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What are some other really good paranormal romance books/authors?

admin — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:53:19 +0000

Im searching out opinions about other good paranormal romance authors or books in general. Here are the authors i have been reading and LOVE LOVE LOVE…Kresley Cole, Gena Showalter, Lara Adrian, Richelle Mead, Lauren Kate, JR ward and a few others but thats the gist.

Unearthly by Cynthia Hand
Die for Me by Amy Plum
My Name is Memory by Ann Brashares
Forever by Maggie Stiefvater
Starcrossed by Josephine Angelini
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Enthralled: Paranormal Diversions edited by Melissa Marr & Kelley Armstrong
Ultraviolet by R J Anderson
(Silence) Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick
Halo by Alexandra Adornetto
After Eden & Beloved Purgatory by Katherine Pine
Fledgling by Natasha Brown
Of Light and Darkness by Shayne Leighton
Jessica’s Guide to Dating on the Dark Side by Beth Fantaskey
An American Werewolf in Idaho by Katella Stegman
Shift by Elle Beauregard
The Demon Kiss by Lacey Weatherfield
Dirty Blood by Heather Hildenbrand

Are hyper-emotional romance books and movies to women what porn is to men?

admin — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 05:52:11 +0000

There are numerous hyper-emotional romance books and films out there. They all follow the same basic plot line. Boy meets girl. There is some social or economic difference between boy and girl. At first, this makes things exciting. Then, intervening friends or family members of one side or both cause the relationship to sour. At this point, a number of things can happen, but often, one of them dies or is permanently separated from the love of their life.

The end.

Well, some of those books are literally porn. They have explicit sex scenes that are meant to be masturbation aids.

If the book doesn’t literally contain porn, I’d say it’s more analogous to stupid action movies than to porn. It’s simple wish-fulfillment that appeals to that little spot inside you that’s secretly not modern or feminist at all and wants to play out a raging gender cliche.

Why are some romance books listed under fiction as their genre?

admin — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 05:13:22 +0000

I’ve noticed at my local bookstores, Chapters, Indigo and Coles here in Canada, that there are some romance books in the fiction section. For example, Nicholas Sparks books are all in the fiction section as well as Jane Austen and others that are clearly romances. It’s not that they’re the cheesey romances you would find in the supermarket, but they’re still romances, why aren’t they in the romance section? What makes these in the fiction and the other romances in romance? Where do you draw the line?
Thank you.

There are two very distinct types of romance novels: classic romance and modern romance. Modern romance was born in the early 1970’s. It’s somewhat trashy and explicit. The romance section is populated by modern romance novels. Pick up a romance from the romance section and read it. Read a few of them. Compare what you’ve read to Jane Austen. The differences in the two types should be crystal clear.

Other novels may contain some romance without having romance and sex being the driving force behind the story. I call these classic romance, and they areshelved within the general fiction section. This is done to provide a clear separation from the modern romance novel. Examples of classic romance include Atonement, Birdsong, Pride and Prejudice, and Corelli’s Mandolin. Sure there is romance in the novels, possibly even some sex. However, the main story is not simply how two people hooked up.

What are some good college romance books?

admin — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 07:39:22 +0000

It’s winter break of my junior year and I love reading books about love and romance but I’m sick of reading books by authors like Sarah Dessen, mainly because all the characters are in high school. I’m not too interested in adult novels either. Does anyone have suggestions for romance books that take place in a college setting?

Thanks in advance.

Melinda Metz – Roswell High
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Game Of Thrones

What are some really good paranormal romance series books?

admin — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 03:02:45 +0000

I’ve read twilight and now I cant get enough of these types of books! I loved hush hush by Becca fitzpatrick, and I love the whole teen vampire/angle/immortal idea, but lately ive found no paranormal romance books ive really loved, books worthy to read again and again. Please help!

You should definetly check out the Blue Bloods series by Melissa De La Cruz. There are 6 books and 2 companion books so far. The cool thing about these series is that the companion books you don’t have to read but they act like encyclopedias for when your halfway through the series, and also contain like "behind the scene" moments of the characters relationships, fights, etc. Here’s the list in order:
1. Blue Bloods
2. Masquerade
3. Revelations
4. The Van Alen Legacy
5. Misguided Angel
6. Lost in Time
*The last book in this series doesn’t come out till January 2013.
**Once you get through the series, there’s actually a character in the books that’s gonna start having her own series which is cool.
***The companion books: Keys to the Repository and Bloody Valentine. Keys to the Repository comes in between The Van Alen Legacy and Misguided Angel and Bloody Valentine comes in between Misguided Angel and Lost in Time
Hope this helps! I recommend this series =)

What books have a really good paranormal romance?

admin — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 22:10:20 +0000

I love romance books. Books like twilight, fallen, hush hush. Is there any books that you would recommend? Alot please:) <3

~The Immortals by Alyson Noel (the romance is a bit like twilight but there’s no vampires and werewolfs)
~The Uglies Series by Scott Westerfeld (at 16, everyone has plastic surgery to become "Pretties." Shay decides she doesn’t want the surgery, and runs away, pushing her best friend Tally into a world of chaos. The authorities offer Tally a choice: find Shay and bring her home, or never turn Pretty at all)
~Angelfire by Cortney Allison Moulton (a girl discovers that the monsters in her dreams are real, the girl, continuously reborn as a warrior to fight those monsters)
~Starcrossed by Josephine Angelini (a girl finds out she’s a modern-day helen of troy , she falls for a boy which could provoke a new Trogan war)
~The Faerie Path by Frewin Jones (after an accident, a girl finds out shes a lost fairy princess)
~Soul Screamer Series by Rachel Vincent (Kaylee Cavanaugh wants to be a normal schoolgirl but she possesses a strange power. She doesn’t see dead people, but she can sense when somebody nearby is about to die)
~Maximum Ride by James Patterson ( The series chronicles the lives of six fugitive kids,born in a laboratory , they endured scientific experiments that made them 98% human and 2% bird, they spend their time running from monsters)
~The Abandon Trilogy by Meg Cabot (Pierce knows what happens to us when we die. That’s how she met the mysterious stranger who’s made returning to normal life—or at least life as she knew it before the accident—next to impossible.)
~Delirium by Lauren Oliver (a girl lives in a world where Love is a disease, at 18 she will have the cure to it and never have to worry about it ever again, but soon before her 18th birthday she falls in love)
~Divergent by Veronica Roth (where people choose which group of people to go with at 16, the daredevils, the selfless, the clever… some romance)
~The Goddess Test by Aimee Carter (It’s always been just Kate and her mom—and her mother is dying. Then she meets Henry. He claims to be Hades, god of the Underworld—and if she accepts his bargain, he’ll keep her mother alive while Kate tries to pass seven tests.)
~The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare (it’s complicated, but basically, these kids, shadowhunters fight demons … lots of romance …, REALLY GOOD!!)
~The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (probably hard to miss this one, but in case you have, each year a boy and girl are each chosen from 12 districts, they’re placed in an arena where they must fight to death)
~The Wolves Of Mercy Falls by Maggie Stiefvater (Grace has been watching the wolves outside her home every winter. She is drawn to one in particular that has stunning yellow eyes, and she’s certain that it is the same wolf who saved her from a pack of wolves who attacked her when she was a young girl.)
~Halo by Alexandra Adornetto (dark forces are gathering. Terrorist attacks, murders, strife, poverty. Three angels are sent to earth to help and go against darkness. Bethany the least experienced of the three, created a mere seventeen years ago, she is also the most connected to the human race.)
~Vampire Kisses by Ellen Schreiber(The mansion on top of Benson Hill has stood empty for years. But one day it seems to be occupied, and its mysterious, handsome inhabitant Alexander Sterling becomes the source of much talk around town. Raven, a vampire-obsessed Goth-girl who has always considered herself an outsider in "Dullsville," is determined to uncover the truth surrounding the secretive Alexander.)
~Ripple by Mandy Hubbard (Lexi is cursed with a dark secret.She is a siren – a deadly mermaid destined to lure men to their watery deaths. After accidently drowning her boyfriend, Lexi shuts herself off from the world, vowing to protect the ones she loves. But she soon finds herself caught between a new boy at school)
~Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead (After two years on the run, best friends Rose, half-human/half-vampire, and Lissa, a mortal vampire princess, are caught and returned to St. Vladimir’s Academy)
~Morganville Vampires by Rachel Caine (Michael Glass has a problem staying in his own home. The problem–he has odd hours and exists only at night but in the daytime he vanishes. No one knows where he goes.)

What are some good non-romance books set at a carnival or circus?

admin — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 19:24:17 +0000

I’ve just finished reading The Pilo Family Circus and I’d love to read some more books set at a carnival or circus. Please no non-fiction and no romance books. Thanks.

well did you read "Geek Love" by Katherine Dunn?

http://www.amazon.com/Geek-Love-Novel-Katherine-Dunn/dp/0375713344/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1310859284&sr=1-1

What are some good summer romance series of books that are good?

admin — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:17:32 +0000

So I’m 15 and I love to read! I like books when they have at least a sequel or more books to them. I just read The Boys next door and Endless summer, they were good. I also read the summer i turned pretty series which was my favorite. I need some more books to read! Any teen romance books in the summer would be perfect. (I’ve also read Twilight and liked it.) Thanks so much.

~The Immortals by Alyson Noel (the romance is a bit like twilight but there’s no vampires and werewolfs)
~The Uglies Series by Scott Westerfeld (at 16, everyone has plastic surgery to become "Pretties." Shay decides she doesn’t want the surgery, and runs away, pushing her best friend Tally into a world of chaos. The authorities offer Tally a choice: find Shay and bring her home, or never turn Pretty at all)
~Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher (before a girl kills herself, she records thirteen tapes sending them to 13 people explaining why they played a part in her suicide )
~Delirium by Lauren Oliver (a girl lives in a world where Love is a disease, at 18 she will have the cure to it and never have to worry about it ever again, but soon before her 18th birthday she falls in love)
~The Mortal Instruments (it’s complicated, but basically, these kids, shadowhunters fight demons … lots of romance …, REALLY GOOD!!)
~The Hunger Games (probably hard to miss this one, but in case you have, each year a boy and girl are each chosen from 12 districts, they’re placed in an arena where they must fight to death)
~Hush Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick (This darkly romantic story features our heroine, Nora Grey, a seemingly normal teenage girl with her own shadowy connection to the Nephilim, and super-alluring bad boy, Patch, now her deskmate in biology class. Together they find themselves at the centre of a centuries-old feud between a fallen angel and a Nephilim…)
~The Abandon Trilogy by Meg Cabot (Seventeen-year-old Pierce knows what happens to us when we die. That’s how she met John Hayden, the mysterious stranger who’s made returning to normal life—or at least life as Pierce knew it before the accident—next to impossible.)
~The Goddess Test by Aimee Carter (It’s always been just Kate and her mom—and her mother is dying. Then she meets Henry. He claims to be Hades, god of the Underworld—and if she accepts his bargain, he’ll keep her mother alive while Kate tries to pass seven tests.)

Are there any romance books with these characters?

admin — Wed, 11 May 2011 06:08:18 +0000

I am in need of some romance books with rugged cowboys and completely innocent virgins. Are there such a book? By the way, no widows, please. I can’t stand those. Are there any such books? The characters are so clique I don’t know if anyone does write about that.

try:

Teresa Medeiros
Catherine Anderson
Sandra Brown
Lori Copeland
Kathleen Eagle
Cassie Edwards
Jane Feather ( I think, I can’t remember correctly if she does)
Julie Garwood – The Rose books
Jude Devereaux – some took place in the old west

Just look up Kathleen Eagle in Amazon, and a whole slew of recommendations will pop up.

Hope this helps

What are good historical fiction/romance books?

admin — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 17:27:18 +0000

I really want a book to read and i just finished the book Cleopatra’s daughter by Michelle Moran and i was wondering if you guys know any good romance/historical fiction books for young adults since im sixteen. Well please help me!

Countess Below the Stairs
The Morning Gift
A Company of Swans