Our managing editor Camryn Johnson shares her thoughts on the romance genre this Valentine’s Day.
Tag: romance

Bad Dates, Painful Humor, and Genuine Connection: An Ode to Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton
Editor in Chief Rylee Thomas reflects on love and relationships during this Valentine’s season with her reading of Dolly Alderton’s “Everything I Know About Love.”

Finger Grazing And Gay Pirates: Hats Off To “Bridgerton” And “Our Flag Means Death”
Yearning for a new TV show to obsess over? Aren’t we all. Luckily for us, Michaela Flaherty decided to binge TWO gems last Friday, complete with romance, drama, and compelling characters…

Love, Magic, And Adventure: A Review of “A Court of Thorns and Roses”
The bestselling fantasy novel “A Court of Thorns and Roses” packs romance, magic, and intrigue into one tantalizing package. Read on for a look at Sam Bastille’s opinions and takeaways…

A Figure Skater On Figure Skating Stories: Reviewing “From Lukov With Love”
Read on to know what Rylee Thomas, a real-life figure skater, thinks of “From Lukov with Love,” Mariana Zapata’s bestselling figure skating romance novel (hint: there’s a lot of gushing involved)…

Dream Me The World: A Review Of “The Raven Cycle” By Maggie Stiefvater
If you’re looking for a dreamy, atmospheric contemporary fantasy series, Rylee Thomas cannot recommend Maggie Stiefvater’s “The Raven Cycle” highly enough

Romance Novels: A Safe Space For Female Representation
Rylee Thomas passionately defends romance novels as a place for positive representation and female joy…

Romance on the Upswing: Chick-lit is making a comeback
If you keep up with the world of commercial fiction, you may have noticed that the genre of the rom-com is making a bit of a comeback, in more ways than one. Romance was one of the most popular genres in literature in the 2000s, with big names such as…
*—Top 10 Romantic Movie Lines for an Awful Poem—*
Each verse gets worse– a last-ditch effort to disseminate some quality teen angst before Valentine’s Month is over: I want you to draw me like one of your French girls But I am nobody’s little weasel. They say bread is life. And I bake bread, bread, bread….