![]() ![]() I couldn’t get the scene out of my head and technically it was only ever in my head. He mentions his plans for the night beforehand and she mentions it again briefly after the fact. The sexiest scene of all isn’t even on the page. Although the sex scenes were short they had great impact in those few words. It was tight yes, but without losing any sense of the gorgeous setting or the deep emotions. And there was nothing choppy or simple about the writing. This book shattered all my misconceptions.Ĭheesy titles aside that the author has no control over, I was wrong about everything else. Kinda of like Franco Constantine, millionaire heir to a chocolate covered empire. ![]() Thank goodness my first experience was sexy and oh so very satisfying. Going into my first Category I was cautious and a little naive much like laid off accountant, Stacy Reeves. Not to mention do it over and over again. I so admire writers that can produce such wonderful stuff in such a restrictive frame work. ![]() But once I read Emilie Rose’s The Millionaires Indecent Proposal, Silhouette Desire #1804. It’s only been just over a year since my category deflowerment. There are some disasters, and sometimes they can be funny, they’re so awful. And Olivia Gates – she has a very distinctive style, but she’s an Egyptian, a doctor in Cairo, so her sheikh books have a touch of reality. Romance is something that should happen between two people, after all.Īuthors who have Modern Heat books include one of my very favourites, Kate Hardy, and Trish Wylie, both of whom also write for other lines, so take care. You get to travel some of the journey with him, and if there’s anything I miss, it’s knowing the hero a bit better. The heroines aren’t as wimpy or doormatty, and the heroes are a little less like immovable objects. I’ve read both, and there’s no difference apart from the spelling, and sometimes an author is exclusive to one line or the other.īut in the UK, there is a sub-line called Modern Heat, which in the US is put out as a regular Presents, and I love that line. In the UK, Presents are known as Moderns. I’ve since started reading some Harlequins again and I’m enjoying several of the authors that others mentioned. Oddly, I’ve liked a lot of SB’s books, but never as much as I loved Erin St. There is one book of her’s that I still look for every time I’m in a UBS.Īs time went by I started looking for longer romances and basically stopped reading Harlequins, so I was thrilled to discover that Erin St. To this day I’ve never found another library with a collection to rival it. That library had 3 or 4 long shelves of them. Then I discovered the huge collection of Harlequin’s and just got sucked in. I was a voracious reader and had long since gone through all the interesting YA at our public library. I started reading romance at a fairly young age-6th or 7th grade. ![]() Then one day years later at the Sleepless in Silverdale conference, I found out she’d turned into Sandra Brown. For years I thought she’d stopped writing. Then another, until I couldn’t find any more. Then I stumbled into a book by someone named Erin St. Which one was the highway to happily ever after? Here’s my question for you: which category got you hooked on romance? A recent title? A book from waaaay the hell back when? Titles and authors, please – or as much as you can remember. So many of us started reading romance with category romances. Being able to shop by location (Spain! Antigua! England! Australia! Spain! New Zealand! Spain! CANADA!) or by plot hook (“secretary” “secret baby” “cowboy”) would be SO great. Note to Harlequin: meta tags for book shopping would be SO AWESOME. So many people mentioned the Harlequin Presents line, while I’m partial to the Silhouette Desire line.Īuthors that make the autobuy list of many on Twitter last night included Sarah Mayberry, Cheryl St.John and Karen Templeton (from Sybil), Sharon Kendrick, Anne McAllister, India Grey, Day LeClaire, Leslie LaFoy, Julia James, Lynne Graham (from Lynne Connolly), Allison Leigh, Christine Rimmer Maya Banks), Nancy Warren, Emilie Rose, Kathie Denosky, Yvonne Lindsay, Anne McAllister, Rhonda Nelson (from Limecello). Last night on the Twitter feed I had a ripping good conversation with so many people about their favorite Harlequin lines and which authors are absolute never-fail for them. ![]()
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