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Old 02-02-2014, 12:21 PM   #30
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I hear Tessa Dare's newest novels has like 20 or something movies references in it. People seem to think that's brilliant.
Seriously?

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I think a list needs to be made for these type stories so I can avoid them. I think they should have there own genre kind of like Steampunk is Victorian and scifi these are a mix of contemporary elements with modern characters in long dresses.
You know that group you made at Goodreads? Groups have shelves that we'd all be able to add to, and unlike Listopia would be not subject to SP-authorial spam. I'd be very, very glad to help...

Thanks for that blog link!

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Doesn't Sourcebooks release the Grace Burrowes ebooks? I would put them in the same category as Julia Quinn. She's actually a favorite of mine, although some might not like her men (which I consider more beta than alpha for the most part).
I have to admit that GB is my shameless wallpaper weakness. I know her history's not terribly strong, but I *love* those beta heroes of hers.

I'm trying to remember which character Jane was talking about. The only illegitimate offspring I can think of that has something that's normally inherited was given an Earldom that had reverted back to the crown because the Earl had died without a surviving heir. There wasn't anyone from other branches of that family that qualified, and the hero that was given the title earned it because of his superior wartime service.

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I can't really read historicals anymore simply because I can no longer accept the old school rendering of the second class treatment of the females who get sold off to some older man then miraculously falls in love with him in spite of practically being his property.

I simply matured out of historicals.

So I had to find another genre within romance to read where the women actually were written to be strong and independent. I settled for Paranormal and now I'm enjoying my books again.
And I can't stand paranormals because those strong and independent heroines to me are often written as TSTL or mega-bitchy. To each their own, then?
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