Welcome to the Summer of Spice Challenge 🔥

Summer is for iced drinks, late-night chapters, questionable fictional crushes, and books you absolutely meant to read slowly but somehow finished at 2am.

So we’re making a little challenge out of it.

Join us for the Summer of Spice Challenge at Love Stories, a spicy romance bingo made for readers who love a good trope, a little chaos, and a book that makes you text your friend, “Okay, you need to read this.”

Challenge runs June 1 to August 31, 2026

Hey reader,

We made this for the readers who say they’re “just browsing” and leave with three books.

For the ones who love a morally gray man a little too much.

For the readers who know a fake dating setup is never really fake.

For the ones who hear “one bed” and immediately know what kind of night everyone’s about to have.

The Summer of Spice Challenge is simple: download the bingo card, pick your reads, and see how many squares you can cross off before summer ends.

No pressure to be perfect. No need to plan your whole TBR in advance. Just read what sounds fun, spicy, dramatic, romantic, or completely unhinged.

A Little Peek at the Challenge

Your bingo card will be filled with romance reading prompts, spicy tropes, and the kind of categories that make choosing your next book even more fun.

You’ll read different books for different squares, track your progress, and share the chaos with us along the way.

There will be prizes, of course.

But honestly? Half the fun is seeing what everyone reads, what books ruin people’s sleep schedules, and which fictional men suddenly become everyone’s problem.

Yes, There Are Prizes 🌶️

Complete a bingo and you’ll get an exclusive Summer of Spice sticker.

Go all in and complete the whole card, and you’ll get the sticker, a $5 Love Stories gift certificate, and full permission to be extremely proud of yourself.

We’ll include the full details with your bingo card, so you’ll know exactly how to join in and submit your card when the time comes.

Share Your Progress

We want to see what you’re reading.

The cute annotations.
The dramatic reactions.
The “I stayed up way too late for this” updates.

The books you loved.

The books that made you stare at the wall for a minute.

Tag us while you read:

Instagram & Facebook: @lovestoriesokc
TikTok: @love.stories.okc

Bring us your spicy reads, your favorite tropes, your book stacks, your Kindle screenshots, and your most unhinged reader updates.