Older man younger woman books Reddit

Romance isn't usually my thing, but I've really been craving a good love story that I just can't seem to find from the books I usually read (I'm usually a big literary fiction reader, but for some reason a lot of literary writers seem to have a disdain for a good love story, which I've never understood).

Anyway, I really, REALLY love older man/younger woman stories, or anything where there's some sort of power imbalance, such as teacher/student. I'm also really into stories where one character has gone through trauma or emotional hardship and the other one helps them through it.

Thank you in advance!

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I am looking for well written, slow burn age gap romance books please. I have read torn, unstickey, birthday girl, all Mariana zapeta….. the other brother….

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{Just a Heartbeat Away by Cara Bastone} it’s not super spicy though

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Mr. Masters by T.L Swan he’s not 40 (39) and the FMC is 26. Just suggesting because it was close!

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Loveddd Mr. Masters, one of my favorites!

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Don't kiss the bride by Carian cole

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Pretty Face by Lucy Parker - CR, 42yo stage director mmc and 26yo actress fmc. my favourite CR of all time!

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· 9 mo. agono communicating allowed until 75%

If you liked Mariana Zapata, check out Karla Sorenson or Sara Ney or Annika Martin.

They have similar author vibes imo as Zapata, the slower burn and “real life” feel

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· 9 mo. agoEthan Dexter's biggest fan

{Splendor by Janet Nissenson} She is 24, he is 40. Boss-employee dynamics. Although it is book 2 in the series, you don’t have to read the first one. It’s about different characters.

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Hey! May I ask, if you remember, at what point of the book do they start to get together? Is there a lot of background story at the beginning?

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idk if it’s a slow burn because i’m not done with it yet BUT mafia mistress by mila finelli!!

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It’s old enough that you might have a hard time tracking down a copy, but if my math is correct, Lost Warriors by Rachel Lee would count.

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Can i ask which author is The Older Brother? There are several books with that title. Thanks!

Searching the sub for "age gap" will give you a bunch of recs. Off the top of my head, if you like paranormal {Hot Blooded by Heather Guerre} is an immortal vampire mmc and a human nurse fmc. {Dragon Bound by Thea Harrison} is an immortal dragon shifter mmc and an unknown mysterious younger fmc.

For contemporary, {The Redemption by Nikki Sloane} has a much older titan of industry bank owner mmc and an in the know socialite fmc who is trying to help him rebuild his image after a scandal.

I think these fmcs are all 25 yrs + but unsure if they meet the 30 yr mark

Hello everyone - ah, my first post on r/books and it's a rant!

So I just read 'The Paper Magician'. It was a good idea, not amazingly well written, but honestly the gripe is with the 19 year old, fresh out of school, girl, "falling in love" with her 30+ year old mentor, the end of the book and teaser for the second book implying it would be reciprocated. And I remembered reading a "Newbury and Hobbes" book a friend lent me and running into more or less the same trope and being skeeved out by it then too - the whole 'bright young woman falls for older mentor' business.

Why is this such a prevalent theme, especially, it seems, in fantasy? Maybe I'm just reading the wrong books. I appreciate these are relatively pulpy titles. You almost-never seem to find either genuine teacher/pupil relationships, M/F friendships or heck, an old(er) woman having an adventure in general, without some weird age-mismatched romance being shoehorned in. Am I alone in finding that sort of addition really - unpleasant? I felt genuinely dirty putting down 'The Paper Magician' - this girl has known this man not even 6 months, he's had endless more experience than her and it's treated like a sweet romance? There was genuinely no need for the romance at all. I'd believe she wanted to save her teacher because she liked and respected him as a teacher and mentor, not because she's *suddenly in lurve*.

Maybe I'm too old for what is essentially a YA book, but being 35+ myself doesn't mean I don't want to read about magic and also - where are the women heroes my own age that I can relate to? Older men are magical heroes all over the place but they have to be paired with a younger smart-but-wide-eyed woman to Teach His Skills To and of course, fall in love.

I appreciate the real world bleeds into these books and of course, older women are usually considered less attractive and/or busy having babies to have adventures (...mild /s, but also some truth in it...), but it's fantasy, come on, writers, live a little? Is there not a target audience of middle aged, non-child-having (...or even HAVING-children women who can do more than one thing in their life at a time or have invested in a child-carrying backpack) women who want an adventure? Not even a romance. Just a story with an older magical heroine.

Are there any books I'm missing to disabuse me of this feeling that this is the only book around? Am I alone in feeling genuinely squicked by massive age-gap romance in what's not even, primarily, a romance novel?

I'll be amused if this is downvoted to all heck since it's my first post and heyyyyy, maybe I am a bitter old woman. ;) But anyone feel the same in any way?!

Eh, I've got 'The Priory of the Orange Tree' on my list next so maybe that'll cheer me up. ;)

Edit: Aha this got more traction than I thought. Thank you to everyone who offered a reccy or a point of view, I've got a lot of food for thought and it's been good to learn! And yeah, I won't be picking up any more YA soon, promise. Back to lurking, fare thee well!