If You Like….

September 24, 2012 |

Last week, I posted about historical friends to lovers plots. This week, it’s on to contemporary-set novels.

If you like friends to lovers stories set in the now (or near now), you’ll probably like….

— No one does friends to lovers stories like Kristan Higgins. My favorite is Fools Rush In, but you can’t go wrong with The Next Best Thing or Just One Of The Guys.

— I recently read Robyn Carr’s Sunrise Point, which did a beautiful job building the friendship between the hero and heroine on their way to falling in love.

— For an oldie but goodie, there’s Judith McNaught’s Remember When, in which the heroine rediscovers a childhood friend who shows up just in time to save her from disastrous public humiliation.

— In the realm of British chick lit, there’s Kate Saunders’s Bachelor Boys, where it takes a while for old friends to realize they’re just right for each other (her other novel, The Marrying Game, is also arguably a friends to lovers story).

— I haven’t read any Sarah Mayberry yet, but I’ve heard she writes excellent friends to lovers stories.

Which contemporary friends to lovers stories would you recommend?

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  1. Kari P. on September 24, 2012 at 10:57 am

    I don’t know how perfect these two fit, but they were the first two to come to mind!

    “Circle of Friends” by Maueve Binchey… At least Benny thinks Jack wants to be just friends.

    “One for the Money” by Janet Evanovich (this is so spelled wrong!). If you haven’t read this it is so funny, but Stephanie has like a love/hate/friends/former lover thing going on.

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  2. Kari P. on September 24, 2012 at 10:58 am

    I don’t know how perfect these two fit, but they were the first two that came to mind!

    “Circle of Friends” by Maueve Binchey… At least Benny thinks Jack wants to be just friends.

    “One for the Money” by Janet Evanovich (this is so spelled wrong!). If you haven’t read this it is so funny, but Stephanie has like a love/hate/friends/former lover thing going on.

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  3. Alison on September 24, 2012 at 3:52 pm

    Alphabet Weekend – Elizabeth Noble
    Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married – Marian Keyes
    Lola and the Boy Next Door – Stephanie Perkins

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  4. Allison (Allure of Books) on September 24, 2012 at 7:14 pm

    sigh, Just One of the Guys is my favorite.

    Some of my other favorites would be…

    Bed of Roses & Savor the Moment by Nora Roberts
    He Loves Lucy by Susan Donovan
    The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen

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  5. Céline on September 25, 2012 at 2:41 pm

    I don’t know many friends-to-lovers stories, but Nora Roberts’ latest (or almost), The Next Always (book One in the Inn Boonsborough trilogy) uses this plot…

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