Is this a genre you have read before? I have read romance novels before, but my review of romantic suspense was the first romantic suspense I had read. Fast Track seems similar and I just wondered how you felt about recommending romantic suspense to romance readers. It seems like a natural fit, but I found myself more likely to recommend my book to a thriller/suspense reader than a romance reader since the very essence of why one usually reads a romance is much less in the foreground as they have to solve some type of mystery around falling in love/deciding whether or not the hero is even a good guy.
Hi, I'm sure I have read Romance novels at some point, but I am not familiar with them. I think that Garwood's style would appeal more to thriller/suspense readers than to romance fans. When I was a teenager, my sister introduced me to Mary Stewart's books. Saricks puts Stewart in the Romantic Suspense genre which is just how I would describe her writing. Contemporary Romantic Suspense authors read more like romantic thrillers to me. I tend to think of suspense as a subtler (gentler?)form of thriller. This course is definitely changing the way I look at books!
You list was very to the point and I really liked how quickly you communicated all of the relevant information about the book. Do you agree with Sarrick's when she says that many readers will not notice scenes that would otherwise offend them? From my experience I have not noticed that to be true and was wondering if you think someone could read this book and not notice.
No, in the case of this book, I don't agree that readers could be unaware of the potentially offensive subject matter. The detailed descriptions and frequency of the scenes would make them very difficult to ignore!
I'm with Meredith in that I hadn't thought of Romantic Suspense as a genre in and of itself, but now that I've read the parts in our textbook I walked into a bookstore and saw it everywhere. I'm also curious as to whether the double suspense of possibly being murdered and possibly falling in love with someone who may be a villain is more common, or whether the straightforward couple-falls-in-love-while-in-danger is more common?
And does the graphic violence common to the thriller genre make the graphic sexual content more acceptable to a certain audience? I chose "romance" for another annotation so I'm very prepared to be wrong about this...
I do wonder if readers who accept graphic violence would be more likely to accept graphic sexual content. That may be why I think that fans of thrillers might find this book more appealing than Romance fans. I don't know enough about the Romance genre to comment. Is there graphic content in Romance novels?
Is this a genre you have read before? I have read romance novels before, but my review of romantic suspense was the first romantic suspense I had read. Fast Track seems similar and I just wondered how you felt about recommending romantic suspense to romance readers. It seems like a natural fit, but I found myself more likely to recommend my book to a thriller/suspense reader than a romance reader since the very essence of why one usually reads a romance is much less in the foreground as they have to solve some type of mystery around falling in love/deciding whether or not the hero is even a good guy.
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DeleteI'm sure I have read Romance novels at some point, but I am not familiar with them. I think that Garwood's style would appeal more to thriller/suspense readers than to romance fans. When I was a teenager, my sister introduced me to Mary Stewart's books. Saricks puts Stewart in the Romantic Suspense genre which is just how I would describe her writing. Contemporary Romantic Suspense authors read more like romantic thrillers to me. I tend to think of suspense as a subtler (gentler?)form of thriller. This course is definitely changing the way I look at books!
You list was very to the point and I really liked how quickly you communicated all of the relevant information about the book. Do you agree with Sarrick's when she says that many readers will not notice scenes that would otherwise offend them? From my experience I have not noticed that to be true and was wondering if you think someone could read this book and not notice.
ReplyDeleteNo, in the case of this book, I don't agree that readers could be unaware of the potentially offensive subject matter. The detailed descriptions and frequency of the scenes would make them very difficult to ignore!
DeleteI'm with Meredith in that I hadn't thought of Romantic Suspense as a genre in and of itself, but now that I've read the parts in our textbook I walked into a bookstore and saw it everywhere. I'm also curious as to whether the double suspense of possibly being murdered and possibly falling in love with someone who may be a villain is more common, or whether the straightforward couple-falls-in-love-while-in-danger is more common?
ReplyDeleteAnd does the graphic violence common to the thriller genre make the graphic sexual content more acceptable to a certain audience? I chose "romance" for another annotation so I'm very prepared to be wrong about this...
I do wonder if readers who accept graphic violence would be more likely to accept graphic sexual content. That may be why I think that fans of thrillers might find this book more appealing than Romance fans. I don't know enough about the Romance genre to comment. Is there graphic content in Romance novels?
DeleteFantastic job on your annotation! The summary, characteristics, and readalikes are on point. You also have a very engaging voice. Full points!
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