Pink Think: “Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.”- Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
I’ve been on a reading kick lately, and my latest find has been Libba Bray’s Victorian YA/light horror novels. I read Rebel Angels in one sitting (which left me wanting more about the romantic subplot of Gemma and Kartik).
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I am a sucker for romance. Some of the books I enjoyed growing up were: Jane Eyre, Frenchman’s Creek, Wuthering Heights, Gone With The Wind, and Little Women. I earmarked pages in Maeve Binchy’s Glass Lake and Mary Stewart’s Nine Coaches Waiting just to savor the romantic parts over and over.
The stories I write usually have a romantic sub-plot. Even my horror stories. My current novel has a forbidden romance, and I live for the days when I get to have my female protagonist verbally spar or make up with the hero. I wish I could just skip to these scenes altogether, but life’s not always like that, you know? We still have to shop for groceries and clean the bathroom.
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Yesterday, I checked out The Sweet Far Thing, the third novel in Libba Bray’s trilogy. It’s about 848 pages, and, I admit, I cheated. I skipped directly to scenes with Gemma and Kartik. Just to see what happens. And then (hopefully) I will go back and read the novel at leisure.
Tell me I’m not the only one that skips ahead.
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