MJ’s Comments (group member since Dec 23, 2014)

MJ’s comments from the What's the Name of That Book??? group.

Blind Attraction has an element of this. For spoiler reasons, her mum told her they were dead. It is a fairly minor part of the story tho.

The Captive series by Erica Stevens. Vampires rule, and humans are the rebels.

The trilogy Bound, Torn & Sworn has some. By Kate Sparkes maybe?

Sounds interesting

I remember one where she dents the email to the whole company. Does that sound right? I THINK in that one he actually sets up an alter ego (email?) or something and has her spilling her secrets to him that way... maybe.

:( sounds good, but it's not on iBooks unfortunately.

Lol... LG, looks like you're on a bad boyfriend hunt!

Doc by Dahlia West has a female bounty hunter. It's the 5th bk I think, and none of the girls are pushovers (some sweeter than others, but still dealing with their own crap), but Doc's girl is a 'professional badass' as they go.

The Salt Bride & sequel by Lucinda Bryant

Maybes...
Burnout by Dahlia West (minor part)
Hannah's Blessing by Collette Scott
Angel bound by Christina Bauer
Runaway Lies by Shannon Curtis
Faithful by Kelly Elliott (minor part?)
The Mating by Nicky Charles
A Lovers Touch (bk2) by Olivia Barrington Leigh
Chrysalis by Olivia Barrington Leigh (minor-ish)
Daughter's Trilogy by CM Owens
Faders by CM Owens (minor-ish)
Breaking Even (bk5?) CM Owens (minor part)

The Dragon Prince series by Melanie Rawn and the Deverry series by Katherine Kerr might make it. They are fantasy tho.

TDPs covers the main characters from young adulthood then skips a bit to their kids in taking the lead.

TDs is more about reincarnations. One main character makes an oath to 'make up for it', and then finds himself coming face to face with a central group of characters thru multiple reincarnations. Each time, the aim is to 'put things right', but there is more than he thought that needs to be corrected and each cycle may bring the same souls, but they are new people with their own struggles and no memory of him or his aims.

And if we are going to stretch that far, have a look at The Ancient Future trilogy by Traci Harding too. Multi generations, same soul group, but add in time travel... So several of the characters get multiple reincarnations, but some of them then start popping thru time, so you're not always loosing the characters you already know.

I've seen some of those... Is it just 'I'm not telling him he has a kid' or will 'I can't find him (until a dramatic entrance) to tell him he has a kid' stories work?

I haven't read it, but bk3 looks like that. Think it's called The Rocker Who Needs Me by Terri Anne Browning.

You get intro'ed to the couple in bk2, but bk1&2 are free on iBooks (oz) ATM. The Rocker Who Holds Me and The Rocker Who Savors Me.

CM Owens. Sterling series is good. A few of them have bits like you're looking for, but book 4 Loving War is all about it.

Ice by Hilary Storm & Kathy Coopmans. Female solider, but lots if sex. Sequel is Fire, but I haven't read it.

Cause to Kill by Blake Pierce is a female cop, but it's all brains & spine, not muscle.

There are a few others on my shelves... but they are all fantasy of some variety.

Maybe not what you're aiming for, but there's a series written by a guy who's mother for some reason he never figured out turned on him as a child. Older and younger siblings were fine, but she abused, neglected and somewhat tortured him for years before he ended up in the foster system... Think there are about 4 books. Covers him from childhood thru adulthood and all the crap that happens throughout. As far as I know, it's a true account.

Dave Pelzer, A Child Called It

I read things that catch my attention. Covers, titles, authors, blurbs, ratings (good and bad), WoM... Everything from children's, through to erotica. As long as the story and the characters are good, I'm there! TBH, I don't even really bother to think about what 'group' the books are from normally. It's only in the last year or two I've figured out the definition of YA v NA (and really, how can you be a NEW adult, when you've already been a young ADULT... makes no sense 😝), and then there's the 'is it contemporary or any of the other multitude of options'. The only problem I've had with YA (or really any genre, but it bothers me more in YA) is when the h/H are being treated appallingly and the author brushes it off with an 'all good, let's move on'. I just can't stop thinking that the book is geared towards young minds who might be encouraged to see that kind of behaviour as normal, acceptable or worse expected.

Kate Sparkes series. bk1 ??? (Got it free on iTunes oz recently), bk2 Torn, bk3 Sworn

The Chieftains Curse by Frances Housden

Maybe Bronwyns Stand by E Kelly. She's a 'on your own' kinda girl. But she mellows with the story.

Probably not, but jic. Relentless series by Karen Lynch.

At 8, she finds her fathers body (finding out years later it was a vampire attack). Her mum (selfish who left them when she was little) was from a 'secret' race of people (Mohri) who were created when vamps first came about to fight them. She lived with her uncle in blissful ignorance until a vamp attacks her and a Mohri warrior saves her and enlightens her about her (unwanted) heritage. She refuses to leave, he stays to protect, tads yada.