Goodreads Choice Awards 2016: Best Romance:
Last year we discussed the Goodreads Choice Awards romance category, so I wanted to follow up this year to see which of our beloved bad books made the list and if any of you have read the other featured romances.
The Nominees:
The only nominated books I recognized were One With You and Beautiful Burn. We haven’t read Beautiful Burn on here yet, but since it’s part of the riveting story of the Maddox bros finding love, it’s inevitable that we’ll read it at some point.
I especially love how the second half of the list mainly just features identical looking, buff men in little to no clothes. I wish I knew more about the people who design these covers and whether they’re highly amused by their job or take it incredibly seriously. HIS PECS DON’T LOOK QUITE RIGHT IN THIS PHOTO, THIS IS A DISASTER!
But mostly I am extremely curious about whatever the fuck Beard Science is, which is apparently the third book in another series of books about brothers. The Winston brothers, apparently. I wonder if they are exactly like that Maddox bros but if each and every Maddox had a beard. What a story that would be! Given we got a gender-swapped Twilight, I don’t think it’s too farfetched to imagine we could get a beard-swapped Maddox book.
Take Our PollThe Winner, It Ends With Us:
Even though I’m sure you’re all shocked and outraged that an instant-classic like One With You didn’t win, let’s talk about It Ends With Us. I’ve started reading the first chapter and think it might just have BBGT potential. Here’s a summary from Goodread’s below for those of you who haven’t heard of it:
Lily hasn’t always had it easy, but that’s never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She’s come a long way from the small town in Maine where she grew up—she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. So when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything in Lily’s life suddenly seems almost too good to be true.
Ryle is assertive, stubborn, maybe even a little arrogant. He’s also sensitive, brilliant, and has a total soft spot for Lily. And the way he looks in scrubs certainly doesn’t hurt. Lily can’t get him out of her head. But Ryle’s complete aversion to relationships is disturbing. Even as Lily finds herself becoming the exception to his “no dating” rule, she can’t help but wonder what made him that way in the first place.
As questions about her new relationship overwhelm her, so do thoughts of Atlas Corrigan—her first love and a link to the past she left behind. He was her kindred spirit, her protector. When Atlas suddenly reappears, everything Lily has built with Ryle is threatened.
I’m curious what you guys think:
Take Our PollLet us know in the comments which of these you’ve actually read (especially if they have BBGT potential) and whether there were any good romances that should have been nominated but weren’t.