With lots of tropes to choose from, every homebody can find a book they’ll fall in love with
By Kelty Duval
February is the month of love, and no matter if you are single or taken, you don’t have to go out to celebrate. Romance is a genre with so many tropes, you’re sure to find one that will capture your heart. So stay home and snuggle up with some swoon-worthy romance reads this Valentine’s Day.
Macy Sorensen is trying to get through her pediatrics residency when she stumbles into Elliot Petropoulos, the boy who lived next door to her family’s vacation home. Now she is catapulted into recalling how they fell in love and how he broke her heart.
Tropes:
♡ Second chance romance
♡ Friends to lovers
♡ Childhood sweethearts
♡ Alternating timelines
You’ll like this book if you like: dictionaries and vacation vibes
Theoretical physicist Elsie Hannaway is stuck as an adjunct professor, supplementing her income by acting as a fake girlfriend. She finally gets an interview for her dream job when things start to go south. Her favorite client’s brother, theorist hater and experimentalist, Jack Smith is on the hiring committee.
Tropes:
♡ Fake dating
♡ Enemies to lovers
♡ Forced proximity
You’ll like this book if you like: academia, people pleasing and the Twilight saga
Phoebe Walsh is spending her summer in Florida trying to balance cleaning out her late father’s house and writing her PhD dissertation on the genre of true crime when she starts to believe that her next-door neighbor is a serial killer.
Tropes:
♡ Reverse grumpy/sunshine
♡ Neighbors
♡ True crime
You’ll like this book if you like: True crime podcasts, Crash Bandicoot and brown sugar cinnamon Pop-Tarts