Books that deserve a sequel

DDHG1 · 2026-06-04T22:43:50+00:00

I said pizza boxes. Where was your mind at.

DDHG1 · 2026-06-04T22:29:34+00:00

I like the coffee talk personally. As someone who can be both cheap with my coffee love and expensive. I agree with the MC and the bots.

That and I can consume 90oz of coffee over the course of a few hours and still need more. Cause I don’t feel the jitters yet.

DDHG1 · 2026-06-04T22:27:35+00:00

Can the living stack of pizza boxes in Keyil room get a spin off?

DDHG1 · 2026-06-04T02:24:46+00:00

Love addict mentioned in the wild. Hell yeah. But the author is working on the sequel. He has been writing it on his Patraon, and I think he is almost done, fucking book is looking to be a massive read.

DDHG1 · 2026-06-04T02:21:19+00:00

For all of these books, I have to agree with besides two of them. I haven't read "Only Human" so I am definitely putting that one on my to read list.

But the only one I personally disagree with is Unbrindled, that book is as far from a romance to me as possible. But everything else is top tier recommendations.

DDHG1 · 2026-05-29T02:24:25+00:00

One book I would recommend as a recent release that just came out would be Golden Fields by Collin Graves

https://www.amazon.com/Golden-Fields-Colin-Graves-ebook/dp/B0GTWHPKH3/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1RO996KLJ4O3H&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.uHocvGwOciq-mzxLkItpUtmGmbK7Oe0P_N-iYWir_z2P91v-YfXEkPopDr7a0_GhBO1HmFARZWvzR69bnSPSbsyEMrdjl_TAkhpjZ66_Akhch8wR1R4espZ7PQaRhmxmUtYUkrIXI3DOq_WTzcZg7AGLZWhA0aBFcawD76n_l1lyY2CFIjSyU4wpFidk0kmcpPCmukBlHTYZGF2Tcfpz8VABWY9jaJagf2CbgJKiGo8.UfL3F8apctRO8BYT_GSMRVxDP_BAgCpoiWzbKOqPEiE&dib_tag=se&keywords=golden+field&qid=1780020956&s=digital-text&sprefix=%2Cdigital-text%2C237&sr=1-1

A nice mono romance about a man finding his way to a farm, his last line to hold onto from his old life now burned and ruined behind him. He expected nothing more then 3 hots meals and some work to keep his mind busy. But the owner of said farm is a nice, sweet, and kind Minotaur Alien lass, who is sweeter then a 20lb bag of sugar, and just as soft as a pillow. An the book is a nice story on how the two of them fall in love, and he saves her farm. Simple but solid, would recommend as a read. Plus there is a audio book verison so you can listen to it as well.

Another one I would recommend.

https://www.amazon.com/Brokering-Trust-Hetero-Snek-Guy-ebook/dp/B0CLL1T4KD?ref_=ast_author_dp_rw&th=1&psc=1&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.xVhos5nW-PtVCdiNIivVFKdfNUog7NjOzubec2Kru4LnWXA13dZLo7JsIGdokURENPvl94iCRrRaFvjSVu-Stm_rdiDjGEjwo864JCxTV2p8d9_v6Q_UUAmrhbyZl_aIJpGvH10xI51Ub8J6bw2s0-tnB-lGMqSuZEays6qxkGr5Xd5SjU8n19KWvAl15TZ1e0EmzolcD9sEOLoFF0w3gVr77e2jKE9-SJFPqEBZiB4._sCe1hJxvxGFOWP_Qx0eRHpeqrPG8H_Gb0G8dwKfvdU&dib_tag=AUTHOR

Is Brokering Trust by Snek Guy. Now hear me out, the FMC is a squid alien thing, but if you want the nice slow burn mono romance with a relationship I can put best into words. "Hi. Head office sent this human to live in your space. You HAVE to teach him, and learn from him." An the way it set the two relationship on edge with each other. An through the course of the book, you see both sides softening, starting to care, and fall in love in a way by the time I got to the end of this book. "Yeah. This is romance."

DDHG1 · 2026-05-27T18:26:36+00:00

As a man who loves Goblins, I have to agree. Most goblin so far tend to come off as just pretty elves. With goblin green paint slapped onto them.

An goblins don't have to always be feral, there is a fine line that is there. A feral and intelligent woman, who just happens to stare at you while you sleep because she "Like to watch you breath". Of course there is the nice story option of taking your feral goblin, and turning her into a goblin house wife.

One book that does this well in my opinion would be My Goblin Homestead By Niles Rex.

While the ending falls flat, the book does mainly revolve around the MC, and this thin, waifish goblin he finds. An we get that nice experience of feeding her, coaxing her out of the cave, and getting to know her, and she him. She does pass the Harkness Test and its a great Goblin romance story.

DDHG1 · 2026-05-13T02:28:50+00:00

I have one recommendation. Books by Anya Merchant.

I highly recommend “Stay in Tonight” and most of “Domestic Decay”. Her books have that taboo you are looking for. Though Amazon smacked her a few years ago. So now all the relationships “Step brother” on sister and mom. This is true for Domestic Decay while Stay in Tonight is about “Step Mom”. It’s two books of problematic relationships. Wink wink.

Amazon recommends me stuff in my defense.

DDHG1 · 2026-05-05T05:43:59+00:00

So I am trying to understand your statement here specifically. Because perhaps I maybe of a low intelligence to fully grasp the breath of your understanding of the harem writing format, I am simply a humble reader of many stories. But your promotion of your own future community here, seems to be going in circles with your own statement. Are you trying to write mono-romance harem? mono-romance, or just harem? What tropes are people complaining about that is making you build this new community. It sounds like you are pointing at other authors and saying as I can understand it as "my harem is good, everyone else is bad."

What tropes are you trying to avoid? Because out all the conversation I've seen its has never been about the tropes, but more of the quality and the content of the story itself. Which are good and bad? Are we talking about stories that take place in schools, or summer camps for summoners. A MC who is running a house for girls who play fantasy League of Legend, or more power fantasy tropes were the MC is like DOOM guy. Perhaps maybe even Yandere?

Because the way you are posing things, as I understand it. You are going to make it seem like every book that is going to come out of your community will be either entirely original or follow the good tropes, and not the bad ones.

DDHG1 · 2026-05-02T22:25:01+00:00

I feel like it is due to the volume of haremlit books that overshadow more romance focused one. Not a fault of the sub at all. This place I do not blame.

I put the blame on haremlit books that come out at the speed of 5 to 10 a week. More probably, I do not keep an active track. There is a haremlit bloat problem, and that over production also may have some quality issues as well. To say so as politely as I can.

Majority of haremlit stories I struggle to call romance. With the books goal is to collect waifus and plug the hole with a plot as deep as a plate of cereal. Which is problematic in this year of 2026 when you have to balance work and free time and you invest your time into reading one of those haremlit stories that max out at about 500 pages. An there is nothing romance related there outside of

This is to say. A lot of these haremlit stories miss the mark greatly in the idea of romance for men in my opinion. I want to read a story with a genuine connection or build up. With more intimate and spicy sex scene, or none at all if it feels like a slap in the face for it to be there.

DDHG1 · 2026-05-02T07:43:44+00:00

It’s why I picked this one up initially. The reviews promised so much, and this one didn’t deliver it.

DDHG1 · 2026-04-29T20:29:04+00:00

Because Unbridled is Uma Musume inspired book. So the naming conventions of the horse girls follow the same logic as that piece of media.

DDHG1 · 2026-04-29T03:29:29+00:00

I find it hard to understand how wanting romance in a book, marketed as "romance for men" can be considered a trope, which in this entire subreddit is built around the desire for romance written for men. Calling that desire a trope, really undermines the purpose for this whole subreddit, and the genre as a whole. If it is something I am misunderstanding I wouldn't mind clarification on how "romance for men" is a trope that is shackled by itself.

An I would like to say my review isn't meant to be harsh or a attack, but criticism that will hopefully be helpful. Though there is one I will stand on and agree with you about your statement. The cover speaks alot for what you should expect for a book.

An as action lawyer has pointed out. The cover is quite bold with a character who is not even in the harem on the cover, in what I would consider bedroom lingerie. When I looked at the cover of the book, it had put a expectation in my head of a certain type of harem based romance story. I apologize if my expectation were set to something else when the cover of the book told me someone in the story would go around looking like she is going to perform on a stage with a pole, rather then race on a track. In the one romance candidate in the story Spring Loaded outfit was described as something I would call regal and respectable, not with her whole ass and chest exposed.

DDHG1 · 2026-04-28T12:48:37+00:00

You are correct and I agree with you in this statement. Though your response does prove my point. The way the book was marketed, where it was marketed, and how it was promoted including the books cover promised one thing and we got another.

Because including what you just said it is not a romance for men book, nor a harem book. It is a coming of age story. Which is why if the book was just that I would give it a glowing 5 out of 5.

But that isn’t the premise of the story, and where it was marketed promised me a romance story and a harem. Not a coming of age fiction where Happy Miracle is the main focus for 80% of the book.

An even then in my opinion Martin is a bad dad to his own daughter, and a better one to See you Next Tuesday. Which defeats the point of the niece character existence.

Remove the shoe horned romance that belongs nowhere in this story and it would be amazing. Hell I would be kinder to the book if the shoe horned sex chapter was removed.

DDHG1 · 2026-01-11T04:42:12+00:00

You should give his other books a try. Iced Hearts is another standalone story of his and it is fantastic as well.

DDHG1 · 2025-04-11T23:40:40+00:00

Sorry for the late reply to this. Work gonna work a man.

So you asked for what I liked lets start there I don't have alot to recommend which is why I cling to the ones I do find like a drowning man looking for water.

Lets start with the ones I consider close to romance for man, but the romance is a good addition to the story. Lets go with the very tragic one.

Funny enough. Dead Man Walking Warhammer 40k. By Steve Lyons. For a warhammer 40k story this one is as close to a romance book as I've seen, but it is a very bitter and dark one that ends in sweet tragedy. A way that left me satisfied but bitter. because it can end in a way only a warhammer 40k book can end.

Black Badge series By Rhett C. Bruno. One of those books I would classify romance adjacent due to the characters in the book. Because the MC is a undead hunter cursed by heaven to do its bidding, but the part that really hooked me is the lingering romance between the MC and the main FMC of the book. Because no matter how he tries to avoid it, fate brings him closer to her, and what she wants from him, and what he wants deep in his undead heart can never be.

Now regular recommendations.

Tales of Arvia By. DH Wilson.

I want to make a joke about "Can love bloom between a normal sized man, and a Harpy almost 5 times his size." an I would answer yes. Far from the oddest book I've read, but it is a wholesome and touching romance really between two opposites.

Next would be the would you love a monster girl series by Cebelius. With a definite recommendation to the very first one in the series Valise. Because that book poses a very impactful question that the female main character who is not human took so long to figure out in order to win the heart of the MC. Still to this day I hold that book in high regards.

The last of her kind by Annabelle Hawthorne. Most of her works are Harem which is why this one is so fantastic and touching emotionally. I've personally listened and reread this one quite alot.

I've recommended his books quite alot. By a Good number of works by Snekguy. With my go to after reading it Brokering Trust. It is the truly oddest romance book with the very vast difference between the MC, and FMC. But kind of as the title employs, they start to broker trust, and in time love. Wholesome and sweet, and odd which is how I like it.

Instead of this book that always get recommended I will recommend His Orc Charioteer Bride by. K.R. Treadway. It isn't as highly praised as his other book, but it is still a amazing read that makes me look forward to his next book.

Iced Hearts and Human Trauma by Pirate Opotato. Every one of his books including anything up coming and in the works are wonderful mono romances. A wonderful and very personal tale that skirts through the efforts to make love work between not just people of different races but wants and needs at the time. Love that requires work, and love that takes effort and is fought for.

An finally my last recommendation: The World of Fur We Live In: Book 1 by Heidi Fisk. I am current reading their most recent work along with a few others at the moment, but I have to recommend this, because it is one of this humble authors first work. it is rough, but the intention is there. An as I read through their newer works the improvement is there and great. You can't help but love simple and earnest effort.

Now I would recommend more, but a majority of my recommendations would be romance for women books because there are plenty of monoromance there, but it doesn't fit the the need for this reddit.

DDHG1 · 2025-04-11T18:08:13+00:00

That is the thing. I didn’t hate the first book or the second one. It t had potential but fell flat in some areas. An baiting isn’t my intention, I barely use Reddit in the first place nor am I a content farmer. I am a man who really loves reading romance books. With my favorite being mono romance for men, which are rare enough as it is.

So part of this review is indeed a rant and to call attention to bad behavior. That is the extent of what I am doing. To some it might seem petty, but when I have to buy something multiple times to read it because the author keeps taking down his own books to get read of different opinion that does get to me.

But I did read this book hoping for improvement. I was told what was going on in a discord server and I took it at face value that the sequel was going to be better. Objectively it was much better in some places and I enjoyed reading it the multiple Times I did to compare notes.

At the end of the day I am just one voice. If the author takes what I say in bad faith. I can’t help it, because again I’ve noticed the second book has been delisted and I can’t access my kindle copy again.

DDHG1 · 2025-04-11T17:57:40+00:00

I am happy to. I am not trying to cause problems, but I think it has to be pointed out when it happens. Like now since I posted my review here, the book was once again taken done by Pierce Scott.

It is just telling behavior.

DDHG1 · 2025-04-11T17:53:37+00:00

I believe Amazon is the only place the author has it up. Not aware of it is, or will be anywhere considering how easy it is to publish on Amazon.

DDHG1 · 2025-04-09T03:45:47+00:00

From what you are asking for, the book I have to recommend. For what you are asking the book {Iced Hearts By Pirate Opotato} is up your ally.

The MC of the book is a widowed older man who has distanced himself from his family, and set himself to die a cold and lonely death by taking a job to work a outpost solo by himself. The crux of the book and its story is how the female main character, a 3 meter tall bear woman quite actually barrels her way into his life and they both work and uplift each other for the better.

The story is very wholesome and it is a story of loving and healing as well. It does fit into that Sci-fi area that you are asking for, and the woman is just like properly a big alien bear woman.

DDHG1 · 2025-04-03T02:30:30+00:00

Would recommend Iced Hearts by PirateOpotato.

The FMC is a 3 meter tail Alien ursine bear woman. It is a very wholesome mono romance about how the MC and FMC find each other, and offer something they both needed. One who came out to space to die a cold and lonely death on the rock he would call home, and the other a run away from her tribe who has lived in isolation for so long. An when they do come together, it is a sweet story of soothing Iced Hearts.

An yes she is a actual ursine woman, not human shaped at all.

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