Forum: Story Recommendations

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Did you look into "A Fresh Start" by rlfj? It's a do-over story and the MC changes the path of his life except for love. He intends to meet and marry the same girl again!

HM.

*blush* Thank you! I've been writing a storm and should be posting something new next week.

somebody ooks at my stories

I ook at your stories and like community four(ever) even though I have to look up how to spell it. I left off the capital letters, probably in error.

Unusually for me I'm actually reading 'Community Four(Ever) as it posts - I almost never read in progress stories these days after the number that have become inactive.

Well, given that the whole series is an ongoing saga with artificial (calendar year) breaks between the various threads, you basically have two options.
1 - read.
2 - don't read.
Waiting for completion would have been option three.

Thanks for your suggestions.

I've got your story and The Best of Both Worlds bookmarked since earlier, so it might be a good time to check them out.

I did enjoy the first book in Celtic Cowboys When Dreams Come True immensely, though I thought that it suffered a quality drop when too many characters were introduced and it felt like rather than to progress the main characters story, it just added more and more side characters. Maybe some people like that, it was the same reason I stopped reading Arlene & Jeff, it felt like the main characters took a backseat in the story while every single side character needed a love interest of their own. I much prefer to read about the main characters that you've gotten to know further their relationships and stories than reading about how some side characters cousin that's barely related to the main plot found love. Anyhow, I did like the first book, so I might check out The Hummingbird. If I've understood it correctly, it features some characters from When Dreams Come True so it might be fun.

I stopped reading The Defenceman because of the angst, so I've avoided Cold Creek since then, but other than the relationship drama in The Defenceman, I liked it, so I'll add The Occasional Mind Reader to the list aswell.

I haven't checked out Janna Leonard or EzzyB yet, I'll look them up.

I've read Once More With Feelings and liked it well enough.

Have you read Kelly by the same author? I've been on the fence about it since it has a great score but the story description is kind of lacking and from what little there is "Boy meets girl, girl meets boy's partner" it sounds like the setup for some kind of love triangle so I have been hesitant to pick it up yet.

Again, thanks for your recommendations, I've got a little backlog now!

I think you will like Kelly. Yes, there is a triangle, but that is not the emphasis of the story. It just provides the base that the rest of the story line builds upon.

- In Building a Better Past you may feel that the relationship locks in too early but, well, there's more to it than that.

I should clarify, I don't mind early relationship, and I usually like the "love at first sight" stories. What I meant when I said that I thought oyster50s relationships moved too fast for me, it was specific for the "older man and a teen" situation. I just feel that in taboo subjects like a teen with an older man, incest etc does better with a build up. You know, have a seduction over time or a big event that push them together to overcome the wall in their relationship, instead of meeting up, older man thinks that she's a bit young for about a day, and the next day plan their wedding.

So if your stories relationship locks in early, I don't mind it, as long as it makes sense.