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Originally Posted by Blossom
So I was talking to a friend and of course romance books came up in the conversation and we got to talking about our youth and the books we read and why we started reading romance so that got me thinking.
What was the first Adult Romance book you read?
Mine was Hawk of Venice by Sally Wentworth. My sister had been rushed to the ER which happened alot in those days and someone just left the book there in the waiting room so I read it. I still vividly remember that book even though I've read hundreds since. I believe I was 13 at the time. It wouldn't be till I was 19 that I would get my hands on more Adult Romance books this one was The Other Amanda by Lynn Leslie and The Wallflower by Jan Reed both Harlequin Super Romances and oh boy I think I blushed reading both the books all the way through!  |
_These Old Shades_ by Georgette Heyer. In retrospect, I probably started with the best...it had *everything*--swashbuckling, cross-dressing,
a dastardly French nobleman, an English Duke with a vaguely demonic nickname...
Come to think of it, about the same time as I read that, Victoria Holt's _Mask of the Enchantress_ had been published "condensed" in Good Housekeeping magazine (I just googled this--it was the Aug. 1980 issue), and I found my mother's copy (probably months/years after Aug. 1980) and gulped it down like an ice cold slurpee in July. I don't know whether I read that or the Heyer first, but I know the Heyer was the first romance I read as a separately bound book.