What romance book do you secretly love?
This one is a tough question because I don't know that I hide from the books that I once secretly loved. I mean, at one time I hid the fact that I read romance from everybody. Not that I was fooling anybody but my friends sure didn't know. Now with the online community and my bad attitude I'm not really sure I care what people think about what I like to read.
It doesn't bother me that there are Lori Foster rabid fangirls. Have at it. I wish she worked for me but, meh.So, I guess I could truly horrify people by saying that I at one time loved all of Woodiwiss' books except for the one where the hero married the sister or some such rot. I'm not sure when her books went bad but it was early in my reading.
A Rose in Winter was a complete revelation to me. I had never read anything like it. No, I never read Jane Austen so the idea of secret identities and hidden wives never occured to me.
Come Love a Stranger was so romantic and I didn't have a clue how things were going to work out.
Then Shanna. I am thinking of re-reading this book to see how it holds up. I loved that she basically bought him from a prison - or were they married?Woodiwiss showed a darkness and angst that probably made me into the reader I am today!
Julie Garwood. Yeah, that one is hard to admit when I know Maili might drop in but c'mon! It was more about relationships between the H/H then the settings. It showed me that you didn't have to read 'I love you - I hate you' books and I scoured the bookstores for every single one of her books.
I remember reading Judith McNaught and wanting to beat most of the heroes about the head but I don't remember Whitney, My Love in particular, which is weird because you would think I would remember a book that so many people found loathsome. Again, may have to find that one.
Diana Palmer - but then, who doen't have an author in their library that they know writes horribly virginalized heroines and abusive heroes?
Just me?
Forget I mentioned it.
Oh, crap. Now I remember.
I read and enjoyed Evanovich until about book 10. Sorry, I just did.
*deep breath in* I also continued to read LKH up to and including her last book. As my friend calls it, vampire porn. Now it's more like vampire gang-sex porn but, well, I've still read them. I don't think I will read the next one though. I didn't mind when she had sex with Jason or someone I knew but when all these other male characters showed up I was done.Wow, I guess that one was the deep dark secret one.
Wait, there was a Sandra Brown book where the heroine is engaged to a young religious man and the night before he is to go somewhere dangerous, she tries to seduce him. He leaves the room. She's crying and the bad boy brother who has loved her from afar can't help but come to her in the dark.
Yeah, I remember bringing that one up on a message board and getting blasted with the I HATED THAT BOOK!! With the caps lock on. Followed by the ME TOOs!! and the Ewwwws.
Whatever.
Wanna comment? Go ahead, I can take you - uh - it ;)
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I liked Sandra Brown's Led Astray when I first read it, maybe 10 years ago. Kept my copy of the book, even. When I was ruthlessly weeding out books in preparation for my last move, I flipped through it and was kind of appalled at myself -- because I still liked it, even with the major squick factor of the bad boy sleeping with the heroine under false pretenses. Objectively, I should hate the book, because the heroine's a doormat, the hero's a skanky ho, the parents are cardboard cut outs. Literally, there were no characters that I really liked, except maybe the friend who elopes with her boyfriend. But I kept the book anyway.
Damn. Finally I found your blog! For a long time I thought it was cindys.blogspot.com but ohhhh, no! It's cindyL.blogspot.com
*sigh* Why L, anyway? I've been meaning to ask you about that for ages.
P.S. I quite liked LED ASTRAY, actually. The hero has a sense of humour that took me by surprise, if I remember correctly.
What romance book do you secretly love?
*thinking* ... I can't think of anything that I'd be embarrassed to admit loving. Linda Howard's DUNCAN'S BRIDE? I'm not shy about that, actually. Hm. Let me think ...
*thinking* ... nope. IMO, a book is a book is a book. If it's liked, fantastic. If not, so f. what? :P
Of course, it doesn't mean it would stop me from taking the mick out of other readers for liking books I didn't enjoy. :P I'd not tease if I knew it'd upset them, though.
Hi Cindy - thanks for the book, it arrived last night. *mwah*
What romance book do you secretly love?
I've been pretty open about these 2 loves - By Arrangement and Pride & Prejudice.
I've only tried one Sandra Brown and it didn't quite work for me.
Julie Garwood. Yeah, that one is hard to admit when I know Maili might drop in but c'mon! It was more about relationships between the H/H then the settings. It showed me that you didn't have to read 'I love you - I hate you' books and I scoured the bookstores for every single one of her books.
Yes, that's it exactly. Thank you, thank you, o great one. (BG)
And if I told anyone who my secret love in romance novels was it wouldn't be a secret, now would it? Ahem. I chose that route because I honestly have no idea.
I shall think on this one.
I got to number 9 in Evanovich's series and 10's been sitting on my shelf for a while. I'll probably pick it up if I'm ever in a slump.
And you got a hell of a lot farther than I did in the Anita Blake series. I stopped after Blue Moon, even though I have up to Incubus Dreams sitting on my shelf. I think authors should put a limit on how many books they're going to do in a series, because when they don't the series tend to fizzle out and go on and on and on with no ending in sight.
jmc - right, Let Astray! I'm always surprised that people can remember the titles to these books. I was going to go look it up but didn't want to have to read 100 blurbs to find it. I still have it in the house and it might have to be re-read to see if it gets to keep it's spot ;)
Maili - Cindys was taken so I did Cindyl because my middle name is Lee. I started using CindyS so people would know me from other Cindys - I seemed to be the only one for years and then bam, three others showed up so I became CindyS. Oh and tease away sweets, I know I can take it and you can too ;)
ag - glad the book made it! I think your secrets don't have that 'ugh' feeling that mine get ;)
Beverly - think dear, think.
Samantha - 11 was horrible and I just noticed 12 is coming out but I'm going to wait and see what others say about it. Maybe paperback. I was thinking of going back and re-reading 4-6 because they were the funniest. As to LKH - what can I say - I heard Edward was coming and book 10 was his book. Yum. I have heard that Edward makes an appearance in the next book but I'm not sure it's enough to have me buy it. I did stop the Merry series though - at 19 men, I couldn't keep them straight and then, I didn't care ;)
CindyS
I tried the Merry series but never got past the first book. 19 men? Yikes, that a bit of overkill.
1 through 4 were my favorites in the Evanovich series. I didn't like number 7 at all, but the ones after it were all right. So maybe that will be the case with 11?
I am thinking but nothing is coming to mind. I guess I've always been the type that talks about the authors I like and if an author I don't like comes up in discussion, I'll admit that too. So, nope, don't think there's anything hiding in the closet.
Shanna was probably the first bodice ripper I read and what an eye opener that was. I loved it and read all of hers up until Ashes in the Wind I think. Hated that one. I liked Led Astray too.
I have read all of the Stephanie Plum but the last one (#11) was only a C so I may be done with these books. I'll wait to see what kind of reviews and buzz #12 gets.
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