Red Like Love is a YA contemporary, based in Trinidad, following the story of a young girl discovering her sexuality in a hetero-normative society, and learning how to love from a broken home.
Taunted teenager, Adara Wells, spends her days penning poetry, envying ex-best friend Marina, and drooling over her addictive crush, Xan Saile. Adara is the kind of girl who falls in love after the first kiss, while Xan is the type to not even remember the girl’s name afterwards.
Of course, in Adara’s mind, that makes her and Xan the perfect match! Adara quickly realizes that the boy she’s chasing after isn’t that hard to get; he’s just extremely difficult to keep. One person who always manages to hold Xan’s attention though, is Marina; but for some reason, she never seems to want it, which irks Adara.
As Xan’s name continues to be a stain across her fragile heart, Adara starts to question her self worth. When Marina tries to rekindle her and Adara’s forgotten friendship, it gives Adara something other than her situationship with Xan to focus on. But, as soon as the two girls are alone, her worth isn’t the only thing Adara finds herself questioning.
