✨So many books, so little time! These are the Valentine’s Day reads we hope to get to this year. Will they make it to your TBR too? ✨
Hey there Lit Lovers! With the infamous Heart Day right around the corner, we’re in the mood for hearts, chocolate, books, and more books. After scouring the interwebs, we’ve gathered up some Valentine’s Day reads we thought would fit the mood. Let’s get into them!
Romance book connoisseur Tara Chen has had her heart broken ten times by ten different men—all of whom dumped her because of her “stage-five clinger” tendencies. Nevertheless, Tara is determined to find The One. The only problem? Classic meet-cutes are dead, thanks to modern dating apps. So Tara decides to revisit her exes in hopes of securing her very own trope-worthy second-chance romance.
Boston firefighter Trevor Metcalfe will be the first to rush into a burning building but the last to rush into a relationship. Love just isn’t his thing. When his new roommate Tara enlists him to help her reconnect with her exes, he reluctantly agrees. But Tara’s journey is leading him to discover his own new chapter.
The more time they spend together, the more Tara realizes Trevor seems to be the only one who appreciates her authentic, dramatic self. To claim their happily ever after, can Tara and Trevor read between the lines of their growing connection?
We are suckers for room-mances! Combine that with forced proximity and a tattooed fire fighter MMC and sold! For the true mood reader, this takes place over Valentine’s Day. See our review here.
“My heart might belong to Sebastian Kane, but so do a million others.”
I know better than to get involved with celebrities. Especially a Rock God like Sebastian Kane. A man who knows how to make the ladies scream, as evidenced by the leak of his recent sex tape.
Which leads to my problem… I’m the girl in the video with him.
Grief will make you do crazy things. After all, I’m the smart girl, the good girl, not the rebel.
But now I’m face to face with the one man I was never supposed to see again. A man with a gorgeous dark smile and even darker secrets.
They say hindsight is 20/20.
And that’s the problem with rock stars.
They make bad decisions so damn irresistible, right before they break your heart.
Author’s Note: This series is recommended for those 18+ due to mature content and explicit scenes. This series contains subjects that may be sensitive for some readers. Content/TWs (which contain spoilers) can be found on my website.
Abby has been CRAVING a Rock Star Romance, and since it mentions a “heart” we are deeming this Valentine’s Day worthy even though it takes place in the summertime. See the review here.
Asmodeus, Prince of Hell, just wants to make music. Jazz, specifically. Unfortunately, he’s a demon. And he’s supposed to be evil.
Clearly, for Ash, a career as a musician isn’t exactly an option. Plus, he’s cursed. Sick of playing by the rules, Ash and his three brothers escape Hell in search of freedom on Earth. But it’s harder than they thought to keep their enemies off their tails . . .
Yet everything changes for Ash when he meets a beautiful violinist who can see through his curse. No matter the risk, he has to have her.
Evangeline Gregory is just your average human. She works at a jazz bar, plays gigs on weekends . . . and, apparently, hallucinates demons.
At least that’s what Eva tells herself when, moments after she meets the man of her dreams, she sees him shift into a 7-foot-tall monster. Not believing her own eyes, Eva decides to investigate and soon finds herself in the middle of a supernatural clusterf**k.. But Ash isn’t the only one keeping secrets, and the search for answers reveals a shocking truth that will change Eva’s life forever. Or maybe just doom it. The path to love can be complete Hell.
Demons full of sinful thoughts and pleasures? YES. FREAKING. PLEASE. *We read this and we are OBSESSED! See the review here.*
Psyche Middleton vows her dad will never see the risqué photos she took during a summer modeling stint abroad, but one of them ends up on a billboard in her Montana hometown, where everyone—especially her dad—can see it. That becomes the least of her worries when she meets Erik, a mysterious guy who rescues her from a mob and who she’s never actually seen because he can make himself invisible.
Erik takes her to his palace in an idyllic kingdom, and she is swept into the beauty and culture of his world, but his affection has one condition: she may not see him. Enchanted, intrigued, and not wholeheartedly believing he’s real, Psyche can’t bring herself to love him blindly. When she betrays his trust for a glimpse of his face, Psyche ends up at the mercy of Erik’s controlling mother, who demands that Psyche prove herself in order to be reunited with him. Psyche knows love is never easy, but this is ridiculous. She agrees to complete three impossible tasks to prove her devotion to Erik—or die trying.
This modern retelling of the myth of Cupid and Psyche is a fantastical journey filled with laughter, danger, and the indomitable power of love.
Cupid and Psyche retellings are harder to come by than the other mythology retellings. We hope that reading this inspires all the ancient love feels this Valentine’s Day. We didn’t get this read in time and will have to try again next year.
I’m going to find my own true love even if it kills me.
You’d think being in charge of love would be an epic job, right?
Wrong.
Sure, I’m a cupid, so I can blow Lust into people’s faces and watch the show, but I can’t actually participate. It gets old, trust me. Same goes for love. I can pass it out like sugar-free lollipops at a dentist’s office, but I can’t get any for myself.
I’m stuck in this never-ending afterlife where I’m invisible, lonely, and bitter. And yeah, I’m probably responsible for some terrible matchmaking out there. But can you blame a girl?
Apparently, my cupid bosses can, because I get exiled to the fae world. And while I’m here, I accidentally attack a fae prince with Love Arrows. But hey, he deserved it.
What I didn’t expect was for him to retaliate and that I’d be pushed into the physical realm.
That’s right. This cupid just got a real body. And you know what that means. Now, it’s my turn to get some.
Love, I mean. Wink, wink.
A cupid why-choose romance that has been on our TBR since last year! We love that it’s a finished series. *Spoiler alert: we read it and ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT! Read the review here*
Maybe if Charlie St. James repeats it enough, she’ll stop lusting after him. Not that it matters how she feels anyway, because Liam will always see her as one of the boys. Hell, he’s the one who gave her the nickname Charlie as a joke.
Well, the joke’s on her.
Now that she is confined to less than 1,000 square feet with him, she can’t stop thinking about how it would feel to get just a little bit closer.
Charlie St. James is off limits.
She’s been Liam Walsh’s best friend since grade school. He thought it wouldn’t be a big deal to let her crash with him when she needed a place to stay, but he was dead wrong. Knowing only a thin wall separates them when they sleep, that she’s naked in the shower while he lays in bed fantasizing about her, is unbearable.
When their cozy two bedroom goes from friend zone to war zone, they’ll either burn up the sheets or go down in flames.
This was chosen due to it having a heart on the cover. It looks to be book #1 of an interconnected standalone series with three books total, that is finished. *This didn’t make this years cut, so onto next years TBR it is*
How can Anna Ellis, a geeky, brilliant, and hopelessly smitten cosmetic chemist possibly win over Craig Kimball, the man of her dreams—who also happens to be her boss? The answer is Craig’s empathetic (and handsome) CEO half brother, Marco. The makeup mogul knows Craig for the ridiculously competitive rival he is. Whatever Marco has, Craig wants. That can be Anna, if she’s game to play.
All Anna and Marco have to do is pretend they’re falling in love and let the rumors begin. If the experiment in attraction works, a jealous Craig will swoop in and give Anna her happily ever after—if it weren’t for one hitch in the plan. There’s more to Marco than meets the eye. With every fake date, Anna’s feelings are starting to become dizzyingly real.
Blame it on chemistry. It’s unpredictable, exciting, and occasionally combustible. If Anna and Marco are really falling in love, who are they to argue with science?
Abby has had this book on her shelf for two years now and figured it was time to give it a go. Read the review here.
It was supposed to be a harmless kiss at a lavish debutante ball.
A clandestine moment with a handsome stranger.
But unlike his namesake, my Romeo isn’t driven by love.
He’s fueled by revenge.
To him, I’m a chess piece. Leverage.
His rival’s betrothed.
To me, he is a man deserving of poison.
A dark prince I refuse to marry.
He thinks I’ll accept my fate.
Well, I plan to rewrite it.
And in my story, Juliet doesn’t die.
But Romeo? He perishes.
We’ve seen a lot of circulation around this book upon release with an automatic Amazon special edition release. We’ve never read anything by L. J. Shen but enjoyed My Darling Venom by Parker S. Huntington, a tear-jerker drama that does take place over Valentine’s Day, so it made the cut. *Just kidding, it didn’t. Oh well, back onto the list.*
The thing that breaks you is the only thing that can put you back together.
Megan Dunn arrives in Seaside, Oregon a broken woman with a dream: open a B&B like she planned to do with her husband, Cass, whose life was tragically cut short five years ago. But the old Victorian she bought needs extensive renovations and the one man who can help her—Theo Valentine—takes an immediate and intense dislike to her.
Left scarred and mute after a terrible accident, the reclusive Theo is a brilliant contractor whose plans to renovate the building Megan bought are eerily similar to her own. As their paths cross again and again and Megan begins to see the man beneath the mystery, a part of her that she thought was lost forever slowly starts to reawaken.
But when she discovers unsettling similarities between Theo and her late husband and strange coincidences begin to mount, Megan is forced to confront everything she believed about her past…and decide how far she’ll go to get the truth.
The cover and the fact it said “Valentine” drew us in right away. Carlie has read Pen Pals and really enjoyed J. T. Gessinger! Abby tried to give this a shot, but by Chapter 6 it went straight into the DNF pile. Read the review here.
Have you read any of these? Let us know in the comments!
Abby
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