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Craved brutal redemption arcs and gut-punch romance in Reminders of Him by Colleen Hoover? Things We Never Got Over by Lucy Score delivers next.

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Why It's Your Next Read

  • Brooding grump vs sunshine chaos energy
  • Steamy slow-burn that earns every kiss
  • Small-town judgment fuels explosive emotional stakes
  • Laugh-cry whiplash through punchy banter chapters

If Kenna's brutal fight for redemption against a town that refused to forget gutted you, Naomi's reckoning with her own family wreckage in Knockemout will finish the job. Lucy Score engineers the same visceral heartbreak—flawed heroine, brooding alpha drowning in duty, slow-burn heat that detonates without diminishing the ache—but cranks the banter dial until you're laughing through the tears, just like Hoover trained you to crave.

...the same visceral heartbreak—flawed heroine, brooding alpha drowning in duty...

Score's punchy chapters build white-knuckle suspense while delivering steamy proximity tension and messy family warfare that reads like your favorite Reminders scenes got a witty, small-town makeover.

This is the hard-won HEA you ugly-cried for, now with more emotional whiplash per page.

What to read after Reminders of Him

Readers searching for books like or similar to Reminders of Him by Colleen Hoover usually want new adult romance with qualities like brooding alpha hero, strong-willed heroine, emotional whiplash, and steamy tension.

If you like Reminders of Him and want to know what to read next, start with Things We Never Got Over. It is the closest NextBookAfter match for readers who want a book like Reminders of Him with the same core appeal.

Things We Never Got Over is a similar next read for fans of Reminders of Him by Colleen Hoover because it shares brooding alpha hero, strong-willed heroine, emotional whiplash, and steamy tension while moving through small-town romance and grumpy/sunshine romance.

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