Modern love stories. The Best Modern Romance Novels

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

What is love? Nobody knows the answer to this question. But we keep asking it, looking for answers in books, reading romance novels. Every day there are more and more authors writing stories about this mysterious feeling. How to choose among a huge number of books the one that will touch the heart, captivate the plot and surprise with the ending? In this article, we will tell you which modern romance novels are the most popular.

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This is a book by Jojo Moyes. The main character of the book, Lou Clark, is a waitress from a small town in England. The girl never did any rash acts, did not leave her hometown, and the most desperate step for her is to put on bright, bee-colored tights. But life does not stand still and quite often presents us with unpleasant surprises. The owner of the cafe where Lou works decides to close it.

The main character, Will Traynor, is a completely different character. He loves to live without denying himself anything, makes a brilliant career, travels around the world. But one day, when Will is heading to his office, he gets hit by a motorcycle. Now the man will forever remain in a wheelchair. Lou's new job is Will's babysitter.

It is worth noting that the best modern love stories are not a collection of miracles and magic. An inexperienced caregiver will not be able to teach her embittered employer to move. However, these people are able to help each other change, look at the world differently and eventually fall in love.

The girl in the mirror

Author - Cecilia Ahern. Nevertheless, the main components, without which modern foreign novels about love are practically indispensable, are love and a little magic. Meanwhile, in this book, magic has a sinister nature.

An old house can give its owner, the writer, anything. The mirror before the wedding kidnaps the bride, the non-working old typewriter itself creates a new literary masterpiece, the writer is given inspiration, it is exchanged for the most valuable things. However, all these magic items can't do anything with true feeling. It is a pity that not everyone is able to truly love.

Laurel

Russian modern love stories have always stood apart in a series of love literature. It is in them that the well-known "incomprehensible Russian soul" is most revealed. The author of this book, EugeneVodolazkin, conveyed on paper all the emotions that a person experiences when his soul changes. The novel describes precisely that very deep love that can grow from a feeling for a woman into something more - it helps to love people, God, etc.

The main character is Arseniy. A young herbalist meets Ustina - and his life changes completely. He considers love and Ustina to be a single and indivisible whole. However, their feelings end tragically. The herbalist's love dies during childbirth. Arseny not only grieves for the loss, but also feels guilty. It is these feelings that lead him to the monastery, where he receives advice from a wise old man - to dedicate his life to the departed beloved.

Modern love stories often tell about a feeling that can not only withstand the test of distance and time, but also overcome them. The novel "Laurel" is about this.

Road to two streets

Many readers choose those modern Russian love novels that describe family relationships. The main character of the book by Maria Metlitskaya is Elena Lukonina. The history of her family life at first seems simple, but over time it "acquires" details, branches into many main and secondary lines. Her complex "pattern" is woven from bitter and happy moments, funny and sad events.

Modern novels about love often identify this feeling with the female essence. After all, it is a woman, like no other, who is able to sympathize, forgive and dissolve in the object of passion. So Elena - she does not live her own life. The heroine completely gave herself to the children, relatives, family. She tried to save them from misfortune, to reconcile those who quarreled, to console those who were offended. Elena compares her life to a crossroads - you just need to choose the right way to turn in the right direction.

Women of Lazarus

As mentioned above, modern Russian love novels very often turn to the theme of the family. Marina Stepnova wrote a real big saga about people who are capable of much for the sake of a great feeling. The book tells about what things lovers can do and what it leads to.

The main characters of the novel are Lazar Lindt, who is a brilliant scientist, and three extraordinary women. The first is Marusya, the wife of Lazar's mentor, who has no children. The young hero has by no means filial feelings for a woman, but Marusya can only give him maternal love. The second is Galochka, a young girl with whom the main character falls in love at a time when he is already recognized as the luminary of Soviet science. Lazar decides to take his beloved away from the closed city, to give her a new, happy and bright life. However, the more he loves Galochka, the more the girl hates him. The third is Lidochka, his granddaughter, left without parents. Lida is brilliant, like her grandfather. She goes to look for her lost home.

The author believes that a modern Russian love story should describe as many things as possible that we used to consider ordinary. This is devotion, home comfort, family warmth. Only this is capablemake any person, idiot or genius, truly happy.

In the web of deceit

Modern short love novels are also very popular. One of them, written by an author named Lovell Marsha, is about fifteen-year-old Alice Godwin. The girl's mother is seriously ill, and all household chores are now on the shoulders of the fragile girl. Alice's older sister, Stella, is fond of writing and after a while becomes the winner of a literary competition. According to its terms, the scholarship holder is obliged to move to live in Auckland in order to complete the book. Only in this case, Stella can count on receiving a scholarship and concluding a contract with a publishing house. However, older sister Alice refuses to leave the city, but she does not want to lose benefits either. Then she persuades her younger sister to leave for Auckland under the name of Stella. But, as you know, everything does not end with small lies. The ball of lies is getting bigger.

More than fear

Lists listing the best contemporary love novels are not complete without the works of Marc Levy. He has an unusual gift for a man - to write easily and naturally about the brightest feeling, intertwining romantic prose with magical realism in the plot.

The protagonist of this novel is Andrew Stillman, a successful journalist. An attempt was made on his life, and the man hardly comes to his senses. The beloved left him, the work that previously brought satisfaction,no longer happy. Andrew finds his solace in books. A familiar lady who works in a library asks a journalist to help her uncover the secrets that are contained in the history of one family. Andrew agrees and is drawn into a political game of enormous proportions.

My beautiful misfortune

Jamie McGuire's book tells the story of a couple dating. The girl is Abby, a freshman. The guy is Travis, the champion in fighting without rules among students. They love to tell their friends about how they met. It all started with a bet. The guy boasted that he could overcome absolutely any opponent. Abby did not believe in the invulnerability of Travis, and he declared that he would win the fight and not miss a single blow, but on one condition. The girl was supposed to live with him for a month.

Modern love stories don't always have happy endings, but this student love story has the usual happy ending.

Meanwhile, the book quickly became very popular, and McGuire decided to write another version of the story - "male", told from the point of view of Travis. After that, the writer immediately released a novel that describes the family life of students. And only after that she caught on and wrote another book entirely dedicated to the wedding celebration of Abby and Travis.