violacea | diving into romance (Reply)

So, like I mentioned in the last entry, I blew my B&N gift cards on a bunch of romance novels that I've never read - many of them historicals, which is usually not my genre - because I was curious about those hyped over on the Smart Bitches site. Came away with seven books, and read the first one between breakfast and the salon. Lisa Kleypas - Dreaming of You; apparently, I'm one for one so far, because I really enjoyed this one! It hit most of my kinks for historical romances - the bookish but spirited heroine, the shameful rogue hero, a romantic connection that didn't suffer through too many twists and turns and misunderstandings. That last is a hard balance for me, in any romance novel - you have to have enough sources of tension to make it interesting, but I'm also not interested in a book that keeps the pair at odds with each other until the last possible second, because I enjoy the resolution of the tension far too much. If I have any complaint about this book, it's that the villainess was so one-dimensional as to be a cardboard cutout, but the rest of the book was so excellent that I can't spare her much thought at all. Mostly, it was a fast-paced, sexy book, and I'd recommend it!

I'm off to start another book, as the television won't offer me anything better than college football and an episode of My Super Sweet Sixteen that features fake Egyptian guards and a snake. I'll pass.