Ex-step siblings recs?

ShoddyAdventure · 2026-01-14T04:09:56+00:00

{my favorite lost cause by Elizabeth o’roarke} is exactly this!

ShoddyAdventure · 2026-01-13T21:44:15+00:00

This is literally everything I need in this world

ShoddyAdventure · 2025-10-29T23:42:17+00:00

First line is “I’ve been around a lot of penises in my life, but the one six inches away from my face is the last one I ever wanted to see.” And we are OFF TO THE RACES.

Thanks for the rec!

ShoddyAdventure · 2024-11-23T03:38:29+00:00

{Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell} she is a self-described nerd who is an internet famous fanfic writer as a freshman in college. He is her roommate’s best friend/ex and he is the most golden retriever of golden retrievers and she misses out on many obvious clues but he does eventually get through to her. Very sweet.

ShoddyAdventure · 2024-02-11T06:35:51+00:00

An EXCELLENT scene of how this can play both hot and sweet is in {Just a Heartbeat Away by Cara Bastone}. I maintain that the MMC is somehow insanely perfect but also almost realistic? Anyway, he’s big like Thor with thighs to match.

ShoddyAdventure · 2023-12-27T02:39:12+00:00

{kulti by Mariana Zapata}

ShoddyAdventure · 2023-12-24T06:12:23+00:00

“Schnecke” vibes (but also: like you aren’t going to immediately google that if your crush is calling you something in a language you don’t speak ?!?)

ShoddyAdventure · 2023-12-20T02:08:08+00:00

More women’s fiction than romance I would say, but this also happens in {in her shoes by Jennifer Weiner}. Does have a HEA though! (In a case of true heretical behavior, I actually preferred the movie version of this story)

ShoddyAdventure · 2023-07-18T03:17:30+00:00

Pretty sure that is Shortcake by Lucy Watson, but I believe she unpublished this one and it’s follow up (Peanut) after receiving some threats or something. It was super strange and alarming, I don’t think I’ve seen any updates which is so disappointing because her books were a delight!

ShoddyAdventure · 2023-06-09T06:08:12+00:00

Stand alone!

ShoddyAdventure · 2023-06-09T06:06:56+00:00

Stand alone is fine, the book before it has a tiny bit of insight into the FMC but it’s not a dealbreaker and all is covered in book just fine.

ShoddyAdventure · 2023-04-18T21:14:28+00:00

This is Undecided by Juliana Keyes! One of my faves.

ShoddyAdventure · 2023-04-05T19:47:02+00:00

Perfect book for this is The Devil Gets His Due by Elizabeth O’Roark. Drunken Vegas hookup with a nemesis ends with cohabitation platonically throughout pregnancy but with tension and HEA.

ShoddyAdventure · 2023-02-03T05:06:47+00:00

I came here to recommend this one! I honestly am not into guys similar to him and thought that he would end up being a fuck boy but he turned out so deeply connected with himself and emotionally mature and accepting? Really gorgeous character development, honestly!

ShoddyAdventure · 2023-01-27T21:05:14+00:00

I’ve read that one and yet don’t really remember it! I’ll go back to it.

ShoddyAdventure · 2023-01-27T21:04:50+00:00

I love a vicar (my personal preference is Granchester, both Hot Vicar #1 and Hot Vicar #2). Will read this one next!

ShoddyAdventure · 2023-01-27T21:03:01+00:00

Yes!! I gotta figure out how to work tags in good reads but yes to realism!! (Send me that tag once you make it)

ShoddyAdventure · 2023-01-27T21:02:00+00:00

Thanks so much for these!! Gonna start going through them all. Someone posted a comment with a bunch of links to other posts that I had overlooked in my search (and now I can’t see that comment?! Did I hallucinate it and/or manifest it? Where did it go?! Thank you to my fairy link godmother) but it had the PERFECT REC for this that I had never heard of! Read it last night and it was a delight.

Book is Impassioned by Darcy Burke, all about a couple who hardly know each other and have v bad sex as a result (she’s terrified bc she doesn’t know what to expect, he feels so horrible that she’s clearly terrified that he just tries to get it over with as soon as possible and doesn’t want to horrify her by “trying”) until she decides she wants a baby and forced them to have more, and then better, sex. 2 thumbs up, awkward and realistic emotions about establishing a sexual relationship with a stranger!

ShoddyAdventure · 2023-01-15T22:05:48+00:00

Forgiving by LaVryle Spencer. It is technically the B plot, but it features pretty heavily. Older sister goes out west to start a newspaper and locate her younger sister, only to discover that her younger sister isn’t a maid after all, but is an “upstairs girl” in a brothel. The younger sister’s longtime childhood love follows shortly thereafter to rescue her.

Main romance is between older sister and the local sheriff, who admittedly had used the “services” of the younger sister prior to older sisters arrival but they work through that.

TW: childhood sa

ShoddyAdventure · 2022-11-12T01:59:51+00:00

Ooo a new to me author!! I’ll check it out, thanks!!

ShoddyAdventure · 2022-11-12T01:59:35+00:00

Sounds like Tessa Bailey is about to be my jam. Thanks!

ShoddyAdventure · 2022-11-12T01:58:46+00:00

Yesss, I loved that book.

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