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Originally Posted by kentosbento
Yes, I'm only hunting for novels where the hero feels undeserving of the heroine, hero is trailer trash, etc, etc. Only because I feel like I've seen too many "popular boy falls for mousey girl" type YA novels while on this hunt.
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There's also the Lynburn Legacy triology by Sarah Rees Brennan, starting with Unspoken. I wouldn't call it a romance (in my opinion that requires the romance to be so important that the book falls apart if you remove it), but there is a romance between the main protagonists, and
It's a gothic story, in our world but with magic. Kami Glass has lived her whole life with her loving family in an English village. Jared Moore has lived in poverty in the US, with his mother who is convinced that he killed his father. Both of them have had an imaginary friend their whole life, someone they know only as a voice in their head, to whom they can confide all their secret hopes and fears. That's cute and comforting until they meet and realise that the friend isn't imaginary after all...
There are a couple of
free prequel short stories you can check out (but only read the "...before I met you" stories before you start the books, unless you like spoilers). The prequels are written from the point of view of minor side characters, here's how they describe our heroes:
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Originally Posted by The Spring Before I Met You
There were certain kids at school who could only be described as mad, bad, and dangerous to teach, and Jared Moore was their king. Mariel had only seen him from a distance, wandering around in a leather jacket and a scowl, and she had made sure they stayed distant.
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Originally Posted by The Summer Before I Met You
The second girl had climbed out with the first but then proceeded to perform an elaborate goodbye dance with every member of her family. When the two girls stood together, they really did look like something from a movie. The second girl looked like the goofy sidekick, short and a little plump, more colorful and less dignified than her friend. She was wearing a hat that looked like a daisy, yellow on top with a plastic white-petaled brim, and a yellow skirt covered in daisies.
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I really, really like this triology (and all the other books I've read by Rees Brennan).