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It's Romance Week on Goodreads
It's time for love stories, sweet 'meet cute' tales, steamy guilty-pleasure reads, and favorite heartfelt novels. Yes, it's time for the Goodreads Romance Week.
All week we will be bringing you the best in romance leading up to Valentine's Day, including top romance authors (we're talking J.R. Ward, Nalini Singh, Kristen Ashley, and many more) writing 14-word love stories! Check out their very short (and very clever) stories below.
Visit your favorite author's Goodreads page for their Romance Week updates and follow along on social media using #RomanceWeek.
"'How can I not love you?' I said to Channing Tatum as he blushed."
—J.R. Ward
"Mistaken text. Not mistake, but fate. It was you. When we met I knew."
—Katy Evans
"Courtesan spy and celibate warrior priest save realm, fall in love. Oops, goodbye celibacy!"
—Jacqueline Carey
"She was a woman he couldn't claim. He was a man she couldn't tame."
—Brenda Jackson
"An altar-dumped groom tricks his best man and worst enemy into honeymooning together."
—Damon Suede
"Blind date to forever: Glances, smiles, holy-forearms, killer-legs, laughter, lips, hands, beds, walls…love."
—Emma Chase
"She rescued a wounded wolf…and woke to a man. He smiled. She fell."
—Nalini Singh
"See him. Laughter. Conversation. Butterflies. Kisses. Floating. Merging. Terror. Falling. Held. Courage. Forever lifemate."
—Christine Feehan
"They met at 17, fell in love. Married at 21, lived happily ever after."
—Karen Rose
"The heart drawn on the paper coffee cup that I held until it cooled."
—C.S. Pacat
"Black eye. He moved to her, cautious. She looked to him. He was lost."
—Kristen Ashley
"Violet shed her rights, Viggo shed his—for what use was freedom without love?"
—Bella Forrest
"Every day
Same train
Empty seat
He sits
We talk
We miss our stop."
—Kylie Scott
Tell us what you're reading in observance of Romance Week!
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I'm currently reading Fifty shades darker
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For Romance Week, I'll be reading Say What You Will by Cammie McGovern and The Statistical Probability of Love at First iIght by Jennifer E. Smith.
I am reading "You And Me, Always"by Jill Mansell"
I'm surprised Penny Reid isn't on any of these lists. She's a great romance writer!
Haha, Jacqueline Carey! Cracking up at that one!
I don't pay too much attention to St. Valentine's Day, but I love family, and I love those non-scary, non-gruesome paranormal romances ...especially those with "good guy" shifters and vampires...no ghosts or zombies, for me.
At the moment, I'm reading Bound (Mastered #1). I'm really enjoying the 14 word romances. Of those posted so far, my top 4 favorites (in order) are Katy Evans, Nalini Singh, Kylie Scott and Karen Rose. I'm also pretty intrigued by Damon Suede's. That's a longer story I'd like to read.
I suggest "Queen Margo"I'm currently reading "Fangirl" :)
I´m actually needing a good romance novel... one that stick to you forever
I suggest the "Rosemarry Beach" seris by Abbi Glines
Liza in the library wrote: "I'm currently reading Fifty shades darker"WoW!
Sophie wrote: "I´m actually needing a good romance novel... one that stick to you forever"Hey Liza, If you get one then please share the name of book with me.
Take care :-):-)
Mwanamali wrote: "Out of the Blue by Josh Lanyon soon. Also will there be a mystery week?"I hope so!
I'm Reading Covalent Bonds and listening to Shock & Awe again. The Cut & Run/Sidewinder books are my favorite romances to read.
I try to avoid romance as much as possible though I dunno how I tolerate them seeing as YA is basically full of them.
My Love is Deep, Briana's Bistro, The Christmas Ornament and her newest, The Promise is the sequel "To The Christmas Store". Tons of romance laced with suspense. Check out Barbara Avon
I'm reading Beyond The Highland Mist, so steamy!
Jacqueline Carey's quote made me laugh. I'd read that book!
I'm reading The House of Mirth, because sometimes you need a little tragedy.
I'm reading two this week! Glory and the Rake by Deborah Simmons and The Mammoth Book of Paranormal Romance.
Just finished Beautiful Bastard , now reading The Grand Sophy
If you are looking for a good romance novel, Brittany C. Cherry has great books, they are the kind of stories that you can never forget and that keep you reading to the very end, wishing the story was never ending.
Sophie wrote: "I´m actually needing a good romance novel... one that stick to you forever"You should read a book by Brittainy C. Cherry, she is a great author.
Sumeet wrote: "Sophie wrote: "I´m actually needing a good romance novel... one that stick to you forever"Hey Liza, If you get one then please share the name of book with me.
Take care :-):-)"
I surely do!
Most romantic book in my favorites is East of West, Vol. 1: The Promise. A lonely man looks for his long lost love.
Bree wrote: "Sophie wrote: "I´m actually needing a good romance novel... one that stick to you forever"You should read a book by Brittainy C. Cherry, she is a great author."
Thanks for the advice! I´m looking right now on BD what title of her I can get.
I love a good heart wrenching love story. This one is real & I'll need a box of Kleenex.
All of the above quotes about love are, in my humble opinion, pretentious and predictable. Often times, when writing about love, I have found that authors try too hard to be memorable, profound and poetic in their prose and just as often fail to pull it off. Ends up sounding melodramatic and far from the truth.
Something from Georgette Heyer for sure. If romance isn't the main genre you want, Princess Academy hit that well, and A Court of Mist and Fury + Six of Crows if you're into YA.
I am rereading Lori Foster's Under Pressure for the second time. I love her writing style.
currently reading Twisted Perfection by Abbi Glines. Such a great book! :-)
Enjoy the Dance by Heidi Cullinan. It's excellent!
I'm deeply entrenched in the women (and men!) of Summer at the Shore Leave Cafe The Shore Leave Cafe series.
"The Wallflowers", "The Hathaways", "The Ravenals" and "the Travis's"- all by Lisa Kleypas all AMAZING <3
Sophie wrote: "Bree wrote: "Sophie wrote: "I´m actually needing a good romance novel... one that stick to you forever"You should read a book by Brittainy C. Cherry, she is a great author."
Thanks for the advice!..."
Great author!Good suggestion! I would recommend Maybe someday-Colleen Hoover.... Archer voice-Mia Sheridan.... Binding arbitracion-Elizabeth Marx....
I highly recommend the novel "A Little Love" by C.C. Medina - which is a deeply affecting romantic tale - and a book of non-fiction, "Love" by Leo Buscaglia, which is an absolute gem.
Not sure yet if this counts as romance but I'm reading "Matched" by Ally Condie.
