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Of all the categories that we are presenting this week, this one is the most fun while being the most challenging because I can only use 10 “book boyfriends”. Like Jaime we have swerved from our normal YA genre and have now dipped into the adult pool of romance. I still have some YA hotties because I can never give up my YA but I have a lot more adult romance guys mixed into my list.
MUST be from a book released in 2017 and from a book you’ve READ in 2017
These are my favorite “BOOK BOYFRIEND’S” each have a special place in my heart for all the feels that have elicited within me. I adore them all to every loving bits and hope that you will someday enjoy them all also.
BEARD IN MIND
by Penny Reid
BEAU WINSTON
“You can’t be worried about breaking things all the time, Shelly. Things gunna get broke whether you want them to or not. And if you’re tiptoeing around, not buying teacups out of fear that they might someday break, then you’ll never know the joy of—of—”
“Of?”
I gave her my most serious face. “You’ll never know the joy of drinking tea from a real, bona fide, fancy-as-shit teacup.”
-Penny Reid, Beard In Mind
MOXIE
by Jennifer Mathieu
SETH
HOOKING UP
by Helena Hunting
LEXINGTON MILLS
BEARD SCIENCE
by Penny Reid
CLETUS WINSTON
“I hadn’t seen Jennifer in a week. Absence doesn’t make the heart grow fonder.Whoever said that was a damn fool. Absence makes the heart suicidal. Take my heart for example. It hadn’t stopped hurling itself against my ribs—at odd times, day or night—for a week.”
― Penny Reid, Beard Science
THE LEARNING HOURS: HOW TO DATE A DOUCHEBAG
by Sara Ney
RHETT RABIDEAUX
“Je ne te veux pas dans l’ autre chambre,” I repeat. “Restez avec moi.” Stay with me. Her breasts brush my chest, the pad of her index finger tracing the contour of my upper lip. “You have a beautiful mouth.” “Toi aussi.” So do you. I feel my neck bow. Head bent down. Shoulders sag, body relaxed. “Je te veux plus que n’importe quoi que j’avais voulu dans ma vie.” I want you more than anything I’ve wanted in my entire fucking life.”
― Sara Ney, The Learning Hours
Might not be Prince Charming but he’s something else entirely: he’s real, he is who he is, and makes not apologies. He’s polite and sincere.
THE KNOCKED UP PLAN
by Lauren Blakely
RYDER LOCKHEART
“I want to take a snapshot of this moment. I want to record every second of this strange and joyous connection I feel with her and the life growing inside her.The doctor leaves us alone, and I bend my face to her belly and press the gentlest kiss to her skin. “Hi, baby,” I say, and I know, I fucking know, that I’m already in love with my child.”
― Lauren Blakely, The Knocked up Plan
ROYALLY ENDOWED
by Emma Chase
LOGAN ST. JAMES
“You see the good in people, Ellie. You trust. That’s a good way to be, a brave way. I’ll watch more closely from now on; I’ll make sure this never happens again. You just be who you are. Leave the rest to me.”
She wipes her eyes dry. “So it’s like a…you jump, I jump, Jack and Rose kind of thing?”
“No.” I take her hand in mine, brushing my thumb against her knuckles. “You jump…and I’ll be there to catch you.”
― Emma Chase, Royally Endowed
SALVAGED
by Jay Crownover
HUDSON WHEELER
“He took something worthless and made it priceless. I couldn’t deny that there was a part of me that wanted to know if he could do the same thing with me.”
-Jay Crownover, Salvaged
AFTER WE FALL
by Melanie Harlow
JACK VALENTINI
“I know I can’t be your first love, but—” “Shh.” He put a finger over my lips. “I’m not looking for my first love. I’m looking for my last.”
― Melanie Harlow, After We Fall
ROYALLY MATCHED
by Emma Chase
HENRY JOHN EDGAR THOMAS PEMBROOK PRINCE OF WESSCO
“I want to change the world with you at my side, holding your hand. I love you, Sarah, and whatever happens, I promise there won’t be a day that I don’t love you with all that I am.”
― Emma Chase, Royally Matched