Really Riveted By Romance

I just roll my eyes because, dude. If you ever read the second half of any fucking harlequin novel ever, and saw how the hero always ends up blubbering on his knees and saying shit like “I can’t live without you! You unman me!” you’d realize that being attracted to powerful men is just the first part of a two-step plan.

The next installment in Alyssa Cole’s ‘Reluctant Royals’ series has a fake engagement plot with a wallflower heroine :-) In A Prince On Paper, the bad boy, red-headed hero is not named Harry but he is a prince from what sounds like a small principality in mainland Europe. (The cover architecture and the names blend Central, Western, and Northern European cultures.) I haven’t read A Duke By Default yet, but I have the impression both characters appeared in that book?

“Nya Jerami fled Thesolo for the glitz and glamour of NYC but discovered that her Prince Charming only exists in her virtual dating games. When Nya returns home for a royal wedding, she accidentally finds herself up close and personal—in bed—with the real-life celebrity prince who she loves to hate.

For Johan von Braustein, the red-headed step-prince of Liechtienbourg, acting as paparazzi bait is a ruse that protects his brother—the heir to the throne—and his own heart. When a royal referendum threatens his brother’s future, a fake engagement is the perfect way to keep the cameras on him.

“I’ll never forget the class discussion. It oozed with classism and misogyny, even in room full of women.

“The conversation went like this: Women who read romance novels are poorly educated, working class, likely stay at home mothers. They read romances to escape the emptiness and drudgery of their lives. At best, romance novels give them unrealistic expectations of love and marriage that will destroy their happiness. At worst, romance novels keep them from throwing off the shackles of the patriarchy.”

Hello internet!  I have to do a survey for a class assignment, and I thought it would be fun to look at romance tropes! I’m looking at romance in novels, movies, TV, fanfiction, and whatever other forms of media I haven’t thought of! So if you like love stories, I’m asking for your input!  If you have 5-10 minutes to spare, you can take my survey at bit.ly/2IQp3kY . 

me every time: 

Someone call IXII - I need to report a vicious murder.

Of my peace of mind.

Friends, I have read a LOT of romances. Hundreds. And, thus, hundreds of sex scenes. But I hereby declare myself deceased. Because Piers just melted my brain in what may be one of the hottest scenes I’ve read in an age. That scene in the guardhouse? Oh yeah.

I think it’s the dynamic that makes it SO my sort of scene? Maybe it wouldn’t work as well for every reader. But I am a dead woman for sure.

James always does this to me. Her heroes frequently have these little power play moments that just – unf.

I can’t go on. Leave me here to die.

Apparently past me forgot that I do not know how to Do dirty talk.