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Originally Posted by Lin2412
Thanks for the links hildea! I love Courtney Milan. The Original Post was intended for recommendations for guys, but I'm going to be in this wagon and research for book gems in this thread. I haven't heard of Wilkie Collins yet, so I'm going to read through book reviews of that as well.
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One of the things I like best about Milan is how she writes her secondary characters. In some romances, it seems as if the whole world revolves around the main couple -- others exist only to to help or hinder them, and the main couple care only about each other. But in Milan's books, there are lots of other important relationships, friends and relatives with their own lives and agendas. If you like that aspect, you might like Sarah Rees Brennan's books -- especially the
Lynburn legacy (Unspoken, Untold, Unmade). It's not a romance -- love is an important part of the story, but it's not the main focus. And it has definitively got paranormal aspects -- that's why I didn't mention it in my last post. There are a couple of free prequel short stories:
The Spring Before I Met You and
The Summer Before I Met You (PDF).
I've also recently stumbled over
Rose Lerner, haven't read any of her books yet, but it looks as if she, like Milan, writes far outside the "rakish nobleman and plucky debutante" cliches that I seem to see too much of in the historical romance genre.
If you have any recommendations in return, I'd appreciate it :-)