1. Forever I will think of raking leaves when I see this word. Not but actually this word has become a helpful tool for me in helping me pick out novels. If I even see the word Rake anywhere in the excerpt or summary on the back or title, I avoid that book. Because I am so very sick of rakes and the ~virtuous ladies~ who love them. *hurls* I know romance genre is not known for it's startling originality but damn if an author cant at least be a LEEETLE creative with her plot or character ideas, then I dont need to be reading their book. much too busy to spend time on books that are boring and riddled with cliches. (plus rakes are usually gross man whores with drinking problems or in my mind that's what they are, never in the novels are they acknowledged that way)
Lisa Kleypas! I've read a few of her books. She's good, but she does like her Alpha heroes. I am not really a fan of alphas and I mean I liked her Travis Family trilogy and all but more for the girls than the guys (well, I did kind of like Hardy tbh :x) otherwise the Alpha ness is a mega turn off for me. Like Dreaming of You is apparently a popular historical of hers, so I checked it out and uhh it wasnt bad and I appreciated that he wasnt born into wealth but the fact is he was still HELLA insanely wealthy which kinda wigged me out how crazy rich he was but also his personality was uber serious and brooding and aggressive and domineering and uh NO. I dont think he was an alpha-asshole like alot of alpha romance heroes tend to be but he was kind of overbearing tbh. So yeah, I dont always get into her novels largely because of that. Man I need more romance novels that are willing to play with power dynamics this man = strong and in charge thing bores the bejeezus out of me. -_-
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Date: 2010-10-04 01:24 pm (UTC)I know romance genre is not known for it's startling originality but damn if an author cant at least be a LEEETLE creative with her plot or character ideas, then I dont need to be reading their book. much too busy to spend time on books that are boring and riddled with cliches. (plus rakes are usually gross man whores with drinking problems or in my mind that's what they are, never in the novels are they acknowledged that way)
Lisa Kleypas! I've read a few of her books. She's good, but she does like her Alpha heroes. I am not really a fan of alphas and I mean I liked her Travis Family trilogy and all but more for the girls than the guys (well, I did kind of like Hardy tbh :x) otherwise the Alpha ness is a mega turn off for me. Like Dreaming of You is apparently a popular historical of hers, so I checked it out and uhh it wasnt bad and I appreciated that he wasnt born into wealth but the fact is he was still HELLA insanely wealthy which kinda wigged me out how crazy rich he was but also his personality was uber serious and brooding and aggressive and domineering and uh NO. I dont think he was an alpha-asshole like alot of alpha romance heroes tend to be but he was kind of overbearing tbh. So yeah, I dont always get into her novels largely because of that. Man I need more romance novels that are willing to play with power dynamics this man = strong and in charge thing bores the bejeezus out of me. -_-