I feel like moreso nowadays there’s more TELLING through dialogue instead of SHOWING through actions.
I feel like a really good slowburn romance could potentially do a wonderful job at showing me the kind of relationship development i’m looking for.
I love the really really REALLY slowburn romances because it’s more believable for me. I understand initial attraction but strangers to lovers can sometimes feel very lusty. I prefer gradual attraction and intimacy. I really want to see the characters slowly fall in love, from beginning to end.
any tropes are welcome but I don’t really like enemies to lovers when it’s not in a fantasy setting. depending on the plot, rivals to lovers is okay.
any suggestions?
by CharmingAd7576
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You can try “Gone with the wind.” I didn’t know it was a love story until the climax
One Day by David Nicholls
The Others series by Anne Bishop. Starts with Written in Red. It is an Urban Fantasy in that it’s an alternate Earth fantasy set in a city. There is a central love story and it is a sloooooow burn. Like over multiple books. It’s not spicy, iirc, but I just adore the whole series.
Kulti, The Wall of Winnipeg and Me or Off-Campus series
Really anything by Mariana Zapata. The slowest of the slow.
Love In The Time of Cholera