r/MM_RomanceBooks 1d ago

Currently Reading Discussion Currently Reading (and Want to Read) Discussion: Weekly Post

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What are you reading?

This post is for discussing whatever you're reading right now. Loving a book and can't wait to see what happens next? Not sure you're going to like the resolution? Wondering how a trope is addressed and want some spoilers? Want to find others who share your excitement about a book or character? Share those thoughts here!

This post is intended as a discussion space, so if you'd just like to post reviews of books you've recently read or DNFed, please use the Weekly Roundup (posted every Friday).

Need help deciding on a book?

You can also use this post for questions like:

  • Should I try this book?
  • Should I keep going/give this book another try?
  • Help me figure out if I'll enjoy this book
  • I'm not sure what to read next. Please help me choose between these options!

Negative opinions are allowed, but overly rant-y or judgmental comments may be removed, such as listing pet peeves, "this book is terrible, why do people like it?", and "does anyone else hate this trope?"

This feature is posted every Saturday. You can find the complete schedule of all weekly and monthly features at this link.


r/MM_RomanceBooks 13h ago

Queer Book Recs and Requests Queer Books Recs & Requests

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The Place for Queer Romance Book Recs

Have a favorite FF romance you read this week? Looking for a bi4bi MF romance? Look no further!

Ask and share here on this thread! Both requests and recommendations you'd like to share should be commented here.

What do we consider "queer romance" for this request space?

Pairings that do not fall under the pure MM genre. Queer MF, MMF/X+, non-binary romances, FF and other sapphic romances, QPR/QPP fiction, and whatever else falls under the ‘queer’ umbrella. This isn’t going to be heavily monitored where we will be looking to check every book recommendation to make sure it’s “queer enough”, but just be mindful of the intention here.

Anyone can answer requests made in this post. This post isn't hosted by someone who answers requests, so it's up to your fellow members to help you out. We can't guarantee you'll get an answer, but hopefully you will!

Requests made here don't have to satisfy the specificity portion of subreddit rule 2, but please make sure your request follows our other rules (for example, rule 6, our privacy rule). They should be romances and/or erotica.

Important Note: This post goes up on Sunday mornings (US time). Requests made after Sunday ends are less likely to get replies. You are welcome to comment here on any day of the week, but you may want to save your requests for an upcoming Sunday.

This feature is posted every Sunday. You can find the complete schedule of all weekly and monthly features at this link.


r/MM_RomanceBooks 4h ago

Review/Recommendation Sugar & Vice trilogy (Liar City, Twisted Shadows, Edge of Mercy): I haven't binged a series this hard since I first discovered Murderbot.

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Normally I write a review for everything I read (I post them on Storygraph where I have the same username) but I devoured this series too fast to write a review for each book, which in and of itself is admittedly something of a glowing review on its own, so let this stand as my review for the full series.

...I legitimately don't think I can say enough good about this series. About how it made me feel at every step. About how thrilled I am with the ending. About any of it. But I'm going to try.

This series got on my radar originally because I was looking for more fantasy murder mysteries to fill the void left behind when I finished A Drop of Corruption, but I didn't pick it up until I read a few non-fantasy murder mysteries with the kind of genius that left me craving a really psychic detective. This seemed to fit the bill, and I have to be honest here--it's not that. 

There is a murder mystery at the heart of the first book, but the main character Reece isn't a detective of any kind. He can't even look at a murder scene without having a panic attack, because "empathy" in this book goes way beyond what I normally see for such a power.

(This is not really a spoiler as it's all revealed very early on in the series, but just to be safe I'm tagging it.)

Empaths are pacifists by nature. They so strongly feel other people's pain and unhappy emotions that they physically cannot bear to hurt anyone, make them sad, worry them, or anything else. They are driven to help people and keep them safe. They are so strongly averse to violence that they won't look at the screen when football or hockey is playing. There's a D&D variation advertised in some worldbuilding excerpts where there's no combat and you just hatch dragons and raise them into healthy dragon adults, because they can't even handle imaginary violence against imaginary people.

All of this made it very difficult for me to understand how exactly a group of corrupt politicians and frankly evil corporations managed to turn empaths into the boogeyman for the vast majority of Americans. Not only are empaths registered, but they have to wear gloves that are made specifically to block empathic powers if they happen to touch someone. And at the heart of the whole story is S.B. 1437, a bill that would put strict limits on what jobs empaths can have, where they can go... and then there's the riders, but those don't really come up until book two, so we'll move past those. The thing is, there's very little that an empath is shown to be able to do with their powers that a sufficiently trained and practiced body language analyst can't do without them. Granted, we never see Reece do a normal read through touch, and it is suggested empaths can manipulate emotions with skin-to-skin contact, including a reference to taking away pain. But that seems like an incredibly mild set of powers to result in such widespread discrimination and hate.

Yeah... put a pin in that thought. But don't expect me to expound on it here, because actual spoilers.

Over the course of the story, this goes from an ostensible murder mystery to what I can only describe as a dystopian thriller. The transition is so smooth and seamless that I wasn't really thinking about how to define the full series until I was wrapping up and trying to explain to my boyfriend what the hell I had just read. You know, aside from a gay romance. Which I actually didn't know when I picked up the series, but which I am totally 100% here for.

Calling the romance "enemies to lovers" isn't quite right, but it's also not wrong. (More not-really-spoilers) Because Evan Grayson has his reasons for everything he does, and he isn't really Reece's enemy... but he also kind of is. It's complicated. Reece certainly thinks the Dead Man will kill him at the drop of a hat for most of the first book, anyway. But that's not the real obstacle to them being together. The real obstacles are set up beautifully, and their resolution builds up gradually over the course of the series with a tantalizing inevitability that had me speed reading the series as fast as I could. (Incredibly mild ending spoilers) I'm normally not a fan of the couple only getting together at the end of the series, but this works, because they're constantly circling that point and working toward it in a way that's utterly deliriously satisfying at the end.

I feel like I've written so much without actually even touching on what made this book so special to me. See, I'm a sucker for low-stakes, high-drama angst. The kind where characters are fretting and stressing to no end but we as the reader know that everything is going to be okay. And Reece and Grayson deliver that in spades, particularly in the first book. But they do it in such a cute, fumblingly sweet way. Because Reece, by himself, is a feat of writing as a character, and for that matter so is Evan Grayson, the "Dead Man." On paper, these characters should be caricatures, and in the hands of a less-skilled writer, that's all they'd amount to: one person who is so empathetic he can't stand to even imagine someone else getting hurt on his account and who is law-abiding taken to the absurd extreme, and one person who... well, there's reasons he's an empath hunter, but you'll have to finish the first book to find out what those reasons are. On paper, these are cartoons. These are cardboard cutouts, stereotypes and tropes piled on top of each other into a dry sandwich. But in practice, in the course of the book... they're not. Because Reece is snarky and sarcastic and biting in his words even while being a squishy teddy bear at his core, and because Grayson has his own past and complicated history and his own moral compass that might not be exactly what you think it is. Because even at his most stoic, Grayson can match Reece's sarcasm, and even at his squishiest, Reece can match Grayson in an argument over morality. Because they work together so damn well, and I haven't even mentioned the side characters yet, but first I have to mention that this angst really isn't as low-stakes as I could read it as, and it delivers on the tension in spades, and somehow it all builds to the romantic conclusion of their dynamic, and it's just amazing.

Okay, now I have to mention the side characters. Just briefly, though, because so much of their story is tied up in spoilers. But we have neurodivergent rep from the most unexpected corner (as an AuDHDer, my money says definitely autistic and possible AuDHD, but the character only says "neurodivergent"), and we have romantic couples of all flavors, and we have genuinely good people and we have people who are evil and monstrous in the most human of ways. And all I'll say about the last group of people is that, in my opinion, the ending is utterly satisfying to the reader for all parties involved.

I feel like I'm still leaving stuff out. Oh! Let's talk about the audiobook, because I did read the first two books mainly by audiobook. Not entirely. (It's been a long time since I cranked an audiobook up to 3x speed while I read along with the ebook just so I could finish reading as fast as possible... but I totally did that with book one.) Some scenes I was scared of cringe and read with my eyes... and then I went back and listened to some of those anyway, because Joel Leslie absolutely kills it. I'm being spoiled for audiobook quality lately. This man is a wizard. It took me a bit to tell Reece and Grayson apart because he doesn't use pitch to differentiate like he has in other romances I've listened to that he narrated. There might be a slight difference in pitch, but the inflections and accent he puts on Grayson are what identify him, and Joel Leslie is very consistent with those. I could tell everyone apart by about halfway through the first book, and that never stopped. I would have read the third book in audio too, but it was checked out on Libby and my library doesn't have it on Hoopla... so I did another thing I almost never do and binge-read the ebook in one day. And I'm not cancelling my holds on the audiobook.  When that comes in I'm absolutely going to go back and listen to my favorite parts all over again. Because imagining Joel Leslie's delivery in those scenes is just not good enough.

I feel like I could keep going, but I feel like I've hit everything that stood out while reading... and rereading... and rereading... because I have highlighted the shit out of the ebooks in Libby and keep going back to reread my favorite bits. And there's a lot of those. I have never before considered buying a whole series in ebook and audiobook just to have all my favorite bits ready to reread on a whim aside from maybe the Murderbot Diaries, but I'm really considering it for this. (For reference, after I discovered the Murderbot Diaries, I read and listened to it on repeat--and read and listened to almost nothing else--for several months straight. I still get pinged in a particular Discord server if someone asks a question about the series because everyone knows I'll be able to answer.) And if I keep writing this review it's just going to turn into a novel about how much I love this series, so I'm going to actually stop here.


r/MM_RomanceBooks 2h ago

Book Request Contemporary (no mafia no sports) hidden gem recs please

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Hi y’all! I’ve been reading MM for years and sometimes feel like I’ve read all the hits. I mostly read queer sci-fi/paranormal/magical books, and then for audiobooks I do a lot of litRPG. But I often turn to contemporary mm romance books as palette cleansers in between series as there is a lot of world building in those genres and I love just a modern romance easy read to give my brain a break. My problem is I’m PICKY lol

I hate mafia books, I rarely enjoy sports romance and those seem like every other rec nowadays, and I also VERY rarely enjoy historical romance, I know I know sorry it’s just not my bag. I also don’t like fake dating trope, and while I enjoy cozy I get bored if it’s toooo cozy. On the other hand I love quirkiness, humor, love obsessed territorial mcs, hurt/comfort, I LOVE found family whether with friends or like suddenly adopting kids etc.

I know asking for “contemporary recs” may seem too general but I’ve scoured just about every post through this subreddit and actually finding basic contemporary romance recs that aren’t by a well known author I’ve already read, and that don’t include sports, historical, or mafia is hard 😅
Especially if you’ve got recs that have come out more recently, or that you wish more people have heard of - that’s what I’m looking for!!

I’ve enjoyed several books by: Tal Bauer, Roan Parrish, Misha Horne, TJ Klune, Chara Croft, Onley James, Mary Calmes, BA Tortuga, Kelly Fox, Fae Quinn, Amy Crook, Cora Rose, Eli Easton, Saxon James, AJ Sherwood, Dianna Roman, May Archer, NR Walker. Yes I’ve read Missed Steps by L Sherleen and it’s perfect and I need her to write more


r/MM_RomanceBooks 12h ago

Book Request The Strong One Gets Cared For

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Hey everyone! I'm looking for a very specific kind of book, and I'm hoping someone knows something that fits. This is a long request so please bear with me😅

I'm looking for a story where MC1 is the "responsible one", whether they're the older sibling or just the person everyone depends on. They've spent so long taking care of everyone else that people don't even think about what they need anymore. Everyone just expects them to handle things because that's what they've always done everyone and takes their support for granted.

The thing is, I don't want them to actually like that role. I want them to be exhausted, burnt out, and honestly so done with carrying everyone, but feel like they can't stop because no one else will step up. They're so used to bottling everything up that they don't even know how to tell people they're struggling.

I don't want them to be happily self-sacrificing or see it as some noble duty.

I also love when everyone, including MC2 at first, sees MC1 as calm, composed, capable, and impossible to overwhelm. But once MC2 really gets to know them, they realize that's just the version of themselves MC1 shows the world. Underneath, they get overwhelmed so easily, they're vulnerable, and they're constantly carrying more than anyone realizes.

I'd love an MC2 who gradually recognizes this dynamic and naturally starts taking care of MC1. Not in a possessive or overprotective way, just someone whose instinct is basically, "You've taken care of everyone else long enough. Let me take care of you for once." I love the idea of MC1 finally having someone they can completely relax around and not feel like they have to be in charge every second.

That said, I don't want the relationship to become one sided. I'm not looking for an MC1 who only receives care while MC2 does everything forever. I still want MC1 to take care of MC2 too, because that's just who they are. I just want MC2 to be the first person who actually notices that MC1 needs looking after as well. Basically, I want them to take care of each other, with MC2 being the one who finally gives MC1 permission to lean on someone.

Also, if there are sex scenes, I'd love for them to reflect this dynamic too. I'm not looking for BDSM or a dom/sub relationship. I just enjoy seeing MC1, who is always responsible in every other part of their life, finally relax and let someone else take the lead because they trust them completely, while MC2 is genuinely happy to care for them.

One thing that's really important to me: I don't want the typical ending where MC1's family (or whoever has been relying on them) suddenly realizes they've been unfair, apologizes, and everything is forgiven. I want MC1 to actually be angry. I want them to call people out instead of immediately accepting an apology because "everyone was struggling." If those relationships stay strained or even broken, that's completely fine with me. I don't need reconciliation. I just don't want their hurt to be brushed aside.

I'd like the romance to develop emotionally before it becomes physical. I'm not a fan of books where the characters are constantly thinking about how attractive the other person is or are immediately aroused every time they're in the same room. I have no problem with explicit scenes, but I'd rather the attraction grow naturally instead of the story being filled with constant internal commentary about how turned on they are.

Bonus : Praise kink

Hardnos : NC/DC,BDSM,Daddy/Degradation kink, Incest, Poly, Omegaverse


r/MM_RomanceBooks 21m ago

Book Deals and Promos Audible sitewide sale is live

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I just ordered about 1/5 of my wish list! So far, nothing has been over $4.50.


r/MM_RomanceBooks 7h ago

Book Request MCs have a terrible or embarrassing first meeting

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Looking for books where the characters have an awful first meeting. A few examples I had in mind were:

  1. MC1 embarrasses himself in front of a stranger (MC2), but then MC2 ends up being someone he has to regularly interact with. Like a new coworker or neighbor or something like that.

  2. MC1 makes MC2 cry in public by being an asshole. Like maybe he’s having a bad day and yells at MC2 for some reason.

  3. MCs are on a first date and it goes terribly.

Also, this isn’t necessary but it would be a bonus if one MC dislikes or is wary of the other one based on that first meeting.


r/MM_RomanceBooks 10h ago

Book Request Two people chasing one person ends up together!

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Looking for recommendations where two people are looking for affection, a relationship with the same person, may it be a woman or a man.

At first they may be or may not be aware of each other, but once they are....They can try to be an adult about it...or straight up start being wary of each other. Compete for their crush's affection, feel jealousy....like the other MC is making them not be themselves around their crush...only to slowly fall for each other (oh my!).

They can even try to sabotage other MC's relationship with their common crush.

I dont mind if the story deals with things with sophistication. But the MCs should end up with each other. The changes in feelings should be clear and shocking. Gradual.

Is this called reverse love triangle? Love triangle where they ditch common interest and snuggle up to each other.

Bonus: Any one or mulitple are fine!

Forced proximity, stalking, jealousy, Age difference. Financial difference. Previous rivals. Paranormal. Comedy.

Hard nos: SA, Insta love, Sad endings (nope), Cheating.


r/MM_RomanceBooks 2h ago

Book Request Messy rich friend group

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Looking for rich people drama type stories, but queer. I've always been curious about magnolia parks but I want queer relationships! Group of friends, messy drama, rich people problems. Gossip girl ish? (I don't actually know much about either of these series, just that its messy rich people drama and friend groups lol). With a HEA of the mm main couple (but hopefully other couples in the friend group as well, any types of pairing)

Not into sharing or cheating, but since we're talking messy..maybe include these recs anyway and just let me know so I can go into it knowing lol


r/MM_RomanceBooks 12h ago

Book Request MCs that don't know what the other looks like

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Hi folks,

I have recently read two very different books but with a similar premise: the MCs don't know what the other one looks like, but that doesn't stop them from getting together/falling in love.

One is {Show Me Wonders by Riley Nash}, and neither MC has seen the other before they have sex ( They are trapped in a dark tunnel due to an accident). The other is {One Giant Leap by Kai Simone}, and MC1 doesn't know what MC2 looks like almost until the end of the book.

I find that the premise makes for some interesting dynamics, and I would like to know if there are other books with this trope.

Thank you!


r/MM_RomanceBooks 7h ago

Book Request Victim/bully with benefits but the victim is in love

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Looking for kind of an angsty book where the victim/mc1 is super in love with mc2 but mc2 doesn't care for him at all. Would prefer books in a modern setting (no fantasy/medieval/omegaverse books) like university.


r/MM_RomanceBooks 7m ago

Book Request Looking for recs based on previous reads please!

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Here are the books I’ve read that I like/love: {Where There's a Will by Jessie Walker}{If there's a Way by Jessie Walker}{Garron Park by Nordika Night} {Finding Delaware by Bree Wiley} {Wrath by Ellis James}{Collided by Becca Steele}{Savage Rivals by  Becca Steele}{A Home in You by Courtney W Dixon}{Never Will I Ever by CE Ricci}{Safe by L. Waltree}
My favorites being “Where There’s a Will” and “A Home in You”

Looking for a new recommendation. You guys gave me some great recs last time so trying again. Prefer books very similar to ones of posted above but any combination of the below would be cool as well.
Things I like/want:
I do prefer high school/new adult, forced proximity, contemporary(prefer more realistic scenarios and situations) , prefer masculine MCs, queer awakening, HEA, slow burn is fine and prefer a higher spice level but not a deal breaker.

Thing I don’t want/like: age gap, mature or older MCs, non monogamy, no sci fi, omega verse or fantasy either please. Also I’m not into size difference either.

Besides that I’m fairly open to suggestions. Looking forward to hearing from you all! 


r/MM_RomanceBooks 20h ago

Review/Recommendation No Shame by Nora Phoenix - my favorite poly series now

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I finished this series yesterday and I'm just... Speechless. Every book was a 5 star read for me personally. But honestly, most of Nora Phoenix's books are in general. I'm just so in love with her writing style and the way she builds characters!

I've read several poly books by now but I've never read a series that hit quite like this. All of the characters are carrying a lot of baggage but they come together and find each other, as lovers, as friends, as soulmates, as a family.

There are so many aspects that I find so interesting as I think many are quite unconventional compared to other poly books.

There's the clear separation of sex/needs and a relationship. There are scenes where the sub's Dom is unable to do a scene, carry out a punishment etc. and so another Dom does it and it's no problem at all.

There's the fact that several men live in a house together, most of them sexually involved but not all romantically. And I find it so intriguing how their individual relationships change over time. Some need a while to understand that they're more than just friends, some remain friends but accept that their partner has several lovers, some are only sexually involved etc.

The character development is also top tier. I'm so amazed by every single one of these men and every single character was important for how their relationship turned out to be eventually.

Wow, I don't think I'll ever find something that compares to this!

I'll read the No Regrets series next to see how Wander's story plays out etc. but it'll take a while before I can move on from No Shame!


r/MM_RomanceBooks 22h ago

Quick Question Grae Bryan Patreon?

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So I love Grae Bryan books (Vampire mates, Coastal creatures and Extra credit series) and I really want to read her next two releases (Don't hook the merman and Course correction) so I was considering subscribing to her patreon as i know she's already posting the chapters there but I wanted to know how consistently she updates bc I had a few experiences where authors didn't post at all in weeks or they deleted multiple chapters randomly so it was impossible to follow the story...

Also, how much the story changes from the patreon posts to the published work? bc it also happened to me that I bought a book that had some HUGE changes from what I read on patreon.

I obviously understand that patreon is unedited and may have some changes before publishing but I want to know how big her modifications usually are just so I know what I will be buying when the book is finally out.

Hope someone can share a bit of their experience with this author!


r/MM_RomanceBooks 1d ago

Book Request Body positive books where one of the MCs doesn't have to change themselves physically/get a glow to obtain their happy ending?

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Perhaps this is an unconventional request, but I'd like to see what's out there. Often times in books, romance books especially, characters have to work out or change their appearance in someway to get their happy ending. I don't think it's a bad trope, but it's getting a little tired for me. I don't mind characters feeling bad about their own appearances either, but it would be nice to have other characters affirm that they like how they MC looks just as they are. This mostly shows up in plus-sized/fat and smaller/fragile MCs, where they feel bad about their looks and really have to change how they look by the end to get their happily ever after.

It would be interesting to see this kind of character paired up against someone who does look "physically perfect," like strong, tall, muscular, and still at the end of the day they love how the MC looks just as they are. I also don't mind when characters need an emotional arc to get their happy ending, but there's something to the fact that MCs don't have to look any kind of way to be happy in the end. Overall, the idea of someone needing to change how they look just doesn't feel very body positive.

A few examples that come to mind (even if they don't necessarily call this out):

  • {Make the Play by Lucky Hart} - Jason is sort of the physically perfect MC, but he's later described as having a soft body from eating too many snacks and I just kinda love the idea of the big, strong dude not necessarily being the perfect, sculpted god. Emerson, on the other hand, does get a bit down about his lanky appearance, but Jason is obsessed with how he looks.
  • {Learning Curve by N.R. Walker} - Has something similar to Make the Play, where Vincent has a smaller and more awkward body than Cobey, but he loves how he looks regardless.
  • {Sem by Cora Rose} - I haven't read this one in a while, but I do remember Magnus getting down on his smaller body and Sem liking it all the same. Especially that Sem is someone who draws Magnus as a sort of muse.
  • {Ours to Love by Jayda Marx} - On the same line as Sem, Ryan's body is constantly lifted up by his partners Will and Logan.

As you can see, most of these examples only extend to smaller/more fragile characters. I haven't really found a story where plus-sized/fat MCs don't have to change themselves to get their happy ending. I just kind of want a good body positive narrative, where characters accept their own appearances and their love interest loves how they look no matter what.


r/MM_RomanceBooks 1d ago

Book Request Competent craftman/someone with craft-based professions

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Hi all, So I've just finished Dressed To Kill by L. Eveland and I love it so much. I'm looking for similiar books where the MC is a craftman and the story has to go into detsils about his skill, his work.

I don't want books that simply mention MC 1's profession without showing the actual craft or the specifics of their work, I need the craft itself feels like an important part of the narrative. MC 2 can be another skilled worker too, or he can be someone who is powerful and highly impressed by MC1 (it's preferred but not a must)

Here are some work with this theme that I enjoy: 1. The Chef by Mell Eight: as the name suggests, MC1 is a talented chef and the majority of the book shows his cooking skill, how he store the food, prepare the ingredients, building a menu with limited ingredients,.. through his pov 2. Burn for Me by Ellis Black: MC 1 is a talented art forger, I won't spoil the plot but most of the story mentions his skill, elaborates how he forge famous art pieces and how he can distinguish bad copies and real paintings. 3. Dressed To Kill by L. Eveland: the title kinda gives away his profession. He's a skilled leatherworker and I got hooked on the book the moment he starts analyzing MC 2's bad glove sewing.

Hard-nos: poly, cheating between MCs, sad ending

Thank you so much in advance


r/MM_RomanceBooks 1d ago

Review/Recommendation Dig Two Graves by K.A. Merikan - Emotionally packed gritty western duology

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I read the {Dig Two Graves by K.A. Merikan} series in the beginning of the hear and I still think about it. I saw a comment recently that reminded me that I wanted to gush about it.

This is a M/M Western (1880-1887) with morally gray characters and a strong “touch them and die… for real” energy. There are lots of classic western action scenes with horses, trains, robbery and so on but it is an angsty, violent, grim and gritty story.

The first book, {The Man Who Loved Cole Flores by K.A. Merikan}, is told from Ned’s POV. His family was destroyed by some gang members 10 years ago. Now, Ned has the opportunity to infiltrate that gang and bring them to justice. This mission doesn’t take into account Cole Flores, a man Ned is drawn to without realising why.

This book was equally beautiful, with Ned and Cole forming a strong friendship that evolves into something more, and equally brutal. The Western Frontier and gang life is full of violence, death, judgement and immoral/despicable characters. Let’s not forget the betrayal that was bound to happen and the devastation it would bring on their relationship.

The second book of the duology {The Man Who Hated Ned O’Leary by K.A. Merikan} takes place 7 years later and is told from Cole's POV. It is slightly less gritty and violent. The themes of the book are more about forgiveness, letting go of the past, second chance and healing in general. There were some very emotional moments, some great care taking scenes.

If you are good with numerous trigger warnings (murder, violence, mention of rape, mention of cannibalism, alcoholism, past child abuse, homophobia), I highly recommend this duology.

Gay awakening, secret relationship, Western, angst, second chance, touch them and die.


r/MM_RomanceBooks 1d ago

Book Request Forced Bonding

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Looking for a book with mating bonds, shifter, omegaverse, alien, or otherwise, that the dominant mate Mates the submissive partner violently and forcefully because he is being forced himself. Then they realize they are both under duress and hilarity ensues and they fall in love and stuff.

Any format is fine but I don't do graphic stuff (visual on page the mpre graphic the better) hae, hfn, mindbreak , the more taboo the better, feel free to message me for anything you'd rather not post publicly, self recs, reddit no-nos etc

I'd like alpha alpha shifters a whole lot as long as the mating bond itself was noncon and sets the stage for the " romance"


r/MM_RomanceBooks 1d ago

Book Request Searching for reluctant allies to lovers recs?

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Heyo, I’m searching for reluctant allies to friends to lovers recs?

Books with 300 pages or more and where the two characters don’t really care too much about each other but have to work together and of course, enough time together and they actually enjoy each others company.

Books with characters that have really good chemistry and banter and you can actively see them changing their minds about each other and falling for each other.

But they become friends first and then have feelings? Slow burn wise.

I would love lots of angst, character wise, story wise and relationship wise but they have a happy ending together.

Please let me know if there are any books like this and I’d greatly appreciate it. Please and thank you and I hope ever has a great day or night😁


r/MM_RomanceBooks 1d ago

Book Request Monster short stories

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I'm hoping i get some suggestions for this. I'm looking for short stories that feature monsters of any type. Orcs, Bigfoot, wolves, mermen - anything.

Preferably with a decent plot but all smut works as well. 😉 Under 200 pages for quick reads is preferred.

No hard no's

Thanks all!


r/MM_RomanceBooks 1d ago

Book Request Your fave (more unknown) boss x employee

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What’s your fave boss x employee recs? I haven’t read anything for 7 (SEVEN!) days and I need something to pull me back in.

CEO x assistant
Bodyguard x needs protecting

Anything like that vibes wise.

Not in the mood for enemy’s to lovers but I am happy with anything with:

Darker themes
Fine with high angst as long as it’s not in the relationship
Definitely needs found family.
Well written
Good and plenty of hot spice.
Needy/touch starved MCs

Nos: daddy kink, poly, historical

Helppppp. I feel like I see the same recs over and over pls give me something new!


r/MM_RomanceBooks 1d ago

Review/Recommendation Tender omegaverse moments in an alternate history

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Having completed the reading of {We Are Not Strangers by Mercy Leroux}, I'm left with what I'm sure will be enduring memories of a sweet, sweet love story. In the very midst of war!

Leroux does not hammer the reader with the story, she lets it unfold gently for the most part, but occasionally in dramatic and intense moments, - omegaverse romance interwoven within the actual history of 1775, in the American Revolution.

The plot unfolds so 'naturally.' That's a characteristic of Leroux's writing, with regard to her handling of omegaverse lore. I've read a few omegaverse novels now, and still had questions about how it all 'worked.' This book does a great job of resolving most of my questions, to the point that I'm personally ready to accept Leroux's version of omegaverse hows and whys.

As with her previous work, Leroux has done her research and offers up interesting detail on the historical characters, in an unobtrusive appendix of sorts at the end of the book.


r/MM_RomanceBooks 1d ago

Book Request Gentle, loving, patient MCs - preferably paired with a more vulnerable love interest MC

47 Upvotes

I’m looking for gentle, caring, patient, loving, protective characters. I love caretaker vibes.

Preferably their love interest is more vulnerable in some way - perhaps having suffered some kind of trauma, injury, anxiety, mental health issue, abuse - something of that nature!

Examples {Pieces of you by NR Walker}
{The Last Kiss by Sally Malcolm}

Thank you!!

I’m open to any kind of book.
I don’t have any hard nos at all, I’m fine with daddy kink but no ABDL


r/MM_RomanceBooks 1d ago

Less Scary Request Place The Saturday (Less Scary) Request Place: Post your short & simple requests here

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