Prince, who is the main caretaker for his mother (who has multiple sclerosis) and his seven-year-old brother, Mook (who's been diagnosed with ADHD), believes his dreams of becoming a DJ and one day falling in love don't seem particularly achievable. Seventeen-year-old Prince Jones (aka DJ LoveJones) is a local Detroit celebrity: he's the only teen DJ on Love Radio, where he gives relationship advice to callers. Dani is focused on applying for early admission to MFA programs, writing an 'amazing' essay and moving to New York City where she'll become 'the next Maya or Audre.' But she is suffering in silence after a recent painful experience, the trauma giving her writer's block and threatening to unravel all her plans. High school senior Dani Ford doesn't have time for love more importantly, she's not interested in it-at least, not the way it's portrayed in the old Black romcoms her mother adores. Three dates for the love expert to take his own advice, and just maybe change two lives forever.Įbony LaDelle's Love Radio is an absorbing and romantic YA debut. She gives Prince just three dates to convince her that he’s worth falling for. Prince is smitten, but Dani’s not looking to get derailed. When the romantic DJ meets the ambitious writer, sparks fly. But her college essay keeps tripping her up and acknowledging what’s blocking her means dealing with what happened at that party a few months ago. She’s focused on her plan: ace senior year, score a scholarship, and move to New York City to become a famous author. Until he meets Dani Ford.ĭani isn’t checking for anybody. But being the main caretaker for his mother, who has multiple sclerosis, and his little brother means his dreams will stay just that and the only romances in his life are the ones he hears about from his listeners.

Prince has always dreamed of becoming a DJ and falling in love. After all, at seventeen, he has his own segment on Detroit’s popular hip-hop show, Love Radio, where he dishes out advice to the brokenhearted. Prince Jones is the guy with all the answers-or so it seems. Hitch meets The Sun Is Also a Star in this “mega swoon-worthy, effortlessly cool” (Casey McQuiston, New York Times bestselling author) novel about a self-professed teen love doctor with a popular radio segment who believes he can get a girl who hates all things romance to fall in love with him in only three dates. “Readers won’t be able to get enough of these dope-ass characters.” -Elizabeth Acevedo, author of Clap When You Land

Love radio novel