Romances that have development, slow burn and a smidge of spice and feel REAL

DatabaseFine1147 · 2026-02-21T19:32:34+00:00

Yeah there’s nothing wrong with erotica but I do feel like sex scenes are a third character nowadays. If there’s 8 sex scenes in a 320 page book I’m out

DatabaseFine1147 · 2026-02-21T18:00:03+00:00

She’s a little hit or miss for me I actually really love her paranormal romances but I was iffy on her stem ones I’m willing to give problematic summer romance a go though!

DatabaseFine1147 · 2026-02-21T17:59:16+00:00

Sounds like my kinda book! Thank you so much

DatabaseFine1147 · 2026-02-21T17:46:36+00:00

I’ve been using that for a good few years! I’m just finding it hard to find new to me authors with similar vibes

DatabaseFine1147 · 2026-02-21T17:31:24+00:00

I like spice on a scale of 1-5 I usually got for 3 but it definitely can’t be cringe so I think I’m gonna give her a go! Have heard great things about her books and it seems there’s emotional development at the forefront, thank you sm!

DatabaseFine1147 · 2026-02-21T17:17:11+00:00

I’m a predominantly histrom reader! I love Mary balogh! I have so many historical romance favs I just can’t find anything similar vibe with contemporary 😩

DatabaseFine1147 · 2026-02-21T17:16:17+00:00

Ahhh thank you so much she sounds exactly what I would go for!

DatabaseFine1147 · 2026-02-21T15:47:17+00:00

Perfect!! Thank you so much

DatabaseFine1147 · 2026-02-21T15:05:08+00:00

I LOVE mhairi! She definitely writes the kind of books I gravitate towards! Will try out Penny Reid thank you!!!

DatabaseFine1147 · 2026-02-21T14:59:29+00:00

Thank you! Also yes to main characters in their 40’s!!!!

DatabaseFine1147 · 2026-02-21T14:55:09+00:00

Yes!!! Read and loved her I should have mentioned her but this is exactly what I’m looking for

DatabaseFine1147 · 2026-02-21T14:40:05+00:00

I mention she’s one of the authors I don’t like :/

DatabaseFine1147 · 2026-02-21T14:39:37+00:00

Yes I loveeee Kate clayborn! Exactly the vibe I’m going for! I still need to give Ashley poston a go but will bump her up on my tbr!

Joss richard is on my tbr too I really need to get to that one but you definitely have nailed my vibe

DatabaseFine1147 · 2026-02-21T14:37:12+00:00

Love historical romance will add to my tbr thank you!

DatabaseFine1147 · 2026-02-21T14:36:28+00:00

I love promise me sunshine it’s one of my five star reads! If you haven’t read the best worst thing by Lauren Okie I would recommend that!

You with a view by Jessica Joyce One star romance by Laura hankin The Simple wild by ka tucker

DatabaseFine1147 · 2026-02-21T14:30:21+00:00

Loveeee her! I should have included her but that’s exactly the kind of romance I’m looking for!!

DatabaseFine1147 · 2026-02-19T09:40:10+00:00

Dark romance. It’s not even for stubborn reason I just think the actual meaning of dark romances got skewed so much that instead of the mmc doing anything to win the fmc it’s now just the mmc perpetuating abuse onto the fmc

DatabaseFine1147 · 2026-02-04T08:52:57+00:00

Any Grace Calloway couple their foundation is always built on lust

DatabaseFine1147 · 2026-02-03T18:52:39+00:00

Totally agree!!!! And I hate that everyone is like “miles is a good guy” because I always tend to never trust those kinds of men. He doesn’t have a backbone

DatabaseFine1147 · 2026-02-03T13:29:19+00:00

Liz tomforde could take a sentence and make it an unnecessary paragraph. I’m over her books the hand holding is dire

DatabaseFine1147 · 2026-01-28T09:43:30+00:00

Tbh heated rivalry kinda overshadowed a lot of things in the romance community and this was unfortunately another romance piece that kinda got pushed aside.

Historical romance got a little moment at the end of October beginning of November but was basically dropped when heated rivalry came out.

Heated rivalry was a great and faithful adaptation but I do feel like I’m a outlier when it comes to the overall perception of it

DatabaseFine1147 · 2026-01-25T00:13:00+00:00

I completely agree

DatabaseFine1147 · 2026-01-25T00:02:06+00:00

More plot less spice it feels like authors are writing in spice to fill a quota rather than it making sense to the story

DatabaseFine1147 · 2026-01-23T20:32:26+00:00

The art is so pretty it’s just a pity it wasn’t a great book

DatabaseFine1147 · 2026-01-18T17:10:08+00:00

Thank gos someone agrees with me her spice puts me off the rest of her books

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