Enchanting Romances About Young Love

We all remember our first kiss and our first love, and nothing else can quite replicate the magic of those moments. These books all capture what makes that experience so special, as well as being fantastic reads for any reader!

Everything Leads To You by Nina Lacour

A truly glamorous and beguiling book, with a clever metanarrative and commentary on the idealized nature of fictional relationships, where this book really wins readers over is with its central character Emi.

The Summer Of Jordi Perez (And The Best Burger In Los Angeles) by Amy Spalding

The Summer Of Jordi Perez is a novel that really effectively captures what it’s like to be young and in love in the digital age, especially the dichotomy between private and public lives that can become so muddled. As well as providing an inspirational narrative of body positivity and self-confidence.

To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han

Whether or not you’ve seen the fantastic Netflix adaptation(Although you really should have by now!) this riveting book is definitely worth checking out. A moving and eloquent expression of the heightened emotions that come with young love.

Emergency Contact by Mary K Choi

A book that captures the unique, and potentially liberating, way in which relationships can develop online and via text. It also contains a truly charming set of lead characters, whose awkwardness and genuine natures is at once relatable and endearing.

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The rocky road of love: Three famously doomed romances

The course of true love doesn’t always run smooth and, sometimes that’s what makes it all the more intriguing. History and literature are littered with tales of doomed romance. There are some legendary couples whose love burned so intensely, they could not allow the external forces which kept them apart to do so for much longer. Here are some the most famous examples of those intense, yet ultimately doomed, romances.

Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare actually coined the phrase ‘star-crossed lovers’ to describe this couple. They had to fight for their love right from the off as they came from two feuding families – the Montagues and Capulets. However, they didn’t let this stop them and were determined to be together. But not for long as Juliet’s faked death, led to Romeo’s actual death and his lover soon followed him in shaking off the mortal coil.

Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan

The Great Gatsby was one of the greatest novels of the 20th century and at its heart was the romance between Gatsby and Daisy which seemed doomed even before it begun. Gatsby had done everything he could since their first encounter to elevate himself to a status he thought Daisy would deem worth. But a series of factors, not least Daisy’s jealous and suspicious husband Tom, conspired against them to prevent them from being together.

Antony and Cleopatra

A legendary love story with a dramatic and tragic end. The Roman Antony falls in love with the Egyptian queen Cleopatra and they form a formidable alliance. However, Antony’s enemies trick him into believing Cleopatra has died while he is at war. Not able to bear the news, he kills himself with his sword. Cleopatra is devastated to hear of her lover’s death and famously kills herself with the bite of an asp.

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Are women really better at romance writing?

Despite gender equality making great strides in many walks of life, but when it comes to the readership of romance novels, parity is still a long way off. An overwhelming amount of romance novels are read by woman, with recent surveys putting the figure around the 90% mark. Of course, you’ll need to figure in the fact that many men may read romance novels, but not be prepared to admit it.

However, whatever about the disparity in the gender of readers, the make-up of romance writers is slightly more balanced.

Traditionally, the heavy hitters in the romance genre were Danielle Steele and Barbara Cartland and it was generally accepted that women were more adept at penning romance. Much of this is based on the fact they are able to represent the female point of view better.

However many romance novels require the story to be told from two points of view – traditionally a male and female one. The criticism is that men can’t adequately tell a story from a female point of view and they lack the nuance that a female writer might possess. Female writers are said to focus more on detail and subtlety while male writers favor action and large, sweeping dramatic scenes.

But it is worth noting that many male romance writers have operated under female pseudonyms for many years now and the Nicholas Sparks has managed to enjoy huge success in the genre.

Online tests to determine whether a writer is male or female are generally unreliable and the logical conclusion is that good writing is good writing, no matter the gender.

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