The season of feel-good romantic comedies is upon us as we look at this month’s teen fiction picks, ready for Valentine’s-themed displays in bookshops and on social media. Cute and hopeful books about first crushes, often with pink on the cover, are what some people assume to be the default in this field, but in truth it can sometimes be difficult to find a newly published love story on the YA shelves that doesn’t also involve an important social issue, a supernatural threat, or a dystopian government to be rebelled against. For YA advocates this is sometimes pleasing – look...