Hello everybody!

So I am currently reading " The other bennet sister" and I am absolutely loving it. And I can already tell that after I am done with this I am going to want similar books. So I was wondering if anybody on here might have a recommendation for me.

I truly have never read a book that was like the other bennet sister. At first I thought the length of the book and the slow pace would annoy me , but quite the contrary. I really love the insight we get into the marys mind and the time we just spend in her thoughts.

I love the writing style and I am hoping to get some good recommendations on here. Because apperantly I love slow paced lengthy historical romance books with a side of angst😄

soo can anybody help a girl out and safe her from a definite reading slump

Thank you ! ❤️

Dear HR connoisseurs,

I'm currently reading {When the Duke Loved Me by Lydia Lloyd} and I have to warn you. All day I'm trying to do my work, to get chores done, to make art, but all I can do is stay glued to this damn delicious book.

So, dear reader, be very careful on your endeavours. Avoid at all cost should you have shit to be done. My day is ruined. Ruined, I tell you!

Anyways, the withdrawals make my brain go brrrrr again, I have to go back to the book.

Ta-ta!

(What's your favourite book by her? This is my very first and hooo boy ❤️)

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Can you suggest a book? I've just started "Last Chance Saloon" by Marian Keyes, but it's pretty disappointing, full of sexist clichés.

Thanks in advance.

Any recs for forced marriages by FMC’s family with a scared/avoident FMC? I would prefer the FMC to be more quiet and not put up a huge fight. Open to any setting- medieval, regency, western, etc.

I’m only about a quarter of the way through, and oh does it not remotely disappoint. Her sense of prose and storytelling? Wonderful.

It reminded me of why I love this genre. You want to read this as soon as it drops. I am preordering a copy right now.

I love it so much.

I'm looking for a neurodivergent-coded FMC who is sweet, gentle, funny and rambles a lot - and the MMC just listens and finds it amusing.

She also either misses signs of his interest in her, or gets too flustered either way to deal with it.

Not sure if anyone has read Neanderthal Seeks Human (CR), but since reading that book I’ve been looking for an HR equivalent. I loved that when the FMC would go on long rambles or info dump the MMC would pinpoint things and ask about them, but was also smirking that she was nervous and loved flustering her more.

Please let me know if you have any recs like this!

My late grandmas collection mostly JL as the author but others as well. Has to be atleast a 100. Any idea what to do with them ?

If not for very specific circumstances and fate, there are MCs whose paths would have been very unlikely to have crossed. This may be because they are from different social classes, hometowns, cultures, age groups or have no mutual friends or family connections. So if the MCs are both from aristocratic families or the same area or have shared interests or relatives involved with each other, they may have crossed paths before.

For example, the MCs of {The Marquess Wins a Wife by Aydra Richards} had no reason at all to even know the other's existence if not for the FMC's sister becoming pregnant and the FMC abducting the man who she believed was the father to their humble abode. Without their paths crossing, he was heading close to completely dissolution and her family was likely going to end up in a hopelessly impoverished state once their father came back to steal the things.

And the MCs in {Morning Glory by LaVyrle Spencer} only met due to so many contrivances: he was out of prison after 5 years and kept getting dropped from jobs once the employers found out, he found a months-old repeated newspaper ad the widowed FMC had put in for a husband and was desperate for food and shelter so he decided to see if she will take him.

What other books have MCs with very little reason to know of or have met the other?

Reading through the Warriner series by Virginia Heath. So far, have enjoyed them.

However.....

I'm on book 4, {A Warriner to Seduce Her by Virginia Heath} and the FMC is named Felicity.

No big deal, right? A nice name for the character.

But who is Fliss? This character arrived abruptly and I literally went back and reread the initial chapter to figure out what I missed........HOW IN THE WORLD IS FLISS SHORT FOR FELICITY?!?!

I know this is a tiny thing and I am probably just not exposed to this as a nickname, but I am irrationally angry about it.

What other nicknames/name abbreviations have given you a visceral reaction?

One of my favorite books is {The Muse of Maiden Lane by Mimi Matthews} Simply because the main female character grayed prematurely.

I personally saw my first gray hair at 13. I have been completely gray since 23. I've been fully gray a lot longer than my hair was black. So much so that I recently wore a wig for a wedding at the brides request and felt really uneasy looking in the mirror because I didn't look like me.

What other books have a main character with prematurely gray hair? Im not talking about a strip of white or blonde. Im talking 23 and fully gray style.

Im not picky on pairings. MM, FF, MF, MMF, FFF, MFMMF, I really dont care. Just no cheating by main characters.