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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
People change, industry standards change and so do overall tastes, which can affect labels. I don't think most readers get too hung up on the labels. Someone above said Stephanie Plum isn't a romance. To me, it's a romance. Sure, it lacks that happily ever after SO FAR, but it certainly has a lot of the same elements of a romance. In every book, girl gets her man and there's a happily ever after of sorts for that book. It's deliberately left open so that we can enjoy the tension and chase in the next book (until you just get sick of the whole ploy). It still has the chase, the tension, and generally the payoff (even if it isn't marriage.)
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You obviously haven't read all of the Plums books. If you had you couldn't call them all romance. There is nothing romantic in the last ones that had been out. The first 13 had stronger romantic elements but after readers had a meltdown that about Stephanie acting the slut. There hasn't really been anything remotely romantic in them.
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