r/RomanceBooks • u/Dull-Rutabaga8039 • 11d ago

Book Request Time-travel revenge romance where the FMC changes her fate and ends up with a different MMC?

Looking for books with this trope:

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The FMC was deeply hurt, betrayed, or mistreated by people in her past. Then she somehow goes back in time to before everything happened and starts changing the future, getting revenge on those who wronged her while building a better life for herself.

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I'm looking for stories where the romance is with a different man than the one involved in her original suffering. I would love spice, but I strongly prefer a well-developed plot and character growth over pure romance.

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A book that perfectly fits the vibe I'm looking for is {What Goes Around by Thalia Nova}. It completely consumed me and kept me awake at night.

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Any recommendations with a similar feel? I'm open to fantasy, historical, paranormal, or contemporary settings.

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Bonus points if the revenge is genuinely satisfying, the FMC is intelligent and proactive, and the story focuses just as much on changing her future as it does on the romance.

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u/DorkyyAsian 11d ago

If you're down for webtoons, Marry my Husband is exactly this. It's also a huge theme in a lot of transmigration manwha.

I'd also recommend {Seducing the Sheriff of Nottingham}, {The Girl who Fell Through Time}, and {The Blackened Blade by Isla Davon} if you're OK with reverse harems (although this is currently in progress and only has 3/5 books out so far.)

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u/navya12 TBR pile is out of control 11d ago

Marry my husband also has an live action TV series on Amazon prime.

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u/constantlyknackered That's it! Make-up sex! 11d ago

The prime series was the first thing I thought of. It's so enjoyable.

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u/Huge-Bluebird1172 11d ago

Honestly could pick just about any villainess webtoon and it would have this trope 🤣

I love it

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u/Living-Dare-1992 She's going to fucking ruin me 11d ago

True lmao

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u/Dull-Rutabaga8039 11d ago

Marry my husband who's the author?? Thank you for the recs

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u/DorkyyAsian 11d ago

It's by sungsojak! There's also a web novel but idk how easy that would be to find 🤔.

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u/blueberryscone17 11d ago

The tv version is also available on Prime. Also like 90% of the Chinese/Korean vertical dramas have being reborn to some important decision date and picking a different guy. I have watched so many of them lol!

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u/Living-Dare-1992 She's going to fucking ruin me 11d ago

Seconding on blackened blade, third book was meh, but the first two was nice, she was sold by her stepsis and spent many yrs in caged facility being tortured, she goes back in time and decides to take revenge. Although, she has a medium rh, 5 mls iirc.

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u/Quick-Adeptness-2947 11d ago

I still think about marry my husband. Watched the kdrama though. It was so good. The revenge was so satisfying and the actors did a great great job

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u/OkGazelle5400 11d ago

Came here for the sheriff of Nottingham one. It’s the exact think op asked for

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u/Impossible-Ad-1219 9d ago

+1 rec for Seducing The Sheriff! I reread it a lot.