r/HistoricalRomance

What are the most exciting quotes from your favourite characters? The single moments that sealed them a place as your most loved MCs?

Here's my favourite quote that left me squealing from my top 5 favourite MMCs. The quotes are in order, but I don't know if I could rank the MMCs.

1. Gabriel, Lord St Vincent. Devil in Spring. >!Youre not worried about principles. You're worried you might do something naughty with me and like it!<

2. Colin, Lord Payne. A week to be wicked. >!What if I told you everything's changed? That in the past four and twenty hours I've wanted to murder three different men just for daring to touch you - one of them a duke. That I am desperate with longing, consumed with wanting you. As I've wanted no other woman in my debauched, misspent life!< honourable mention here to when >!he tells people they're from the circus and she's a first rate sword swallower!< which didn't make me squeal but rather burst out laughing so loud I woke up my 1 year old.

3. Raven Radford. Dukes Prefer Blondes >!That was firstly and secondly, this is thirdly!< Not a wild quote out of context, but IYKYK!

4. Sebastian, Lord St Vincent. Devil in Winter. >!You said I could kiss you. But my love, you didn't say where!< This was a tough one as I realised most of my favourite Sebastian moments are actions or descriptions, rather than direct quotes from him. But he still has many great quotes!

5. Alexander Moncrieffe, Duke of Falconbridge. What I did for a Duke >!You might consider being a little afraid. Because after we've made love, you might find that you can't live without me!<

Heey guys i m looking for book recommendations where the mmc and fmc are in a secret relationship,he can t have her (brother fiance /employer /best friend sister /he think she can just be a mistress….) i want a bastard Mmc the kind that is mean cruel to her make fun of her doesnt want his peer to know that he s sleeping with her but at the sale time is so jealous ,possessive whenever a guy ks near her and alwayes get angry with her .i m all about hot scene where he call her mine and make her remember who is with her in bed ,even better if she get pregnant and get engaged or she s looking to get married because she know the mmc doesn’t want to marry her or have a baby
ps: i would love ow/om dramaa or a love triangle or the Mmc is engaged but can t help himself
The more he s mean and cruel one the better i m all for the angst and drama and gut punching conversation where he destroy her emotionally

Even better if she s a doormat or she really make him jealous and use his jealousy to hurt him too love a scene where she tell him i m going to be the best wife to om or i m gonna have his baby u know destroy him too and he get super angry

....I have a type. And apparently that type is clingy orange cats would would absolutely spend most of their money on ouji fashion.

I love:

- Enemies/mutually unwilling acquaintances to lovers!

- Couples where they both fall

- Combatants! Knights, pirates, vigilantes, anything of that ilk.

Not quite looking for:

- OMCs who are "prudish" - stiff swots, totally, hardened rogues, sure, virgin knights, absolutely! Whatever was going on in A Lady Awakened? Never. (We return from a short hiding from affronted snipers break in a second.)

- Said prettyboy being a bully/asshole/generally someone you wouldn't trust to petsit.

I love demanding in the sense of sensitive and clingy and liable to drape himself over the OMC's desk if he is being Ignored; meanwhile don't really swing for him being controlling! Down for any spice level.

The only gothic romance I’ve read is {Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier} but I’d like to try more.

I want the romance to be in the forefront with romantic and sexual tension and angst. But with a darker and eerie tone in the background.

Please no paranormal or fantasy. Just straightforward human f/m stories with a brooding but quietly thoughtful MMC and a quiet but clever, knows when to speak up kind of FMC. I usually enjoy 1800s the most.

Thank you ☺️

As the title suggests, I want to know what your silliest reasons or rules are for not picking up a book.

Personally I have one big one: The author's name cannot be bigger than the title (which I realized recently is responsible for me not having read any of the greats)

And one little one: if the genre is Regency or Victorian and the clothing on the cover is anachronistic, I won't pick it up

*To be clear, I mean reasons that prevent you from even grabbing it, not things that would make you dnf

Friend recovering from eye surgeries and need audio books recommendations! I don’t listen to audio books so I know nuts! She prefers male or female/male duet voices. Please post all recommendations! She has two weeks to listen to stuff without access to screen… which is a lot of time at home.

It's professor/student romance for me. A very popular CR that came out when I was in grad school featured a young professor and a grad student. So it's not any age gap issues but just purely it being my lived experience of being a grad student at the time with a very first hand understanding of power dynamics in that situation. And just the blurb had me quite irrationally go "nope. nope nope nope".

If the pairing was in a historical setting where a bluestocking FMC was mentored/tutored by said young professor who championed her academic pursuits against societal norms or something, I'd read it.

Okay so I’m about 12 Chapter in and I am in LOVEEEE with this book so far but I have a question and I really need someone to just go ahead and spoil it for me lol. >!PLEASE tell me that his parents reconcile🥺 I know the dad was a former addict and tossed her aside but like I can’t lol I love a regretful pathetic man 😭!<

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I love some brooding men like Mr Darcy, Thornton, Alexander Coulborne, and Mr Sidney, Rochester. Today only I watched toby Stephens in The tenant of wildfell hall and he's hot, he yearnnnns... I want some serious yearning work bonus point if ml broods and things are like kept under the surface but unspoken begins to be palpable.Thanks

I thought of a couple of series in which the supporting characters, like siblings, are given a lot of focus and even some hint of romance with another character. Or it could be that it gets brought up as an aside comment that they really do not like a certain character.

There is a book I read (which is the first in its series) in which I had a strong feeling that I knew who would be potential future MCs. The problem was that one of those characters had been portrayed as so irredeemable and terrible that I have trouble thinking of how the author could make that romance work without really humbling the character/making them go through a lot of grief and compromising the intelligence and self-respect of the other potential MC. Not to mention that the book ended with the character effectively having alienated themselves from their family because of their hateful behaviour. The reason I thought they could be a future MC is because there were some instances of hidden depths implied in the character's past which seemed to lead up to something that happened to make the character so terrrible now. Also, the author has taken a similar character type and made them an excellent MC before so I wondered if there would be a repeat. Maybe it'll be a surprise and this character will remain an antagonist whose actions cause their undoing.

I'll give a better known example with the unreleased {A Sinful Kind of Scot by Mia Vincy} which is to be about the character Lucy from {A Wicked Kind of Husband} but her character was not portrayed as likable (for lack of a better description). The epilogue implied something about the character and I expect there will more depth to her, possibly looking at events from a different perspective and even some potential psychological reasons for her behaviour (as the author has discussed those in other characters in her books). But I still find it difficult to see justification for all her brattiness and self-destructive behaviour and feel the romance would involve a much older and maturer MMC and probably some much-needed apologies and conversations with her older sister to make it believable.

I suppose what I meant is that there are some characters I do not think I would like to read a whole book about in their present state, unless there is a lot of character development. They are fine in small doses. Do you have any such characters in mind whose romance and happiness you would not want to root for? I would say that Colin from {Rescued from Ruin by Elisa Braden} would probably have been a response of mine if his book was not already out and I even see many reviewers say the same thing.

I am looking for fmcs and mmcs who pretend to be engaged or courting because one or both of them is in love with someone else or want to attract other suitors ,so they try to make that person jealous. I love enemies and rivals to lovers , grumpy sunshine but don't mind what trope it is . I would also love banter and tension and slow burn

Hello, you wonderful HR readers. Please, share your loves that don't get much love.

Books and authors that never seem to be recommended. Hidden gems and overlooked talent. The ones you make you want to scream to the rafters "You need to read this!" Discoveries that made you swoon. Those that don't get the attention they deserve.

I want a story where one of the MCs has ALWAYS had someone else chosen first. Maybe it was the older brother who always got the ladies, maybe it was the sister/cousin who all the men preferred to dance with.

And then I want the OTHER MC to choose them first. Not second. First.

Can you recommend a book like this? Any pairing (m/f, m/m, f/f, nb/?) but no cheating and no polyamory (because it’s hard to put one person first that way)

Thanks!

Hey everyone I’m in a bad reading slump and I’m looking for some intense, angsty Historical Romance recommendations. To give you an idea of my taste, my favorites include Devil in Winter by Lisa Kleypas, The Highwayman by Kerrigan Byrne, Lord of Scoundrels by Loretta Chase, marrying winterborne by lisa kleypas and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë.

What i want :

Mmc is so emotionally devastated by the fmc that he literally feels that he can’t breathe without her.
Heartbreaking or angry confessions of love (the best).
Angst.
Kissing her almost makes him cry, even better if he actually weeps or gets overwhelmed or breatheless because of her.
More angst.
Sweet fmcs and protective mmcs.
Mmc who would crawl through hell for her.
Good prose
I want the MCs to struggle with their feelings for each other and struggle to be together.
HEA

What I don’t like:

Ow drama, unnecessary third act breakup,
miscommunication trope(its fine if they are hiding their feelings for each other but I am not a fan of stupid misunderstandings that can be solved with minor communication)

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I guess the purpose of this is I see what I think of as references to men looking down the neckline and how the mens pants show off their musculature, but I think because of how polite they were, they wouldnt speak openly about what they saw. Like almost seeing a nipple, or that they notice the shape of the man at his crotch.

There's something about my mind where if something isn't clearly written. Like plainly, I have like an itch in my brain to know what they truly mean. I always need clarification. Any books where characters clearly say or think about catching a glimpse down the neckline, seeing nipple or noticing the shape of genitals at the crotch (or better yet arousal lol). I also heard women and men would even dampen their clothing to make the shapes more obvious!! I have yet to see that mentioned in any books I've read so far, but I've only recently started my HR journey this year after not reading any since high school. I've mostly read Kleypas and Hoyt. Hoyt's language is so close to what I need.

I'd be happy for anything, even reaches. I appreciate you all. This community is so great for recommendations.