I am not sure, but to my surprise I think I might have just finished reading a romance novel.
I am not sure because I don't see it listed as a romance anywhere and I am not familiar with the genre. It's called
Ariel's Office: Moon Void of Course by Laura Lynn. I bought it from Fictionwise (back then when Fictionwise was a cool bookstore and had wonderful sales) while I was searching for mysteries, so at first I thought it was a mystery novel with an astrologer as the main character. I thought it would be fun to see an astrologer solving a case (how would she do it? reading a chart?), so I bought it without thinking it twice, along with a bunch of other ebooks. Ah, micropay rebates, how I miss you. (The thing is, I don't like to know anything about a book before I start reading it, so my buying process is sometimes a little bit random or erratic. I don't mind because I discover new things this way.)
Well, it's not a mystery at all. Actually, at first it's not apparent that it's going to be a romantic love story either. The main character is a woman in her thirties married to a workaholic who just moved to the suburbs to be closer to her husband's job. She is a little bit isolated because she is new to that town and because she is staying home taking care of their toddler, so she decides to open an astrology pratice at her place. And one of her first clients is a very special guy: mature, intelligent, sexy...
One thing that makes me think this is a romance novel is that all the main characters are well-off financially. That softens up considerably any of the difficult situations they have to go through. And everything ends happily. These are the last words of the novel:
That's a romance, isn't it?
It's not the kind of book I usually read, but I enjoyed it mostly because I liked the main character. She is strong, optimistic and ironic. I liked the first part of the book better, when the love story was only a hint or a possibility.