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Definitely looking for a modern setting on the latter, though I'm also very down for all the historical romances featuring it as well. Thank you very much! |
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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. Thanks for the rec, (I feel like this is one of those books you know how it'll end by just the synopsis, tee hee.) I like that it's written in a male narrative. |
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You might try some books from Lori Wilde's Twilight, Texas and Cupid, Texas series for unworthy heroes--can't remember titles, but I recall one with a soldier with PTSD afraid to love the heroine, and one with a former juvenile delinquent returning to his hometown. There's also one where the heroine is a princess who falls in love with a cowboy.
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There are a couple categories in AAR's "Special Title Listings" page that might give you some options.
https://allaboutromance.com/readers-...istings-index/ Maybe "Across the Tracks" or "Tortured Heroes"? They even break down the options by romance sub-genres (e.g., historical, paranormal, contemporary). |
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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: Quote:
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Got a really great handful of recs on my reading list now, thanks everyone!
How about any romances with some really gritty heroes with poor grammar, bad manners, overall just poor hygiene? I know I'm asking for weird character types and feel a bit of shame in doing so. |
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