Hint: try “closed door romcom,” “closed door romance,” “sweet romcom,” “clean romantic comedy,” etc. To find them, you must know what you’re looking for and which search terms to use on Amazon or online. Most of these authors are either self-published or work with small publishing companies. I’m so excited to continue this series and can’t wait for more.I’m pretty picky about the content of a romance novel, so you can imagine how excited I was to find there is even a sub-genre called closed-door rom-com (or, in other words: clean romcom books)! Where to find Sweet RomCom Books And those are the kind of reads I often reach for. I couldn’t put this down and easily read it in a day. I loved all of the little moments watching these two fall in love. The heat can still be brought with without actual spice.
This is what I love about an amazing closed door romance. The rest of the charming side characters (like Jake’s nephew) won me over too.Īnd the KISSING SCENES? THE SIZZLING HEAT Y’ALL. Add in a house that needed renovated and a grandmother who has passed away and still subtly matchmaking. It was played so well and I loooooooooved it. I am hit or miss on age gap and this one HIT. The chemistry between Lo and Jake was off the charts. Bless them for giving us a full series together. It is the pairing I didn’t know I needed and now want ALL THE TIME.
Each book will have sizzling chemistry but no spice. The Oakley Island Romcom series follows three very different sisters as they renovate the house they inherited and find love on the island along the way. If only a certain tattooed grump didn’t seem so determined to send me away …Įloise and The Grump Next Door is a grumpy sunshine, closed door romantic comedy. When I’m suddenly presented with the academic opportunity of my dreams (former dreams?), my picturesque life on Oakley starts to unravel.Ī part of me wants to stay. On the outside, he might be pricklier than a puffer fish, but I catch glimpses of a delicious, cinnamon roll center.ĭid I mention the tattoos he hides underneath those crisp button-down shirts? Yowza. Especially when new dreams include a future with Jake. This isn’t the life I dreamed of, but dreams can change. It doesn’t help that the night Jake and I met, I got a little tipsy, and he had to carry me back to my hotel.īut the longer I stay on Oakley Island, the more I feel a connection to my childhood and to my grandmother.
Turning Gran’s beach house into a bed and breakfast–a process that would be a lot easier if I didn’t have to deal with the grumpy lawyer living next door. Instead, I’m renovating my late grandmother’s home and posting about the process on Instagram. Just kidding–I’ll take the pelican any day.Īfter graduation, I thought I’d be off to grad school, doing research on my favorite poet. I’m not sure which is worse–the lawyer handling my grandmother’s estate or the attack pelican living on the screened-in porch.
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