THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO ROMANTIC NOVELS

I initially skipped Akwaeke Emezi’s YOU Manufactured A Idiot OF Dying Using your Splendor (Atria, 278 pp., $27) because I believed it absolutely was far more Females’s fiction than romance — a oversight I regret, and which I’m thrilled to appropriate now. Widows certainly are a stock character in romance, but hardly ever would be the experi

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