Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge discussion

A Book with an Enemies to Lovers Plot

I know I just read one of these... The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern! I just reread it and loved just as much the second time around. They are opponents in a treacherous competition...

There are Goodreads Listopias to help:
"Best enemies to lovers"
"Best Gay Enemies/Rivals/Opposites Become Lovers"
"Enemies to Lovers: Adult Romance"

Another one of my recent reads to fulfill this prompt is Delilah Green Doesn't Care (Bright Falls #1) by Ashley Herring Blake which I enjoyed so much I now own the second and third installments in this series. There is sexual diversity represented in these books as well! Plus I just realized this one would fit prompt #31 as well! For all us double-dippers!

Not sure what might work for nonfiction...

Listopia is HERE

Anyone who hasn't read The Fourth Wing yet, you could use it here. I think Six of Crows works too.

I've heard really good things about This is How You Lose the Time War and The Bridge Kingdom series. Flame and Sparrow is also on my list and that's probably the one I'll read for this.

Also I read Crown of Roses this year which was fantastic! Perfect for anyone who loves fantasy romance.

I happen to LOVE the "enemies to lovers" trope. The Hating Game is a now-classic example (and the book was better than the movie).

I'm hoping I can find something good for this one!

maybe ...
The Love Hypothesis
You Deserve Each Other
Something About You
Lord of Scoundrels
Just Last Night
The Wake-Up Call

I'll add these to the list.

Really thought this one through and I think A Walk to Remember could end up working. Jamie and Landon are high school students who run in different circles and don't particularly like each other much, but find their way together.

I'm going to take Lynn's suggestion and read Delilah Green Doesn't Care.

I loved Serpent & Dove. Works perfectly!

I haven't read it so I don't know for sure but Cinnamon and Gunpowder seems like it will fit the bill. A chef gets kidnapped by a pirate captain and in exchange for being allowed to live he has to cook for her.

Ali Hazelwood's books all seem to have the same plot but I can't stop reading them. I can't tell if her two 2024 books are enemies to lovers, but I guess I'll assume so for now.

I really don’t like romance—as I’ve made it clear, Lol. Probably skip this and the other romance category.

Megan wrote: "I really don’t like romance—as I’ve made it clear, Lol. Probably skip this and the other romance category."



Of course no one has to fill all the categories, but it doesn't make sense to say you're skipping this one because you won't read romance. I happen to love romance, so that's what I'm looking for, but this one doesn't have to be a romance. Any book with two characters who start out opposed to each other and then end up as besties will work. They could be platonic besties or romantic besties. There are a lot of mysteries, SFF, and adventure stories where that happens. Even in Lord of the Rings, a lot of the characters start out feeling pretty acrimonious towards each other, but by the end they are ride-or-die.

Nadine in NY wrote: "Megan wrote: "I really don’t like romance—as I’ve made it clear, Lol. Probably skip this and the other romance category."



Of course no one has to fill all the categories, but it doesn't make sen..."

Right, and I don’t plan to. The popsugar reading police aren’t gonna hunt me down for not liking romance, and thus having no interest in fulfilling the category.

Depending on the autobiography, you might be able to use one as a non-fiction book. Maybe not enemies (hating each other) to lovers, but disliking a certain person to lovers.

Kate Elliott's Spiritwalker trilogy qualifies, starting with Cold Magic

If you prefer enemies to besties, Dread Nation by Justina Ireland fits perfectly. Alt history fantasy/lightish horror with BIPOC main characters by a BIPOC author.

And if you want to go on to read book two (Deathless Divide), it would fit perfectly into BIPOC horror.

That's what I did. I read Dread Nation in 2019, so I wanted to reread it before reading book 2 anyway. And since I like romance but dislike enemies to lovers, it's perfect for me.

I am reading Mysteries of Thorn Manor by Margaret Rogerson. I read her Sorcery of Thorns, which sounded and looked appealing but was a huge disappointment to me. I wanted to love it but couldn't even like it. Not sure why I acquired the companion book (sequel that more of a novella). The two main protagonists were like enemies at first and now are lovers. Very slow burn, too.

The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren

Someone Just Like You by Meredith Schorr

I have officially decided to go with A Walk to Remember in honor that Sparks has a new book coming out this year.

I read Love in the Time of Serial Killers for this prompt. It was an okay book. It's a Northanger Abbey type of romance (with true crime instead of gothic novels skewing the main character's sense of reality).

The Simple Wild is my all-time favorite enemies-to-lovers romance.

I just read Hana Khan Carries On and that would work.

I also recently finished The Seven Principles of Making Marriage Work and was debating slotting that in here in an ironic sort of way lol.

I read:
From Russia with Love: A James Bond Novel by Ian Fleming

Also fits the Prompt: A book about a 24-year old.

I took I Kissed Shara Wheeler from the library intending it for #45, but I thought it actually fitted well here. A very enjoyable book.

LeahS wrote: "I took I Kissed Shara Wheeler from the library intending it for #45, but I thought it actually fitted well here. A very enjoyable book."

That was a fun one! I've read all of Casey McQuiston's books, and looking forward to using "The Pairing" for either the "published this year" or "second chance romance" slot when it comes out.

Raiders of the Lost Heart would work well for this one.

I read The Winged Tiara

Finished The Deal by Elle Kennedy

My Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I'm going to read Beach Read for this category:)

I'm going to read Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez

I'm probably going to re-read Ride the Wind. Really good true story... parts of it are hard to read, but an incredible story nonetheless. I read This Is How You Lose the Time War but I didn't feel it really fit.

I really enjoyed Love Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood for this

someone mentioned august is romance awareness month so i took it as a perfect excuse for me to pick up a new romance book! as no straight romance seems to be conquering me this year, i've decided to pick Here We Go Again. i have yet to write my review, but if you enjoyed The Dead Romantics you may like this one too. ⭐⭐⭐⭐.

I went with Pride and Protest by Nikki Payne:

http://www.lauraruthloomis.com/whats-...

Book Lovers

I read Midnight Sun - from his perspective, it kind of fits this prompt.

I read The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods. They weren't mortal enemies and it was really only one who hated the other but close enough

On the Shore by Laura Pavlov