A Christmas Prince. Netflix's original holiday movie is making the social media rounds as a flick "so bad it's good". It's practically already a classic. And if you haven't seen it, thank your lucky stars and keep it that way. I mean, what romantic doesn't love a good fairy tale with royalty and a happy ending? But I'm telling you, A Christmas Prince is not 'so bad it's good', it's just bad—and not even bad enough to make a drinking game out of. Save your brain cells—and your Friday night—for a few royal romances you'll actually enjoy. The book is always better anyway, right? Here are three princely contemporary romances where the only thing bad are the bad boys that flirt their way [...]

The votes have been cast, the recipients chosen. These are the winners of the GraveTells 2016 Book Awards, including those selected by GraveTells as genre standouts and those voted as the favorite romance stories, characters, authors, and publishers of 2016! Let's celebrate the winners! Peek inside to see who won the 2016 GraveTells Book Awards and Readers Choice Awards...

This story is an absolute delight, a guaranteed roller coaster of passion and privilege and charm and want and lust and soft hearts in gilded cages. Author Emma Chase had me laughing and crying and yearning throughout the entire read. Royally Screwed is easily one of the best romances of 2016.

2015 was a hectic year for me personally, so I DNF’d a higher-than-usual number of books. Or maybe my newfound impatience with lagging pacing and meh storylines is just a side effect of getting older. In any case, that means that any story I actually finished last year left a memorable impression. This short list of romances represents the best of the best from my 2015 reading list. If none of the stories I’ve chosen are already close to your own heart, I hope you’ll give them a try. THANK YOU to all the authors below for your stellar work and for entertaining me when I needed it most. Much <3!

Book of the Year

 

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