Romance Recs by the trope 💖 [hate to love, forbidden, second chance, friends to lovers, etc.]

this was one of my favorite romances ever at the time i read this in 2015

this book is just so steamy it's so perfect and it's so forbidden

my personal favorite second chance romance of all time is the bromance book club by lisa k adams

these two pretend to be fake fiance is just for their families to like get off their back and yeah it's a really cute time

it's also just like a really entertaining office kind of romance it gave me major the hating game vibes and it's just a really cute like bantery hate to love kind of vibe in this one

this one's another one that's like very hard-hitting and very sad

this one is a slow burning romance and this one also has some really great characters in it

this romance was so beautiful oh my gosh okay i haven't read this in like five years but i remember absolutely loving it

i feel like emma scott is just so good at writing these like kind of tragic but beautiful romance stories

i also think the gravity of us by britney c cherry is one of my favorite slow burn romances

there's also heart bones by colleen hoover which i think is one of her better books

this one's also really heavy by the way it's like a really heavy romance it'll probably break your heart but it's so damn good

him and junkie these are both some of my favorite male romances of all time more so him though

it's so cute this is god's here i gave this five stars

him and junkie these are both some of my favorite male romances of all time more so him though

this book is just so hard hitting though and so beautiful and it just sucks you right in it's so freaking beautiful

so far the forced proximity it's there and it's amazing

this one is definitely a situation where they're kind of like pining after each other for like 10 years but it's also a situation where there's kind of a love triangle involved

this is just kind of like a really fun you know light-hearted romance about this girl dating these guys on this dating show

i think something that works for me in this book as in comparison to other friends to lovers is the fact that we kind of get to see how they met we get to see the early stages of their friendship and that's what really worked for me because then i was really rooting for them to get together

there's also red white and royal blue that definitely has this forbidden vibe to it just because it's a male romance that is between the first son of the first female president of the united states and a freaking prince

there's also roomies by christina lauren that involves fake marriage

it also is exactly everything i love with the forced proximity trope like i was obsessed

this one is one of those romances that is just so like hard-hitting and it's so beautiful and it has some really great characters

another one of my favorites is shipt by angie hawkman

this is one of my favorite male romances but this one's another one that's very hard hitting and very sad

then there's also spoiler alerts but this one is more of a situation where they're writing fan fiction together online for this show that he is an actor on the show in real life and she doesn't know that she's talking to the actual actor

this is also one of my favorite fake dating scenarios

if you want a young adult recommendation there it is

it's also been a minute since i've read this one but if i'm remembering correctly it involves this arranged marriage that's kind of like a fake marriage at the beginning and then they slowly start to develop feelings for each other

this is honestly one of the most underrated romance books i think that i've ever read like i love this book with my whole freaking heart and i don't know why more people aren't talking about it

it's just so freaking good oh definitely god tier

it's just chef's kiss so cute it's like not only is it fake dating vibes but it's fake x's which is like a whole new level to it

it's because josh and lucy are so cute there's just like hate to love energy because they're both competing for the same job promotion at the book publisher and so yeah it's just super entertaining super cute

this is definitely a much more heavy book than i was anticipating going into it

it's so freaking cute it lives up to the hype in my opinion

this one was still really cute i read it last year really enjoyed it

this is fantastic even though this is not primarily a romance book but it also has one of my favorite romances that i've ever read in my life

the simple wild is one of my all-time favorite books like it's just so freaking good

this is also one of my favorite hate to loves so i had to mention it here

this one is fantastic this one is god tier highly recommend this one

it's just devastating it's romantic it's beautiful

there's also ties that tether which is slightly forbidden because we're following this girl who is nigerian and she starts to fall for a white man

my top recommendation would be top secret by serena bowen and l kennedy

but you know either way it was still cute

it's just really cute it's one of my favorites and i love the fake dating in this one