Wrong with Romance Novels Today

What is wrong with romance novels today? [1191 votes total] Not enough romance — I don’t feel the couple fall in love (94)  8% Not enough sexual tension — couple falls too quickly into bed (112)  9% Not enough time spent getting to know hero and heroine as fully rounded characters (121)  10% Issues faced by the hero and heroine aren’t big enough to make me care whether they overcome them (52)  4% No sense that this hero and this heroine are destined for and can only love each other (63)  5% Hero is too wimpy, not alpha enough (36)  3% Hero is too alpha and domineering (21)  2% Hero has no integrity and/or doesn’t stand for anything (22)  2% Hero runs from his feelings and is afraid to love (34)  3% Heroine does stupid things to advance the plot (139)  12% Heroine doesn’t take charge of her destiny (34)  3% Heroine is a virgin (24)  2% Heroine is too experienced sexually (26)  2% Sex scenes have no emotion, just a recitation of physical acts (85)  7% Too many sex scenes (39)  3% Not enough sex scenes (30)  3% Cover art doesn’t portray novel correctly (114)  10% Too many novels are part of a series — the author fails to focus on the main couple because she’s introducing the next book (71)  6% No variety in settings and genre (too many English Regencies, too many paranormals) (74)  6% EMAIL THIS POLL

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Posted By: gigi Posted On: Apr 21, 2007 Views: 1577	cover art My friend and I vent over this all the time! It never fails, I am taking a book to the Doctor with me to read while I'm in the waiting room; and I forget that the cover of my book is racy, then I'm embarrassed to be reading it! This is espeially true when I am at the pediatrician's office! (OR if I take to somewhere my parents or people from church may see it!) People think I like reading smut, not to mention that my husband thinks I am reading some glorified porno. I also hate when the cover art depicts the hero and heroine that is the opposite of the description in the book. That is so irritating. There is an author out there who used the SAME MAN (a model, who -I won't name- but he has long boring brown hair and too square jawline) for EVERY cover she has ever published, regardless of the description she's writen about in the book. I have read some of these books and they are good but the cover makes me hesitant to pick it up. Do Author's not have a choice when picking the cover art?
Posted By: classy Posted On: Apr 11, 2007 Views: 1577	I used to like romance novels . . . I used to like romance novels. Now I don't. Now I'm getting sick of them. They are so slow and boring these days. And I guess you can say I'm starting to feel pretty resentful of them. There's no love in the stories - or no feelings of real love - and the "love scenes" are just a bunch of generic sexual acts thrown together to fuel your sex drive for maybe all of 3 seconds. But maybe I'm being harsh. Maybe there are good writers out there that I just haven't found yet. I'm starting to get into romantic parodies myself. I liked "Breathless". Found it on lulu.com. It's kind of harsh, but that's just how feeling these days in regards to romance novels. Harsh.
Posted By: Lynnythy Posted On: Mar 24, 2007 Views: 1732	definately editting! I agree with you guys! I understand it's ALOT of editting when you have such a big novel and all but big things like' the character's name is wrong. But if it is something minor I usually skip over it and if there are too many I get frustrated because I'm focusing on the grammar and not the story.

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