Flirty February
Flirty February is what I’m calling the month of love…whether it’s romantic or platonic. Join me and either choose romance reads or stories about friendship and support. Tag your reads with #FlirtyFebruary on social media.
In case you need a few suggestions on what to read I’ve pulled together a list of the romance books I’ve enjoyed recently. I’ll be adding to this list throughout February, so stay tuned!
I’ve also added a ‘steam’ rating from one to 5 🍆 (eggplant emojis), and listed them in order from steamiest to most PG, to help you find a book to suit your tastes.
There’s also a #FlirtyFebruary bookmark you can download here, for best results, print it onto card stock and cut along the guide lines. (For personal use only, not for resale etc. etc.) AND a romance book mug to match, check it out here.
Have any great romances to add to my list? Drop me a comment!
The Kiss Quotient
By: Helen Hoang
Steam Rating: 🍆🍆🍆🍆/5
Latest Book Crush Score: 4/5
Synopsis: A heartwarming and refreshing debut novel that proves one thing: there's not enough data in the world to predict what will make your heart tick. Stella Lane thinks math is the only thing that unites the universe. She comes up with algorithms to predict customer purchases. It doesn't help that Stella has Asperger's and French kissing reminds her of a shark getting its teeth cleaned by pilot fish. Her conclusion: she needs lots of practice — with a professional. Which is why she hires escort Michael Phan. The Vietnamese and Swedish stunner can't afford to turn down Stella's offer, and agrees to help her check off all the boxes on her lesson plan — from foreplay to more-than-missionary position.
Get a Life Chloe Brown
By: Talia Hibbert
Steam Rating: 🍆🍆🍆🍆/5
Latest Book Crush Score: 5/5
Synopsis: A witty, hilarious romantic comedy about a woman who’s tired of being “boring” and recruits her mysterious, sexy neighbor to help her experience new things and be just a little bit bad. Chloe Brown is a chronically ill computer geek with a goal, a plan, and a list. After almost—but not quite—dying, she’s come up with seven directives to help her “Get a Life”, and she’s already completed the first: finally moving out of her glamorous family’s mansion. The next items?
Outlander
By: Diana Gabaldon
Steam Rating: 🍆🍆🍆🍆/5
Latest Book Crush Score: 5/5
Synopsis: The year is 1945. Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is just back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach—an “outlander”—in a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in the year of Our Lord...1743. Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand, Claire is catapulted into the intrigues of lairds and spies that may threaten her life, and shatter her heart. For here James Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior, shows her a love so absolute that Claire becomes a woman torn between fidelity and desire—and between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.
The Unhoneymooners
By: Christina Lauren
Steam Rating: 🍆🍆🍆/5
Latest Book Crush Score: 5/5
Synopsis: The Unhoneymooners is just the right balance of drama, hilarity, and sexy scenes that will make you blush. In an unfortunate turn of events, our main character Olive ends up going on her sister’s honeymoon to Hawaii, with the best man, who she dislikes immensely. Olive and Ethan are determined to avoid each other, but when Olive runs into her future boss, and Ethan runs into his ex-girlfriend they pretend to be newlyweds…which backfires in all sorts of cringeworthy and hilarious ways.
The Bromance Book Club
By: Lyssa Kay Adams
Steam Rating: 🍆🍆🍆/5
Latest Book Crush Score: 5/5
Synopsis: The first rule of book club: You don't talk about book club. Nashville Legends second baseman Gavin Scott's marriage is in major league trouble. He’s recently discovered a humiliating secret: his wife Thea has always faked the Big O. When he loses his cool at the revelation, it’s the final straw on their already strained relationship. Thea asks for a divorce, and Gavin realizes he’s let his pride and fear get the better of him. Welcome to the Bromance Book Club. Distraught and desperate, Gavin finds help from an unlikely source: a secret romance book club made up of Nashville's top alpha men.
Red, White, and Royal Blue
By: Casey McQuiston
Score: 5/5 Bookmarks
Steam Rating: 🍆🍆🍆/5
Synopsis: A big-hearted romantic comedy where the First Son of America falls in love with the Prince of Wales after an international incident that forces them to pretend to be best friends.
The Friend Zone
By: Abby Jimenez
Score: 4/5 Bookmarks
Steam Rating: 🍆🍆🍆/5
Synopsis: Planning her best friend's wedding is bittersweet for Kristen—especially when she meets the best man, Josh Copeland. He's funny, sexy, never offended by her mile-wide streak of sarcasm, and always one chicken enchilada ahead of her hangry. Even her dog, Stuntman Mike, adores him. The only catch: Josh wants a big family someday. Kristen knows he'd be better off with someone else, but as their attraction grows, it's harder and harder to keep him at arm's length.
The Wedding Party
By: Jasmine Guillory
Steam Rating: 🍆🍆🍆/5
Latest Book Crush Score: 4/5
Synopsis: Maddie and Theo have two things in common:
1. Alexa is their best friend
2. They hate each other
After an "oops, we made a mistake" night together, neither one can stop thinking about the other. With Alexa's wedding rapidly approaching, Maddie and Theo both share bridal party responsibilities that require more interaction with each other than they're comfortable with.
Verity
By: Colleen Hoover
Steam Rating: 🍆🍆🍆/5
Latest Book Crush Score: 4.5/5
Synopsis: This book is mainly a thriller, with a heavy dose of romance. Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts a job to complete the remaining books in a successful series by Verity Crawford, who has been injured in a car crash. Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity's notes and outlines, but starts to develop feelings for Verity’s husband. You won’t guess at what happens next, I promise you.
The Right Swipe
By: Alisha Rai
Steam Rating: 🍆🍆🍆/5
Latest Book Crush Rating: 4/5
Synopsis: Two rival dating app creators find themselves at odds in the boardroom but in sync in the bedroom. Rhiannon Hunter may have revolutionized romance in the digital world, but in real life she only swipes right on her career—and the occasional hookup.
Fix Her Up
By: Tessa Bailey
Steam Rating: 🍆🍆🍆/5
Latest Book Crush Score: 3.5/5
Synopsis: Georgette Castle’s family runs the best home renovation business in town, but she picked balloons instead of blueprints and they haven’t taken her seriously since. Frankly, she’s over it. Georgie loves planning children’s birthday parties and making people laugh, just not at her own expense. She’s determined to fix herself up into a Woman of the World... whatever that means. Travis Ford was major league baseball’s hottest rookie when an injury ended his career. Now he’s flipping houses to keep busy and trying to forget his glory days. But he can’t even cross the street without someone recapping his greatest hits. Or making a joke about his… bat. And then there's Georgie, his best friend’s sister, who is not a kid anymore. When she proposes a wild scheme—that they pretend to date, to shock her family and help him land a new job—he agrees. What’s the harm? It’s not like it’s real. But the girl Travis used to tease is now a funny, full-of-life woman and there’s nothing fake about how much he wants her...
The Hating Game
By: Sally Thorne
Steam Rating: 🍆🍆/5
Latest Book Crush Score: 4/5
Synopsis: Lucy Hutton has always been certain that the nice girl can get the corner office. She’s charming and accommodating and prides herself on being loved by everyone at Bexley & Gamin. Everyone except for coldly efficient, impeccably attired, physically intimidating Joshua Templeman. And the feeling is mutual. Trapped in a shared office together 40 (OK, 50 or 60) hours a week, they’ve become entrenched in an addictive, ridiculous never-ending game of one-upmanship. After a perfectly innocent elevator ride ends with an earth-shattering kiss, Lucy starts to wonder whether she’s got Joshua Templeman all wrong.
Well Met
By: Jen DeLuca
Steam Rating: 🍆🍆/5
Latest Book Crush Score: 5/5
Synopsis: All's faire in love and war for two sworn enemies who indulge in a harmless flirtation in a laugh-out-loud rom-com. Emily knew there would be strings attached when she relocated to the small town of Willow Creek to help her sister recover from an accident, but who could anticipate getting roped into volunteering for the local Renaissance Faire alongside her teenaged niece? Or that the irritating and inscrutable schoolteacher in charge of the volunteers would be so annoying that she finds it impossible to stop thinking about him?
The Flatshare
By: Beth O’Leary
Steam Rating: 🍆🍆/5
LatestBookCrush Rating: 5/5 Bookmarks
Synopsis: Tiffy Moore needs a cheap flat, and fast. Leon Twomey works nights and needs cash. Their friends think they’re crazy, but it’s the perfect solution: Leon occupies the one-bed flat while Tiffy’s at work in the day, and she has the run of the place the rest of the time. But with obsessive ex-boyfriends, demanding clients at work, wrongly imprisoned brothers and, of course, the fact that they still haven’t met yet, they’re about to discover that if you want the perfect home you need to throw the rulebook out the window…
A Court of Thorns and Roses
By: Sarah J. Maas
Steam Rating: 🍆🍆/5
Latest Book Crush Score: 4/5
Synopsis: Feyre's survival rests upon her ability to hunt and kill – the forest where she lives is a cold, bleak place in the long winter months. So when she spots a deer in the forest being pursued by a wolf, she cannot resist fighting it for the flesh. But to do so, she must kill the predator and killing something so precious comes at a price ... Dragged to a magical kingdom for the murder of a faerie, Feyre discovers that her captor, his face obscured by a jeweled mask, is hiding far more than his piercing green eyes would suggest. Feyre's presence at the court is closely guarded, and as she begins to learn why, her feelings for him turn from hostility to passion and the faerie lands become an even more dangerous place. Feyre must fight to break an ancient curse, or she will lose him forever.
The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
By: Abbi Waxman
Steam Rating: 🍆/5
Latest Book Crush Score: 5/5
Synopsis: Nina has her life just as she wants it: a job in a bookstore, a kick-butt trivia team, a world-class planner and a cat named Phil. If she sometimes suspects there might be more to life than reading, she just shrugs and picks up a new book. But Tom, her trivia nemesis, has turned out to be cute, funny, and deeply interested in getting to know her. Doesn't he realize what a terrible idea that is? Nina considers her options. It's time for Nina to come out of her comfortable shell, but she isn't convinced real life could ever live up to fiction.
The Little Bookshop on the Seine
By: Rebecca Raisin
Steam Rating: 🍆/5
Latest Book Crush Score: 3.5/5
Synopsis: Bookshop owner Sarah Smith is offered the opportunity for a job exchange with her Parisian friend Sophie, and what kind of romantic would turn down six months in Paris? Plus, now she can meet up with her journalist boyfriend, Ridge, when his job takes him around the globe. But her expectations cool faster than her café au lait soon after she lands in the City of Light—as Christmas approaches, Sarah is determined to get the shop, and her life, back in order…and make her dreams of a Parisian happily-ever-after come true.
The Widow of Pale Harbor
By: Hester Fox
Steam Rating: 🍆/5
Latest Book Crush Score: 4/5
Synopsis: A historical murder mystery with a dash of romance and witchcraft thrown in. Maine, 1846. Gabriel Stone is desperate to escape the ghosts that haunt him in Massachusetts after his wife’s death, so he moves to Maine, taking a position as a minister in the remote village of Pale Harbor. But not all is as it seems in the sleepy town. Strange, unsettling things have been happening, and the townspeople claim that only one person can be responsible: Sophronia Carver, a reclusive widow who lives with a spinster maid in the eerie Castle Carver. Sophronia must be a witch, and she almost certainly killed her husband.
Tweet Cute
By: Emma Lord
Steam Rating: 0/5
Latest Book Crush Score: 5/5
Synopsis: All’s fair in love and cheese ― that is, until Pepper and Jack’s spat turns into a viral Twitter war. Little do they know, while they’re publicly duking it out with snarky memes and retweet battles, they’re also falling for each other in real life ― on an anonymous chat app Jack built.
10 Blind Dates
By: Ashley Elston
Steam Rating: 0/5
Latest Book Crush Score: 5/5
Synopsis: 10 Blind Dates is an adorable young adult book, with a mix of drama, comedy, and just the right amount of teenage angst and longing. Sophie wants one thing for Christmas-a little freedom from her overprotective parents. So when they decide to spend Christmas in South Louisiana with her very pregnant older sister, Sophie is looking forward to some much needed private (read: make-out) time with her long-term boyfriend, Griffin. Except it turns out that Griffin wants a little freedom from their relationship. Heartbroken, Sophie flees to her grandparents' house, where the rest of her boisterous extended family is gathered for the holiday. That's when her nonna devises a (not so) brilliant plan: Over the next ten days, Sophie will be set up on ten different blind dates by different family members.
American Royals
By: Katharine McGee
Steam Rating: 0/5
Latest Book Crush Rating: 5/5
Synopsis: What if America had a royal family? When America won the Revolutionary War, its people offered General George Washington a crown. Two and a half centuries later, the House of Washington still sits on the throne. As Princess Beatrice gets closer to becoming America's first queen regnant, the duty she has embraced her entire life suddenly feels stifling. Nobody cares about the spare except when she's breaking the rules, so Princess Samantha doesn't care much about anything, either . . . except the one boy who is distinctly off-limits to her. And then there's Samantha's twin, Prince Jefferson. If he'd been born a generation earlier, he would have stood first in line for the throne, but the new laws of succession make him third. Most of America adores their devastatingly handsome prince . . . but two very different girls are vying to capture his heart.