I love a good love story but can’t stand anything I’ve read that is advertised as romance. For example, I love Dark Matter by Blake Crouch and Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson. Neither (as far as my experience goes) are advertised as romance at all and the love stories in them are just amazing for me. In particular I love an already established m/f relationship/marriage and prefer closed door or at the very least not graphically descriptive scenes. I love adventure, fantasy, realistic sci-fi, mystery, thriller, general fiction.
Ideally no literary fiction, YA, erotica, or supernatural, horror, demonic/witchy stuff
Any suggestions? TIA!!
by Suspicious_Calculus
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Some of my favorite fantasy has great romance – the urban fantasy Mercy Thompson series and the Alpha and Omega series by Patricia Briggs features a (eventually) married couple who have a lovely partnership, as does the Kate Daniels series by Ilona Andrews. Also love the romance in Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier and The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley.
Dorothy Sayers mysteries starting with Strong Poison tell about a love story. Her earlier mysteries don’t.
Lions of Al Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay,
Shards of Honor by Bujold,
A Deadly Education and sequels
100% you’ll want to check out 11/22/63 by Stephen King. It was so good even my girlfriend loved it, and she’s not a King fan. There is a love story in it but it’s not a romance.
*This Is How You Lose the Time War* by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
The master and Margarita