I'm open to any genre, written in any year. I'm looking for healthy established couples, who stay that way. I mean no cheating, or thinking about cheating, or love triangles, or petty misunderstandings that could be fixed in two minutes with an actual conversation. If it's a multibook series where they meet and fall in love in book one and are then solidly together for the rest of the series, that is fine. That being said, I'm not really looking for romance books. There needs to be a plot going on and the romance is secondary. Also, I would prefer no to very low spice.
I'm also looking for books that have no romance at all. Found family is my jam.
I'm comfortable with any level of intensity as far as dark/horror/traumatic topics. I'm not looking for spice because it bores me, not offends me.
Not a requirement, I don't even know if there's a lot of this out there, but I like reading about people surviving disasters. Not after the fact like 'the asteroid hit four months ago and here's how we're doing' but instead 'we're actively running from the tsunami it caused'.
General tropes that I hate: love triangles, cheating, non consent being treated as romantic, only one bed, enemies to lovers (unless the villain also undergoes a redemption arc like Buffy/Spike or Emma/Killian)
Any recommendations? I'm sure 'established relationship' is going to significantly limit me, but surely there's got to be something out there.
Thanks in advance to anyone that recommends something.
by viridianvenus
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I can’t help you with a story with an established couple, when it comes to books about surviving disasters, Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer, Endurance by Alfred Lansing, and In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick can’t be beat.
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers (found family, healthy relationships (platonic and romantic), and space adventure)