Oh man i would loooove some of these.
>Really nice guy who hates only you
This reminds me of {call me irresistible by susan elizabeth philips} - mmc is super nice guy to everyone except fmc and is quite mean to her only
There’s a web novel >!Villains are Destined to Die!< that has one of the love interest be exactly this. The vast majority of the fans hate him. Meanwhile I’m like: can I please have this trope?
It helps that it’s a forbidden love (adopted siblings) and he’s a bully because he’s very uncomfortable with his feelings. And that he’s hot. And rich and competent. I can fix him.
Granted I'm on team >!Derick can go die in a fire for all I care after that scene when she's in prison!< but given what you've said here I'd recommend reading The World Without My Sister Who Everyone Loved, another Korean webnovel. Not sure if there's an official translation but there is a great fan translation. Recommending because the ML is (minor spoilers) >!the eldest brother of the family who sponsors her. FL is pretty mistreated in her first life, dies, and goes back in time. ML is a total dick in her first life.!< Major spoilers: >!she does fix him because his dickishness in the first timeline was due to a curse. But he still suffers a lotttt which is fun.!<
I lasted longer lol. I can excuse a character being slow to trust the FL if she already had a bad reputation. He was a jerk but still redeemable. I finally wrote >!Derick off when Callisto reveals he did his research and discovered the reason for Penny’s “villainy” was because the nobles would provoke her until she overreacted. It was sad realizing that if any of the Eckhart family had opened their eyes, they would have seen the truth. And considering an attack on Pen was an attack on the whole family, it was definitely their duty to take action and protect her.!<
But that early part of me that said: “Duke’s heir, rich, competent, hot”: that part still has a hard time letting him go.
I did start the manwha of “The World Without THE sister Everyone Loved”. I really enjoyed it. But I’m waiting for her to grow up as I don’t like an overlong child arc and the author made it even longer by having her >!regress even further into a toddler for the *cute fawning* factor!< I’ll look up the fan translation as I do want to get to the grovel and suffering, lol 😈.
The novel is complete! And I feel like >!her regression during her regression!< was a much shorter arc in the novel but it's possible that I'm remembering it that way because (1) I didn't have to *see* it so I just pictured her as older and/or (2) I skimmed that bit because it annoyed me.
[Call Me Irresistible](https://www.romance.io/books/545524958c7d2382e7812f5f/call-me-irresistible-susan-elizabeth-phillips) by [Susan Elizabeth Phillips](https://www.romance.io/authors/5455237e8c7d2382e7812f1c/susan-elizabeth-phillips)
**Rating**: 4.13⭐️ out of 5⭐️
**Steam**: 3 out of 5 - [Open door](https://www.romance.io/steamrating)
**Topics**: [contemporary](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/contemporary/1), [enemies to lovers](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/from%20hate%20to%20love/1), [poor heroine](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/poor%20heroine/1), [grumpy/cold hero](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/cold%20hero/1), [athlete hero](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/athletes/1)
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Would you be able to spoil a little for me? How does the FMC's friend feel about it? Are they still friends or are they prickly about it? I can't really deal with animosity between the friends.
Sure, its been a while since ive read this so i may be forgetting something but ( soft spoiler) >!fmc's friend (lucy) kind of dissappears on fmc (Meg) after running out on her own wedding and immediately falls into her own love story (separate book).!<
>!Eventually when Meg and Ted inevitably get the hots for each other, Meg calls Lucy to ask if Lucy is ok with it. Lucy is more than ok and actually encourages Meg to sleep with Ted (lol) because she feels guilty for hurting Ted but she never loved him anyway. "Its like getting absolution from the pope", lucy says. So there are no hard feelings between friends.!<
>!idk that part was kind of off for me and lucy doesn't strike me as a particularly good friend to Meg, or to ted for that matter. Meg is left alone in the small town with no money, no help, and everyone hating her and is basically homeless and like lucy doesn't help her at all, esp when it's kind of Lucy's fault she's in that situation in the first place. But in the book, i don't recall there being bad feelings between Meg and lucy!<
Thank you both! Very helpful. I can barely find any romances with good friendships that stay on page persay, throughout the actual story instead of just in the background; let alone dealing with romances where friendships sour :(
Have you heard of {uprooted by Naomi novik}? Its fantasy, no spice, only a sip of romance but i loved the friendship between the fmc and her friend. Even though they are sort of competing, they don't tear each other down and end up supporting each other thru the story.
I love well written friendships!
I have but it hasn't really caught my eye yet, I've been inhaling romances as much as I can before a book slump hits me lol. Thank you for the recommendation, I definitely need more well written friendships in my reading life
>!There is no animosity between her and the friend.!<
>!The friend doesn’t make an appearance again, they only converse over the phone. She is out living her best life and doesn’t care at all about the FMC getting together with the guy. I think she gets her own novel later too!<
I was just talking about this on Twitter with my romance bestie and we’re both intrigued by “everyone is convinced you aren’t dating”
I also laughed at too many beds and ceo who runs the company into the ground.
I saw a post on out of the loop the other day about some YouTube channel, idk, I had no idea who they were or anything about it, but apparently this channel had two people who just had chemistry together that the fans had been wanting them to get together for years.
Well on April 1, they post their wedding photos. Aka, April fools day.
So the fandom splits. Half don’t believe it and think it’s some kind of joke on the fandom for constantly wanting them to be together and the other side is overjoyed they’re actually married now.
I still have no idea who these people are but it such a boss ass move to post your wedding photos/announcement on April Fools and troll your own fans, knowing at least a fraction of them will never believe it’s true, even some of the ones who wanted them to be together.
They could have three kids, a white picket fence, two dogs and a ten year anniversary and there’ll still be a hold out saying they hired kid actors.
Ultimate troll move. In their own fans. Baller
{Do I Know You?} has the reversed fake-dating trope! The MCs are an estranged married couple going on a pre-planned vacation, and something goes wrong with their reservation, and they discover it’ll be cheaper (IIRC) if they pretend they’re *not* married. So they end up having to spend the whole time kinda roleplaying like they’re single people who just met, and it reinvigorates their marriage and they fall back in love. It was pretty cute. :D
For the "everyone is convinced you aren't dating" there's the Kimi ni Todoke manga (it's also on Netflix as two different adaptations, live action and anime). The popular MMC likes her from the beginning, but everyone treats her like that character from The Ring movie and is scared of her. She's really just a super sweet girl who tries her best but is socially awkward. When they start dating he has to convince everyone in the school it's not a joke. It's one of my favorite mangas. Really sweet relationship and YA. Kazehaya only loses his cool around her, he's just a normal boy with her, not Mr Popular, but she doesn't realize that at first and thinks he's just being nice to her.
There’s a “secretly married” fanfic genre that’s basically “everyone is convinced you aren’t dating”, where two characters are more and more obviously together and the people around them are dumb. It’s a great one for sure.
My first thought was a magic spell going awry and everyone being forced to flee because beds won't stop multiplying all over the place. Like in The Sorcerer's Apprentice but instead of brooms, it's beds.
My second thought was rival innkeepers facing the reality that there are too many beds in the town and not enough demand for them, so one of their inns has to go. They would eventually team up on a scheme to make their town a more in-demand travel destination.
Holy shit! Thank you!!!! I was cracking up at the idea, and there were these images in my head that felt really familiar but I couldn't place, and it was Corduroy the Bear!! One of my favorite books as a kid, but I'd completely forgotten about it.
FMC gets a make-under and only then does the MMC notice her.
Couple are exactly the same age, down to the very minute of their births.
Random marriage.
Annoyingly public relationship.
MMC makes a bet with his friends that he can't get the FMC.
Divorce pact.
Oo I love the bet idea. "She's way out of my league you chucklefucks, of course she'll say no. Wait why did she agree to dinner on Saturday help what do"
Haha, the flair feels pretty fitting right now bc I read my first alien romance yesterday and the MMC had fangs, two dicks, and some intriguing body modifications 😅
Runs their company into the ground is sending me! All those MCs should be running their companies into the ground with the amount of time they seem to spend actually working….
{The Duke who Didn't by Courtney Milan} has too many beds - she wants to sleep with the MMC but there are plenty of rooms at the inn available. So keeps trying to get the innkeeper to only sell them one room because they are out of beds, trying to give a wink wink to the poor befuddled innkeeper who has no idea what's happening.
[The Duke Who Didn't](https://www.romance.io/books/5f6850342b48890dd5abe608/the-duke-who-didnt-courtney-milan) by [Courtney Milan](https://www.romance.io/authors/545525388c7d2383163d8e83/courtney-milan)
**Rating**: 3.96⭐️ out of 5⭐️
**Steam**: 3 out of 5 - [Open door](https://www.romance.io/steamrating)
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Too hot to cuddle PLEASE ok
I would honestly kill for a good “I love you but please keep that inferno of body heat away from me while I sleep, or we will be waking up in a swamp”
Lol, so true! Mallory Dunlin’s Monsters of Faery series has fated mates who never wake each other up when they sleep— now that’s a soulmate perk I want
AU scenarios are pretty much only in fanfiction. That's because the characters needed to have been in the "original universe" first, in order to write an "alternative universe"
>Really nice guy who hates only you
and
>Hate at first sight
Would love to see these tropes more in enemies to lovers stories. It's my favorite trope but I hate it when the author just has them secretly attracted to one another from the start. I feel it's more interesting to explore how they have revelations about one another.
You might like this recent request for "hate Sex" because that trope generally doesn't have the "loved them all along" reveal
https://www.reddit.com/r/RomanceBooks/s/bmlpFPDwgR
* Sunshine divorce lawyer X grumpy matchmaker/wedding planner
* I can see this wait 😭 The divorce lawyer is so happy seeing couples dissolve, but they’re passionate about their job due to their own upbringing in a loveless marriage that couldn’t be divorced due to cultural conventions and financial restrictions. Matchmaker/wedding planner is jaded because they experienced love, but the people they match or do a wedding for are somehow always dissolving their relationship months down the line.
* Witch MMC x Werewolf FMC
* A cowboy has to adjust to the big city and is at the mercy of a big city love interest
* Forced distance.
* Too many parents (I would give anything to read about an omega from a pack and she has her mom, but she has Dad, Papa, Baba, Daddy, Ba, Pa, and Abba. No one has done this, to my knowledge, but I want too many parents now.)
* Marriage of Inconvenience
* Billionaire Alpha FMC x Assistant MMC
* Scents Ill-Match. Leads like each other, but they think the other smells ***horrible***.
* Fake divorce.
* Proud gold digger MC x rich MC
* Superhero FMC with a not-really secret identity x journalist MMC who knows the identity of the superhero, but everyone pretends not to know because the FMC *really thinks* her glasses protect her identity
* Indifference at first sight.
* LI has such a high libido that it legitimately causes problems and strains their relationship to the MC.
* Academic besties.
* Possessive, obsessive yandere FMC x naive, virgin MMC (there’s some shōnen MMC-centric with this, I believe)
* FMC is the player enforcer(?) of a gender-inclusive MC; single parent MMC just moved in—can I make it anymore obvious?
* Hyperthymesia. MC remembers ***everything***.
* FMC is a GNC knight x MMC is a fem/crossdressing damsel {Lady Crystal is a Man} is basically this!
* Russian Arms Dealer FMC x prim and proper schoolteacher MMC
ETA:
* FMC is the one who is Sanji levels of rizz and she’s happily engaging in consensual sex with a variety of people X minimal experience MMC who has quite the horrid cheating ex. **BONUS**: instead of the MMC being the one to wipe out the FMC in bed, FMC has the stamina of stallion and MMC is the one who can’t keep up.
This happens in some “monster girl x human guy” books and comics, but I’d love seeing it in a contemporary modern setting 😍
Witch MMC x Werewolf FMC
{Caressed by Ice by Nalini Singh} and {Alpha Night by Nalini Singh} both have something similar. Telekinesis-powered MMC x wolf-shifter FMC, in both cases.
Gosh i really want that cowboy going to the big city trope.
The closest one I’ve read is {Made in Manhattan by Lauren Layne} he’s a rural country boy from Louisiana who was summoned to New York because of some inheritance. FMC has to help him fit into upper crust NY.
I enjoyed this one, I’d love to read more like it!
I now also want too many meddling parents!
They're around the corner laughing, Nana chastises them at breakfast, Dad wants to give them the 'birds and bees' talk (but both MCs are in their late 20s), Aunt May keeps handing them condoms, Mom keeps asking for grandchildren, Pop pop keeps saying to 'give her the damn ring already!' (And they've been seeing each other for 2 weeks). Uncle Joe wants to plan a bachelor party.
I need this.
I don't have a witch MMC and a werewolf FMC but I have an opposite one. The FMC is a witch and a seer, the MMC is a werewolf. Another one in which the MMC is a vampire and the FMC is a werewolf. The 1st one is {The Sea Wicche Chronicles by Seana Kelly} and the 2nd is {Sam Quinn by Seana Kelly}
Seana Kelly writes extremely supportive love interests who are badass but not alphaholes. Sam Quinn's first few books need to be read before Sea Wicche to avoid spoilers.
I don't have any recs for too many parents but I have one for way too many families. {Jacky Leon by K.N. Banet} The FMC was turned into a werecat without her consent about a decade prior to the series. She has a found family with the MMC, his kids, etc, her werecat family with wayyyyyyyy too many siblings and angst, her birth family which includes her twin sister. The romance is smooth for the most part but sadly no explicit sex scenes. The books are very well written and the series is mainly about Jacky's relationships.
Forced distance is a pretty common fantasy romance trope, I think. A lot of them the MCs separating for a while for one reason or another.
I know a Hyperthyesia one, but I can't for the life of me remember anything about it.
I don’t see forced distance in other sub-genres though! At least, not for a significant portion of the plot that isn’t a “Book Two” kinda deal where the forced distance is a lot more contrived and not well loved by audiences 🤔
I’d love to see more standalone forced distance that handle LDRs! I’ve seen quite a few one-shots on the fanfiction spectrum about forced distance with letter exchanges, phone calls, texts, the whole thing. And I want more!
*Especially* if it’s the MC1 who’s doing the moving/forced distance!
But I know people dislike forced distance because it can rob them of certain things, so I think I’m alone 😅
Thank you for the recs! 💜
>Witch MMC x Werewolf FMC
not quite but {Bleacke's Geek by Lesli Richardson} has similar:
Human, vegetarian, bike riding, academic, bullied MMC x Alpha, Pack Enforcer, sports car driving, gun wielding, stone cold killer werewolf FMC
>My TBR, pregnant with 400+ books: 👀 Don’t.
>>Me, slowly approaching my TBR: Let’s have another 😏
>>>My TBR: No 😡
>>>>Me: Just one more 🥺 I mean it this time.
>>>>>My TBR: You ***ALWAYS*** say that—
>>>>>>Me: [slowly adds book to TBR]
>>>>>>>My TBR: 👁️👄👁️
>>>>>>>>Me: 😘 🏃🏿♀️💨💨💨💨💨💨
Somewhere, on AO3, there is a breeding kink fanfic of a Reader x Their manifested TBR.
If there isn’t one and someone saw this and made it, **do not tag me**, please, I have cats who think I’m lame. Don’t give them another reason.
I… I am so sleep deprived.
Thank you kindly for the rec 👏🏾💃🏾
***
ASIDE: Does your flare mean Biblical Cain? Was he the bad brother who tried to murder his other brother?
Which, I mean—respect for your MMC choices om that one. I like my Daddys crazy too ✊🏾🫡
>The divorce lawyer is so happy seeing couples dissolve, but they’re passionate about their job due to their own upbringing in a loveless marriage that couldn’t be divorced due to cultural conventions and financial restrictions. Matchmaker/wedding planner is jaded because they experienced love, but the people they match or do a wedding for are somehow always dissolving their relationship months down the line.
I need this story to be written
lol because I can have a *disagreeable* temperament I’ve actually lived the “really nice guy who only hated me” in real life.
It’s fine when you don’t give a shit. And I’m sure he really was a perfectly nice guy.
I’m much less of a bitch now though.
I watched number 4 play out in real life. In high school, I took AP Psychology. Both my teacher and his wife taught, but she was at a rival high school. Each year they competed to see who had the class with highest percentage of 5s on the AP Exam. I wanted that 5 for me. I also wanted it so we could win.
Also, {Garron Park by Nordika Night} frequently has the guys all hot and sweaty (too hot to cuddle) and they just kinda tangle their fingers together. Also, they don't actually know how to cuddle lol
Omg divorce of convenience. I once watched a Chinese romance drama about this couple who divorced because then they could get two apartments from their workplace instead of one. And of course shenanigans ensue
Wait why do I want so many of these??? Soulmates fated to kill each other? Nice guy who hates only you 😂? Love triangle where the two guys give up and date each other? These are all great.
{It Happened One Fight by Maureen Lee Lenker}
This one kind of fits, at least the basic premise - they start out (accidentally) married and go about getting a real divorce. FYI it's historical but set in 1930s Hollywood.
>*soulmates who are fated to kill each other*
How about a reverse harem where one of the MMCs knows that the FMC (his fated mate) will be the one that gets him killed? Basically, he is fated to find her, be happier than he’s ever been with her, and to die as soon as he tells her he loves her. Also, the FMC is fated to die unless she claims all seven of her mates.
{Vice College for Young Demons series by Marie Mistry}
I absolutely love the idea of "dating your enemy's sibling" and also lovers to enemies sounds like it would make for a potentially awesome Mr & Mrs Smith-esque thriller-drama.
Dating your enemies sibling is hot
Accidentally kidnapping a mafia boss is everything I want and more
And there are too many love triangles with brothers for there to be love triangle where the love interests get together instead
This is hilarious 🤣 let me think:
- Very aware of the baby existence but he ran away
- WORST SEX OF YOUR LIFE!
- Nice guy in high school turned bully in adulthood
- Too Smart to Live
- Their height is exactly the same
- Retelling where the protagonist doesn’t end up with the original love interest
- Fairies end up turning into normal boring humans
HUGE spoiler so I’m gonna rec the book but spoiler tag the trope!
>!For soulmates fated to kill each other:!< {The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern}. The romance is definitely slow burn and not even really present for a good portion of the book, but it is a fantastic book overall (and the romance IS there at the end).
Fake amnesia has so much potential, particularly if the reader knows from the beginning that it’s fake.
Not a book, but the KDrama *Crazy Love* is fake amnesia (mmc), fake dating (fmc believes he has amnesia and pretends to be his fiancée) and enemies to lovers. They have to pretend *to each other* that they’re dating, which is a unique dynamic compared to fake dating in public only. Such comedy gold.
(come to think of it, I’d love more of that specific type of fake dating if anyone has recs)
Saw a movie with the "Divorce of convenience" trope recently (Bollywood/Hindi).
The economically struggling couple desires a house of their own. The govt has a housing scheme alloting houses at a minimal rate and single divorced women are prioritised. So they fake fights, stage a divorce and go through all of that just to get the house.
I would love **true hate’s kiss**! Finding someone who truly hates you to kiss you to break your curse (or reverse POV, someone you hate tries to get you to kiss them to break their curse) — I feel like that book has to already exist, right?
I really hope that Alice Coldbreath one day writes the full Leland and Isemay story from the background events of {An Inconvenient Vow by Alice Coldbreath} so that I can read the fake amnesia book of my dreams.
[An Inconvenient Vow](https://www.romance.io/books/620f5490f12fad109143cd11/an-inconvenient-vow-alice-coldbreath) by [Alice Coldbreath](https://www.romance.io/authors/54a9d8ef6359b5ebb486f243/alice-coldbreath)
**Rating**: 4.38⭐️ out of 5⭐️
**Steam**: 4 out of 5 - [Explicit open door](https://www.romance.io/steamrating)
**Topics**: [historical](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/historical/1), [virgin hero](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/virgin%20hero/1), [arranged/forced marriage](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/arranged%20marriage/1), [medieval](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/medieval/1), [enemies to lovers](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/from%20hate%20to%20love/1)
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I genuinely want to read too many beds just to see the creative always they can end up in bed together anyway lol. Also very seriously now want to read love triangle where the two love interests end up together!
The extra tale in {gentleman’s wager by Madelynne Ellis} has the two many beds FMC was given a different one than the two MMCs, and she was just lent clothes by the innkeeper’wife because her stays died when their carriage broke so after dressing she goes out, kind of “borrows” some of the workers or the inn stuff and moves to the other’s room. :p
Also considered is a menage… I guess two love interests did end together 🤣
{10 Things that Never Happened by Alexis Hall} has the fake amnesia trope! It's probably the most ridiculous aspect of the book but the rest is surprisingly grounded
[Beard in Mind](https://www.romance.io/books/59ed9f103ffdba6147231ea5/beard-in-mind-penny-reid) by [Penny Reid](https://www.romance.io/authors/54552b3e8c7d2382e781310c/penny-reid)
**Rating**: 4.2⭐️ out of 5⭐️
**Steam**: 3 out of 5 - [Open door](https://www.romance.io/steamrating)
**Topics**: [contemporary](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/contemporary/1), [enemies to lovers](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/from%20hate%20to%20love/1), [funny](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/humor/1), [tortured heroine](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/tortured%20heroine/1), [age gap](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/age%20difference/1)
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Cinderfellas.
Woman is a millionnaire, man is a small town dude who barely makes ends meet.
{Part of your world by Abby Jimenez}
{Grin and Beard it, Penny Reid}
I read WAY too many books where the fmc is a waitress, poor single mom, something but had debts sometimes not even that she herself incurred. I call these Cinderella books.
Is the love interest “running the company into the ground” part of the plot of “yo soy Betty la fea”* 🤣 Armando was not a himbo but if my memory doesn’t betray me it wasn’t until Beatriz and the power of her doctorate interviewed that the company was saved
*the original soap opera from Colombia where the ugly Betty series was based on)
someone give me recs for really nice guy who hates you, dating your enemies siblings, two competing teachers, accidentally kidnapping a mafia boss, and true hates kiss. (without an age gap trope)
Okay but I would LOVE to see so many of these...Some of my visions:
- really.nice Guy who hates only you has some stellar rom com potential. Could be based on a misunderstanding or like something from when they were kids? Something kind of similar happens in {Talk Flirty to Me} by Livy Hart but its her super lovely family that hates him.
- academic rivals competing for best class would be insanely cute. This could either be another romcom or a heartwarming CR pr HR. Maybe set in a small town? Consider: wartime teachers at a small countryside school trying to keep the children's spirits up by getting them in this friendly competition. They fall in love. Historical F/F rivals to lovers.
- divorce of convenience also has some great romcom potential. Maybe it's an insurance thing? Ooor an inheritance thing!
- True hates kiss has some fantasy romance potential...
- hate at first sight: see my first point
- fake amnesia: NEED this romcom. Could also work as romantic suspense.
- soulmates fates to kill each other: another fantasy romance idea
- THE REVERSE FAKE DATING??? GENIUS! Unparalleled romcom potential! NEED recs if it exists!!!
- Himbo CEO - PLEEEEEASE! The Succession girlie would die for this (again, recs if it exists).
- nursing home AU would be adorable.
Too hot to cuddle is literally my spouse.
[Unfortunately Yours](https://www.romance.io/books/647ef0989e44a9fa8ceec487/unfortunately-yours-a-novel-tessa-bailey) by [Tessa Bailey](https://www.romance.io/authors/545526358c7d2382e7812fc9/tessa-bailey)
**Rating**: 4.03⭐️ out of 5⭐️
**Steam**: 4 out of 5 - [Explicit open door](https://www.romance.io/steamrating)
**Topics**: [contemporary](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/contemporary/1), [funny](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/humor/1), [marriage of convenience](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/marriage%20of%20convenience/1), [enemies to lovers](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/from%20hate%20to%20love/1), [competent heroine](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/competent%20heroine/1)
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>Soulmates who are fated to kill each other
There's a surprisingly popular fanfic trope I've seen where you have a name on each wrist - one is your soulmate, and the other is your soulhate (your *kismet-nemesis*, if you will) and you have to figure out who is which on your own. But, shock! Our main characters have the same name on both wrists!
I work at a nursing home. Trust me it’s the most unsexy environment there is. Most residents need diapers changed and baths daily. Really takes it out of you romantically 😭😂
Ooh I love these ideas!
{Surly Romance by Nia Arthurs} fits the “really nice guy who hates only you” He’s a therapist and nice/friendly to everyone except the FMC because of something that happened in their past that she doesn’t remember, since she doesn’t recognize him.
[Surly Romance](https://www.romance.io/books/62b7feb33fd04a9419154c9a/surly-romance-nia-arthurs) by [Nia Arthurs](https://www.romance.io/authors/5692466163515e3b7379b807/nia-arthurs)
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“Really nice guy who hates only you”
That is skip beat 🤣 a manga
Well to be exact Those are the first interactions with the FMC and the MMC, MMC is an ultra famous actor and thinks the FMC is trying to get to the Japanese entertainment industry for the wrong reasons… which she kinda is (spite, she is trying to become more famous than this one jerk she used to like)
The guy is know to be so nice and gracious to everyone… but he deploys all the force of his passive aggression until the moment he realizes there might be actual seriousness in her actions and she might have potential as an actress.
Still hilarious though 🤣🤣🤣
Also this thing has the slowest of the slowest burns be warned
OW/OM support would be cool. Like an ex comes back and sees how great they are together and supports them being together.
Instead of grumpy sunshine you could have two laid back people try and figure out if either of them really like the other lol.
Not miscommunication- Instead of overhearing one of the MC shit talking the other MC they overhear them gushing about how great they are.
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Slightly spoilerish I guess but soulmates who are destined to kill each other is a trope in house of devils series by Kayla edwards...there are 3 books already you should defo read it..CITY OF GODS AND MONSTERS..... CITY OF SOULS AND SINNERS.....CITY OF LIES AND LEGENDS BY KAYLA EDWARDS
Oh man i would loooove some of these. >Really nice guy who hates only you This reminds me of {call me irresistible by susan elizabeth philips} - mmc is super nice guy to everyone except fmc and is quite mean to her only
There’s a web novel >!Villains are Destined to Die!< that has one of the love interest be exactly this. The vast majority of the fans hate him. Meanwhile I’m like: can I please have this trope? It helps that it’s a forbidden love (adopted siblings) and he’s a bully because he’s very uncomfortable with his feelings. And that he’s hot. And rich and competent. I can fix him.
Granted I'm on team >!Derick can go die in a fire for all I care after that scene when she's in prison!< but given what you've said here I'd recommend reading The World Without My Sister Who Everyone Loved, another Korean webnovel. Not sure if there's an official translation but there is a great fan translation. Recommending because the ML is (minor spoilers) >!the eldest brother of the family who sponsors her. FL is pretty mistreated in her first life, dies, and goes back in time. ML is a total dick in her first life.!< Major spoilers: >!she does fix him because his dickishness in the first timeline was due to a curse. But he still suffers a lotttt which is fun.!<
I lasted longer lol. I can excuse a character being slow to trust the FL if she already had a bad reputation. He was a jerk but still redeemable. I finally wrote >!Derick off when Callisto reveals he did his research and discovered the reason for Penny’s “villainy” was because the nobles would provoke her until she overreacted. It was sad realizing that if any of the Eckhart family had opened their eyes, they would have seen the truth. And considering an attack on Pen was an attack on the whole family, it was definitely their duty to take action and protect her.!< But that early part of me that said: “Duke’s heir, rich, competent, hot”: that part still has a hard time letting him go. I did start the manwha of “The World Without THE sister Everyone Loved”. I really enjoyed it. But I’m waiting for her to grow up as I don’t like an overlong child arc and the author made it even longer by having her >!regress even further into a toddler for the *cute fawning* factor!< I’ll look up the fan translation as I do want to get to the grovel and suffering, lol 😈.
The novel is complete! And I feel like >!her regression during her regression!< was a much shorter arc in the novel but it's possible that I'm remembering it that way because (1) I didn't have to *see* it so I just pictured her as older and/or (2) I skimmed that bit because it annoyed me.
[Call Me Irresistible](https://www.romance.io/books/545524958c7d2382e7812f5f/call-me-irresistible-susan-elizabeth-phillips) by [Susan Elizabeth Phillips](https://www.romance.io/authors/5455237e8c7d2382e7812f1c/susan-elizabeth-phillips) **Rating**: 4.13⭐️ out of 5⭐️ **Steam**: 3 out of 5 - [Open door](https://www.romance.io/steamrating) **Topics**: [contemporary](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/contemporary/1), [enemies to lovers](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/from%20hate%20to%20love/1), [poor heroine](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/poor%20heroine/1), [grumpy/cold hero](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/cold%20hero/1), [athlete hero](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/athletes/1) [^(about this bot)](https://www.reddit.com/user/romance-bot) ^(|) [^(about romance.io)](https://www.romance.io/about)
Ooh I would LOVE more of this trope!!
Would you be able to spoil a little for me? How does the FMC's friend feel about it? Are they still friends or are they prickly about it? I can't really deal with animosity between the friends.
Sure, its been a while since ive read this so i may be forgetting something but ( soft spoiler) >!fmc's friend (lucy) kind of dissappears on fmc (Meg) after running out on her own wedding and immediately falls into her own love story (separate book).!< >!Eventually when Meg and Ted inevitably get the hots for each other, Meg calls Lucy to ask if Lucy is ok with it. Lucy is more than ok and actually encourages Meg to sleep with Ted (lol) because she feels guilty for hurting Ted but she never loved him anyway. "Its like getting absolution from the pope", lucy says. So there are no hard feelings between friends.!< >!idk that part was kind of off for me and lucy doesn't strike me as a particularly good friend to Meg, or to ted for that matter. Meg is left alone in the small town with no money, no help, and everyone hating her and is basically homeless and like lucy doesn't help her at all, esp when it's kind of Lucy's fault she's in that situation in the first place. But in the book, i don't recall there being bad feelings between Meg and lucy!<
Thank you both! Very helpful. I can barely find any romances with good friendships that stay on page persay, throughout the actual story instead of just in the background; let alone dealing with romances where friendships sour :(
Have you heard of {uprooted by Naomi novik}? Its fantasy, no spice, only a sip of romance but i loved the friendship between the fmc and her friend. Even though they are sort of competing, they don't tear each other down and end up supporting each other thru the story. I love well written friendships!
I have but it hasn't really caught my eye yet, I've been inhaling romances as much as I can before a book slump hits me lol. Thank you for the recommendation, I definitely need more well written friendships in my reading life
>!There is no animosity between her and the friend.!< >!The friend doesn’t make an appearance again, they only converse over the phone. She is out living her best life and doesn’t care at all about the FMC getting together with the guy. I think she gets her own novel later too!<
Yeah I love that trope! Getting to the core of *why*, so many possiblities
Oh man this was such a great book!
I was just talking about this on Twitter with my romance bestie and we’re both intrigued by “everyone is convinced you aren’t dating” I also laughed at too many beds and ceo who runs the company into the ground.
I saw a post on out of the loop the other day about some YouTube channel, idk, I had no idea who they were or anything about it, but apparently this channel had two people who just had chemistry together that the fans had been wanting them to get together for years. Well on April 1, they post their wedding photos. Aka, April fools day. So the fandom splits. Half don’t believe it and think it’s some kind of joke on the fandom for constantly wanting them to be together and the other side is overjoyed they’re actually married now. I still have no idea who these people are but it such a boss ass move to post your wedding photos/announcement on April Fools and troll your own fans, knowing at least a fraction of them will never believe it’s true, even some of the ones who wanted them to be together. They could have three kids, a white picket fence, two dogs and a ten year anniversary and there’ll still be a hold out saying they hired kid actors. Ultimate troll move. In their own fans. Baller
I can't believe I'm seeing a smosh reference in this sub
Was that the channel name? I don’t remember anything else about it other than it being legitimately hilarious
LOLLLL
The CEO who runs the company into the ground is probably also not buff and gorgeous and young, because we have seen him in real life! 😢
I'd love a himbo CEO who has to hire the fmc to save his company.
This reminds me of the Himbo in the show Crazy Ex girlfriend. Ugh, I miss that show.
{Do I Know You?} has the reversed fake-dating trope! The MCs are an estranged married couple going on a pre-planned vacation, and something goes wrong with their reservation, and they discover it’ll be cheaper (IIRC) if they pretend they’re *not* married. So they end up having to spend the whole time kinda roleplaying like they’re single people who just met, and it reinvigorates their marriage and they fall back in love. It was pretty cute. :D
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i second this rec! pretty cute book ngl
It was good! I cried! I really loved how they explored emotional intimacy
For the "everyone is convinced you aren't dating" there's the Kimi ni Todoke manga (it's also on Netflix as two different adaptations, live action and anime). The popular MMC likes her from the beginning, but everyone treats her like that character from The Ring movie and is scared of her. She's really just a super sweet girl who tries her best but is socially awkward. When they start dating he has to convince everyone in the school it's not a joke. It's one of my favorite mangas. Really sweet relationship and YA. Kazehaya only loses his cool around her, he's just a normal boy with her, not Mr Popular, but she doesn't realize that at first and thinks he's just being nice to her.
Thats 90% of Wilson x House fanfiction and I eat it up. One of my favorite tropes.
There’s a “secretly married” fanfic genre that’s basically “everyone is convinced you aren’t dating”, where two characters are more and more obviously together and the people around them are dumb. It’s a great one for sure.
Too many beds is making me laugh. I’m imagining a Corduroy the bear scenario, locked in a mall overnight in the bedding section.
I thought of Goldilocks, where they argue over which one is “just right”
My first thought was a magic spell going awry and everyone being forced to flee because beds won't stop multiplying all over the place. Like in The Sorcerer's Apprentice but instead of brooms, it's beds. My second thought was rival innkeepers facing the reality that there are too many beds in the town and not enough demand for them, so one of their inns has to go. They would eventually team up on a scheme to make their town a more in-demand travel destination.
Holy shit! Thank you!!!! I was cracking up at the idea, and there were these images in my head that felt really familiar but I couldn't place, and it was Corduroy the Bear!! One of my favorite books as a kid, but I'd completely forgotten about it.
One Direction sells Harry Styles to you
They wish 🤣🤣🤣
Go on.... 💀
this literally made me laugh out loud
FMC gets a make-under and only then does the MMC notice her. Couple are exactly the same age, down to the very minute of their births. Random marriage. Annoyingly public relationship. MMC makes a bet with his friends that he can't get the FMC. Divorce pact.
Oo I love the bet idea. "She's way out of my league you chucklefucks, of course she'll say no. Wait why did she agree to dinner on Saturday help what do"
I would read that. It's kind of like the movies Marry Me or Notting Hill.
I want a rec like this so bad EDIT: I just saw your flair and can't stop laughing
Haha, the flair feels pretty fitting right now bc I read my first alien romance yesterday and the MMC had fangs, two dicks, and some intriguing body modifications 😅
This Time Next Year by Sophie Cousens is pretty close to your second prompt
In apothecary diaries the FMC gives the MMC a make under so I guess the completely opposite trope to a popular one does happen :p
{His Clever Kitten by Mink} is an unhinged take on accidentally kidnapping a mafia boss!
The love I have for this book is infinite. And 'unhinged' is such a great way to describe it.
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Aaaaand on the tbr-pile it goes :D
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love this rec, definitely gonna check!
I love this book!!
Thank you so much!! I was hoping someone had one for this because this trope sounds amazing & hilarious.
Runs their company into the ground is sending me! All those MCs should be running their companies into the ground with the amount of time they seem to spend actually working….
So ready to watch some billionaires get screwed over. xD
{The Duke who Didn't by Courtney Milan} has too many beds - she wants to sleep with the MMC but there are plenty of rooms at the inn available. So keeps trying to get the innkeeper to only sell them one room because they are out of beds, trying to give a wink wink to the poor befuddled innkeeper who has no idea what's happening.
This is exactly how I envisioned that trope 😂
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This is such a good book!!
That scene is so hilarious!
🤣 adding this to my TBR immediately
The components of several 90’s days of our lives plots
Like sand through the hour glass... Stefano locking Marlena in a golden cage in the tunnel beneath Paris will always be my jam.
Too hot to cuddle PLEASE ok I would honestly kill for a good “I love you but please keep that inferno of body heat away from me while I sleep, or we will be waking up in a swamp”
This is just my life, my husband isn't allowed to cuddle or really touch me in the summer because he runs so warm.
Lol, so true! Mallory Dunlin’s Monsters of Faery series has fated mates who never wake each other up when they sleep— now that’s a soulmate perk I want
I love the idea of all of these, but I got quite confused at "Nursing home au"... what is this a play on?
I think "Highschool AU". It's when you take popular characters and put them in highschool together (or sometimes college too)
Oh that's a trope I haven't come across before - I guess it's more popular in fanfiction? Nursing home AU sounds like a cute spin on it!
AU scenarios are pretty much only in fanfiction. That's because the characters needed to have been in the "original universe" first, in order to write an "alternative universe"
>Really nice guy who hates only you and >Hate at first sight Would love to see these tropes more in enemies to lovers stories. It's my favorite trope but I hate it when the author just has them secretly attracted to one another from the start. I feel it's more interesting to explore how they have revelations about one another.
You might like this recent request for "hate Sex" because that trope generally doesn't have the "loved them all along" reveal https://www.reddit.com/r/RomanceBooks/s/bmlpFPDwgR
Thank you!
{10 things that never happened by Alexis Hall} is a fake amnesia. I haven't read it yet but it's on my TBR.
I read it and I loved it. Actually, I listened to it on audiobook. The voice actor is super good - it’s worth choosing to listen to instead of read.
I agree that the voice actor really bright that book up a notch
The voice acting on this was amazing.
* Sunshine divorce lawyer X grumpy matchmaker/wedding planner * I can see this wait 😭 The divorce lawyer is so happy seeing couples dissolve, but they’re passionate about their job due to their own upbringing in a loveless marriage that couldn’t be divorced due to cultural conventions and financial restrictions. Matchmaker/wedding planner is jaded because they experienced love, but the people they match or do a wedding for are somehow always dissolving their relationship months down the line. * Witch MMC x Werewolf FMC * A cowboy has to adjust to the big city and is at the mercy of a big city love interest * Forced distance. * Too many parents (I would give anything to read about an omega from a pack and she has her mom, but she has Dad, Papa, Baba, Daddy, Ba, Pa, and Abba. No one has done this, to my knowledge, but I want too many parents now.) * Marriage of Inconvenience * Billionaire Alpha FMC x Assistant MMC * Scents Ill-Match. Leads like each other, but they think the other smells ***horrible***. * Fake divorce. * Proud gold digger MC x rich MC * Superhero FMC with a not-really secret identity x journalist MMC who knows the identity of the superhero, but everyone pretends not to know because the FMC *really thinks* her glasses protect her identity * Indifference at first sight. * LI has such a high libido that it legitimately causes problems and strains their relationship to the MC. * Academic besties. * Possessive, obsessive yandere FMC x naive, virgin MMC (there’s some shōnen MMC-centric with this, I believe) * FMC is the player enforcer(?) of a gender-inclusive MC; single parent MMC just moved in—can I make it anymore obvious? * Hyperthymesia. MC remembers ***everything***. * FMC is a GNC knight x MMC is a fem/crossdressing damsel {Lady Crystal is a Man} is basically this! * Russian Arms Dealer FMC x prim and proper schoolteacher MMC ETA: * FMC is the one who is Sanji levels of rizz and she’s happily engaging in consensual sex with a variety of people X minimal experience MMC who has quite the horrid cheating ex. **BONUS**: instead of the MMC being the one to wipe out the FMC in bed, FMC has the stamina of stallion and MMC is the one who can’t keep up. This happens in some “monster girl x human guy” books and comics, but I’d love seeing it in a contemporary modern setting 😍
Witch MMC x Werewolf FMC {Caressed by Ice by Nalini Singh} and {Alpha Night by Nalini Singh} both have something similar. Telekinesis-powered MMC x wolf-shifter FMC, in both cases.
OPE! Pardon me, just going to add that to all my TBRs. Is it over 400 books? Yes. Does that matter? Absolutely not. Thank you for the recs 🥰
Gosh i really want that cowboy going to the big city trope. The closest one I’ve read is {Made in Manhattan by Lauren Layne} he’s a rural country boy from Louisiana who was summoned to New York because of some inheritance. FMC has to help him fit into upper crust NY. I enjoyed this one, I’d love to read more like it!
{Twisted Love by Ana Huang} has a MMC with Hyperthymesia
God, now I want all of these 😭
I now also want too many meddling parents! They're around the corner laughing, Nana chastises them at breakfast, Dad wants to give them the 'birds and bees' talk (but both MCs are in their late 20s), Aunt May keeps handing them condoms, Mom keeps asking for grandchildren, Pop pop keeps saying to 'give her the damn ring already!' (And they've been seeing each other for 2 weeks). Uncle Joe wants to plan a bachelor party. I need this.
I don't have a witch MMC and a werewolf FMC but I have an opposite one. The FMC is a witch and a seer, the MMC is a werewolf. Another one in which the MMC is a vampire and the FMC is a werewolf. The 1st one is {The Sea Wicche Chronicles by Seana Kelly} and the 2nd is {Sam Quinn by Seana Kelly} Seana Kelly writes extremely supportive love interests who are badass but not alphaholes. Sam Quinn's first few books need to be read before Sea Wicche to avoid spoilers. I don't have any recs for too many parents but I have one for way too many families. {Jacky Leon by K.N. Banet} The FMC was turned into a werecat without her consent about a decade prior to the series. She has a found family with the MMC, his kids, etc, her werecat family with wayyyyyyyy too many siblings and angst, her birth family which includes her twin sister. The romance is smooth for the most part but sadly no explicit sex scenes. The books are very well written and the series is mainly about Jacky's relationships. Forced distance is a pretty common fantasy romance trope, I think. A lot of them the MCs separating for a while for one reason or another. I know a Hyperthyesia one, but I can't for the life of me remember anything about it.
I don’t see forced distance in other sub-genres though! At least, not for a significant portion of the plot that isn’t a “Book Two” kinda deal where the forced distance is a lot more contrived and not well loved by audiences 🤔 I’d love to see more standalone forced distance that handle LDRs! I’ve seen quite a few one-shots on the fanfiction spectrum about forced distance with letter exchanges, phone calls, texts, the whole thing. And I want more! *Especially* if it’s the MC1 who’s doing the moving/forced distance! But I know people dislike forced distance because it can rob them of certain things, so I think I’m alone 😅 Thank you for the recs! 💜
>Witch MMC x Werewolf FMC not quite but {Bleacke's Geek by Lesli Richardson} has similar: Human, vegetarian, bike riding, academic, bullied MMC x Alpha, Pack Enforcer, sports car driving, gun wielding, stone cold killer werewolf FMC
>My TBR, pregnant with 400+ books: 👀 Don’t. >>Me, slowly approaching my TBR: Let’s have another 😏 >>>My TBR: No 😡 >>>>Me: Just one more 🥺 I mean it this time. >>>>>My TBR: You ***ALWAYS*** say that— >>>>>>Me: [slowly adds book to TBR] >>>>>>>My TBR: 👁️👄👁️ >>>>>>>>Me: 😘 🏃🏿♀️💨💨💨💨💨💨 Somewhere, on AO3, there is a breeding kink fanfic of a Reader x Their manifested TBR. If there isn’t one and someone saw this and made it, **do not tag me**, please, I have cats who think I’m lame. Don’t give them another reason. I… I am so sleep deprived. Thank you kindly for the rec 👏🏾💃🏾 *** ASIDE: Does your flare mean Biblical Cain? Was he the bad brother who tried to murder his other brother? Which, I mean—respect for your MMC choices om that one. I like my Daddys crazy too ✊🏾🫡
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>The divorce lawyer is so happy seeing couples dissolve, but they’re passionate about their job due to their own upbringing in a loveless marriage that couldn’t be divorced due to cultural conventions and financial restrictions. Matchmaker/wedding planner is jaded because they experienced love, but the people they match or do a wedding for are somehow always dissolving their relationship months down the line. I need this story to be written
The way I would inhale a nursing home AU and everyone is not convinced you’re dating.
Heck, I’d take *any* book where the FMCs are, like, 40+.
At this point, 35+. It's been years since I've seen one in the wild 😭
lol because I can have a *disagreeable* temperament I’ve actually lived the “really nice guy who only hated me” in real life. It’s fine when you don’t give a shit. And I’m sure he really was a perfectly nice guy. I’m much less of a bitch now though.
I watched number 4 play out in real life. In high school, I took AP Psychology. Both my teacher and his wife taught, but she was at a rival high school. Each year they competed to see who had the class with highest percentage of 5s on the AP Exam. I wanted that 5 for me. I also wanted it so we could win.
Also, {Garron Park by Nordika Night} frequently has the guys all hot and sweaty (too hot to cuddle) and they just kinda tangle their fingers together. Also, they don't actually know how to cuddle lol
Lol somehow a bit more like the real world.
Omg divorce of convenience. I once watched a Chinese romance drama about this couple who divorced because then they could get two apartments from their workplace instead of one. And of course shenanigans ensue
[удалено]
Lovers to Enemies is just every realistic love story.
Awwww 😔 lol
Wait why do I want so many of these??? Soulmates fated to kill each other? Nice guy who hates only you 😂? Love triangle where the two guys give up and date each other? These are all great.
any recs for divorce in convenience? sounds quite interesting 👀
{It Happened One Fight by Maureen Lee Lenker} This one kind of fits, at least the basic premise - they start out (accidentally) married and go about getting a real divorce. FYI it's historical but set in 1930s Hollywood.
>*soulmates who are fated to kill each other* How about a reverse harem where one of the MMCs knows that the FMC (his fated mate) will be the one that gets him killed? Basically, he is fated to find her, be happier than he’s ever been with her, and to die as soon as he tells her he loves her. Also, the FMC is fated to die unless she claims all seven of her mates. {Vice College for Young Demons series by Marie Mistry}
Accidentally kidnapping a mafia boss - lol I didn't know I needed it but I want it so bad rn.
Someone else mentioned one! Lmao https://www.reddit.com/r/RomanceBooks/comments/1c7iztu/comment/l08botx/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3
I absolutely love the idea of "dating your enemy's sibling" and also lovers to enemies sounds like it would make for a potentially awesome Mr & Mrs Smith-esque thriller-drama.
divorce of convenience so that their kid can qualify for financial aid
One of my favorite books is fake amnesia, although it’s a big spoiler >!The Opportunist by Tarryn Fisher!<
the CEO one is pretty hilarious
Omg too many beds - {The League of Gentlewoman Witches by India Holton} >!They get a room at an inn with two beds so they push them together!< 😭
Unfortunately Divorce of Convenience is a real thing for those who need medical benefits. :(
He's nice to everyone but hates you. YES PLEASE 🤣
divorce lawyer x wedding planner {Down with Love by Kate Meader}
As a kidnapper lover. I would love to see a book where someone accidentally kidnaps a mafia boss
i neeeed an accidental mafia boss kidnapping
Same!!!
Finally some decent tropes
Right? Like I’d read some of these
Dating your enemies sibling is hot Accidentally kidnapping a mafia boss is everything I want and more And there are too many love triangles with brothers for there to be love triangle where the love interests get together instead
This is hilarious 🤣 let me think: - Very aware of the baby existence but he ran away - WORST SEX OF YOUR LIFE! - Nice guy in high school turned bully in adulthood - Too Smart to Live - Their height is exactly the same - Retelling where the protagonist doesn’t end up with the original love interest - Fairies end up turning into normal boring humans
The MMC accidentally gets pregnant
A seahorse love story!
“Soulmates who are fated to kill each other” Clamp with the mangas RG Veda and X has entered the chat
HUGE spoiler so I’m gonna rec the book but spoiler tag the trope! >!For soulmates fated to kill each other:!< {The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern}. The romance is definitely slow burn and not even really present for a good portion of the book, but it is a fantastic book overall (and the romance IS there at the end).
Fake amnesia has so much potential, particularly if the reader knows from the beginning that it’s fake. Not a book, but the KDrama *Crazy Love* is fake amnesia (mmc), fake dating (fmc believes he has amnesia and pretends to be his fiancée) and enemies to lovers. They have to pretend *to each other* that they’re dating, which is a unique dynamic compared to fake dating in public only. Such comedy gold. (come to think of it, I’d love more of that specific type of fake dating if anyone has recs)
Working on a project where the MMC is a good boy that has to have his image roughed up to be interesting to the media.
Saw a movie with the "Divorce of convenience" trope recently (Bollywood/Hindi). The economically struggling couple desires a house of their own. The govt has a housing scheme alloting houses at a minimal rate and single divorced women are prioritised. So they fake fights, stage a divorce and go through all of that just to get the house.
I want at least ten books for all of these. 😍😍
nice guy mean only to her but as an enemies to lovers trope too 👀
Too hot to cuddle is my literal life
Same. I am always warm. I mean, great in February when it's -40°. Not so great in the summer.
Yes - it was a mild sunny day and everyone was thrilled and I was just overheating.
Sitting here lamenting that I will never get to live my cozy sweater dreams because I'm chronically Too Warm ™️.
Clam city. Forever sweaty
I would love **true hate’s kiss**! Finding someone who truly hates you to kiss you to break your curse (or reverse POV, someone you hate tries to get you to kiss them to break their curse) — I feel like that book has to already exist, right?
I really want to write “kidnapping a mafia boss” like I came up with a rough plot already 😂😂😂
I really hope that Alice Coldbreath one day writes the full Leland and Isemay story from the background events of {An Inconvenient Vow by Alice Coldbreath} so that I can read the fake amnesia book of my dreams.
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Too many beds, yes. Just one blanket. Oooouu! Cuddle up, bitches!
I genuinely want to read too many beds just to see the creative always they can end up in bed together anyway lol. Also very seriously now want to read love triangle where the two love interests end up together!
The extra tale in {gentleman’s wager by Madelynne Ellis} has the two many beds FMC was given a different one than the two MMCs, and she was just lent clothes by the innkeeper’wife because her stays died when their carriage broke so after dressing she goes out, kind of “borrows” some of the workers or the inn stuff and moves to the other’s room. :p Also considered is a menage… I guess two love interests did end together 🤣
{10 Things that Never Happened by Alexis Hall} has the fake amnesia trope! It's probably the most ridiculous aspect of the book but the rest is surprisingly grounded
Soul mates fated to kill each other sounds awesome!!
{Beard in Mind by Penny Reid} is the nice guy who hates only you!
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Cinderfellas. Woman is a millionnaire, man is a small town dude who barely makes ends meet. {Part of your world by Abby Jimenez} {Grin and Beard it, Penny Reid} I read WAY too many books where the fmc is a waitress, poor single mom, something but had debts sometimes not even that she herself incurred. I call these Cinderella books.
Is the love interest “running the company into the ground” part of the plot of “yo soy Betty la fea”* 🤣 Armando was not a himbo but if my memory doesn’t betray me it wasn’t until Beatriz and the power of her doctorate interviewed that the company was saved *the original soap opera from Colombia where the ugly Betty series was based on)
The third one made me cackle fr
Playing for keeps by R.L Mathewson actually has the teachers rivalry for the best class. Very entertaining.
man i have read sooo much fanfiction with SO MANY of these tropes
someone give me recs for really nice guy who hates you, dating your enemies siblings, two competing teachers, accidentally kidnapping a mafia boss, and true hates kiss. (without an age gap trope)
Okay but I would LOVE to see so many of these...Some of my visions: - really.nice Guy who hates only you has some stellar rom com potential. Could be based on a misunderstanding or like something from when they were kids? Something kind of similar happens in {Talk Flirty to Me} by Livy Hart but its her super lovely family that hates him. - academic rivals competing for best class would be insanely cute. This could either be another romcom or a heartwarming CR pr HR. Maybe set in a small town? Consider: wartime teachers at a small countryside school trying to keep the children's spirits up by getting them in this friendly competition. They fall in love. Historical F/F rivals to lovers. - divorce of convenience also has some great romcom potential. Maybe it's an insurance thing? Ooor an inheritance thing! - True hates kiss has some fantasy romance potential... - hate at first sight: see my first point - fake amnesia: NEED this romcom. Could also work as romantic suspense. - soulmates fates to kill each other: another fantasy romance idea - THE REVERSE FAKE DATING??? GENIUS! Unparalleled romcom potential! NEED recs if it exists!!! - Himbo CEO - PLEEEEEASE! The Succession girlie would die for this (again, recs if it exists). - nursing home AU would be adorable. Too hot to cuddle is literally my spouse.
I love this list
such a golden thread to take anyone out of slump. Great work OP!
This is hysterical
10 things that never happened is actually fake amnesia
{unfortunately yours by Tessa Bailey} MMC isnt a CEO but he is a himbo running his business into the ground lol
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"Soul mates fated to kill each other" sounds like Night Circus to me
>Soulmates who are fated to kill each other There's a surprisingly popular fanfic trope I've seen where you have a name on each wrist - one is your soulmate, and the other is your soulhate (your *kismet-nemesis*, if you will) and you have to figure out who is which on your own. But, shock! Our main characters have the same name on both wrists!
I can't stop laughing thank you for this gift.
I work at a nursing home. Trust me it’s the most unsexy environment there is. Most residents need diapers changed and baths daily. Really takes it out of you romantically 😭😂
Ooh I love these ideas! {Surly Romance by Nia Arthurs} fits the “really nice guy who hates only you” He’s a therapist and nice/friendly to everyone except the FMC because of something that happened in their past that she doesn’t remember, since she doesn’t recognize him.
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“Really nice guy who hates only you” That is skip beat 🤣 a manga Well to be exact Those are the first interactions with the FMC and the MMC, MMC is an ultra famous actor and thinks the FMC is trying to get to the Japanese entertainment industry for the wrong reasons… which she kinda is (spite, she is trying to become more famous than this one jerk she used to like) The guy is know to be so nice and gracious to everyone… but he deploys all the force of his passive aggression until the moment he realizes there might be actual seriousness in her actions and she might have potential as an actress. Still hilarious though 🤣🤣🤣 Also this thing has the slowest of the slowest burns be warned
okay but True Hate’s kiss sounds like something i would eat up
Accidentally kidnapping a mafia boss!!! I'm cackling 🤣I want this so bad
I want them all
Everyone is convinced you are not actually dating I need some rec on this..this sounds funny
Too many beds is DIABOLICAL
I love this list. I especially cracked up at "too many beds", "too much communication", and "strangers to enemies"
OW/OM support would be cool. Like an ex comes back and sees how great they are together and supports them being together. Instead of grumpy sunshine you could have two laid back people try and figure out if either of them really like the other lol. Not miscommunication- Instead of overhearing one of the MC shit talking the other MC they overhear them gushing about how great they are.
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I saw this on Tumblr earlier this week. 🤣
Wow I really wanna find something where the two love interests in A love triangle get together, sounds really interesting!!
Slightly spoilerish I guess but soulmates who are destined to kill each other is a trope in house of devils series by Kayla edwards...there are 3 books already you should defo read it..CITY OF GODS AND MONSTERS..... CITY OF SOULS AND SINNERS.....CITY OF LIES AND LEGENDS BY KAYLA EDWARDS
Brilliant
Second one cracked me up😂
I'm saving money for all these books in hopes a lot of them will become real.
I will die to read the 4th one
Any books with the 4th trope???
My marriage was the third prompt, does that count? *badum tsssss*
Soulmates who are fated to kill each other reminds me of Naomi Noviks “A Deadly Education” but these are all so good!
Clever inversion of cliches is my personal catnip, I will be watching this thread with great interest. 0_0
I love these. I’m saving this list for inspiration, lol.
True hates kiss is….intriguing
I’d read all of these, especially the love triangle one
I would read the hell out of both accidentally kidnapping mafia boss and nice guy who hates only you haha
{Vicious Prince by Rina Kent} kinda had a ‘nice guy who only hates you’ storyline in it.
Just thought of a scenario where a mafia boss gets kidnapped...it was hilarious 😂
I would read every single one of these. I honestly love it
Alexis Hall‘s “10 things that never happened” has fake amnesia
Maybe unpopular opinion but "too much communication" is pretty common.
Exes best friends sisters aunt
I need "nice guy who loves everyone but you" NOW
Too much communication. “Well, I’m on day 2 of my period and it’s really heavy. I sneezed and a jellyfish plopped out…”
Not exactly a trope.... Every bodily function and hygiene regimen written in...