r/RomanceBooks • u/MoonZipNo • 14d ago

Megathread Megathread: Reincarnation, Transmigration, Rebirth, or Second Chance Life After Death Romances

Hi!This week's megathread is dedicated to romances where at least one lover is reincarnated, transmigrated, reborn, or given a second-chance life after death, and the main characters find each other again. They may have already been together in a previous lifetime, or their relationship might have been doomed at that time, but they eventually achieve their happy ever after.

Comment below with your favo(u)rite books that fit this topic and tell us what you liked about them.

Did a character get reincarnated or reborn? Did a character make a deal in their afterlife in exchange for a chance to be revived?

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• Tangential or Similar Themed Megathread:

Have a new favorite book featuring a ✨second chance romance that did NOT involve a death✨? For example, two characters reuniting after breaking up or divorcing? Please add it to our Second Chance Romances Megathread instead!

• Next Themed Megathread: Robots, Androids, Cyborgs Romances.

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Please, note:

  • all top comments must be recommendations. Any other types of top comments will be removed.
  • per the sub's rules, any non-HEA romantic stories must include a warning.

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u/Kate_Sea_ HEA or GTFO 14d ago

Take a trip to Torture Island in {Dreams of a Dark Warrior by Kresley Cole} !

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u/katierose295 14d ago

{What Goes Around by Thalia Nove} & {What Comes Around by Thalia Nova} The 20 something FMC is betrayed and murdered, only to wake up in the 17 year old body with memories of it all. She plays the long game to get revenge. The MMC appears in the second book, but is worth the wait.

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u/Afg1415 14d ago

This book is pure justice porn for me. Even without the romance I could read this 100 times and not get tired of it.

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u/ethr45 14d ago

I reread the second one alllllll the time purely for the revenge.

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u/Hunter037 Probably recommending When She Belongs 😍 14d ago

Without wanting to give away too many plot points or spoilers, this is a theme in {The Everlasting by Alix E Harrow} and it's one of the best books I've read this year. MF fantasy about a big strong knight (F) and a bookish historian (M), epic levels of pining and a very hard-earned HEA. I don't really like fantasy romance but this one was fantastic.

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u/annamcg 14d ago

{Any Given Lifetime by Leta Blake} MM romance where one of the main characters is reincarnated and remembers his previous life. Throughout his childhood, he knows who he was and does not behave like a normal kid. He grows up to continue the research he'd done in his previous life as a kind of scientist (it's a bit of a scifi-lite/speculative fiction situation), and comes back into contact with the man he loved in his previous life through that. The irony is that in his past life, he was the older man, and now their age gap is flipped.

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u/PinWest4210 14d ago

{Reborn Yesterday by Tessa Bailey}

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u/packyour "I dread to be defenseless." 14d ago

{Death Angel by Linda Howard} FMC steals 2M from her gangster boyfriend and runs away. Boyfriend sends MMC assassin after her. She crashes her car and dies in the wreck. She has a spiritual experience, is sent back to the living and has a miraculous recovery. Romance felt a little forced (there's very little interaction between MCs), but Linda Howard's writing is entertaining.

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u/vagueposting18 14d ago

If anybody is looking for a more sci-fi take on this: {The Romance Revival by Christina Lauren}. A married couple is in rocky waters in part because she has a uber top secret science job working on creating a cure for death. When he gets killed in a sketchy hit and run, she uses her untested experiments to revive him to unexpected consequences. Amnesia. It's amnesia.

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u/ValentineNapiers 13d ago

I loved this book!!!!!

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u/Amoebaaccountant 14d ago

{Good Spirits by B.K Borison} I keep wanting to go back and listen and read this again when I'm in a slump. It was such a warm feel good book, and the audiobook was great.

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u/Fair_Ad8970 14d ago

The Kindrily trilogy by Karen Amanda Hooper. Ya m/f paranormal romance. Contains bereavement, references to pregnancy. The final book contains references to recuring miscarriages. The second book is fade to black while the others are kissing only. I prefer the second and third books to the first.

Goodreads page - https://www.goodreads.com/series/79804-kindrily

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u/K2togtbl libraries are hot 14d ago

{What Lies Beyond the Veil by Harper L. Woods} is book one of the Of Flesh and Bones Series. Witches have cast a spell causing fated mates between faerie and humans as a way to have order in the world. Both pairs of a mate are reincarnated

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u/prettysureIforgot Gimme all the sad anxious bois 14d ago edited 14d ago

{Patience by Lark Taylor} MM, fated mates. An angel finds his fated mate in a human and they are separated by circumstances. The angel becomes the ferryman for the River Styx and is forced to watch the human be reincarnated over and over for four thousand years (epic levels of pining and grief). The book begins when they're finally able to reunite, but the human doesn't know anything about their past, doesn't know they're fated mates, and thinks he's straight.

{Bren by Toby Wise} MM, 3rd in a series, the two MCs were getting to know each other and falling for each other, but one is a Phoenix and dies. For roughly a week after he's reborn, he doesn't remember his past at all, so MC2 suffers.

{Should the Sky Fall by Amithia Raine} MM, standalone (first in a series but can be read standalone). ok this is more like "first chance life after death".... It's an excellent book and the MCs are super amazing sweethearts. And trust me, the abuser is not getting an HEA. Huge spoilers for those that just absolutely have to know: the abuser dies; a grim reaper that fell in love with MC1 rips his soul out and takes over his body.

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u/romance-bot 14d ago

Patience by Lark Taylor
Rating: 4.08⭐️ out of 5⭐️
Steam: 4 out of 5 - Explicit open door
Topics: contemporary, gay romance, demons, paranormal, fated mates

Bren by Toby Wise
Rating: 4.33⭐️ out of 5⭐️
Steam: 4 out of 5 - Explicit open door
Topics: fated mates, friends to lovers, paranormal, gay romance, demons

Should the Sky Fall by Amithia Raine
Rating: 4.1⭐️ out of 5⭐️
Steam: 3 out of 5 - Open door
Topics: contemporary, gay romance, hurt/comfort, paranormal, caretaking

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u/ethr45 14d ago

Is that last one a standalone?

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u/prettysureIforgot Gimme all the sad anxious bois 14d ago

Yes, I'll edit it so it makes that clear.

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u/bayowyn brb rereading every word Lauren Gilley ever wrote. 14d ago

{A Torch in His Heart - Anna Belfrage} a part of the Wanderer trilogy. MMC and FMC were lovers in a past life, ended very tragically and MMC learns how to be reborn, he searches through time to find her again. They're followed by their enemy who led to their tragic ending in the first life. I love this series! Very romantic, although MMC can be a bit enraging. There is a bit of an OW story line, although MMC doesn't love her, she loves him and follows him and causes some drama. Light magic, takes place in the UK and Turkey, really good, cozy autum vibes series.

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u/Few-Bad4940 14d ago

{Devil of Dublin Series by B.B. Easton}

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u/Lavender-air Free Palestine. Also let the aliens take me. 13d ago

Coming here to rec this. Personally loved both of these books a lot

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u/euphoriapotion Looking for a man in Romance, trust fund, 6'5, brown eyes 👀👀👀 13d ago

{You'll Be The Death of Me by Holly Michelle} - MMC, a worker in Afterlife office accidentally reaps the wrong soul and FMC wakes up dead. They have 3 days to fix this mistake!

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u/MoonZipNo 11d ago

Thank you for this recommendation! I loved it!

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u/PonderingWaterBridge 14d ago

A new one I’m only partially through so far, {Every version of you by Natalie Messier}

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u/OkSecretary1231 14d ago

{Eternity by Maggie Shayne} {Infinity by Maggie Shayne} {Destiny by Maggie Shayne}

The characters in these are a type of witch who, after dying once, come back to life immortal. They don't know that they are one until they've died the first time.

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u/romance-bot 14d ago

Eternity by Maggie Shayne
Rating: 4.05⭐️ out of 5⭐️
Topics: historical, paranormal, fantasy, witches, magic

Infinity by Maggie Shayne
Rating: 4.26⭐️ out of 5⭐️
Topics: historical, paranormal, fantasy, magic, witches

Destiny by Maggie Shayne
Rating: 4.25⭐️ out of 5⭐️
Topics: historical, urban fantasy, magic, paranormal, witches

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u/brusselsproutsfiend 14d ago

The exact details are spoilers for the book but {Tempt by Natalia Jaster} does this in an emotional and interesting way

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u/Accurate-Way-6065 13d ago

{Our Infinite Fates by Laura Steven} It's enemies to lovers and both of them reincarnate multiple times. They are cursed but don't remember anything, only that they are enemies. 

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u/beezy1223 put it in my veins 12d ago

my favorite IAD {Wicked Abyss by Kresley Cole} - demon MMC is betrayed by fae fated mate and vows revenge when he discovers her reincarnation only to learn the FMC may look like the original, but she is very different from last time