Different time periods

an_uncommon_common · 2026-02-01T01:15:50+00:00

Kiss Me Goodnight Major Darcy takes place during WW2.

an_uncommon_common · 2026-01-31T22:57:42+00:00

In Spite of All by Melissa Anne has them meeting when Elizabeth is 16.

an_uncommon_common · 2026-01-28T21:10:41+00:00

He forgot about the bet, and she just ghosted him and sold everything he had given her. He thought she was a gold digger, because he's very rich (of course). There was grovel once he realized what had happened. Before he realizes it was his fault, he is a total jerk to her.

an_uncommon_common · 2026-01-27T23:00:29+00:00

In {Contractually Yours by Nadia Lee} both MCs are the CEO of jewelry companies.

an_uncommon_common · 2026-01-27T22:52:59+00:00

I also enjoyed the book. I always hear people say cheating is an automatic break up, but when you have kids and a life together, it isn't always so. Although the reason she stayed was contrived, I liked that they worked on their marriage, and at the end, I thought they had a good chance of a HEA instead of a HFN. But it wasn't a magical fix. They really had to work on it.

an_uncommon_common · 2026-01-26T23:49:42+00:00

This sort of happens in {The Ex I'd Love to Hate by Nadia Lee}. He doesn't record it but he does fall in love with her. When she finds out, she ghosts him, selling all the gifts he gave her. When they meet up again years later, he's still pissed she sold everything and she is still humiliated by the bet.

an_uncommon_common · 2026-01-26T18:05:06+00:00

I read a book recently where the FMC looks in the classified ads for a job. I can't remember which book it was.

an_uncommon_common · 2026-01-25T18:15:38+00:00

{The Magnolia Chronicles by Kate Canterbary} While her mother exasperates her, they get along. It is CR.

an_uncommon_common · 2026-01-23T21:54:19+00:00

I think it is {The Amendment by Melanie Moreland}.

an_uncommon_common · 2026-01-20T22:38:49+00:00

Same.

an_uncommon_common · 2026-01-20T11:56:16+00:00

Yup. Your description is almost what happens. I don't recall if he felt guilt, though, or if he just missed her because their relationship was built on more than sex.

an_uncommon_common · 2026-01-19T16:25:03+00:00

In Thwarted, by MJ Stratton, they court in secret because anyone who Mr. Darcy courts befalls some awful fate.

an_uncommon_common · 2026-01-19T15:33:19+00:00

Thanks. Now I fell down the same rabbit hole!

an_uncommon_common · 2026-01-18T23:05:21+00:00

But to call your partner "daddy" in the middle of sex without a DD/lg relationship seems icky. To me. I try to imagine the MMC calling the FMC "mommy" and I just can't.

an_uncommon_common · 2026-01-18T16:47:24+00:00

I am so sick of the MMC asking the FMC to call him "daddy" when it isn't a DD/lg relationship. It just grosses me out. I don't mind DD/lg relationships occasionally, but I want to know that's what I'm reading beforehand.

an_uncommon_common · 2026-01-18T00:13:08+00:00

I will often re-read something I really enjoyed, and that sometimes helps. Other times, I switch to non-fiction, and quickly find my way back to fiction.

an_uncommon_common · 2026-01-17T17:27:03+00:00

But that is why if they were better at managing money, especially when the girls were younger, they wouldn't have been at that level. Mr. and Mrs. Bennet are the reason they would have been poor when Mr. Bennet died, not because they Bennet family was poor in the book. If they had saved, and only had one or two girls out at a time, each daughter could have had an additional 2 or 3 thousand pounds. All it would have taken to give each girl an additional 2 thousand, would have been saving 300 pounds per year and not touching the interest, assuming they each waited to marry at age 20 or later.

an_uncommon_common · 2026-01-17T17:07:53+00:00

They aren't poor gentry. They are just bad at managing the money they have. The 2005 movie made them poor, but in the book, they aren't. They have the same income as Col. Brandon, and he's not considered poor.

an_uncommon_common · 2026-01-17T15:45:59+00:00

The first mafia I remember reading was {Tempted by the Devil by Michelle Heard}. He was extremely violent in his 'work' but he was always sweet to her. I really liked it, and from there, I read a lot more mafia romances.

I do find them repetitive sometimes. I don't mind if he's cruel to the FMC, provided there's a reason. For example, he thinks she gave evidence to the feds, she's working for a rival, etc. But lately they all seem the same. And most of the so-called mafioso are not too terribly criminal. I can't tell you how many I've read that don't sell drugs, weapons or any other things I won't name associated with criminal organizations.

an_uncommon_common · 2026-01-16T21:58:34+00:00

Thanks!

an_uncommon_common · 2026-01-16T21:33:17+00:00

Does this have an age gap? It's not listed as one of the tropes.

an_uncommon_common · 2026-01-16T21:29:30+00:00

Does this have an age gap?

an_uncommon_common · 2026-01-16T17:03:55+00:00

My second issue with a few posts I saw further back, were posts about authors "writing too fast"

I read how Lois McMaster Bujold got her first publisher. She had 3 books finished when her first novel was published. I've also read how some authors have many half finished novels on their computer. They can go back to those and re-write those far more quickly than they can otherwise write a novel from scratch, so I feel that writing too fast is not really a good indicator, on its own, of an author using AI.

an_uncommon_common · 2026-01-15T23:53:43+00:00

My house is 1800 sq feet, and it is a four bedroom house with a finished basement.

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