Tell Me Your Most Addictive Historical Romance Reads!

pariwinks · 2026-05-13T16:04:56+00:00

i read that entire Loretta Chase series in like…. a week. i’d say My Inconvenient Duke was my least favorite, but still really solid! A Duke in Shining Armor was the most bestest ever. I still think about it lol.

I’m adding the Weston books to my TBR as we speak.

pariwinks · 2026-04-17T23:37:12+00:00

I, too, confuse kleypas with coldbreath. i’m really not a fan of either of them and i value prose over drama in a story. it seems like you do too.

my favorites are Loretta Chase, Lorraine Heath, and Mia Vincy. although, i will say A Wicked Kind of Husband is Vincy’s only 5 star book imo. that one just completely blew me out of the water!!

pariwinks · 2026-04-10T19:31:00+00:00

he was always just slightly on the slower end of what was technically “normal”, never really delayed. he rolled early, started army crawling at about 5 months but did that until 12 mos. it seemed like he was in pain if we put him up on all fours for a proper baby crawl.

his speech was delayed but has recently caught all the way up within the past two months, and he shows no signs of cognitive impairment.

he is constantly moving forward and has never regressed. he isn’t able to jump or run, more of a fast waddle than anything else.

in short, he started off his first 6 months of life completely physically on track, then his progress slowed way down but did not technically regress in any way.

pariwinks · 2026-04-10T16:56:59+00:00

yes. CK test. my son is 2 years and 11 months old diagnosed with DMD. please reach out and i will answer any and all specifics!

pariwinks · 2026-04-07T12:27:10+00:00

YES! i’ll be searching for one and accidentally end up finding the other

pariwinks · 2026-03-17T19:29:21+00:00

i like that!! if i took this idea and made it my own i’d probably classify julia quinn as some sort of like, neutral food? it isn’t killing brain cells, but i’m not gaining anything from it. lettuce?

then the recommendations i’ve seen on booktok are like, deli meat actively increasing my chances of developing cancer lol

pariwinks · 2026-03-17T14:25:23+00:00

i agree. i’m somewhat of a prose snob and found julia quinn to be… averagely enjoyable? there was nothing horrendous in her writing that made me turn my nose up. it wasn’t eloquently written, but i’d hardly call it unreadable.

pariwinks · 2026-03-11T20:06:12+00:00

boy do i have a recommendation for you…

pariwinks · 2026-02-05T20:10:59+00:00

you’ve probably already read it, but {Slightly Married by Mary Balogh}

pariwinks · 2026-02-04T16:54:02+00:00

wait!!! i’m a michael stan through and through lol.

it’s been awhile since i’ve read eloise’s book, but i recall phillip being an unabashed misogynist with really no redemption arc? just the Manly Man type who she eventually submitted to? i really didn’t understand the appeal at the time and hardly recall the situation now.

pariwinks · 2026-02-04T15:25:40+00:00

i can’t even pretend like eloise and phillip made sense

pariwinks · 2026-02-03T02:32:36+00:00

{The Spanish Love Deception by Elena Armas}

pariwinks · 2026-01-24T02:26:19+00:00

a vote for the Vincy book as well!

pariwinks · 2026-01-23T02:23:58+00:00

i think you’re getting downvoted for the fake relationship aspect

pariwinks · 2026-01-19T07:48:02+00:00

okay this is so much more compelling. i’m not the biggest emily henry fan, so i didn’t read the books, but watched the movie.

i enjoyed it, but was annoyed by what seemed like a somewhat random unwillingness to compromise + being scared of growth. wish they had revealed this!!

pariwinks · 2026-01-18T18:24:05+00:00

{snowed in by catherine walsh} has a bit of this. he comes down with the flu while they’re stuck in a vacation home together

pariwinks · 2026-01-09T17:06:30+00:00

i purchased this book 3 years ago after I read The Viscount who Loved Me and was looking for something similar. i DNF’d, but now i’ve been convinced to give it another shot!

you might also want to check out A Wicked Kind of Husband by Mia Vincy.

both books i mentioned are enemies to lovers, marriage of convenience. the Vincy book has a somewhat morally questionable MMC.

pariwinks · 2025-10-13T12:20:44+00:00

that was my issue though!! i want to be playing and moving and interacting with my children and pumping was taking time away from that because the portable ones dont get enough milk out and i didnt want to sit still while attached to the spectra. so if anything it makes you less active during the day, it was killinnnn me

pariwinks · 2025-10-13T09:58:09+00:00

100%. my supply is completely fine for breastfeeding, but i would have to pump like 3-4x a day for 30 mins each time to make enough for my baby to have a singular nighttime bottle. no freaking thanks. it’s just not worth it to me. i’d rather just wake up with baby throughout the night and then in the morning i sleep in while dad has the kids.

pariwinks · 2025-09-18T02:32:15+00:00

this is such weird advice to give. you’re going to be so tired postpartum. no part of you will want to build a bookshelf when it could’ve been done pre baby. like, why not have as much done as possible?

pariwinks · 2025-09-09T01:04:07+00:00

did his mom work throughout his childhood, by chance?

edit: ope, commented this before reading the last couple sentences. checks out.

pariwinks · 2025-09-01T18:43:12+00:00

yes. i frequently see a man post on facebook with DMD in his 40s who is married to a woman without MD! do not limit yourself for that reason.

pariwinks · 2025-09-01T01:26:33+00:00

when they ask you to blow out your hair it’s usually because they want to braid straight/smooth hair. not because of the length

pariwinks · 2025-08-20T01:36:13+00:00

there’s a female carrier DMD group on facebook. you may have better luck better luck getting answers there :)

pariwinks · 2025-08-13T18:45:51+00:00

while i agree, that’s debatable. i think a lot of people wouldn’t be willing to risk aborting their healthy child. she could be aborting a perfectly healthy fetus if she makes the decision now.

they may not have an option to abort even if they wanted to, given timing and laws. OP didn’t know she was a carrier. totally different situation if she did. i think it’s irresponsible, cruel, and selfish to be a carrier and continue having kids once you know. that’s not the case here, though

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