A Sort-Of Romance Conversion Kit

Emphasis on the "sort of."

I got into romance back in seventh grade, and basically, I waded through the not-so-great generic stuff for years before finding the good stuff. May you not have to wade through as much dreck as I did, although now I'm sort of glad I did because man, it's a lot of fun making fun of all the cliches I've seen! Ahem. I love this genre, I really do. I just snark at it a lot.

First things first: coffee_and_ink already has a kit (see the comments), and it is of the good. It's pretty much what I used to find the good stuff, so mine is very influenced by hers. Actually, just go read hers. Wait, no, I intend to write this just to write it, plus rilina did ask a while back.

Secondly, let it be noted that I have rather peculiar tastes in romance. I'm very fond of Westerns, I like romances set in non-Regency eras (I like the Regency, but I find other eras more interesting), and I am extremely fond of things that play with gender roles and romance tropes. I also like nice heroes and tortured heroines. I'm also much more fond of romances that deal with the romance; ergo, I'm not much for the romantic suspense or paranormals or whatnot.

Off we go!

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(I'm too lazy to hunt down all the reviews I've done and link to them, but they can be found here.)