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With successful romance book adaptations in their bag, like Red, White, and Royal Blue (2023) and Maxton Hall (2024), Amazon Prime Video might now be looking to adapt more romance books. But what should they pick next? That is the question. There are millions of romance books out there, so it might be rather hard to know what to showcase on the small screen next. Let’s help them out, alright? Here are the romance books Amazon should adapt next.
Biotech Billionaire by Ava Rani
People are salivating for more romances about characters who fall in love, find their strength, mess up, and get back up again. The Biotech Billionaire series is a perfect example of a good story that provides all of these themes while also giving you fashion, parties, succession battles, and family drama. Think Succession meets Gossip Girl!
In The Spare, we meet Sloan Amari, a fierce, determined attorney who is ready to make a name for herself and stop being in her brother’s shadow. Vying for the CEO position in her family’s company, everything is going as planned until Marcus, her brother’s best friend, makes his grand return.
Best Man by Lily Morton
I’m thinking: a hilarious rom-com movie set during wedding festivities. Not only that, but we also have two opposites who are pretending to date because the ex of one of them is the groom at the wedding. Doesn’t that sound like the best one-hour-and-forty-five-minutes you could ever have?
Best Man is that and more. You will go through all the emotions while reading this book, and I think it can translate perfectly onto the screen. Hopefully, Prime Video will see this post and make this a movie in the future.
Maple Hills by Hannah Grace
What can I say? I want a college TV series about hockey players, figure skaters, friend groups, and lots of comedic moments. Amazon, it’s your time! While it’s different from Maxon Hall, I think people want more TV shows that highlight young adultness and the hardships you can encounter when you’re on your own for the first time.
Following the steps of Bridgerton, where each season is about one couple, I would love the first season to be about Icebreaker‘s Anastasia and Nathan. In this novel, we meet Anastasia, a competitive figure skater, and Nathan, the captain of the hockey team. When an incident happens, Nathan’s team is forced to share the same rink as Anastasia, someone who can’t stand him.
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Dangerous Damsels by India Holton
Another great book series Amazon should adapt is the Dangerous Damsels series. These books have everything: mystery, romance, adventure, heists, and comedy. If they decide to adapt the series, it could be enjoyed by many different readers and viewers.
The first book follows Cecilia Bassingwaite, a proper Victorian lady. But she’s also a thief. Her life-long dream is to be part of the Wisteria Society crime sorority, but the ladies don’t think she’s ready for it. When the ladies are suddenly kidnapped by pirates, she believes this to be her chance to show them she is ready by saving them. With the help of a dashing pirate, of course.
Fake It Till You Bake It by Jamie Wesley
Fake It Till You Bake It would work so well as a romantic comedy movie about a heiress who participated in a dating competition and became America’s number one enemy when she rejected the hottest bachelor on national television. Now, she suddenly has to work in a cupcake shop to get her inheritance.
We have been wanting the age of the romcoms to come back. Movies like How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days and Legally Blonde taught us that we can find love in the most unexpected places, and so does Fake It Till You Bake It. It’s the ideal rom-com to adapt, that’s for sure.
If you don’t want to wait years for your favorite book to be on screen, you can check out these book-to-screen adaptations coming out this month!
Take a look at these romance books that feel like the first warm day of the year for more epic recommendations. Maybe you’ll want one of them to be adapted as well.
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This week, we’re highlighting a post that had our Managing Editor Vanessa Diaz feeling a type of way. Now, even five years after it was published, Vanessa is still salty about American Dirt. Read on for an excerpt and become an All Access member to unlock the full post.
Picture it: The United States, January 2020. A book with a pretty blue and white cover is making the rounds on the bookish internet. The blue ink forms a beautiful hummingbird motif against a creamy background, a bird associated with the sun god Huitzilopochtli in Aztec mythology. Black barbed wire, at once delicate and menacing, cuts the pattern into a grid resembling an arrangement of Talavera tiles. The package is eye-catching, ostensibly Mexican in feel, and evocative of borders and the migrant experience.
The book tells the story of a bookstore owner in Acapulco, Mexico, who is forced to flee her home when a drug cartel murders everyone in her family except for her young son at a quinceañera. She and the boy are forced to become migrants and embark on a treacherous journey north to the U.S. border, evading the cartel and befriending fellow migrants along the way. The book is being lauded not just as the “it” book of the season but as the immigration story. It gets the Oprah treatment and is praised by everyone from Salma Hayek to the great Sandra Cisneros, who called it “the great novel of Las Américas.”
It’s been over five years, and this book is still the bane of my existence.
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