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This season is all about inclusive romance and genre benders, from paranormal rom-coms to historical romantic suspense novels—plus plenty of small-town charm and holiday cheer.
Every month here on Lake Effect, we’re partnering with the Milwaukee Public Library for our Book of the Month series to bring you new reading recommendations. This month, we’ll hear from Beth Gabriel, a reference assistant at the East Branch and their resident romance novel expert.
Some of my favorite films have been those that followed that bright-eyed, bushy-tailed feeling of first diving into the music industry, like Almost Famous. And some of my favorite books have followed the rise and fall of fictional rock stars, like Daisy Jones and The Six. But unfortunately, it has still been rare to find a book that gives a refreshing new perspective on navigating the wild world of rock and roll from the eyes of a character that looks like me, which can be frustrating, because it’s not like PoC don’t exist in these spaces—there’s Fefe Dobson, System of a Down, X-Ray...
Two emotional romances wholeheartedly embrace their protagonists’ complications and complexity. Classic romances often tell us that finding love will fix the parts of ourselves that aren’t as they should be. Love will turn the mousy girl next door into the prom queen, the shy wallflower into a confident seductress, the browbeaten stepchild into the princess. Love will save us from ourselves and make our problems melt away—but these contemporary romances know better. Charlie Matheson doesn’t initially come across as a mess in Roan Parrish’s wonderful Best Laid Plans . On the contr...