Goodreads Monday is a weekly meme where you chose a random book from your Goodreads TBR and show it off. This meme is hosted by Budget Tales Book Blog.
This week’s book is:
A Love Like the Sun
This sounds like such a swoon-worthy contemporary romance, and it takes place in my home state. Riss M. Neilson is also from Rhode Island, and her stories all take place here. Love it!
Author: Riss M. Neilson
Page Length: 368
Publication Date: June 11, 2024
Publisher: Berkley
Synopsis: Lifelong best friends spend a fateful summer discovering what might happen if they were to be something more in this radiant, heart-clenching adult debut.
Laniah Thompson is a homebody who craves privacy. Issac Jordan is internet famous and spends his days followed by paparazzi. She runs a small business with her mom in her hometown. He runs an international brand.
And they’ve been best friends since childhood.
When Issac comes home to Providence for the first time in months and discovers Laniah’s dream is slipping out of reach as she and her mom struggle to pay the bills at Wildly Green, their natural hair store, she refuses to take a dime from him. And so, he does what any self-respecting best friend would do: tells the world they’re dating.
Suddenly business is booming, and Laniah agrees to his ridiculous plan to pretend to be lovers for the course of the summer. Just long enough to catch the eye of an investor and get her dream back on track, like she helped him do so many years ago, he reminds her.
Too soon, though, Laniah knows she’s playing with fire, because for as long as they’ve been friends there’s an undeniable pull they’ve never given in to. And as the lines between art and life—real and pretend—blur, it becomes harder and harder to see where friendship ends and something else begins….
Told over the course of three sizzling summer months, A Love Like the Sun is about shared history, those who make us our bravest selves, and love in its many forms.
LINKS: Goodreads | Amazon | Barnes & Noble
Have you read A Love Like the Sun? What books are on your TBR? Comment below!
That cover is gorgeous!
Yes! It’s so pretty, and the author lives in my town!! SO cool!
This sounds like a cute book. I love it when a book is set near where you live. It’s rare for anything to be set where I am (Kent, England, UK) so London is the closest I get.
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I haven’t read many that take place in my state, so it’s always a treat. Usually, the closest is Boston. 🙂
It’s always nice when you recognise places 😂 I’m in Kent known as The Garden Of England so you would have thought that there would be more set here 😂
Definitely! With a name like that – it’s perfect for a good romance!
It is! I suppose that there are just better places for books to be set 😂