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Our Favorite “Love After Loss” Romance Book Recommendations

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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 her husband died a few days after they got married…

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I missed Katelynn’s reader question yesterday, but there’s no time like the present. 😉 Oooooh this one sounds so incredibly familiar. I’m pretty sure I’ve read it.

My mind wants to say Forever, Interrupted by Taylor Jenkins Reid. This is one of my favorite books EVER in the whole wide world (and that last line will remain burned into my brain forever). But it’s been so long since I’ve read it, that the details are a bit fuzzy. And for some reason… my mind keeps pulling me to Kristen Ashley? I dunno. But now I’m DYING to know. read more

Marie Force – Treading Water Series Reading Order

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HIGHLY RECOMMENDED by Trina, and I just saw a review that says this is NOT your typical romance and your heart will be torn out. EEEEEEP!!! And OMG BLURB JOLT on book #1 already. Oh yeah. I see how this has that super-angst potential. P.S. The series finale just went LIVE!!!! 😀

Trina: Marie Force did an early release of Finding Forever, Treading Water Series, final book 4. She just wanted to make her readers’ day better amidst all this uncertainty. And she did mine!

Jodi: I’ve read all of Marie Force’s books …there is not a bad one in the bunch. Check out The Wreck and the Treading Water trilogy. Those are her best IMO! read more

Cecelia Ahern – P.S. I Love You Duet Reading Order

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GUYS!!! GUYYYYS!!!! Guess what’s going LIVE tomorrow? THE. SEQUEL!! Postscript!!!

And guess what else? PS, I Love You: A Novel is super-bargain priced today. I haven’t read the book yet, but I watched the movie and cried and cried through it like a baby. It hooked me deep, and I’ll NEVER forget it.

I LOVE THIS MOVIE so I know I’d love the book even more. I’m just afraid, ’cause it gets me in the feels each time I watch it (it’s one of my favorites of all time), so I can’t help but wonder what reading it will do to me. This is my PERFECT story. What a love story. 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 forbidden love book about the cowboy and the teacher with poems that lead into the chapters…

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Dinah needs our book help for one she read a long time ago… and just the mention of “forbidden love” has me ALL ears!!!

She asks:

Hi, Maryse!

I’ve been reading your blog forever and one of my favorites is when you help readers find a book.  I was hoping you might be able to help me out. I read this book A LONG TIME AGO, when I was a teenager. I can barely remember the details.

But I feel like it had some kind of western vibe, forbidden love kind of thing. Like maybe he was a cowboy and she was a teacher or she was married or widowed or something? read more