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Originally Posted by DNSB
I find quite a few books cross genres. For instance, Lois McMaster Bujold's Komarr and A Civil Campaign: A Comedy of Biology and Manners which I read and enjoyed as SF while my wife read and enjoyed them as romance -- she was the one who pointed out to me the similarity between A Civil Campaign and A Civil Contract and that the dedication for A Civil Campaign was to "Jane, Charlotte, Georgette, and Dorothy" which she thought were Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontė, Georgette Heyer. The Dorothy she wasn't sure of.
If the book is well enough written with characters that I can find believable or, at least, allow me to suspend disbelief while I'm reading, who really cares what genre it is classified into.
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But there are too many books where the author tried to make it seem like it's not romance, but under the cover is a true romance. The books that have a half-naked man looking at some woman heaving her breasts at him. And you search for fantasy and these sorts of books pop up because the half-naked man is a wizard or some other fanatical elements. No thanks.
I've read books that aren't romance with romantic elements and that's OK. But it's the romance books trying to hide as a different type of book that I really can't stand.
Oh and another thing that annoys me is when I go to the library to look at what new books are at Overdrive and find more than half are romance books. That's more than annoying.