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friends to lovers

Reader Recommendations – Friends to lovers romance books

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Many requests for this list and oh boy do we have recommendations!!!

Nothing better than that slow burn. That… true-to-life angst and pining, OR surprise realization, that you have fallen deeply in love with the love of your life. And he just happens to be your very best friend.

Tracie: I just finished “Bad at Love: A Standalone Friends-to-Lovers Romance” by Karina Halle and would love to know if you have a list of other books or recommendations of books where they start as “just friends” first?? read more

Book Review – Regretting You by Colleen Hoover

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Regretting You

OH WOW!! 🤩 This one stole my heart. Yep! Still has that signature Colleen Hoover storytelling by way of her beautiful words and introspection and her relatable characters with real life issues. It’s why we love her so.

Kim: Regretting You, it was very relatable which I think is one of Coho’s great talents. She is always a sure thing for me.

But also signature Colleen ’cause it had quite the twist that, yet again – I didn’t see coming until it slapped me right on the face! And it does so early on, too, so you get to live it as they do. read more

Reader Question – The book about the childhood friends to adult lovers that would go to a beach hut…

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Kirra needs our book help! Short and sweet and just a bit of detail but maybe enough to spark your memory (it’s a book in a series, and she mentions who the next book is about, too)

She asks:

Hey Maryse,

I read a book about a couple that meet as kids and you read about them growing up together- eventually dating.

I don’t want to spoil the book but I remember they had a spot they would frequent together (a beach hut) and that the heroines sister has a book  as well.

I think this books was the 3rd or 4th book in the series. read more

Reader Question – The book about the friends-with-benefits (and she’s getting attached), after another guy insulted her weight…

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Elise needs our book help and she’s sent us plenty of info to work with, but no spoilers in it, ’cause she only read the first chapter and wants to find it again. 🙂

She asks:

So sometime in the last few months I know I read the first chapter (I think it was a prologue set 8 years in the past but that could be wrong) of a book but I cannot for the life of me remember what it was. I generally remember the following:

Guy and girl were childhood friends;

Guy became fit/attractive sometime in late adolenscence or early adulthood; read more

Book Review – Devastated by R.L. Mathewson

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Devastated (Anger Management Book 1) <— P.S. It’s going live in just a couple of days – 10-25-19!!!

When R.L. Mathewson sent me an early review copy of her latest release “Devastated” she included a warning. Just as the moody cover (and title) portray, she told me this one was somewhat darker (or more serious in nature) than her amazing comedy romances that we’ve gone so crazy for in the past.

So, I was fretting. Why? ‘Cause her love stories are totally my kind of “comedy romance”. Witty and gleeful and believable. She (er… I mean… her characters) are absolutely hilarious. From their quick-witted remarks and thought processes, to some of their not-so-smart fumbles and mistakes (that end up being amusing anyway), her books have me grinning, laughing and exhilarated. read more

R.L. Mathewson – Anger Management Series Reading Order

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 <— NEW SERIES BY R.L. MATHEWSON ALERT!! AND THIS ONE IS GOING LIVE in just a few days!!! OMG how could I have forgotten how awesome her stories (and characters) are?? I’m halfway through this one and I AM LOVING IT!

I’m hooked ’cause it’s got the perfect amount of friends-to-lovers/slow burn, and he’s moody and totally uncuddly, and unabashedly uninterested in… just about everyone. 😉 And I just adore how quirky and nervous she is around him (she’s his new live in assistant), and yet, endearing and completely indispensable. Best of all? I’m loving how it’s unfolding. Totally believable (and so are all of the characters). read more