Book Recs for #My5WordRomanceNovel Tweets
Did you see the Twitter hashtag: #My5WordRomanceNovel? It was like a less poignant but much funnier game of “For sale: baby shoes. Never worn.”
As a die-hard lover of romance fiction, I’m pretty sure there’s an actual romance novel for most #My5WordRomanceNovel tweets. So if you’re intrigued after five words, here are some suggestions for more:
#My5WordRomanceNovel
I bought you a horse— Rodeo Life Problems (@rodeolifeprobs) March 28, 2016
Book suggestions: Sylvester by Georgette Heyer; Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen; By Arrangement by Madeline Hunter
Love and lots of weapons.#My5WordRomanceNovel
— Sue London🦄 in a Unicorn Onesie (@cmdrsue) March 28, 2016
Book suggestions: Carolyn Crane’s Behind the Mask and Elizabeth Kingston The King’s Man. Two ferocious heroines with heroes to match.
They met in a library. #My5WordRomanceNovel
— Banned Library (@bannedlibrary) March 28, 2016
Book suggestions: Victoria Dahl’s Taking the Heat (male librarian…not too common in romance) and Karina Bliss’s What the Librarian Did.
https://twitter.com/stavvers/status/714544006819090432
Suggestions: Robin Alexander, Next Time and Bridget Essex’s A Knight to Remember (f/f with a librarian and a warrior woman from another world)
He made it back home! #My5WordRomanceNovel
— K.M. Hodge (@KMHodgeAuthor) March 28, 2016
Suggestions: Jessica Scott’s Break My Fall and Kathryn Albright’s Familiar Stranger in Clear Springs
#My5WordRomanceNovel The spooning led to forking…
— Save As, Gah.xlsx (@GahBr0wnTZ) March 28, 2016
Suggestions: For friends-to-lovers stories, try Santino Hassell’s Sunset Park (m/m contemporary), Elle Kennedy’s The Deal (New Adult) and Farrah Rochon’s Passion’s Song.
"She said "I love baseball" #My5WordRomanceNovel
— Majestic Athletic (@MajesticOnField) March 28, 2016
Suggestions: Miranda Keneally’s Stealing Parker (Christian YA romance, with a softball player heroine) and Jennifer Bernard’s Caught By You
Whip It: Whip It Good#My5WordRomanceNovel
— 𖤐 @indistarr.bsky.social 𖤐 (@indistarr) March 28, 2016
Suggestions: Shelly Bell’s Black Listed and J. A. Rock’s Pain Slut.
https://twitter.com/GuapoFlames/status/714423314345697280
Suggestions: Almost A Gentleman by Pam Rosenthal, L. H. Cosway’s Painted Faces (hero is a drag performer), and Anna Cowan’s Untamed (for an effeminate cross-dressing duke and a masculine heroine). And let us not forget the great Georgette Heyer’s The Masqueraders.
https://twitter.com/IwasHubert72/status/714427401657253888
Suggestions: Ok, basically any romance novel could fit this bill, but if we interpret this as protagonists who are struggling with mental health challenges, Megan Chance’s The Portrait (an artist hero with bipolar disorder) and Water Bound by Christine Feehan (an unusual portrayal of an autistic heroine paired with an amnesiac hero) are good bets.
https://twitter.com/WinryDoesJapan/status/714821151210348544
Suggestions: Jennifer Crusie’s Bet Me and Anyone But You, and of course, J. D. Robb’s In Death series. Happy child-free couples. With cats.
#MyFiveWordRomanceNovel For Sale: One Condom, Unused
— anna phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social (@quatoria) March 28, 2016
An unused condom? If a condom shows up in a romance novel, it’s going to serve a purpose. I’ve got nothing for this one!