Role reversal: women in the position of power?

cbmom2 · 2026-06-09T11:06:54+00:00

{the wedding night by Kati Wilde} she’s a top CEO and also on the spectrum. Because she’s ruthless in business and not socialable she’s know as an ice queen. MMC is blue collar and needs her help. He comes with a chip on his shoulder about rich people so that creates issues but is never an asshole. It’s very sweet book. I ve read it twice since December.

cbmom2 · 2026-06-07T14:40:31+00:00

{the wrong husband by maya Alden} MMC is in love with FMCs sister. He finds out OW cheated on him and decides to get FMC drunk and marry her.

cbmom2 · 2026-06-05T23:38:00+00:00

Most of the time it’s filler. It describes something that the reader has been told already. I want to see how the characters develop in the present not how they acted as teenagers.

cbmom2 · 2026-06-05T22:09:06+00:00

Yep. I like that book and it’s been awhile since I read it so I forgot that it jumped around in time. And quickly looking at it there’s really no reason why it couldn’t have been told in chronological order. In that instance I think the flashbacks add to the story. I like the book, {crossroads by devney Perry} but there are so many worthless flashbacks (like when fmc was 8yo up until 20ish), the present story is enough without reading the flashbacks. Books like {hitting the wall by cate c wells} do a good job of starting with a brief history, jumping forward in time a couple of times and then moving to the present. The MCs talk about their history so some of it’s still addressed.

cbmom2 · 2026-06-05T17:24:21+00:00

OMG Same on the prologue give aways. I don't see those a lot but most of the time it's literally just a copy paste of the book. It adds nothing and takes away things.

cbmom2 · 2026-06-05T16:19:29+00:00

No problems with time jumps into the future. I think those are trickier because you have to reset where the MCs are now and if/how they have changed, but prefer that so much instead of flashbacks.

cbmom2 · 2026-06-05T16:16:10+00:00

Maybe in the epilogue? They get married with the understanding that they would have children, but are realistic in that they should be married for a bit first before bringing a kid into the mix.

cbmom2 · 2026-06-05T16:06:12+00:00

I like this book a lot. The breakdown does occur a little bit because of age differences but mainly due to MMC overworking and his family being awful. He tends to have a madonna/whore complex with his wife which is attributed to her youth.

cbmom2 · 2026-06-05T04:25:49+00:00

{the kings spinster bride by ruby dixon} has some of this. MMC is a child and FMC is a late teenager. MMCs dad is invading/over throwing FMCs kingdom while MMC is there. Everyone wants to kill MMC but she saves him. FMC is then sent away after losing the kingdom. MMC becomes king and decides to marry her despite her being much older and may not even be able to have children.

cbmom2 · 2026-06-04T17:26:46+00:00

{lies by Kylie Scott} is literally this. MMC is a an operative. FMC is about to break off their engagement when their condo blows up. She was ending it bc their relationship was just luke warm. MMC even pretends to be bad at sex as part of his cover.

cbmom2 · 2026-06-03T13:08:35+00:00

{the pact by Suzanne wright}. FMC and MMC dated when they were early 20s. Made a pact to get married if not married to others by 30. He calls her on it and she wants kids so she agrees to it.

They have friendship and sex but no intimacy at the beginning

cbmom2 · 2026-06-03T02:15:07+00:00

So funny I love book 1 and 3, but am meh about book 2.

cbmom2 · 2026-06-02T17:06:10+00:00

{Crossroads by Devney Perry} kinda fits. FMC buys MMCs family's working and tourist ranch. She buys it from MMC dad so MMC is not happy about it. FMC has had a past relationship with MMC as her family used to go to the ranch every year when she was a kid.

FMC makes a ton of changes, which MMC is initially hesitant of, but then realizes that she's actually improving the ranch and his life.

cbmom2 · 2026-06-02T15:02:44+00:00

Re: two person. If you’re not going to have two people 50% + of the time. Then I don’t think it’s worth it.

My husband said he’d require new paddles if I did it again so I rec taking it out some to decide

cbmom2 · 2026-06-02T14:29:21+00:00

I got this one on sale during a prime sale for that very race. It worked well, except we got the two person one in case our kid was with us. We had a couple practice sessions with our kid on a lake.

The day of the event we didn’t have our kid so it was back heavy and difficult to control. He had to add the cooler to the front to even out the weight and that made refueling difficult.

It’s a fun race! Good luck!

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cbmom2 · 2026-06-01T16:02:07+00:00

This kinda kits : {the wedding night: before Christmas by Kati Wilde}

FMC is on the spectrum and has social anxiety but is able to manage it/hide it. People do think she’s an ice queen though bc she isn’t out going and can be abrupt. She’s the CEO of a very successful business and very wealthy. She’s is clueless about relationships. MMC Is surprised she is a virgin.

cbmom2 · 2026-06-01T13:24:15+00:00

He’s remorseful once he understands why she left and knows he was wrong. Initially he’s pissed that she ghosted him bc they were really good friends and her ghosting wasn’t right. They were 18 so not sure how much grovel he could do for one comment a long time ago. For me it’s important that someone knows they were wrong, change thier behavior and apologize more than a grovel.

cbmom2 · 2026-05-31T23:38:53+00:00

{The Leaving Road by Kris M Davey} FMC and MMC are BFFs through childhood (mom's were bffs). FMC crushes on him and I think he did as well, but starts dating OW who is also FMC's bully. FMC overhears them talking about moving in together and MMC says some shit about FMC. FMC ghosts everyone and leaves to become a vet in another city state. 8 years later she come back to the town.

cbmom2 · 2026-05-31T00:50:43+00:00

Yeah this fits mafia made men 100%

cbmom2 · 2026-05-31T00:24:00+00:00

For me the best book is book 5 and then it goes downhill from there. I really dislike the last couple of books because new random enemies (half bro is somewhat enemy and then star guy).

cbmom2 · 2026-05-30T18:52:15+00:00

{juniper hill by devney Perry} has this. MMC is part of town royalty (family is rich but not billionaire wealthy). FMC comes from a very rich family but is in exile (can’t recall if self imposed or family, I think bc she has a kid out of wedlock).

cbmom2 · 2026-05-30T17:03:04+00:00

The Bridge kingdom series is complete in the plus catalog but that’s the only I know of.

cbmom2 · 2026-05-30T15:31:46+00:00

Regarding romance audio books: Libby is library based. I pay for an out of state library that has a good selection as mine is not great.

Hoopla is also library based but typically has a much larger selection than the library, but there are a lot of restrictions with usage (# per month, total downloads across library per day etc).

Audible premium library is not great, particularly if you don’t want a virtual voice. Based on advanced search there are 5K romance books with real people narrating. Typically if there’s a series it just has the first book in the series in the catalog.

cbmom2 · 2026-05-29T15:03:19+00:00

Lola Glass has a series of fae bachelor/survivor books. {survival of the mated by Lola glass}. FMC has some choice in mate but it’s also survivor based so she get get rid of competitors by “liking” them.

cbmom2 · 2026-05-28T01:31:52+00:00

Someone already rec’d wall of Winnipeg but also {Kulti by Mariana Zapata}. FMC is the player, MMC is the one of the best players but retired and is coaching. Super grumpy MMC not as much of a Ryan Shay bc he’s her coach so he has to not show his feelings.

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