That said, there are two 2024 romance books with even more powerful messages about love, and they're undoubtedly the best of the year. Just for the Summer drives home the notion that love isn't ...

From to love to loneliness and the anguish of human ... so he’d never even got rude notes asking for books back. Yet here it was, a letter, addressed so plainly there could be no mistake ...

a cross between romance and fantasy), but the overall message is clear: the stigma around what used to be called "books women like" has vanished. "Readers no longer care about respectability".