book recs for REFORMED colleen hoover readers | read these books instead of IT ENDS WITH US

thisbook is just such an incredible and heartbreaking book and actually talksabout ending a cycle of abuse and sort of patriarchal Norms through thecharacters who are actually the victims in the situation and without sort ofcentering the male characters to get this point across

this book is probably one of my favorite romances ever but it'sdefinitely on the heavier side it is a second chance romance that is reallyabout healing and finding yourself after some really difficult periods in yourlife

honestly I don't remember too much about this oneI remember thinking it was kind of mid

if you were looking forsomething a little bit more refined and just something a little bit more olderand sophisticated I would recommend conversations with friends

when this book first cameout I was like absolutely obsessed with it I read it in one go and it's honestlya really quick read

obviously it's done somuch better in this book and doesn't have the weird problematic element to itso yeah highly recommend this one if you like historical romances

what I thinkI love about this book is just the way that the relationship develops it issuch a great progression and just the way they fall in love and sort of thesexual tension that arises as well and some of the smut scenes were really niceas well

this is a really beautifully written Memoir and it actually deals with theauthor's own experience in a same-sex abusive relationship

I think looking back on it I can see the way that the book reallyromanticizes is that love interests the abuser and sort of forgives him in toomany ways in the second half of the book like there's not enough sort ofaccountability put on him

what I remember liking about this book was the fact that thecharacters were sort of working on something together like making some sortof art together and that kind of brought them closer

there's alot of Secrets and envy and lots of great plot twists I honestly really lovethis book I highly recommend the Audi book if you're going to listen to it

I read this recently and absolutely felt in love with it'sprobably my favorite Ali Hazelwood book so far

November 9 which is an infamously like controversial one because it doeshave some terrible consent issues

this book is one of my favorites it's super short it's such a fun readand it's also got some of the best smut scenes that I've ever read in a book

this book also had somereally amazing smut scenes like they were done so well I love thedescriptions I love the dialogue I love the way that they end up hooking up aswell like it's just so well done

I honestly felt likethis was such a believable story and just the situation that they're in andhow complicated it gets so if you've ever wanted like a writer romance thisis also a fun one to pick up

it's honestlyone of the most romantic and like heartbreaking books I've ever read Ireally really loved these characters and also the growth that they go throughthroughout the book

this one I honestly didn't love all that much even when I read it way back whenand that was partly because I could recognize how problematic it was andalso how sort of gross it felt

I readthis book fairly recently and I thought it was a really fun and cute romance

I think when I read this I liked the sexualtension but honestly I have read much better sexual tension in other RomanceBooks since then

I did quite enjoy this one just becauseColin Hoover just has that way of writing that like makes you want tocontinue flipping the pages even though you know that the book is like reallybad you just want to know what happens and so Varity was kind of like that forme but I did really hate like the romance elements and just the weirdnature of the book

although I didn't love this book allthat much I did think it was still a pretty decent read and it definitelyreminded me of Varity a lot just because of the setup of the characters and theenvy and the like stealing of work situation

it's justlike a fun really fast-paced read so if you liked the pace of Varity you'llprobably love the pace of this