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Our Favorite “Love After Loss” Romance Book Recommendations

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UPDATED 04-22-2020!! 😀

Most of today’s reader questions will be recommendation requests for certain tropes. I have received so many lately, so let’s see what new lists we can make, along with what we can add to past lists (updates!!!) YAY!!! 😀

Okay first question is by Amy (and actually Priscilla, too!) and the way it was worded, what first came to mind was… “Does she mean Vampire books”? LOL! You can tell where my romance roots are. 😉 But once she mentioned one of my favorite books ever as an example, I realized we were going much deeper… read more

Reader Question… Solved! The book where she was in love with him, but he had a girlfriend, but then his girlfriend died…

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Tammy is looking for this boo and Ohhhhh!! Unrequited LOVE alert!!!! I bet this one is all sorts of angsty (for many obvious reasons), and while I’ve read a few “love after loss” books where the Hero is grieving and at first resists the heroine, I don’t think I’ve read this one. And now I’m dying o know so I can add it to two of our lists here!! Love After Loss and Unrequited Love.

She asks:

Hi Maryse,

I love your blog and I’ve made it part of my daily routine. I’m hoping you recognize this book – I read it about 3 years ago and its popped back into my head and I can’t remember the title. read more

Reader Question – The book where the heroine thinks hero is dead and marries the hero’s rival.

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Oyinda has one for us, and it sounds like it could be gasp-worthy!! I feel like I’ve either read this one maybe…? OR it was a reader question in the past, ’cause this “twist” sounds so familiar to me!!

She asks:

Hello,

I am looking for a romance novel where the heroine thinks hero is dead and marries the hero’s rival.

Her nickname is called Lee. I think it’s titled someone…. i can’t remember the rest.

Hero comes back and sees that heroine and rival are together with two children. read more

Book Review – Make Me Yours by Melanie Harlow

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I couldn’t help but to jump into this new release!!! It hit the Amazon charts and has stayed there, strong and steady for days with tons of amazing reviews (and it’s currently at the #1 spot!!!).

PLUS!! It had all of my favorite tropes rolled up into one. Sexy-single dad-cop that’s also her neighbor that she’s been crushing on for YEARS!!! YEEEEEEEEEEARS!!!! 😲 YES PLEASE!!!

Rae: Love her Maryse. The whole story including the book cover was 💝 👌👌

Kimberly: It was a great read! read more

Reader Question… Solved! The book about her reclusive, alcoholic, angry neighbor and she’d check in on him…

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Maarja needs our book help, and she made me giggle when she said she doesn’t even know if she liked it that much (she wasn’t finished reading it) but she’s obsessed about finding it now. LOL! Let’s help! 😀

In fact, I have 2 guesses, but the first one is the one I’m pretty sure she’s looking for. 😀

She asks:

Hi Maryse!

I’ve been a silent stalker of your blog for a while (it’s amazing!), but now I`d like to try my luck with finding a book I started a while ago and never finished. I’m not even sure whether I liked it that much, but now I’m just obsessed with finding this darn book! 😀

I believe the hero used to be a hotshot movie director/screewriter something like that, and then something happened to his wife (she died? was cheating on him? divorced him? Something along these lines) and he moved to a cabin in a small (mountain) town and basically became an alcholic and a recluse. read more

Reader Question… Solved! The historical book about the widow wife that gets a job as a traveling librarian…

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Maggie needs our book help!! Oh boy!!! I sort of know this one, because I READ a book just like this story a few months ago and loved it! And it was a historical romance. It was wonderful!!

However right around that time I believe there were TWO other books that have recently released and had a similar storyline. So I will add all of them to the guesses and hopefully one of them will be right. 😉

She asks:

Book about a widow wife – riding on horse back 1800’s to borrow books  in remote areas the USA (America’s outback) LOL. read more