6 Romantic Novels and Novellas That Will Have You Swooning

This Quiet Sky, Joanne Bischof

SWOON, INDEED.

Most of the time if you can guess the ending of the book you’re reading by the first chapter, it’s a bad sign. This particular book propelled me to read that ending scene. Bischof creates a novella that caters to the sweetness of a romance novel, but is in no means “light.” Sure, it’s not riddled with heavy, deeper meanings, or bogged down by a person’s innermost demons, but it still has its darker qualities. The pages are filled with an ache between the sentences of friendship, and then love. The love is its greatest quality, and it’s a swoon worthy book at a high caliber. It’s short in length, obviously, but the romance develops at a good pace, and I didn’t realize how much I cared about the characters until the ending (that I already saw coming) swarmed my soul. It’s the definition of hope in about 158 pages.

Good luck.

Book summary reads as:

There is nothing extraordinary about Tucker O’Shay’s dreams. Go to college. Become president. Fall in love. And pretend like he has enough time to get it all done.

Sixteen-year-old Sarah Miller doesn’t expect anything out of the ordinary when she begins her first day at the one-room-school house in her new hometown of Rocky Knob. But when she meets seventeen-year-old Tucker O’Shay—the boy with the fatal illness who volunteers to tutor her in algebra—she finds herself swept up in a friendship that changes the way she sees the world and a love that changes her life.

This Quiet Sky is available online and in stores.