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Holiday romcom book rec📕❤️🎄

Imagine you and your oldest girl friends all in one room, crafting gingerbread houses, eating most of them, and gossiping about the messy men in your lives. What could be better?🥰 #caperseries #holidayromancebooks #holidaybookrecs #christmasromancebooks #romancebookrecs

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must-see romcoms

Here are a few of my favorite go-to iconic romcoms. Let me know which one your favorite is! I love to talk movies. #romcom #romancemovie #romcoms #romcomrecs #romancemoviesuggestions #romance #romcommovies #romancerecommendations #romanticcomedy #romanticmovie

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rom-com book rec! 🩵

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your fav romcoms as books

like/save for later <3 I loveeee me a romcom and these books fit so perfectly with each of these movies 💌 (Anyone But You, 50 First Dates, When Harry Met Sally, The Proposal, Pretty Woman, 13 Going on 30, The Duff) the book in the cover photo is ‘one last stop’ by Casey Mcquiston! what’s y

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Dark Romance/Rom-Com book rec! Butcher & Blackbird surprised me with how much I LOVED IT! It has dark romance, dark humor, and a sweet slow burn romance between two (validated) serial killers, what's not to love?! Think the show Dexter, but mixed with a hilarious rom-com. This b

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NO SPICE Romance Rec!🌸🫶

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I read this book for an ARC review and ate it up!!! It’s a slow-burn romcom about love, laughter, and finding clarity after life’s chaos. #book recommendations #romcombooks #blackromancebooks #booktok #booksoflemon8

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Better Than The Movies was SO GOOD! #Lemon8Diary #embracevulnerability #romancebooks #romcoms #books #bookwormsoflemon8 #bookaesthetic #booktok #booksoflemon8 #book

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A RomCom Summer 🩵🏙️🗽

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Book Review: Out on a Limb by @authorhannahby I don't usually jump at a "pregnancy trope," but GOODNESS this SUCH was a beautiful book filled with so many reminders of how Trint & I got to where WE are today. I ran out of LOL tabs and had to find more. I LOL'd so freaking

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🫶 Ciao Romcom

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I’ve added Meghan Quinn to my favorite romcom authors list! Someone recommend me more of her books! I already read the Almond Bay series and I have the Cane Brothers series, so what else? This book was so enjoyable and hilarious! So many tropes in one. #bookwormsoflemon8 #readersoflemon8

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Book rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I really liked how this started off with a strong backstory and set up before diving into romance, I think it helped make the story stronger. I only take off a bit of points because I wanted more of a conversation between Lilly & Holly after they made up. I adored th

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Romcom book rec🌸🫶💐

You can def count me as one of the B&N mouse lol. I just love reading romcom so much. For a fun flirtatious quick read, I suggest this cute book Before I do by Sophie Cousens. I’m pretty sure you will enjoy. #lemon8bookclub #lemon8bookchallenge #barnesandnoble #spicyreads #romcom

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📖 Book Review 📖

This is a fun read. I loved the romance hotline moments which are even better when you listen to the audio. It felt like a 90s/2000s romcom in a lot of ways and not at all in others! I can't say enough about how well done the audio was and I think it is a must for this book! #bookreveiw #boo

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Rom Com Romance Rec

Currently Reading ✨You’ve Got Hate Mail✨ by @pippa.grant! Book 1 of her Viral Sensations series where all the titles are based on classic movie rom coms. In this one, Cricket (my childhood nickname) had an embarrassing viral social media moment and needs to retreat to get her life back on track

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This is one of the best romcom trilogies!

If you’re looking for a romcom triology, this is the one! This is a trilogy set by Jenny Han in which it’s about fake dating to lovers trope and is truly an amazing romcom! Next I will be posting/talking about Jenny Han’s best romcoms yet! There’s also a matching book set to this movie triology! #t

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Read This Dark RomCom

Let me just sayyyyyy I saw the hype online and waited to read and I am mad I waited so long. This got me out of my reading slump! I finished it last night it’s def gory and gross for some of it because it’s a serial killers love story but also spicy around 60% of the way in but well worth the w

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Goodreads Top Rated Romcoms 🫶

Warning: These rom-coms will have you in all your emotions 📚💖✨ If you’re obsessed with enemies-to-lovers, fake dating, and swoon-worthy moments—this list is for YOU! 😍 Drop a 🏖️ if you’re adding The Unhoneymooners to your TBR or a 💌 if The Hating Game is already your fave! 👇 #letschat #lemon

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𝒜 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒸𝒽𝓎 𝓇𝑜𝓂𝒸𝑜𝓂 💜

Violet owns a tea shop and it’s in danger of closing because of the amount of debt she’s in. 😩 She decides one day why not drink some magic mojitos and do some work. 👀🍹 While working she accidentally summons the devil and the funny thing is they’re both shocked. Devlin 😈 has his own agenda but t

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a romcom set in a whimsical knights tournament

📖: Love At First Lance by Gryffin Murphy #bookishmeme #bookquotes #cozyfantasy #romantasybooks #romcombooks

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Your next 2000s RomCom

“We’ve gone from being the loves of one another’s lives to strangers to a place of the unknown, tip toeing around each-other.” Reading this book made me feel like I was watching a 2000s romcom movie. The way that Riley wrote it takes you through and let you see the book in your imagination. The

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my thoughts on this romcom ⬇️

Real ones know I read about 3-4 rom-coms per year and always have thoughts when I do lmaooo. I'm far from a romance connoisseur and will usually rate them on a scale from "not too cringey" to "bride level cringe." so take my reviews with a grain of salt. That said I reallllly lo

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