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  Silvana Reyes Lopez   Jul 14, 2022 One of my favorite romantic tropes is enemies-to-lovers. The fact that the other person knows you at your worst and still falls in love with you? You know that this relationship is going to be a forever kinda thing. But sometimes people categorize books as an enemies-to-lovers romance when they’re actually really not. There are various “levels,” if you want to call it that, in an enemies-to-lovers romance, and in this article, we’ll talk a bit about rivals-to-lovers YA books. For me, a true enemies-to-lovers romance has to be intense with very high stakes. They have to want to end the other one! Think The Cruel Prince, The Wrath and the Dawn, and We Hunt the Flame. Most of the time that doesn’t happen in contemporary romances; instead I see it often in fantasy books. In contemporary books, you can encounter more of a rivalry relationship or a dislike-to-love dynamic between the main characters. Maybe it’s because their f...

 by  Tirzah Price   Jul 6, 2022 One summer when I was in high school, my friends and I created our own bucket lists, borne out of boredom and a desire to get outside of our small town. While most of the items were a bit out of reach for a bunch of teenagers grounded in the Midwest (travel to Iceland, see the Great Barrier Reef, etc.), it was really fun to imagine things we might do someday. Bucket lists are fun to explore in YA fiction because I think they reveal a lot about character, and checking items off a bucket list is a convenient plot device that gets characters outside of their comfort zones. If you’re looking for some fun summer reads or maybe just some inspiration for your own bucket lists, check out these three YA books about completing bucket lists! THE LUCKY LIST  BY RACHAEL LIPPINCOTT Emily and her mom were very close…until her mom died three years ago. Now her dad is selling their house and giving away her mom’s things, and Emily feels lost. But when ...