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Old 01-25-2018, 10:09 AM   #199
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Originally Posted by jj2me View Post
If the covers don't reveal romances (and that includes having vines and flowers sprouting from the cover's bottom), there are plenty of keywords found in titles that generally indicate a romance, like what's below in the spoiler (because so many just flowed out of my head and I don't want to clutter the thread with a long list):

Spoiler:
Magnolia
Mistress
Sister
Temptress
Precious
Friend/Friendship
Mysterious
Affair
Bride
Fire
Summer
Heart
Love
Kiss
Surrender
Wicked
Desire
Devil
Pride
Bride
Christmas
Ball
Mountain
Lighthouse
Island
Sea/Seaside
Point
Ridge
Lake
Cottage
River
Brook
Stream
Sunrise/Sunset
Heiress/Countess/Duchess/Princess/[any-upper-status-"ess" (but usually not waitress]
Cowboy
Duke


It's possible to come up with books that those words that are not romances. So I don't see how a list of words can differentiate between romance and not.
"keywords" ... "generally indicate"

I'm really good at quickly filtering out romances from a list of new OverDrive books, using combinations of these and other telltale word combinations (and vines!).

Also, it's a bit of funnin' at the stereotype.
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