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Originally Posted by Joykins
_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... |
I think These Old Shades was the first romance I read also. The second one though was the infamous bodice ripper, Sweet Savage Love, by Rosemary Rogers. Just a bit of contrast between those two.
I spent most of my teen years alternating sweet Regencies and rip-roaring bodice rippers, until I discovered JRR Tolkien, as well as hard SciFi, and went totally off romances for quite a few years.