If You Liked Reading Boys Of Tommen, Read These Books Next (Romance & Heartache)

• Series: Addicted Series
• Tropes: Friends to lovers, fake dating, addiction, emotional
• Spice: Warm

Lily Calloway hides a sex addiction. Loren Hale hides an alcohol one. For three years they’ve been pretending to date, propping each other up while their addictions quietly eat them alive. If you loved how Boys of Tommen handled addiction and codependent love, how Johnny and Shannon both had to face their demons before they could face each other, this is the series for you. Ritchie writes addiction honestly, and the romance never lets you forget what’s really at stake.

• Series: Every Summer After
• Tropes: Childhood friends to lovers, slow burn, second chance, emotional
• Spice: Sweet

Seventeen summers in Eden. A boy with a fractured heart. A girl who thought she knew him. Lenora and Nate grew up together until he broke her heart, and now she’s back and neither of them is the same. This is slow-burn, soul-deep first love with all the summer nostalgia and angsty second-chance energy Tommen readers live for. If the Kavanagh-Lynch shared history made you feral, Lenora and Nate will too.

• Tropes: College setting, trauma, mental health rep, emotional
• Spice: Sweet

Ivy Combs wants to disappear. She’s barely holding together after what happened to her in high school, and then a public speaking class throws her in front of Wes Tucker, charming, athletic, exactly the kind of guy she’s spent months avoiding. What makes this one feel so Tommen-adjacent is the patience. Wes doesn’t try to fix Ivy. He just stays, and lets her come to him. Healing isn’t linear here, and the book never pretends otherwise.

• Series: The Broken Series
• Tropes: FMC on the run, trauma, slow burn, emotional
• Spice: Sweet

Mama didn’t come home. Daddy liked to hit. Brothers followed suit. So she ran, and ran straight into Parker Hayes. The problem is that her father is coming for her, and she knows her blood won’t be the only thing spilled if he finds her. This is dark, protective, run-for-your-life romance with a heroine who’s been failed by every adult in her life. Tommen readers who cried their way through Shannon’s storyline will find a similar ache here.

• Series: Through the Years
• Tropes: YA, shy FMC, golden retriever MMC, emotional, disability rep
• Spice: Clean

Milow can’t speak, her father took her voice before she ever got to use it. When she’s placed in a new foster home, she meets Ashby, a boy who’s lived through his own hell and somehow sees her anyway. Years of quiet bonding turn into something bigger, messier, and more important than either of them is ready for. If you loved the protective, wordless understanding between Johnny and Shannon, Ashby is going to absolutely ruin you.

• Series: Bellmare High
• Tropes: YA, bad boy x good girl, high school setting, emotional
• Spice: Clean

Hope Hanson has fictional characters where most people have friends. Heath Travon has everything, and wants none of it. She’s hiding bruises. He’s hiding grief. They collide in a school hallway and neither of them recovers. Bellmare High is pure Tommen territory: high school setting, heavy trauma handled with care, and two broken kids deciding to save each other. If you want the YA-leaning side of Tommen, start here.

• Series: The Broken Series
• Tropes: Broken FMC, broken MMC, trauma, emotional
• Spice: Warm

Messe’s second in the Broken series goes harder. Our heroine’s junkie mum has dragged her into a debt she can’t pay, dumping her in a new city with a biker father she never knew existed. Our hero has everything on paper and nothing underneath. Neither of them wants love. Both of them desperately need it. This one is rawer, angrier, and more adult than Broken, perfect for Tommen readers who want the grit turned all the way up.

• Series: Heartache Duet
• Tropes: Sports romance, YA, high school setting, miscommunication, emotional
• Spice: Sweet

The second half of the Heartache Duet, and possibly one of the most emotionally brutal endings in YA sports romance. Connor and Ava are searching the darkness for any glimmer of hope, and McLean makes you earn every moment of it. If you finished Binding 13 and thought “I need more of this specific flavour of devastation,” McLean is your next stop.

• Series: Heartache Duet
• Tropes: Sports romance, YA, basketball player MMC, forced proximity, emotional
• Spice: Sweet

Start here before First and Forever. Ava Diaz doesn’t know she needs saving. Connor Ledger doesn’t know why he’s the one saving her. They’re stuck next to each other on the first day of senior year and everything changes. The sports-romance-meets-emotional-trauma combination is so quintessentially Tommen it hurts. Basketball instead of rugby, but the heart is the same.

• Series: Bellmare High
• Tropes: YA, bad boy x good girl, high school setting, emotional
• Spice: Clean

The continuation of Hope and Heath’s story from Collided. If Collided set the board, Mended is where everything gets put back together, or broken for good. Wyne keeps the same raw, protective energy and lets her characters actually heal, which is a gift. Read these two back-to-back.

• Series: Something More
• Tropes: YA, high school setting, friends to lovers, emotional
• Spice: Clean

Rory Pine moves across the country to disappear after something terrible happened to her. Her plan is anonymity. Her plan does not survive meeting Sam. Pearl herself warns this isn’t a flowery romance, it’s a gritty story of trust, abuse, heartbreak and salvation. Exactly the kind of content warning that Tommen readers recognise as a promise rather than a deterrent.

• Series: Something More
• Tropes: YA, high school setting, trauma recovery, emotional
• Spice: Clean

The continuation of Rory and Sam’s story. After surviving the unthinkable, Rory realises her past has made her a liability to the person she loves most. Can two people this in love ever go back to being just friends? Okay is about the choices made in the aftermath of trauma, and they’re not always the right ones. Beautifully painful.

• Series: The Midnight Strike
• Tropes: Sports romance, black cat x golden retriever, mental health rep, found family, emotional
• Spice: Warm

Josefine is drowning in grief. Daniel is hiding his under easy charm and baseball discipline. They cross paths on Christmas Day by accident, and neither of them can shake the other. What happens when love arrives before healing does? Salvador handles grief with the same honesty Walsh brings to addiction and trauma, and the found family threads here are gorgeous.

• Series: Breathing
• Tropes: YA, high school setting, trauma, emotional
• Spice: Clean

Emma Thomas would rather not be seen at all. In affluent Weslyn, Connecticut, she’s pulling her sleeves down to hide the bruises and faking perfection for everyone who looks too closely. This is one of the original gut-punch YA romances about domestic abuse, and if you haven’t read it yet, be warned, it hurts in the way Tommen hurts. Worth every tear.

• Series: Next Life
• Tropes: Enemies to lovers, bully romance, high school setting, emotional
• Spice: Sweet

Macon Davis is her best friend’s brother, her tormentor, her least favourite person. Until he isn’t. They burn hot and fast, passion, anger, love, pain, and they’re doomed from the start. If you want the Tommen flavour of “we were always going to wreck each other,” Benson delivers it with teeth.

• Series: The Undone
• Tropes: Sports romance, hockey romance, mental health rep, golden retriever x black cat, emotional
• Spice: Warm

Rhys Koteskiy was supposed to go NHL. A brutal hit at the Frozen Four left him with a concussion, nightmares, and a terror of the ice he can’t shake. Sadie Brown is a figure skater holding her life together with duct tape, mounting debt, a custody battle for her little brothers, and a “bad attitude” that’s really just exhaustion. She witnesses one of his private breakdowns and something wordless forms between them. Corinne nails the specific Tommen magic of two damaged people choosing each other anyway.