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Originally Posted by fjtorres
The point is that if a book is billed as one genre, be it SF, Mystery, or Romance it will be judge by the standards and expectations of that genre.
Most readers won't say "it's not really SF" or "it's not real Romance". They'll say it's bad SF or Bad romance because it doesn't deliver what they expected.
The number of people who will say "it's not SF but it's a good mystery" is minimal. Most genre readers prefer that books live up to their billing. Truth in advertising and all that.
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I'm going to agree with you on this. I've have had this happen many times with books mislabeled. Do I mind? Yes. If I am in the mood for Romance then I will judge it to romance standards. I once did a review on a ARC for a paranormal romance that really wasn't one. It could have been any Harlequin Present it just turned out the hero was a werewolf. It got a bad review from me.
Actually this happened twice one was a historical regency where the hero was just a werewolf but the whole story was not paranormal.
If I go in with expectations on a book then I will judge the book according to them.
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