Genre: Contemporary Christian Romance You’ll like this if you like: Flawed, Ex-Military Heroes, Scandalous Secrets, or a Career-Driven Heroine Who Doesn’t Think She Can Get Caught Up in a Whirlwind of Romance. Cleanliness: The hero and heroine kiss once or twice. The first time, the heroine is “engaged to be engaged,” meaning she’s kind of in…
Genre: Medieval Time Travel Romance You’ll like this if you like: Time Travel, Enemy Turned Lover Stories, or Second-Chance Stories. Cleanliness: After the hero and heroine are married (Oh, yeah. Predictable Spoiler Alert!) they make love several times, but the scenes are breezed over. It might be uncomfortable for some readers. Hero Type: Semi-Virtuous Hero At…
Genre: Contemporary Romance You’ll like this if you like: Sizzling Romance, a Charming, Playboy Hero, or Assassination Attempts. Cleanliness: The hero, Bo, contemplates taking the heroine up to his room. Eventually, there’s involvement with the slums of the city, so there are mentions of rape, drug use, etc. Hero Type: Bad Boy Favorite Profound Quote: “You’re…
Genre: Medieval Romance You’ll like this if you like: Foreign Worlds, Feisty, Red-Headed Heroines, and an Intense Alpha Hero. Cleanliness: The story begins in Algeria, so the Alessandra’s “Father” (more accurately: her mother’s husband), has multiple wives and concubines, though her mother is his favorite. Since it’s a harem, there’s a bathing house where…
Genre: YA Medieval You’ll like this if you like: Robin Hood, Tough Heroines, or a Knight in Shining Armor. Cleanliness: The heroine is kissed several times by the hero. At one point, they sleep together on a bench, but nothing happens. The villain of the story summons a Warlock to help him. Hero type: Alpha/Virtuous Hero…
Genre: Historical Biblical Fiction You’ll like this if you like: The Story of Esther, Assassins, Royal Life, or Unfulfilled Love. Cleanliness: This is written by a Christian author, but a good deal of it is written in the harem. There’s mention of a lack of clothes (since women in the harem don’t really wear…
Genre: Medieval Romance You’ll like this if you like: Heroines that Aren’t Afraid to Draw a Dagger on Someone, a Strong, Protective Hero, Murders and Mysteries. Cleanliness: There’s no premarital sex or graphic sex of any sort, and this is a Christian author, so I would call this clean. Halfway through the book, the hero and…
Genre: Pirate Romance You’ll like this if you like: Heroines that aren’t Drop-Dead Gorgeous, Pirates, and Riveting Conflict. Cleanliness: Twice, the heroine is nearly raped (by nearly, I mean the guy tackled her, though nothing else happened), but she’s rescued both times. Hero type: Brooding Noah’s hero type was rather hard to pin down, since…
Genre: Historical Romance You’ll like this if you like: Romance, Historical, Big Italian Families, Adventure, Mysterious, Brooding, Bossy Heroes, Saucy Heroines, Multi-Dimensional Characters. Cleanliness: Carina and Quillan are married, but the book doesn’t cover any scenes between them. Of course, sometimes the after-math is included, but the book is completely clean. 🙂 Hero Type: Brooding…
Genre: Pirate Romance You’ll like this if you like: Gorgeous Prose, Eloquent Descriptions, an Exciting Plot, and Pirates. Hero Type: Virtuous Hero Hope runs away from her home, hiding aboard a ship in order to be with Lord Falkland, the man who has professed his love for her. Apparently, he has a wife that he…