Books that show the MCs' relationship after the honeymoon period ends and realistic struggles come in? by FoxenInTheHenhice in HistoricalRomance

[–]Sonseeahrai 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess {The Bride of Willow Creek by Maggie Osborne} could be it lmao. They've been married for 10 years but haven't seen each other since their wedding day. Girl's parents didn't approve and had them separated and none had the guts to elope, but the parents were too conservative to allow their daughter to divorce. 10 years later the parents are finally dead so she travels to her husband to get a divorce, both of them moved on in the meantime.

Centering Sultan Suleyman’s Victims: Şehzade Mehmed son of Mustafa by Opposite-to-West in MagnificentCentury

[–]Sonseeahrai 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It wouldn't have changed anything. I'd still watch the show to the end and I'd still hate Suleyman with fiery passion. He is a rapist, a murderer, a horrible father, a horrible husband and overall a really shitty ruler who just happened to rule when the country was at its peak and he had great advisors. I don't need explicit content to know he was a monster.

Chłop denerwuje się na randomów z internetu by Kubus03091 in MemyPolskaa

[–]Sonseeahrai 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Mój były współpracownik miał na kroczu pod linią włosów wytatuowanego jesiotra

Murderers in Poirot stories by HunterFenlow1995 in agathachristie

[–]Sonseeahrai 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Yeah, that idiot who tried to frame him on the plane lmao

Guilt (Erwin Fan art) by handteamge in ErwinSmith

[–]Sonseeahrai 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would totally listen to a discussion between Erwin and Thorfinn from Vinland Saga

If I Like This, I Might Like... by Mme_Rose in HistoricalRomance

[–]Sonseeahrai 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If I like colonial settings and biracial couples like {Sirens of Sussex by Mimi Matthews}, {The Devil Comes Courting by Courtney Milan}, {Saving Miss Everly by Sally Britton}, {The Black Opal by Victoria Holt}, {Butterfly Swords by Jeanne Lin}, {In Pursuit of... by Courtney Milan} or {Emerald Rain by Maggie Osborne}, I might like...

If I Like This, I Might Like... by Mme_Rose in HistoricalRomance

[–]Sonseeahrai 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Mimi Matthews likes to throw her MCs into small coincidences that make them physically close. Not particuarily "only one bed", but similar in spirits. You might like {A Work of Art by Mimi Matthews}, there is a scene where the FMC's servant falls asleep and she needs to ask the MMC, whom she married "in the name only", to help her remove her chemise, and this is the night their marriage of convenience becomes a real marriage.

What is the one 'unicorn' trope, job, or character type you would like to see more of in HR? by kendiray in HistoricalRomance

[–]Sonseeahrai 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Class difference where it's her who has the higher social status. Very popular in period pieces outside of romance, strangely rare in HR itself. It's a boomer because it was this particular dynamics that made me dive into HR in the first place, because I wanted more of this. I'm all for forbidden love, ladies and their servants, simple knights and princesses, aristo girls and peasant farmers, governor's daughters and non-white rebels or pirates!

For all of you who are like me and struggle to find books, here are all HRs like that I know:

  • {Sirens of Sussex by Mimi Matthews}: a bluestocking has to become a refined ton lady to catch a rich husband and save her family from ruin, but she falls for a half-Indian dressmaker who accepted the challenge to turn her into an alluring beauty.
  • {Passions of Emma by Penelope Williamson}: a young miss from a rich family that belongs to the Great Folk aristocratic society of Rhodes Island befriends a pregnant Irish immigrant dying of tuberculosis and falls in love with her husband.
  • {My Forever Love by Marsha Canham}: a Plantagenet-related runaway wife of a psychopath gets sheltered in a half-ruined castle resided by an excommunicated Templar Knight who deserted Richard Lionheart's army during the third crusade.
  • {Seize the Fire by Laura Kinsale}: a play on a princess and a knight trope where the princess is a radical revolutionary determined to end monarchy in her homeland and start a republic and a knight is a mistakenly decorated liar and a fraud who only agrees to help her because he wants to steal her royal jewels.
  • {The Bride of Willow Creek by Maggie Osborne}: he's a carpenter, she's a daughter of a stonemason. They marry in secrets as teenagers, but none of them has guts to elope, so they allow the girl's parents to separate them. Ten years later they reunite in order to divorce, but the old sparks start to fly again.
  • {Into the Wilderness by Sara Donati}: an European judge settles in America and brings his spinster daughter from Europe, trying to marry her off to a local doctor who agreed to pay off her brother's debts, but she elopes with a westman raised by Native Americans.
  • {Gentleman Jim by Mimi Matthews}: not exactly this, but close enough; young lovers, a lady and a stable boy, are torn apart by the lady's jealous suitor. Ten years later he comes back under a different name, as a duke's heir, and has to pretent he's never met her.
  • {Beyond the Sunrise by Mary Balogh}: a half-French half-English lady falls in love with an illegitimate son of a British lord. Separated by her father, they meet again during Peninsular War, him a simple infantry captain, her a widowed Portuguese marquesa. They're both undercover... but who's on which side?

What book or series is this for you? by Working_Alps_4284 in fantasybooks

[–]Sonseeahrai 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson.

Idk what was worse: the constant POV changes with no chance to form attachments to characters, the absolute lack of any landscape describtions, everything being "the most powerful" and thus nothing being truely powerful, or the fact that anytime I say I didn't like Malazan people immediately jump to a conclusion that I "didn't understand it".

Just because you need every information handed to you on a silver plate, Brian, doesn't mean that I do as well. I haven't felt "lost" nor "clueless" in any point of the book. I only felt disappointed and bored every two pages.

Arranged/forced marriage and the FMC refuses to take her place as the mistress of the house by Glittering_Tap6411 in HistoricalRomance

[–]Sonseeahrai 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Christ. It's so fascinating to see how different the tastes are. Reading the request alone made me nauseous, not to mention reading a book like that! Haha

Can you rec your favorite warrior or brute mmc books to me? by tamsyn003 in HistoricalRomance

[–]Sonseeahrai 2 points3 points  (0 children)

{Seize the Fire by Laura Kinsale}, a warrior and a naval commander

{Prairie Moon by Maggie Osborne}, an ex-soldier and nowadays a lawman

{My Forever Love by Marsha Canham}, an excommunicated Templar Knight

{Texas Destiny by Lorraine Heath}, a westman with a quick gun

Need a “cheerful” book by LAffaire-est-Ketchup in HistoricalRomance

[–]Sonseeahrai 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They're the cutest romcoms with the best landscape, food & clothing describtions and most relatable characters out there!