. Jeremy Crawford, the husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books his wife couldn’t complete. Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity’s notes and outlines. Page after page of bone-chilling admissions, including Verity’s recollection of what happened the day her daughter died. Lowen decides to keep the manuscript hidden from Jeremy, knowing its contents would devastate the already grieving father. She recognizes all the ways she could benefit if he were to read his wife’s words. After all, a truth this horrifying would make it impossible for him to continue to love her. 1. IT ENDS WITH US – Goodreads Choice Award for Romance 2016 and Nominee for Best of the Best 2018 Get the book: https://amzn.to/3CpLo5A Sometimes it is the one who loves who hurts you the most. Lily hasn’t always had it easy, but that’s never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. Ryle is assertive, stubborn maybe even a little arrogant. He’s also sensitive, brilliant, and has a total soft spot for Lily. Lily can’t get him out of her head. But Ryle’s complete aversion to relationships is disturbing. Even as Lily finds herself becoming the exception to his “no dating” rule. As questions about her new relationship overwhelm her, so do thoughts of Atlas Corrigan. He was her kindred spirit, her protector. MORE BY DAILY MORSEL: https://dailymorsel.info/index.php/2023/06/12/certainly-the-best-author-of-mystery-novels-haruki-murakami/ Blog BOOKS Fiction AbuseAudiobookChick litContemporaryContemporary romancefictionloveNew adultromanceWomenYoung adult