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I broke down and joined also, and I'm a definite no-romo (the only reason why my romance count reached ~15 out of 250+ books last year was because I bought a bunch of Roberta Gellis historical romances* via Baen and elsewhere when they were on sale based on the strength of her Mercedes Lackey co-write Elizabeth fantasies, and I tried some of the cracktastic-looking freebie things as well).
But I figure it's offered on really good terms which I'd like to support to encourage the publisher to offer a more general version, the credits roll over so I'm not stuck picking a book every month that I highly unlikely to read, and hopefully they boost the less-romantic historicals section and expand the book club genre selections.
Plus, I think Blossom recommended Shana Galen to me as a not-too-romancey writer who did plotty intrigue/adventure spying historicals in another thread, so I'm willing to try out her thing from next month's selections so there's at least one thing I can read.
* And to be honest, I was hugely unimpressed with half of what I read, because of the genre clichés making the pointless relationship drama very annoying.
Sit down and talk like adults and get over yourselves and your contrived childish willful misunderstandings! I thought romances were supposed to end in people projected to ride off happily ever after into the sunset, not in couples therapy before the inevitable murder/suicide, which is where I would see half of those people winding up, if it weren't for the narrative conventions of Romancelandia, which demand HEA no matter how dysfunctional and ill-suited people are.
Well, thankfully there was a bunch of decent political maneuvering and intrigue centred around actual historical events to read in there as well.
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