old-school bodice rippers are super dark and angsty... and yes Highwayman was totally dark! It was sooo soo good!

@TheBookRefuge

4 жыл бұрын

Yes! And i just never realized it before. I knew they had a lot of Dub-Con situations but I was just uninformed about some of the stories I would find. Haha+

Loved this video! Great recommendations want to see more!

His Dark Obsession by Zoe Blake, Dark Side of the Sun by Addison Cain, and The Dark Knight's Captive Bride by Natasha Wild are some of my favorite dark historical romances!

Yes Lord of Scoundrels & Dreaming of You are both good ones!!

I love Lord of Scroundels so much! I will be checking out all of these.

The Duke’s Perfect Wife sounds sooo good! Romance with a mystery!! Love it! Historical romance heroes!!! Yes! Great video!! ❤️Nicole

@TheBookRefuge

4 жыл бұрын

That entire series has little mysteries throughout. And the men are just a little kinky. ;)

@WhoPickedThisBook

4 жыл бұрын

The Book Refuge love it!

Silver devil - Teresa denys Lemonade - Nina pennacchi

@tinkywinkywonky6903

2 жыл бұрын

Omg these are one of my fav dark romance reads, girl do you know any books similar to these two I’m dying to find anything similar, the main guys were written so good!!

@divyasiri2297

2 жыл бұрын

@@tinkywinkywonky6903 The conquerer by Brenda joyce This other eden by Marilyn Harris. Magic embrace by Jennifer horsman Lady gallant by Suzanne Robinson

@tinkywinkywonky6903

2 жыл бұрын

@@divyasiri2297 omg I wanna cry thank you so much 😭😭😭💗

@divyasiri2297

2 жыл бұрын

@@tinkywinkywonky6903 welcome 🤗 Enjoy!

@fatimas9640

10 ай бұрын

Those two books traumatized me but then again I couldn’t help but love them!! The angst level was through the roof! They don’t make them like that anymore. My two baby psychos Domenico and Christopher

I’m excited that this popped up in my feed. Lord of Scoundrels is on my physical tbr. I love historical romances but I haven’t meant too many outside of Bridgerton & outlander, and then classics too if those count (you mentioned Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, those are two of my favorite books ever). I love dark and moody books especially with broken, damaged & flawed men, so now I’m even more excited to get to Lord of Scoundrels. I love that you have the step back edition ❤ The Highwayman is on my kindle tbr. You’re motivating to get to them sooner rather than later.

Here again Lorraine Health is at the top of my list yes the Duke takes all. Excellent. I gave her five 🌟.

New trope for me to check out!

Thank you for the recommendations! Would you ever consider making a rec video on KU books and Audible Escape stories?

@TheBookRefuge

4 жыл бұрын

I would say I do that pretty much weekly. Haha! My weekly wrap up is gonna have that info there. 80% of what I read are on those 2 platforms. So making a separate video for it would be redundant.

This list 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

Have you ever done a video with like historical romance terminology for beginners? The different titles (like duke and whatnot)... and things like rake. I'm pretty unfamiliar with all of that and that would be awesome!

@EXO-L45

3 жыл бұрын

The titles you see in most of the historical romance books are basically a part of a system called the peerage which outlines all the hereditary titles in Europe The titles are ranked in descending order of hierarchy : 1-Duke / Duchess (the highest title a non royal can get).They are addressed as your grace 2-Marquess /Marchioness. 3- Earl/Countess. 4-Viscount/viscountess. 5-Baron/Baroness. All of them are addressed as Lord/Lady. Children of peers use special titles called courtesy titles. The heir apparent of a duke, a marquess, or an earl generally uses his father's highest lesser peerage dignity as his own (For example if the father is a Duke, the heir apparent gets the 2nd title after the title Duke whatever that may be). Younger sons of dukes and marquesses prefix Lord to their first names as courtesy titles while daughters of dukes, marquesses and earls use Lady. Younger sons of earls and children of viscounts, barons and lords of Parliament use The Honourable. With these titles come a lot of things: estates, money, privilege over non peers, access to the house of Lords, fame and many many other (good) things, that some peers might abuse or misuse. As for the other words ( rake, scoundrel, rogue, rascal) they generally mean a man most of the times wealthy that behaves in rather immoral or irresponsible ways and acts like a playboy, until he meets the heroine where he obviously has to change his lifestyle. A very long comment 😅, but I hope this helps 😊.

Try Darius by Grace Burrowes - it is also about male escort. Loved this book as well as others by her.

@TheBookRefuge

2 жыл бұрын

I have actually read this one! It was pretty unique and I enjoyed it.

my recommendation is Patricia Rice's Surrender - chef's kiss 10/10

Dark Side of the sun by Addison Cain… I’ve read this book sooooo many times and it does it each and every time.. read it

Here again I recommend Sophia Barnes and Amanda Ashley she write paranormal contemporary books. I collected of her books. I understand that is paranormal but Romance and some vampires are historical.

Yaaaassss!! I love a male escort trope so Loraine Heath and Evangeline Collin’s books discussed, are on my list! And this video reminds me how much I loved Lord Ian many years ago - I need to reread and finish the series. One of my favourite series, if you loved Kerrigan Byrne, is Elizabeth Hoyt’s Maiden Lane - think you’d love it- full of vigilantes and misfits, and very sexy.

Did you know that Jennifer Ashley writes sci-fi erotica as Allyson James. The series is Tales of the Shareem. I think you might enjoy them. I know totally unrelated to historical romance.

@TheBookRefuge

4 жыл бұрын

No, I love this! I will check her out immediately!

Loretta Chase is overacted and I do not wants to offend her fans but I read two books. Also Dreaming of you by kleypas is the best book. I like most of her books. Now she is back.

Have you read any Laura Kinsale? They're really good..

@TheBookRefuge

2 жыл бұрын

Just Flowers From the Storm so far!

@Amy_M_G

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheBookRefuge recommend The Shadow and the Star and The Prince of Midnight.. Lovin' your videos!