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Originally Posted by Sirtel
I actually read a romance once in a while, and I don't mind romantic subplots in other genres, even though I'm an absolutely unromantic person in real life. But I've never liked romances where kids play an important role. I prefer the main couple having kids after the end of the book, off-screen, if they have to have them.
And all those trashy romances with "baby" in the title... just yuck.
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Oh, hey, I don't mind a romance subplot. Or the real thing (Austen) once in a while to refresh the palate. Why the heck not? But I don't care to feel that I've been bait-and-switched. That's not happy-making for me.
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Originally Posted by ownedbycats
It's a bit disappointing to read what looks to be an interesting genre book and then realize halfway through it was actually a disguised romance novel.
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PURRRRzackyly!
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Also cozy mystery romances are the worst.
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Mmmmm...you know, I'd have to think about this. I'm a bit picky, in some ways, around my cozies so I may not have run into what you mean. You can virtually guarantee that if your female detective protag is not hideous, is under hell, 50 years old or older, and single, (In today's "X is the new Y" culture, Jessica Fletcher is probably dating 3 men at once...) that a romance subplot will arrive somehow. Even if it's through the backdoor. I stopped reading the Stephanie Plums some time back--probably just overloaded--but those have at least one or two never-ending romance subplots, if memory serves. [shrug].
But I did borrow a book, travelling someplace, a while back desperation and sure as shooitin', tweren't no mystery. T'was a romance novel, with a very shallow and uninteresting mystery just plopped right in there. Disappointing.
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