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Reader Recommendations – Our favorite books featuring childhood friends to adult lovers

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CHILDHOOD FRIENDS TO ADULT LOVERS FAVORITES!! In the mood for ’em? We got ’em!!! 😀 Of course for me, “The Sweet Gum Tree” is my number one on this list!!

Leslie M: …do you have a list of “childhood friends to adult lovers” type list? Someone on GR was asking for recs and I absolutely LOVE books where the couple knew each other as children. I have a thing for books with flashbacks.

bev: childhood friends/sweetheart type? I love those!

Michelle: I love this list so much. Some of my favourites and lots of new ones to read. Thank you 😊 read more

Reader Recommendations – Looking for book recommendations featuring cruel, abusive yet redeemable book heroes…

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Kayla is looking for recommendations, and while I have a bunch of lists that fit this genre, I’m opening it back up so we can add more.

She asks:

Hi!

I’m a HUGE fan of cruel heroes (even abusive/borderline abusive heroes) who are redeemable in the end.

I love

Given the above authors/style/romance preference, can you recommend any new authors or books that I haven’t listed that feature mean/cruel/abusive yet redeemable heroes? I’m NOT a fan of historical romance. I’m open to paranornal. My favorite is contemporary I guess. read more

Reader Recommendations – Our Favorite MMF Romance Books

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MMF READER REQUEST ALERT!! This one makes me blush but I certainly have a few favorites to start it off.

Leah asks:

Hey Maryse!

Could you do a MMF list ? I don’t even know if you read them. Just a suggestion.

I LOVE your blog.

I certainly have. Some of my favorites:

➔ Beyond Eden by Kele Moon (here’s my Book Review)
➔ Tempted by Megan Hart (here’s my Book Review)
➔ The Reluctant Dom by Tymber Dalton (here’s my Book Review) <— Actually this one is MFM but HOTTTTTTT!!!! read more

Reader Recommendations – Books that took us out of our comfort zone…

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This post is inspired by an old comment I found from my book-twin Amy. And wow!!! I absolutely LOVE her idea. I LOVE books that do this to me. Make me feel so uncomfortable but enrapture me to the point of being unable to put it down long enough ’cause I’m so hooked. Uncomfortable or not, I am IN!!! They always end up being unforgettable, whether I loved them, hated them, or hated that I loved them. 😉

They may be dark reads, forbidden or risqué, situations we wouldn’t normally live or accept in our own lives, maybe something scary or simply something that takes us out of our element in a large enough way… maybe even enlightening us in the process. read more

Reader Recommendations – Our Favorite Barbarian Warlord Fantasy Books

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BARBARIAN WARLORDS WANTED!!! Bethany is looking for recommendations, and while I have a list that we created a few years ago (and still being updated ➔ (Reader Question – Book Recommendations like “Game of Thrones” & “The Golden Dynasty” ) and I’m reading a book in the exact genre she’s looking for, I figured I’d post her question so we can get even more recommendations. 

She asks:

Hello fellow bookworms!

I have fallen down a ‘barbarian, warlord’ book Blackhole and am in desperate need of new suggestions. Anything like the Warlord series – Elizabeth Vaughn, Pathfinders way series, Tarien Soul, The Golden Dynasty & the kingmaker chronicles. Love me a warrior. read more

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