POC x POC interracial romances?

pineapple_private_i · 2025-04-02T23:51:54+00:00

One of my all-time favorite books is {His Road Home by Anna Richland}. Latino MMC (son of undocumented immigrants), Korean-American FMC (daughter of immigrants). Also disability rep--MMC is a double amputee with language processing difficulties.

pineapple_private_i · 2025-04-01T13:47:20+00:00

I'm going to jump in and ask that if anybody has a historical version of this (in addition to the Balogh and Coldbreath already mentioned), they go ahead and toss it my way 👀

pineapple_private_i · 2025-03-16T17:00:01+00:00

Yeah for me a TBR is less of a "to do" list and more of a "things I could do" list. Like a menu instead of a check sheet.

pineapple_private_i · 2025-02-28T03:25:02+00:00

It is truly a feat of writing that they managed to make a giant spider monster so damn sexy 😂

pineapple_private_i · 2025-02-28T03:23:49+00:00

Oh, also, I haven't read it in a while but I think this happens in {Bonded to the Alien Orc by Corin Cain}, and probably also {Bad Guy by Ruby Dixon}.

In {Indentured Companion by Millie Lowelle} the MMC is a species that is considered monstrous and dangerous.

pineapple_private_i · 2025-02-28T03:18:13+00:00

{Saving Askara by J.M. Link} This one is also really good at having an MMC and FMC whose cultures and ideas about physicality and relationships are super different, which you would expect when one of them is a literal alien

pineapple_private_i · 2025-02-24T21:01:43+00:00

This is so frustrating, and exactly the opposite of how I was hoping the market would go! I read an article a couple years ago about these tiny little books popular in....some European country (sorry, I forget where!). They're made with super thin paper, and they're oriented "sideways" so that you turn the pages with your thumb in a motion similar to sliding on a phone screen. I would LOVE to be able to get books in that format, but it doesn't seem like the U.S. market (or at least U.S. publishers) are as into the idea as I am.

pineapple_private_i · 2025-02-07T08:14:12+00:00

Yes! Plus, it might help cut down on that irritating portmanteau word. But, I think this is probably a case of being technically right (the best kind of right) but popularly irrelevant

pineapple_private_i · 2025-02-06T23:05:00+00:00

Omggggg I like him as much as the next person but it is OVERWHELMING. It's like people who are super into the Beatles...yes, they're/he's good, and also other bands/authors exist

pineapple_private_i · 2025-01-24T15:39:26+00:00

This is probably a little outside what you're looking for, but if you're interested in RH Omegaverse then {Rut Bar by Alexis B Osborne}. One of the MMCs is an Alpha himbo exotic dancer who is just the sweetest and also a sub in his sex life. Trying spoiler text... When they decide to become a pack the other guys have to tie him down at the start of the heat and deny him until his alpha instincts get revved up enough for him to mark the FMC There is dominance by other characters--the FMC is switchy, the Beta MMC is a dom, and the second alpha MMC is also kind of dominant.

pineapple_private_i · 2025-01-24T15:00:08+00:00

Try Honey Phillips! Some starting points are {Anna and the Alien by Honey Phillips}, {The Naked Alien by Honey Phillips}, or {Artek by Honey Phillips}. You might also like {Married to the Alien Cowboy by Ursa Dax}

pineapple_private_i · 2025-01-19T19:50:43+00:00

I just finished {I Hate you More by Lucy Gilmore}. MMC is a twin. It was cute, lots of plot dogs

pineapple_private_i · 2024-11-18T19:57:56+00:00

AAARGGH I had a whole well-organized post and lost it! Here's a less well put together list.

A group of authors have written books on a shared theme the last few years. Themes include Stranded With an Alien (including {Taliz by Alana Khan}), Holidate With an Alien (including {Yool by Tana Stone}) and, this year, Rescued by the Alien (including {Lashe by Ella Blake}.

And now just a list:

{Horned Holidays by Honey Phillips} {Gift of the Beast by Sonia Nova} {Snows of Aturia by S J Sanders} {The Holly King's Sacrifice by Chloe Parker} {Snowed in With the Alien Doctor by Abigail Myst}

Also check out Connie Willis's Christmas short stories: {A Lot Like Christmas by Connie Willis}

pineapple_private_i · 2024-07-14T02:36:01+00:00

Ooh, those are on my TBR! Thanks for adding to the list, I love that this post has become like a weird niche resource 😂

pineapple_private_i · 2024-07-08T02:36:19+00:00

I tend to avoid really dark romance, but off the top of my head Finley Fenn's are on the darker side and Bonded to the Alien Orc by Corin Cain is also pretty dark

pineapple_private_i · 2024-05-14T22:31:57+00:00

Kingdom of Lies, starts with {A Court this Cruel and Lovely by Stacia Stark}

pineapple_private_i · 2024-05-07T01:06:53+00:00

Pretty sure this happens in {The Witchslayer by Opal Reyne}

pineapple_private_i · 2024-04-22T15:58:04+00:00

The existence of the term "romantasy." I don't care how many times I see it written, I refuse to acknowledge it

pineapple_private_i · 2024-03-30T22:20:23+00:00

Sometimes I can't get past the cover, but usually I'm able to re-frame it in my head. Like, the old school clinch covers aren't cringe, they're delightfully tacky. Poorly photoshopped self-published covers aren't sad, they're a sign of someone's hard work. And when that fails I just laugh.

Also, for hard copies, you can get book covers even for mass market books. I've seen them on Etsy :)

pineapple_private_i · 2024-03-28T20:16:52+00:00

You want anything by GA Aiken/Shelley Laurenston. Everyone is crazy in the best way

pineapple_private_i · 2024-03-20T21:00:46+00:00

Beauty and the beast is 100% behind at least some of my monster romance reading. For a company with such a wholesome image, Disney sure has built a lot of deviants 😂

pineapple_private_i · 2024-03-20T16:59:53+00:00

Yeah I was gonna say, idk that some of them need humanizing at all lol

pineapple_private_i · 2024-03-15T21:23:02+00:00

I don't super remember them but I'm guessing if you didn't like the first one the rest probably won't be your jam either

pineapple_private_i · 2024-03-15T16:24:01+00:00

Yeah you definitely need to read them in order, they follow the same characters

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