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By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. For example, for friends to lovers, it will look like: site:reddit.com/r/romancebooks FRIENDS TO LOVERS. So if youre of a nervous disposition, maybe stick to fairy tales meant for kids. Persephone is a 19 year old genius about to graduate college who's ready to check off a bunch of "firsts . The whole series has a lot of really sharp ladies. Carefully yet wholeheartedly, over late night phone calls and countless mix tapes, Eleanor and Park fall in love. The characters in this one are passable at best, but I do love the backdrop. But all is forgiven (and cute coworkers forgotten) when she meets Etienne St. Clair. author picked Thornton has some wonderful historical romances (my favourites areTo Love an EarlandDangerous to Kiss) and the emotion and sensuality in them always bowl me over. Fans of stubborn romantic leads ( la Annie and Frank from Annie Get Your Gun), quirky settings, and the time-tested city-girl-in-the-country trope may find a winner in Kiss An Angel. So I just finished reading Heavy by Cate C Wells about a hacker heroine with autism and the president of a motorcycle club. After being selected to compete for the heart of a Prince, America is forced to leave behind her home and the boy she secretly loves but cannot be with. This book doesnt try to gloss over some of the realities of 11th century life; both Ceidre and Rolfe are in marriages of convenience to other people, and he has many illegitimate sons he cheerfully abandons in Normandy. why you should read it. 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All of the women in Penny Reids Knitting in the City series are spitfires, but I have a soft spot for Janie and her habit of rattling off encyclopedic facts at inopportune times and solving problems in her head as a way of avoiding too much reality. Allendes novel begins when pregnant widow, Roser, and her brother-in-law, Victor, flee fascist Spain aboard a ship chartered by the poet Pablo Neruda. Warning: it was published in 1978, so there are bodice ripper elements. Merlin Lambourne is an eccentric genius and possibly the only hope England has of defeating Napoleon. its a bloody fab book!! Bonus if the heroine is a genius. Its an intimate love story of deceptive simplicity: Marianne and Connell are two mismatched young people unlikely friends, unlikely lovers who share a profound understanding.
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