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posted by [identity profile] cbackson.livejournal.com at 09:13pm on 27/02/2011
Catherine Coulter wrote the first romances I ever read, and I was pretty horrified by them on a recent re-read. Like, there's some seriously not-okay full-on rape in some of those books. I guess a lot of old school romance was rape-y, from what I've heard from other romance readers.

The Jayne Ann Krentz/etcs. are reliable enjoyable, but really run together. I do like that the heroines after have glasses, and they are (like Loretta Chase and Julia Quinn) sex-positive.

I read one Mary Balogh that I didn't like, and I think it was because the hero was...not intelligent. As in, a feature of his character was that he wasn't super-smart. I get trying to have a greater diversity of types of people in romance, but a dude who's described as not very smart isn't going to be of interest to me.

I'm so glad you have so many contemporaries, because I often don't read them!
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posted by [identity profile] raisintorte.livejournal.com at 01:38am on 01/03/2011
YES. I think that was in Rosewood or something. It was insane. I read a lot of that in high school. So bad! There really is a lot of rape in the older stuff like Jude Deveraux (she was fond of the wedding night non con and then having the hero throw the bride on the floor and let her sleep in front of the fire and awesome things like that.) I don't recall who did it, but one of the authors I used to read at one point had the hero put a DOG COLLAR on the heroine and made her eat out of a bowl with the dogs because she upset him it was set in viking times (Johanna Lindsay's older stuff I think).

Mary Balogh has some AWFUL older ones, but her newer stuff is pretty great. I really like the whole Slighty series.

You should really read Susan Elizabeth Phillips. She is fantastic.
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