Cursed Boys

This was my first Adam Sass book. I don’t think it will be my last. I really enjoyed the dialog as well as the overall plot.

I thought the romance and hurt and funny parts worked so well.

I enjoyed learning about Grant and his history and him finding himself but mostly trust in how the story will be unfolded.

The ending was so good.

Thank you so much for letting me read the Arc! I can't wait to buy this book.

I LOVE this!!! This is such a creative book, like I would have never though of this kind of plot line. (Then again, I don't write.) I digress– I'll. probably update my review once I can fully gather my thoughts on it because it was that good. It's one of those books where you need to do that. Also, me being an artist, I cannot get over the cover art!! (In a good way) <3

Thank you Adam for giving me the opportunity to read yet another one of your great stories this was a cute wholesome read and honestly the important message regarding mental health and healing in this novel was honestly great we need more books in the world with great messages because someone reading this book can see themselves in Grant and relate. When it was revealed that Grant was getting his own book i was so excited i love grant and he deserves his happy ending and let me tell yall this book had such cute moments... When grant tries to save his fams business and help them out things start going all over the place after he finds out who the gardener working for the family is! Who is the gardener? well you have to read to find out but let me tell yall i was shipping these two so hard this whole novel hoping everything worked out in the end but did it?! I love how supportive people were in this novel and the growth these characters showed and the healing that was done in this book was just so wholesome. Adam really wrote such a great story with this one. Adam has such a great craft to write some great YA novels ive enoyed every novel written so far please dont ever stop! I loved all the little references from the other novel as well. The place this novel also took place was so detailed and gorgeous just from the way adam described it. This was a fun read if you all want to read a cute wholesome read with some secrets, healing, grief, romance, good storyline pick this one up. 🌹 Congratulations on yet another great book adam!

We love you grant!

This book was beautifully written, I enjoyed the relationship between Grant and Ben. They’re perfect for eachother, no doubt and they deserve to be happy after going through so much. I devoured it in one sitting and was hoping for more!

Adam Sass has a whipsmart sense of humor and writing. When I read his books, I’m glued to my seat and enjoying every second of it. These feel like popcorn books, the kind that just grabs you in and won’t let you out until the credits roll. I would recommend anything he writes, and this romance is no different. It’s a very classic setup, but it pays off in the way only an Adam Sass can.

I knew I was gonna love this. Adam Sass does it again. I am obsessed with the way Adam sass writes the mcs and their relationship; it’s relatable and alive. I liked the depression representation. I appreciated the family drama bc lord knows we all have it. I did think the whole rose festival storyline was a little boring for me though. Overall 4/5

Love it ! it was so cute and also quite emotional with the message that it brings. A message that is shown in the very first few pages even in the authors note! And it prevails to the very end.

Thank you to netgalley and PENGUIN GROUP Penguin Young Readers Group | Viking Books for Young Readers for allowing me access to this book. This was so cute, sweet, and adorable romance. I loved the characters and their journey to one another.

Although I Have not yet read the 99 boyfriends of Micah and didn’t know that this was the continuation of one of the characters from that book, this book works great as a standalone as well. Really enjoyed that it deals with mental health issues but is also a very superstitious story. I could feel those scenes of him remembering how he felt in the summers he spent with his cousins. Will now go read the previous book.

This was so sweet and adorable. A good reminder of what it is to be young and in love! The way the characters grew with each other was just the sweetest thing.

Cursed Boys and Broken Hearts is a YA Contemporary novel and ugh my heart.

Grant is a flawed protagonist. He uses anger as a shield to protect himself. He is shaped by his trauma. The way his depression is depicted through the book is so authentic. And, my god, this poor boy is constantly getting in his own way and sabotaging his own happiness. I just want to hug him.

This isn’t a lighthearted rom com, but it’s beautiful nonetheless. It’s meaningful. Grant and Ben deserve all the happiness in the world. I adored them. These two cursed boys who are perfect for each other. I loved the way their story developed. The teasing and banter was so fun. And even when the jabs were sharp, it was just what they needed.

Ugh I loved this book. Also I wish I could stay at their B&B. It sounds so gorgeous and even though I won’t need to make a wish (I’m already married to the love of my life) I’d love to see the garden.

Oh and Ro is perfect. That’s it. She was my favorite character and that’s saying a lot since I loved Grant and Ben 😅

Thank you to NetGalley and Penguin Group for a copy of this eARC in exchange for an honest review.

if i could give 3.5 on here i would! this just confirms time and time again i need top reading ya because genuinely they aren’t for me.

removing my issues with ya, i thought this was so cute! the representation with grant’s mental health was outstanding and i wish i had something like this book when i was young and needed help as well as needing representation for the lgbtqia+. i feel like this would be amazing for someone young in the queer community!

Love that we were able to get a companion novel to the 99 Boyfriends of Micah Summers. Grant was one of my favorites from that story, so it was nice to see him get his own story.

Absolutely adored Ben, sweet baby boy. And Vero Roseto, with its makeover montage, was probably my favorite part of the book.

All in all, it was a great read, easy and fast paced for the most part. Thank you to Netgalley and Penguin for the e-arc!

Cursed Boys and Broken Hearts will make you sad, mad, happy, laugh and want to both love and hate Grant.

Grant made a wish 5 years ago on the family's wishing rose and believes it has cursed him and his quest to find love ever since. Ben is the bestie who Grant wishes was more who seems to have betrayed Grant when they were kids. Grant makes a impulse decision to head to his family's winery/hotel, which is famous for it's wishing rose and runs into Ben again, whose helping fix up the property.

This story did a great job dealing with both mental health, anger, family dynamics and although it's not about coming out, it deals with how difficult that can be when you're young and when you feel like you have no one to turn to.

As someone with anxiety I can totally sympathize with Grant and a lot of the choices he makes. I liked that this story didn't stigmatize getting help and medications. I couldn't put the story down. Other than Aunt Ro getting on my nerve a bit I really enjoyed all the characters. I love characters who actually talk things out and communicate, even if it takes a little time to get there.

This is heartfelt and wonderful summer read.

Thank you NetGalley and Penguin Group for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

First of all, thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the Arc of Cursed Boys and Broken Hearts.

While a little long winded at times, I did end up liking this booked. I did have a harder time connecting with Grant in the beginning of the story but in the last third of the book, I felt like I did finally understand him. I say this book was long winded in that I thought we could have come to some conclusions a little sooner to help move the story along at a better pace. The middle was slower. Overall though, a great story about perceived destiny and taking it into your own hands.

Thank you so much, PENGUIN GROUP Penguin Young Readers Group | Viking Books for Young Readers, for the chance to read this book in exchange of an honest review.

Grant Rossi is sure he's cursed. Ever since he made a wish on his family's Wishing Rose, every single relationship has been cursed and now, after a very public breakup, he only wants to sink back into depression, unable to create and alone in Chicago. But when he learns his aunt is strugglin with her B&B, with the Wishing Rose, Grant decides to intervene and spend some time with her and his uncle, hoping to help them refurbish it in time for the Rose Festival. But the place is in total disrepair and, worse, the new gardener is his ex best friend and first crush, Ben. As they help the B&B, feelings blossom again and Grant fights to give himself a second chance, against his own walls and his curse. Will he be willing to fall in love again?

Sort of a sequel of "The 99 boyfriends of Micah Summers", Cursed Boys and Broken Hearts is a sweet, swoony and funny contemporary romance, following one of Micah's boyfriend, Grant Rossi and his journey into loving himself and opening his heart again.
I loved reading this book, because it gave me the feeling of a warm hug, a sunny day. Grant is a beautiful and complex MC, who, believing his family's tale about a Wishing Rose and having made a wrong wish when he was a kid, now he believes he's cursed, erecting walls all around him and refusing to really let anyone in.
When he decides to fight his depression and help his aunt and uncle in the very place of the Wishing Rose, he's forced to confront his past and fears and the misunderstandings that made him lose his best friend and first crush.
I really loved his journey, both psychological and artistic, how he, slowly, starts to live again in the B&B with his family, how he and Ben reconnect, mixing past and present and moving on from there and how his art and designs blossom again when he's better.

The story is funny and sweet and made me fall in love with love and roses!

My goodness what a beautiful, painful, and wonderful story. Initially, I wasn’t sure if I would enjoy this book because I wasn’t sure that I would be able to find a queer, teenage boy relatable. But the author paints such a vivid picture, not just of who the characters are, but what they feel and how they see the world it’s impossible not to. The way in which Grant’s depression was handled with such care and depth was incredible. It was SO refreshing to see how Grant healed throughout the book. He needed medication and took it. He needed therapy and got it. Love wasn’t the magic fix but a support. You wanted to hug him, shake him, confort him, and beg him to get out of his own way all at the same time. The story itself was good, though it moved pretty slowly. I enjoyed the fun loose twist on Beauty and the Beast, liked all the characters, and I thought the end was fittingly sweet. We need more stories like this one and I’m just so grateful to have had the chance to read it.

STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND READ THIS BOOK RIGHT NOW!!

Adam Sass returns with one of the most swoon-worthy romances I have read this year! Cursed Boys and Broken Hearts is going to tug on all of your heartstrings. This novel starts off strongly, introducing you to your main character who is dealing with life as it comes. One day at a time. Once building out the setting (and what a romantic setting at that), this story blazes a trail forward mixing romance, comedy, and drama to build in such a way that readers everywhere are going to love it.

I couldn't put this story down! Ben and Grant have been dancing through my mind ever since I started their story. It's just fantastic writing that is so dynamic that I easily found myself rooting for both of them come hell or highwater. The magic in this story is ever so present everywhere as well. Let the magic be the selling point for this story, honestly. Because it was the first thing that stood out to me in this book. Magic exists for the main characters in such a way that the reader gets to experience every bit of it with them. It just felt so relatable and fun. ALSO THE SPICE IS DELICIOUS!

Honestly, I cannot say how much I loved this book. I devoured it and know that Ben and Grant are going to be living rent free in my mind for weeks to come. Seriously, do yourself a favor and check out this story.

Perfect for fans of Practical Magic, the one bed trope, and plenty more of your romance favorites!

3.5 stars. Adam Sass' CURSED BOYS AND BROKEN HEARTS is giving netflix original movie with the romance curse trope, but Grant and Ben are cute, so it's okay. . Lot's of stuff revolving around mental health and these two have their own journey's and it's nice to see. I just wish we could've seen more of the cutesy parts of their relationship and more post Grant reckoning with himself. Love me a queer romance any day of the week! Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC!

I adored this book from the first chapter and found it really hard to put it down. The characters are written with such depth and caring that I was immediately drawn into the story. Grant's development is really well done and his struggles feel real, especially the spirals. The support that Ro and Paul give both Grant and Ben was so special, particularly the scenes where they address knowing Grant was gay when he was younger.

I truly wish I could visit Vero Roseto. I want to watch the stars from the deck and take a tour with Ro. I want visit the Wishing Rose and see the gardens. The setting is such a big part of the story and the way Sass describes it and the characters inhabit it makes it feel larger and life and as real as can be.

It’s so special to find a book that immerses you in a vibrant world you never want to leave where you get to explore a cute romance, family ties, and personal growth.

Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for providing an ARC
of this book!