So many great romance novels came out in 2019. With the year coming to a close, it is time to list a couple of my favorite 2019 romance reads!
Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
When his mother became President, Alex Claremont-Diaz was promptly cast as the American equivalent of a young royal. Handsome, charismatic, genius--his image is pure millennial-marketing gold for the White House. There's only one problem: Alex has a beef with an actual prince, Henry, across the pond. And when the tabloids get hold of a photo involving an Alex-Henry altercation, U.S./British relations take a turn for the worse. Heads of family, state, and other handlers devise a plan for damage control: staging a truce between the two rivals. What at first begins as a fake, Instragramable friendship grows deeper, and more dangerous, than either Alex or Henry could have imagined. Soon Alex finds himself hurtling into a secret romance with a surprisingly unstuffy Henry that could derail the campaign and upend two nations and begs the question: Can love save the world after all? Where do we find the courage, and the power, to be the people we are meant to be? And how can we learn to let our true colors shine through?
Wolf Rain by Nalini Singh
The end of Silence was supposed to create a better world for future generations. But trust is broken, and the alliance between Psy, Changeling, and human is thin. The problems that led to Silence are back in full force. Because Silence fixed nothing, just hid the problems. This time, the Psy have to find a real answer to their problems--if one exists. Or their race will soon go extinct in a cascade of violence. The answer begins with an empath who is attuned to monsters--and who is going to charm a wolf into loving her despite his own demons.
The Bride Test by Helen Hoang
Khai Diep has no feelings. Well, he feels irritation when people move his things or contentment when ledgers balance down to the penny, but he doesn't experience big, important emotions like love and grief. Rather than believing he processes emotions differently due to being autistic, he concludes that he's defective and decides to avoid romantic relationships. So his mother, driven to desperation, takes matters into her own hands and returns to Vietnam to find him the perfect mail-order bride. As a mixed-race girl living in the slums of Ho Chi Minh City, Esme Tran has always felt out of place. When the opportunity to marry an American arises, she leaps at it, thinking that it could be the break her family needs. Seducing Khai, however, doesn't go as planned. Esme's lessons in love seem to be working...but only on herself. She's hopelessly smitten with a man who believes he can never return her affection. Esme must convince Khai that there is more than one way to love. And Khai must figure out the inner workings of his heart before Esme goes home and is an ocean away.
The Feel Good Factor by Lauren Blakely
Perri is a small-town patrol cop trying to make something of herself in a male dominated field. While Derek is a paramedic who recently moved to town to help out his sister with her kids...Perri can't help but enjoy the sexy, tattooed hottie who’s been flirting hard with her since he rode into town. But turns out the hottie who kissed her senseless in the back of a waffle truck the other day is her new housemate. An irresistible new roommate is a distraction Perri does not need right now while she is trying for the police sergeant promotion. However, Perri learns that Derek might be able to actually help with her promotion. An out-of-left-field proposition to be partners in a kissing contest soon leads to a no-strings-attached fling with a set the expiration date. As Perri and Derek get to know each other more, they begin to think that maybe their relationship doesn't need have an expiration date.
Finding Alexei by Kendall Ryan
Alex (Alexei) Ivan, a pro athlete and the biggest star of the Chicago Hawks team, needs to focus on winning games and staying out of the headlines. However, one night he comes to the aid of Ryleigh being harassed outside of a seedy bar. Alex offers Ryleigh a ride home, but is shock when he discover her struggling and in the care of her ex-roomate's three-month-old daughter, Ella. Knowing he couldn't abandon them, and with six nieces and nephews, Alex has some experience with childcare so he offers to help Ryleigh and Ella. Fiercely independent Ryleigh doesn't accept Alex's help easily as she doesn't want to be a burden, but she knows she is responsible for Ella and she can't do it on her own. Taking care of Ella brings Alex and Ryleigh close, making it easy to forget they're just playing house. Is what's between them just a fling, or will it become something more?
His Demand by Lisa Renee Jones
Gabe Maxwell is a powerhouse in the boardroom, a man with a dark past he's buried under success and power. He's not a white picket fence and forever kind of guy and he's definitely not into redheads. That is until one corners him, kisses him and thanks him for waking her up. Right before she walks away and leaves him. She's gone and he's obsessed.Then she walks into his office and back into his life, and he has to have her. It doesn't matter that she's the kind of woman you marry. It doesn't matter that she's everything he avoids because she's everything he wants. Only Abbie isn't the good girl she seems. She has secrets and a past and soon, she'll pull Gabe into her bed, her life, and that spells more than obsession. It spells danger.
The Wallflower Wager by Tessa Dare
Wealthy and ruthless, Gabriel Duke clawed his way from the lowliest slums to the pinnacle of high society--and now he wants to get even. Loyal and passionate, Lady Penelope Campion never met a lost or wounded creature she wouldn’t take into her home and her heart. When her imposing--and attractive--new neighbor demands she clear out the rescued animals, Penny sets him a challenge. She will part with her precious charges, if he can find them loving homes. Done, Gabriel says. How hard can it be to find homes for a few kittens? And a two-legged dog. And a foul-mouthed parrot. And a goat, an otter, a hedgehog...Easier said than done, for a cold-blooded bastard who wouldn’t know a loving home from a workhouse. Soon he’s covered in cat hair, knee-deep in adorable, and bewitched by a shyly pretty spinster who defies his every attempt to resist. Now she’s set her mind and heart on saving him. Not if he ruins her first.
Wicked Hour. by Chloe Neill
In the second pulse-pounding novel in the USA Today bestselling Heirs of Chicagoland series, vampire Elisa Sullivan gets drawn into the shifting sands of Pack politics. Vampires were made, not born — until Elisa Sullivan came along. As the only vampire child in existence, she grew up with a heavy legacy, and tried to flee her past. Then circumstances drew her back to Chicago, and she stayed to keep it safe. With shifter Connor Keene, the only son of Pack Apex Gabriel Keene, at her side, she faced down a supernatural evil that threatened to destroy Chicago forever. After the dust from the attack has settled, Elisa is surprised when Connor invites her to a usually private Pack event in the north woods of Minnesota, and by the warm welcome she receives from some of Connor's family, even though she's a vampire. But the peace doesn't last. The shifters tell tales of a monster in the woods, and when the celebration is marred by death, Elisa and Connor find themselves in the middle of a struggle for control that forces Elisa to face her true self — fangs and all.
Comment down below if you have read any of these books. Also, what were your favorite reads of 2019?
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