If You Like Twilight...

So your YA girls can’t get enough of Bella Swan and her star-crossed romance with the incredibly gorgeous vampire Edward? Maybe some of them even prefer Bella’s werewolf friend Jacob who also happens to be madly in love with her. They’ve already devoured Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse. Breaking Dawn, the continuation of this love story, won’t be out for a whole very, very long year. What books are out there to satisfy the romantic cravings of those YA girls? We’ve created a list of some titles we think might just take the edge off the long wait.

Wicked Lovely features fairies instead of vampires, and instead of Aislinn wanting to become a fairie, she desperately wants to stay human. But there’s still a love triangle with lots of lovely tension. The Summer King needs Aislinn to become his Summer Queen. Aislinn has always been taught to avoid fairies. Besides, she has a human boyfriend whom she loves to distraction. Unfortunately for her, the wicked Winter Queen has other ideas, and Aislinn is swept up in a faerie war. Her limited options are death, reign as Summer Queen, or, failing that, become the Winter Girl, as all failed potential Summer Queens are cursed to do. This one felt a lot like Twilight to me, with the world of the faeries colliding with that of the humans with Aislinn caught between the two.

The fantastic and romantic are in evidence from the beginning in Keturah and Lord Death. Keturah, a storyteller, lost in the woods and close to death, meets a surprisingly dashing Lord Death. She spins him a story about a girl searching for true love. However, the story has no ending, so Lord Death allows her one more day to find her true love. But as Keturah examines her life and her village, she begins to wonder who her true love really is – the local lord’s son or Lord Death himself. Keturah, like Bella, is an outsider among a group of close-knit locals; she's always felt herself to be apart, different, which can be a very appealing aspect to a teen trying to navigate the treacherous currents of adolescence.

Here it is: vampires and werewolves together in the same book. In Tantalize, Quincie, human, loves with a hybrid-werewolf, Kieran, and works in a vampire-themed restaurant. This time it's the werewolf who does not want to return the hero's affections, for fear of hurting her. When the chef at the restaurant is murdered, werewolf-style, suspicion falls on Kieran. But what’s up with the new chef and his bizarre menus? Not to mention Quincie’s increasing dependence on a blood-red beverage…

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