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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I have no problem with people having strict, personal expectations based on genre labels. I just question whether or not they represent the average genre reader by doing so. I don't think such strict adherence to "traditional" genre definitions rules the reading public, myself. I like to think people are a bit more flexible than that. The rise in popularity of genre blurring/blending genre titles leads me to believe I'm not entirely wrong. I (and many others) see genre labels as gateways, rather than fences.
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You may be surprised. Romance readers have certain expectations if a book is too light on the romance then you are going to see a lot of negative reviews.
I've seen this happen because of covers too. If the cover has a hot guy on it without a shirt then readers is expecting it to be heavy on the sexy times. If it's too sweet even if it's well written the author is going to get a lot of negative reviews.
I once bought books that had a sweet fully dressed couple on it. It look and sounded like romance. It wasn't. It was erotic romance with kinky bits. It had been previously published with super sexy covers but I didn't know. I don't know if I will ever read those three books. I felt seriously mislead.
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