The Vincent Boys
Small-town bad boy drama and first-love fallout
By Ember · Updated August 4, 2026
The Vincent Boys is small-town bad-boy romance built around temptation, reputation, and the person you are supposed to want versus the person you cannot stop wanting.
Readers usually arrive here from After-style intensity: first love, messy choices, family and town pressure, and a heroine pulled toward the boy who complicates everything.
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Quick answer
The Vincent Boys by Abbi Glines is a small-town young adult/new adult romance about bad-boy attraction, first love, reputation, and messy forbidden feelings. Similar reads often feature volatile young romance, love triangles, and emotional coming-of-age drama.
What to read after The Vincent Boys
If you want the volatile bad-boy feeling turned higher, After and Beautiful Disaster are the obvious next moves. If you want college-new-adult healing with better emotional grounding, Easy is a stronger fit.
For rock-star mess and cheating angst, Thoughtless belongs nearby.
The reader take
This sits on the messy-young-love shelf: not polished, not calm, but very clear about the thrill of wanting the wrong boy in a town that watches everything.
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Book recommendations
After
by Anna Todd
The bigger, more chaotic bad-boy romance phenomenon with college stakes and emotional whiplash.
Beautiful Disaster
by Jamie McGuire
A tattooed fighter, college drama, and a relationship that becomes addictive fast.
Easy
by Tammara Webber
New adult romance with trauma recovery, protection, and a more careful emotional arc.
Thoughtless
by S.C. Stephens
Rock-star temptation, cheating angst, and messy young-love decisions.
Common questions
Is The Vincent Boys like After?
They share bad-boy attraction, young-love intensity, and messy choices, though After is more volatile and college-centered.
What should I read after The Vincent Boys?
Try After, Beautiful Disaster, Easy, or Thoughtless depending on whether you want chaos, college fighting, healing, or rock-star angst.
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