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Sophie Laurence

11 books reviewed 12 articles written

Contemporary Fiction Editor, Editors Reads

Sophie Laurence believes that romance fiction gets less credit than it deserves and that contemporary fiction gets more than it sometimes earns. As Contemporary Fiction Editor at Editors Reads, she reviews across the spectrum from literary romance to beach reads, with an interest in writers who understand emotional dynamics with precision — who know why people fall in love, stay there, and fall apart. She reads quickly, writes critically, and has strong opinions about endings.

11 Books Reviewed

It's in His Kiss book cover

It's in His Kiss

by Julia Quinn

4.3

Hyacinth Bridgerton recruits the roguish Gareth St. Clair to translate his grandmother's Italian diaries — and discovers that the diaries contain a secret that changes both their lives.

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A Walk to Remember

by Nicholas Sparks

4.2

A rebellious teenager falls for the quiet minister's daughter in a small North Carolina town — and discovers what it truly means to love someone, and what it costs.

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An Offer from a Gentleman book cover
4.2

A Regency Cinderella: Benedict Bridgerton dances with a mysterious masked woman at a masquerade ball and cannot forget her — but Sophie Beckett is a servant who knows their worlds can never meet.

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4.2

Gregory Bridgerton falls for a woman who loves someone else — and must stop a wedding to claim his own happy ending in the final chapter of Julia Quinn's beloved Regency series.

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The Notebook book cover
Bestseller

The Notebook

by Nicholas Sparks

4.2

An elderly man reads aloud to his wife from a notebook — the story of their love across decades, class barriers, and the Second World War. One of the best-selling love stories ever written.

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4.2

Eloise Bridgerton has been writing letters to a widowed botanist for months. When she decides to meet Sir Phillip Crane in person, she discovers that a man on paper and a man in a home are not the same man at all.

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When He Was Wicked

by Julia Quinn

4.2

Michael Stirling falls in love with Francesca Bridgerton at first sight — and discovers that she is about to marry his cousin. This is the darkest, most formally daring novel in the Bridgerton series.

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Message in a Bottle

by Nicholas Sparks

4.1

A divorced journalist finds a heartbreaking love letter in a bottle on the beach and tracks down its author — a widower still grieving his lost wife — and must discover whether love can exist alongside grief that refuses to be finished.

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Bestseller

The Time Traveler's Wife

by Audrey Niffenegger

4.0

Henry DeTamble has a genetic condition that causes him to involuntarily time travel, always to times and places connected to his own life — including the childhood of the woman he will one day marry.

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Articles by Sophie Laurence

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Where to Start with Abby Jimenez: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Abby Jimenez — whether to begin with The Friend Zone, Part of Your World, or Life's Too Short. A complete reading guide to the contemporary romance author.

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Where to Start with Ali Hazelwood: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Ali Hazelwood — whether to begin with The Love Hypothesis, Love on the Brain, or Check and Mate. A complete reading guide to the STEM romance novelist.

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Where to Start with Ana Huang: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Ana Huang — whether to begin with Twisted Love, Twisted Games, or Twisted Lies. A complete reading guide to the contemporary romance series author.

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Where to Start with Beth O'Leary: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Beth O'Leary — how to approach The Flatshare, her contemporary romance built on an inventive premise of two strangers who share a flat but never meet. A complete reading guide.

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Where to Start with Casey McQuiston: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Casey McQuiston — whether to begin with Red, White & Royal Blue or One Last Stop. A complete reading guide to the romance author.

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Where to Start with Christina Lauren: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Christina Lauren — how to approach The Unhoneymooners, their most perfectly premised enemies-to-lovers vacation romance. A complete reading guide.

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Where to Start with David Nicholls: A Reading Guide

Where to start with David Nicholls — whether to begin with One Day, Starter for Ten, or Us. A complete reading guide to the British novelist.

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Where to Start with Rina Kent: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Rina Kent — whether to begin with Deviant King, Steel Princess, or God of Malice. A complete reading guide to the dark romance series author.

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Where to Start with Stephenie Meyer: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Stephenie Meyer — whether to begin with Twilight, Eclipse, or Midnight Sun. A complete reading guide to the vampire romance novelist.

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Where to Start with Talia Hibbert: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Talia Hibbert — whether to begin with Get a Life Chloe Brown, Take a Hint Dani Brown, or Act Your Age Eve Brown. A complete reading guide.

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Best Literary Love Stories: Essential Reading List

The best literary love stories — from Pride and Prejudice and Anna Karenina to Normal People and Love in the Time of Cholera. Love stories that have literary ambition alongside emotional power.

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Best Love Stories in Literature: Greatest Romantic Novels

The best love stories in literature — from Pride and Prejudice and Anna Karenina to Atonement and Normal People. The greatest romantic novels ever written.

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