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i just wanna feel something [emotional, angsty, tearjerker romance recs]
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items emotional damage in the form of romance books
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❤️🔥spicy & emotional😭
😔moody & poetic🫶
❤️🔥spicy & emotional😭
love hurts but it’s hot 🥵
troubled souls find solace in each other’s company at an unorthodox rehab facility, exploring the depths of human connection & healing
The Fabric of Our Souls by K.M. Moronova
tropes: second chance, dual timeline, single mother, family drama, heavy topics, emotional romance 🖤
description: two writers reconnect after 15 years & explore their buried traumas and relive their first seven days
Seven Days in June by Tia Williams
tropes: mute MMC, small town, healing, MMCs first time
description: Bree fled to Pelion to outrun her past but meeting Archer Hale changed everything. in his silence, they found a love that healed and wrecked them all at once
Archer's Voice by Mia Sheridan
tropes: kidnapped together, forbidden (sister’s fiancé), shared trauma, dual POV heavy topics
Still Beating by Jennifer Hartmann
tropes: age gap, slow burn, chronic illness, grumpy/sunshine 🖤
description: after her father’s death, Elliot Sawyer buried herself in work & alcohol until Elliot Greene, an older man who understands her grief refuses to let her keep running
New Growth by Taahesi B. Williams
tropes: urban, sports romance, found family, mental health 🖤
description: a couple’s love is tested by their past, present & future as they navigate the challenges of greed, bitterness & the streets
All In by Zee Reneé
tropes: urban, first love, coming of age, trilogy 🖤
description: a captivating tale about Dalvin & Tahli’s profound first love & navigating life’s turbulences together
Parachutes by Takerra Allen
tropes: childhood best friends, healing, best friend’s ex, novella
description: Paisley, Kydrick & Janelle were childhood besties. when Kydrick & Janelle started dating, Paisley had to keep her feelings hidden. now 12 years after his wrongfu...
Love Set Me Free by Cyn
tropes: forced proximity, taboo, forbidden, new adult
description: a man’s life is forever altered by three tragedies, centered around his forbidden love for the one girl he can never have. their intertwined hearts blur boundaries as love and traged...
June First by Jennifer Hartmann
tropes: mental health, duology, college romance, friends to lovers
description: a spicy love story about Alma’s journey exploring the depths of love, the pain of loss, & the possibility of finding another soulmate
Soul Mate by Ellie Wade
tropes: healing, childhood trauma, childhood friends to lovers
description: a girl who lost her mother at a young age & was abused by her uncle finds love & support from the boy across the street as she navigates her traumatic past & st...
fast by Millie Belizaire
tropes: widow & widower, late best friend’s husband, grief & healing
description: a widowed heart surgeon & a grieving former athlete find unexpected love while dealing with past losses & family secrets
ENIGMA by C.M. Barnes
😔moody & poetic🫶
for when it still hurts
tropes: childhood friends to lovers, grief, first love, tragic romance, coming of age, star crossed lovers
description: former besties Autumn & Finn drift apart in high school despite lingering feelings. a life altering event in august forces Au...
If He Had Been with Me by Laura Nowlin
troubled souls find solace in each other’s company at an unorthodox rehab facility, exploring the depths of human connection & healing
The Fabric of Our Souls by K.M. Moronova
tropes: second chance, dual timeline, single mother, family drama, heavy topics, emotional romance 🖤
description: two writers reconnect after 15 years & explore their buried traumas and relive their first seven days
Seven Days in June by Tia Williams
tropes: kidnapped together, forbidden (sister’s fiancé), shared trauma, dual POV heavy topics
Still Beating by Jennifer Hartmann
tropes: childhood best friends, healing, best friend’s ex, novella
description: Paisley, Kydrick & Janelle were childhood besties. when Kydrick & Janelle started dating, Paisley had to keep her feelings hidden. now 12 years after his wrongfu...
Love Set Me Free by Cyn
tropes: mental health, duology, college romance, friends to lovers
description: a spicy love story about Alma’s journey exploring the depths of love, the pain of loss, & the possibility of finding another soulmate
Soul Mate by Ellie Wade