Him by Elle Kennedy & Sarina Bowen

What to Know Before You Read This is stressful to read, by design. This isn’t a low-angst comfort read, and the eventual “surprise blowjob after a shootout bet” scene that kicks off the relationship’s physical side lands with real weight rather...

The Deal by Elle Kennedy

What’s to Know Before You Read This reads very “new adult,” and that’s polarizing on purpose. Both hosts noted their own resistance to the college-set genre generally — Garrett’s off-campus frat-adjacent house, the general chaos of...

The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood

Ali Hazelwood’s fake-dating-scientists debut is heading to Netflix in September 2026 — so if you’re going to read it before the adaptation, or you’re deciding whether to reread it, here’s an honest accounting of what actually works,...