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Aug. 6th, 2015 09:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bedlamsbardReading (both pro and fannish) romance/erotica is always an interesting experience for me because I...have a tendency to skip through the sex scenes. Like, I am so clearly not the target audience! And yet there's clearly something in there that gets my attention anyway, even though I often spend a large portion of the book wondering, "Why am I reading this?"
I am sure there is a romance novel out there that hits all my buttons, but hell if I know what it is. To be fair, it's probably not coming from the authors that I read, since they all write stuff that is fairly similar as far as the romance tropes go. And it's not bad! It's just not what I'm into. As a romance reader, anyway. Like, the plot stuff in these books? I'm generally fairly interested. The romance tropes...don't really do it for me.
Which does sort of make me wonder what I am actually interested in as far as romance goes, but it's...the stuff I write...eh. I don't know, it's just a weird experience.
I guess I should clarify what I'm actually talking about? I read Lauren Dane's Opening Up today, since it was a Kindle Daily Deal, and I'm slowly working through Kit Rocha's Beyond Jealousy (the first book in that series, Beyond Shame, probably came the closest to hitting my buttons).
I am sure there is a romance novel out there that hits all my buttons, but hell if I know what it is. To be fair, it's probably not coming from the authors that I read, since they all write stuff that is fairly similar as far as the romance tropes go. And it's not bad! It's just not what I'm into. As a romance reader, anyway. Like, the plot stuff in these books? I'm generally fairly interested. The romance tropes...don't really do it for me.
Which does sort of make me wonder what I am actually interested in as far as romance goes, but it's...the stuff I write...eh. I don't know, it's just a weird experience.
I guess I should clarify what I'm actually talking about? I read Lauren Dane's Opening Up today, since it was a Kindle Daily Deal, and I'm slowly working through Kit Rocha's Beyond Jealousy (the first book in that series, Beyond Shame, probably came the closest to hitting my buttons).