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What I find steamy, someone else might find tame, and vice-versa. Yet I’ve learned that’s a very subjective question. I hear this, because I don’t read much that is, shall we say, spicy. When I mention romance novels, people often ask about the heat level. It’s no wonder romance readers are some of the most loyal and passionate out there! I’ve come to admire the way romance writers excel at plot and story. (My friend Leigh Kramer wrote a great post that I now think of as Romance 101: read it here.) And, according to the conventions of the genre, it must have a happy ending. If you like love stories, good news! The first category in this year’s Summer Reading Guide is “Wholly Unexpected Love Stories.” But a romance goes a step further, in that to meet the conventions of the genre, it must have a central love story. But a few savvy readers with great taste convinced me that a good book is a good book, good writing is good writing, and romance writers are some of the best writers out there.Ī romance novel isn’t just a love story. And it’s true the genre is (sadly) much aligned.
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I didn’t used to read romance, largely because I (wrongly) assumed serious readers didn’t. So far I’ve shared the 2019 Summer Reading Guide with subscribers, my Minimalist Summer Reading Guide, and 20 hot new releases everyone will be talking about this summer. His dark eyes seemed to see down to the very depths of her being, as if he could read all her secrets.Readers, it’s been so much fun helping you fill up your summer TBRs. He smelled clean, just soap and man, and even though it felt strange to have him continue to hold her hand, it was more good-strange than bad-strange. "He towered over her, and she had on pretty high heels. "The Sheikh's Innocent Bride" by Lynne Graham (2005) A tiny twist of something she had never felt before pulled low in her pelvis." Every aspect of him offered a source of immediate fascination. "His bronzed complexion and very black hair suggested an ancestry at variance with his beautifully enunciated English.
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"Secret-Agent Sheik" by Linda Winstead Jones (2002) a mouth that sensuous should be illegal!" The cut of his jaw was sharp and masculine, the nose perfectly straight and fittingly regal, and the mouth. Even with sunglasses hiding his eyes from her, she could tell that he had an unusually handsome, olive-toned face. The power that emanated from him had nothing to do with what he wore. "Beneath his loose, traditional clothing, this man was powerfully built. Monroe says this pattern of kidnap-rape-love, rooted in a pre-1980s cultural belief that unmarried women shouldn't go looking for sex, involved "forcing pleasure on women." For their own good, apparently. Not only does the sheik of the title - "a splendid healthy animal" - abduct and imprison the heroine, Diana, but he also rapes her. In the past, though, sheik fantasies could be pretty icky.Ĭonsider the 1919 novel "The Sheik" by Edith Maude Hull, the forebear of all subsequent sheik romances. are not going to learn anything about the Middle East from me."
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Writing a sheik romance "is a hoot," laughs Mallery. That's the happy ending every reader expects. The hero and the heroine are expected to dislike each other initially - to be enemies - and, then, to be drawn against their wills into each other's arms. Every romance novel, our detective learns, whether it features a sheik or some other male, is about the transformation of the two central characters, the Adam and Eve of the story.