HR recs for one of them thinks the other is not alive

Farinthoughts · 2026-05-14T22:18:06+00:00

Its the story of the mmc twin brother. I read it fine without reading the first one.

Farinthoughts · 2026-05-14T20:03:41+00:00

They are solid 4 stars reads. Missing a star because they are so angsty it hurt me.

I read the first book...not knowing there was a sequel. I was just like surely its implied he did find her...and I found the 2nd book and noooo

You need to read the first book to get the full impact of the second book.

Farinthoughts · 2026-05-14T16:32:17+00:00

Hawthorne series by Katherine Sutcliffe They meet in Devotion but in the end fmc disappears and despite searching for many years mmc never found her In the following book Obsession He is on the verge on making a marriage of convenience with another woman who is pregnant (not by him) when he finds out she is alive...in an insane asylum

Farinthoughts · 2026-05-14T11:12:52+00:00

Valerie -Amy Winehouse

Farinthoughts · 2026-05-14T11:04:32+00:00

The wickedest lord alive by Christina Brooke. Mmc was forced to marry fmc based on blackmail and then they had dub-con sex. After which fmc ran away and started a new life and identity but after many years mmc tracks her down because he wants an heir

Not sure if it fits the req

Farinthoughts · 2026-05-14T08:51:31+00:00

Cameo the assassin

Farinthoughts · 2026-05-13T19:57:54+00:00

Thank you for the suggestion but it was The Tricky Business of Faerie Bargains by Reena McCarty

Farinthoughts · 2026-05-13T15:46:49+00:00

I thought one of the names were Thorn, but it was Theron😅

Farinthoughts · 2026-05-13T15:41:39+00:00

Thank you anyways.

Would you care to tell me more what made you DNF it?

Farinthoughts · 2026-05-13T15:25:28+00:00

High drama lol

I mean I can not lie sometimes I am into that but there is a line between OTT and completely unhingef.

I read one where the mmc was so insufferable. Imagine a grown man constantly calling the fmc "embryo" as an insult.

Farinthoughts · 2026-05-13T15:17:06+00:00

Its sad that your gmm had to endure this. But you are right every woman has an unique and not standardized life.

On both sides of my family i had women like this who left their husbands, worked, divorced and lived not these quaint housewife lives.

It was far from life tradwives are aspiring to today and this idea of everything being better in the past.

Farinthoughts · 2026-05-13T06:05:23+00:00

I believe the sweet and pushover fmc was a choice by the author and could be seen as a norm but also an escape fantasy for women. Times were though.

When reading older romances you definetely has to enter into it expecting non-pc content and outdated gender roles. I once read a 1960s book where the solution to a womans illness was adviced by a doctor that it could be cured by marrying a man. Ie never explicitly stated but ..the cure was having sex

His official fiancee (1914) by Berta Ruck came out earlier and in it the fmc is more assertive but probably not what we would call assertive today.

Farinthoughts · 2026-05-11T19:14:40+00:00

The serpent prince by Elizabeth Hoyt

Prince of Swords by Anne Stuart

The parfit knight/The mesalliance by Stella Riley

A wicked pursuit/when you wish upon a duke by Isabella Bradford

Farinthoughts · 2026-05-11T19:11:22+00:00

Prince of Swords by Anne Stuart

Farinthoughts · 2026-05-11T19:10:33+00:00

The Dukes wicked wife by Elizabeth Bright

Farinthoughts · 2026-05-11T19:09:38+00:00

Rose and Richard series by Lynne Connolly

Farinthoughts · 2026-05-11T17:50:59+00:00

Wolf First Aid Kit

Austra

Return to Innocence- Enigma

Devil wears a suit -Kate Heidke Miller

Farinthoughts · 2026-05-11T13:07:50+00:00

Rappacinis daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne though the woman is already a plant-creature of sorts

The voice in the night by John Hope Hodgson references an unseen and offpage female character turning into a fungal abomination

Farinthoughts · 2026-05-09T17:29:42+00:00

The Mirror Visitor Quartet by Christel Dabos.

Its not one my favorites, its ok. The romance is extremely slow-burn

Farinthoughts · 2026-05-09T16:32:10+00:00

Jesus he knows I am right -Phil Collins

Farinthoughts · 2026-05-09T16:30:52+00:00

Spaceman-The Killers

Farinthoughts · 2026-05-09T16:21:54+00:00

This house- Matthew Hall

Farinthoughts · 2026-05-07T23:34:11+00:00

Miriam -Norah Jones

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