The Rotund has a great entry on body issues and how women are represented in romance novels. I personally don’t read romance novels, and typically I’ve only read so-called “chick-lit” when the book has somehow been forced into my hand. I have mixed feelings about romance novels or chick lit - while an attempt to genuinely reflect women’s experiences through women authors, women vary internally just as much as their body types do externally, and I think that onceupon (the name I typically know the blogger by) gets that complexity across quite well.
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The only romance novels I read anymore are the supernatural ones, with the vampires/were-animals and witchcraft. The others are just too much the same old same old (man meets woman, woman hates man, danger, then they fall in love and live happily ever after, or woman meets man, man hates woman, danger, they fall in love and live happily ever after - boring). The only thing that ever changes is the location and the type of danger.
I’ve never had a regular romance novel grab me by the eyes and refuse to let go, but I’ve had a lot of supernatural romances do that. The tension and interaction between all the characters are so well-written that I just have to know how it all ends (and it’s not all ‘they live happily ever after’, you know there are still going to be problems they’ll be facing).