tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9721761.post3271664211779165577..comments2024-03-19T07:27:06.216-04:00Comments on VOTARIES OF HORROR: Where Romances Go WrongKatherine Woodburyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14364517253667798449noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9721761.post-56607803713679791672009-02-21T21:21:00.000-05:002009-02-21T21:21:00.000-05:00Ok...just one more comment and then I'll go away! ...Ok...just one more comment and then I'll go away! I can't stand romances that aren't character driven. I once read this romance where the two main characters only met five times in the book and that included the first meeting and the end where she threw herself into his arms (I went back and counted). It was so stupid. The author spent so much time on a pointless subplot it left no time for the main characters relationship to develope. How did that get past the editor? People don't meet three times (spending five or ten minutes together) and then marry without any further ado.<BR/>At least not in my regency romance world! :) In my world they all suffer. I have no compunction of killing off characters though I've never had to kill off an unwanted spouse so two illicit lovers could marry. That's pathetic. How could anyone build a happy marriage on that sort of foundation? Sounds like a disaster waiting to happen, though in my present romance I'm writing the hero has been a widow nine years, but he met the heroine seventeen years before...only he can't remember because he's repressed the memories.<BR/><BR/>I've had one villain who was pure evil...he totally creeps me out, but usually my characters tend to be a mixture of good and bad traits...they're like real people only they all live in my head. A head that's presently full of snot so if I've made no sense...well that's probably a miracle!<BR/><BR/>Thank you for your lovely posts...they've made me think...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9721761.post-22169943124376040212007-08-06T00:51:00.000-04:002007-08-06T00:51:00.000-04:00I completely agree with you Kate! Haven't talked ...I completely agree with you Kate! Haven't talked to you in a loooong while.<BR/>--your cousin, Jennie Davis WestenhaverAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9721761.post-91464594409294327072007-07-31T18:09:00.000-04:002007-07-31T18:09:00.000-04:00Hey, thanks for listing my book! I recall thumbing...Hey, thanks for listing my book! I recall thumbing through a Mormon romance by a well-known author (well-known in the genre of Mormon romance). The reputation of the protagonist's first husband was first thoroughly sullied, and <I>then</I> killed off. Except, at least to me, he was portrayed as such a reprehensible bounder that he was more interesting than anybody else in the book!Eugenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03182644885948983861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9721761.post-86494118121195706052007-07-30T11:50:00.000-04:002007-07-30T11:50:00.000-04:00Tim Farrington has a sequel out to "The Monk Downs...Tim Farrington has a sequel out to "The Monk Downstairs" called "The Monk Upstairs." The Booklist review says, "Farrington gifts readers with a rare realistic portrait of a romantic relationship between two complicated, funny, loving adults."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com