Whether it’s healing, comforting, or even just hilarious, here are a few memorable romances that feel like a warm hug. They are books we recommend over and over again so the re-readability is also very high. We all need that familiar read with character who feel like friends. Happy reading!
The tenderness of Stars in Your Eyes! In a reading experience, you won’t forget two actors, one Hollywood’s bad boy and the other a sunshiny newbie, are paired in a romantic comedy project. When PR demands they fake date to raise the profile of their film and they get to know each other, feelings start to development. A look at mental health, healing, self-love, and true love, Stars in Your Eyes is always on the re-read list.
Anita Kelly and romance novels that feel like warm hugs just go together like marshmallows and cocoa. In How You Get the Girl, a high school basketball coach is suddenly coaching with her WNBA crush and taking dating lessons after hours. A powerful story about identity and mental health, How You Get the Girl explores what happens when we feel all of our friends are moving forward without us.
A cup of tea and Melissa Wiesner is the best way to jump in her romances. What happens when a buttoned-up math professor is forced to reply on her carefree (tattooed) doorman when her identity mysteriously disappears? A lot!
Nothing says warm hug like two adorable pups who are best friends, social media stars, and matchmakers? Ashanti is thrilled with the success of her doggie daycare and ready to take things to the next level when her French bulldog and poodle bestie blow up on social media… as if life wasn’t wild enough, why does she suddenly have to team up with the world’s biggest dog hater to make her dreams come true?
A romance & a mystery in one?
Dancing and mental health road trips in a convertible? Fate brings together Rory, a ballet teacher, and Mike, a professional hockey player, as adults… only Mike has no idea that he once met Rory when he was young and that he was her perfect fake boyfriend back in high school. Years later, Rory is teaching his young daughter dance and forms an unlikely friendship with them as they are conquering their own life mountains. Funny, heartfelt, and full of delicious snacks, you’ll feel as gooey and wonderful as a grilled cheese sandwich on a winter day.
Family, a matchmaking competition, sweet goods all rolled into the delectable Lunar Love. This rivals-to-enemies romance is about tradition vs. technology, finding love in surprising ways, and the support and love we find around us.
When Marley (professionally) reunites with Nik, her high school prom date turned rival now up-and-coming-action film star, she never imagined being cozy with him again. But right around the time she starts styling him she also learns she’s about to undergo an elective double mastectomy and he agrees to be her caretaker post-surgery. Marley is about to learn one one door closes, another door opens… and support comes in the least expected of ways.
Home is a place and home is a person. When Bree escapes to the small town of Pelion, Maine, she is looking to forget everything she left behind; she’s determined to get a fresh start. The community takes her in and her connection with Archer, misunderstood and unwilling to open up to anyone except her… she believes she may have found more than she ever imagined.
Friendship, adventure, and finding the person you can just sit and be you with: that’s the key to an Abby Jimenez romance. In Just for the Summer, Emma and Justin connect on Reddit over their own personal love curses and decide the only way to break it is to date each other. What happens when the quick fling starts to mean so, so much more…
