Comments on: Marriage-In-Trouble Romance Books = Snoozefest?

By: Sandra Cormier

Sandra Cormier — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:52:49 +0000

My first novel started with a troubled marriage, but I killed him off in the first chapter.

By: Janet W

Janet W — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:17:37 +0000

@RachelT … I’m not at home but when I am, I’ll go through my shelves and post a list … I do think that Marriages of Convenience stories and Marriages in Trouble share many characteristics so I might lump them together a bit

Probably not until next week: my email is campbell4690 [@] yahoo.com … if you’d like to send me a reminder … it really is a trope I seek out.

By: willaful

willaful — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:34:43 +0000

I like ‘em just fine, though I think I’ve mostly encountered them in categories.

By: Christine Rimmer

Christine Rimmer — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:57:54 +0000

Oooo. Love in a Small Town, one of my all-time faves. Okay, I think I really like marriage-in-trouble books. I just didn’t realize it until now.

By: Chantal

Chantal — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:05:58 +0000

The marriage Bed by LLG is one of my faves.

By: RachelT

RachelT — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:22:32 +0000

I really like these books – they have some of the same attraction for me as friends becoming lovers (which is under discussion at AAR). I like seeing the element of a couple having to work to make their relationship function well, not just falling into it.

I was hoping JanetW was going to list some of her favourites. I recently read The Marriage Bed by Laura Lee Guhrke, and in a very different time context,Love in a Small Town by Curtis Ann Matlock. I thought they were both better than Line of Scrimmage.

Rachel

By: orannia

orannia — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:11:41 +0000

Like you Karen, I need to feel the emotional journey, see the couple falling in love. So, for such a book to work for me, it’s like Venus said: The couple has to earn their HEA all over again.

And I too love marriage of convenience novels

By: Jody W.

Jody W. — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:33:20 +0000

Oh, yeah, marriage of convenience historicals can be excellent. Hard to do in contemps.

By: Chantal

Chantal — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:16:07 +0000

I’m different. These are my favourite types of romance

By: Carol

Carol — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:31:07 +0000

Like Karen, I usually avoid these types of books, unless it’s a marriage of convenience, wherein, as someone said, the couple has to go through a real courtship and earn their HEA, or if they’re married but separated due to some reason or the other, and they’re thrown together due to circumstance, and they “re-learn” things about each other and decided they want a HEA with each other after all.