Amy Spalding. Little, Brown/Poppy, $18 (320p) ISBN 978-0-316-37152-0
Sixteen-year-olds Riley and Reid play in a band together, but nothing’s quite the same after they catch their band mates hooking up. Thus, they decide to create a shared notebook, in which they will “document our journeys in search of true love and/o
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Amy Spalding. /Poppy, $17.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-316-38278-6
Spalding (Kissing Ted Callahan) adds an element of betrayal to the age-old theme of opposites attracting in this lively if somewhat stereotypical romance featuring a workaholic heroine and a former boy band idol. Jules’s mind is on editing the...
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Amy Spalding. Amulet, $17.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4197-3866-1.
What’s worse than a romantic breakup? A best-friend breakup, at least according to James, a girl with a boy’s name, whose friendship with Kat seems to erode over their senior year of high school. Kat is dating someone new, and James, increasingly...
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Amy Spalding. Kensington, $16.95 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-4967-3951-3
Spalding makes her adult debut (after the YA No Boy Summer) with a sweet, queer contemporary that gives equal weight to familial and platonic love as to the central romance. Nina Rice works for a Hollywood talent agency through which she meets and...
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Amy Spalding. Kensington, $16.95 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-4967-3953-7
Spalding follows For Her Consideration with another hot and sunny lesbian romance set in Los Angeles. Max is the assistant to a top talent agent, but she’s struggling to prove to her boss that she’s worthy of a promotion to junior agent. She also...
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Amy Spalding. Kensington, $18.95 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-4967-5115-7
The sparkling third installment in Spalding’s Out in Hollywood series (after At Her Service) features a newly single 30-something woman rediscovering herself. Clementine just left her boyfriend of nearly 20 years because he was ready for marriage...
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Edited by Ashley Herring Blake and Rebecca Podos. Running Press Kids, $17.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7624-7234-5
Fifteen authors offer up tales inspired and informed by classic romance tropes in this pleasing anthology, which delivers an enjoyable selection of kisses, confessions, and happy-for-nows. Alongside a variety of character backgrounds, gender...
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