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Vote [VOTE] February - ROMANCE

Hello all! It is the Core Reads voting time again and we will be selecting a ROMANCE genre novel to get us in the mood for Valentine's Day šŸ’•

This is the voting thread for

Romance

Voting will be open for four days, ending on December 13, 11.00 PDT/14.00 EDT/20.00 CEST. The selection will be announced by December 14 at the latest.

For this selections, here are the requirements:

  • Under 500 pages
  • No previously read selections
  • Classified as Romance

Please check the previous selections. Quick search by author here to determine if your selection is valid.

Nominate as many titles as you want (one per comment), and vote for any, and all, of the nominations you'd participate in if they were to win

Here's the formatting frequently used, but there's no requirement to include a book blurb or link to Storygraph, Wikipedia or other (just don't link to sales links at Amazon, spam catchers will remove those)

The generic selection format:

/[Title by Author]/(links)

(Without the /s)

Where a link to Storygraph, Wikipedia, or other summary of your choice is included (but not required)

Happy Nominating and Happy upvoting! šŸ“ššŸ’˜

(For more nominations and voting head to the February - BIPOC Author nomination post here

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u/Greatingsburg Vampires Suck (Armand Hater #1) Jan 09 '26

Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion

240 pages ā€¢ paperback ā€¢ first pub 2010

R is having a no-life crisisā€”he is a zombie. He has no memories, no identity, and no pulse, but he is a little different from his fellow Dead. He may occasionally eat people, but heā€™d rather be riding abandoned airport escalators, listening to Sinatra in the cozy 747 he calls home, or collecting souvenirs from the ruins of civilization.

And then he meets a girl.

First as his captive, then his reluctant guest, Julie is a blast of living color in Rā€™s gray landscape, and something inside him begins to bloom. He doesn't want to eat this girlā€”although she looks deliciousā€”he wants to protect her. But their unlikely bond will cause ripples they canā€™t imagine, and their hopeless world wonā€™t change without a fight.