Very fun discussion on RTB about erotic romance, a reader’s roundtable. Today’s part 2 of 2, and the fun factor in erotic romance came up. These books are fun! Yes, they are, which is why I love them. Yes, they do seem to harken back to the bodice ripper days when men were men and women had adventures instead of watching their stock portfolios and worrying about Very Serious Issues.
I’m not knocking those Serious Books, because they have their own audience and their own appeal, but I read and write romance for fun. And I loved the old bodice rippers and I frankly don’t understand why so many romance writers of today seem to feel the need to defend the genre against them, as if it were a dark embarassment to put behind them while they convince people that “romance isn’t like that!”
Romance is a huge genre, so no, not all romance is like that. There’s plenty of serious to go around for people who love that in their books. As for me, I love cheese. Which is why, in a bookstore, I will pick up and buy a book titled “Bimbos of the Death Sun” (which, by the way, is a fabulous read and so is the sequel “Zombies of the Gene Pool”) instead of a book about a family drama.
Anyway, check out the discussion! Because I don’t have anything serious to talk about over here. I’m still giggling about “heroes who chew the shrubbery in their angst”.
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