Contemporary

Brie Hutchens is not far from your average eighth grader. She attends catholic school, devours soap opera drama and has a bit of an attitude. She also can’t figure out what’s so great about boys? Kelly Monaco, for instance, is a much more interesting person to listen to – and look at. As Brie goes through the roller coaster ride of being a teenager, she struggles with everything from her family relations to her.. not liking boys. An “enemy” who turns out not to be all that bad might be exactly what Brie needs.

Come with me to America and get my son to marry you. When Esme Tran gets this one time offer from an elegant lady in Ho Chi Minh, she can’t turn down the opportunity. Being a mixed-race girl scrubbing toilets for a living in Ho Chi Minh is not how she wants to feed her family. Esme’s mission has begun: seduce Khai Diep and start a better life in the US.

Millie Quint think she’s the luckiest girl alive until her best friend turned almost-lover starts smooching her ex again. Now, with everything crumbling around her, she decides to run away to Scotland. A new country, a new beginning – only a national scandal could send Millie home now. Well…

Gu Miyoung is a wicked fox, a Gumiho, a beast. Her nature is to use her beauty to lure men in and then devour them. However, when Miyoung saves Jihoon from a goblin attack in Seoul, she loses her Fox bead – her soul. It is said, whoever possesses the Fox bead, controls the Gumiho. 

Emoni is trying to finish high school, raise her baby girl, make money, plan a future and deal with her ex all at once. It’s a lot – especially when all she can focus on is cooking and creating new recipes. When Emoni gets the opportunity to go abroad and learn more about her culinary passion, she has to decide whether her time has come or if she has to put everyone else first again.

After a short media break I had the bad luck of falling into a semi reading slump. I had trouble picking titles, got distracted by everything and basically just didn’t take the time to sit down and read. BUT! what truly saved me from a full-blown reading slump was diving into this romantic (and quite saucy) contemporary, The Kiss Quotient.

When Arthur and Ben are interrupted in the middle of their meet-cute in New york, a modern love story of social media stalking and coffee shop miracles begin. This collab between two of the worlds most beloved contemporary authors, Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera, was set up to be an epic read and the book community went nuts over the announcement. Did they succeed?

Lara Jean’s life is good. She loves her family and friends.. well, friend Chris. Her only struggle seems to be boys – but she’s got that figured out too. Whenever she’s crushing on a boy, she writes him a love letter, put it in her hatbox and that’s it. Closure. Until someone post all her love letters and Lara Jean has to deal with the consequence of crushes from all the way back to middle school.

Josephine is on her way to becoming a teenager. As if the mood swings and boys suddenly being cute isn’t enough, she now has to deal with her mother’s shocking news, her twin brother’s impulsive whims and her jealousy towards a best friend who seem to cope with everything so much better than Jose… If only you could go on crazy adventures while hiding under your covers!

In this holiday collection we get 12 short stories fit for the season by 12 popular authors such as Holly Black, Rainbow Rowell and Kiersten White. Prepare for your heart to melt the winter snow away with these romantic stories of love and friendship.