This is another question over at Let’s Gab.
The choice of answers are as follows:
Shape-shifters – If I had to choose, I would definitely say this one, if only because of Nalini Singh’s books.
Vampires – I hate vampire books with a passion now, and find nothing sexy about ingesting blood.
Demons – Urrgh, I don’t get demon books at all
Angels – Not my cuppa
Witches – Nope
Ghosts – Nope
Fae/Fairies – I always equate fairies with children and I’m not really comfortable with reading about them having sex.
Psychic elements – I quite like, as long as the books are contemps.
OK, your turn now. If you haven’t already, go and vote. Don’t forget the other reader questions on the sidebar.
Anne
March 24
4:39 pm
My first fave is psychic elements. I love that. Telepathy, empathy, all of it. Kay Hooper has some GREAT romantic suspense books with this in them as well as, of course, Nalini Singh’s Psy-Changeling world.
Vamps- I still like ’em, but I’m pretty picky about which ones I’ll read and from whom.
Shape-Shifters- Sometimes. I’m not a huge fan but for, again, Nalini Singh. I get so tired of the entire story focusing around the whole shifting thing. Now if the shifting is secondary, you’ve won me over. I truly do not want to know about the crack of bones, etc. as they shift. Ewww.
Rhianna
March 25
11:36 pm
Hi Karen,
I read your blog on a regular basis. generally I’m a fan.
You usually crack me up.
this question has been going around the blogs, DA did it recently. I have been frustrated on how ghosts has gotten such a bad rap. I am grinning because, of course, my book includes a ghost as a main character. He is not the romantic character, but more on the cranky, arrogant side.
Oddly enough, I would have never thought I would write a ghost story, but this story sort of fell out of my pen. Truthfully, I wrote in in long hand first and then typed it in. I never thought of it as a ghost story, but as a paranormal romance.
Back to the point of your question.
I don’t excude any romance genre. I’ve read poorly written books in them all and have found stunningly good reads in them all. If the title of a book or the cover catches my attention, I read the blurb. I am swayed by the blurb. And we all know that can be misleading.
If I read several positive reviews on a new author, or that blurb sounds good, I’m willing to take a chance. Then there are those auto buy authors.
I say yes to them all, but I am saying yes to the writer, not the genre.