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oyceterLately the only thing I seem to be able to read is romantic comedy. So... rec me stuff!
I have just gone on a terrible binge through nearly all of Julia Quinn (rilina, this is all your fault!), whom I have been enjoying because her heroes tend to be less alpha, her couples genuinely seem to like each other, and she's funny. Also, it helps that her later books have been overcoming her tendency to put 100 pages too much at the end.
I am mostly looking for something rather like 1930s romantic comedies, with a lot of banter and extremely likable heroines. Non-alpha heroes are a HUGE plus. It doesn't have to be in the romance genre, although I only want recs for textual things; my brain just cannot concentrate on TV or movies lately. Sadly, this goes for manga too and basically anything visual.
I also enjoy Loretta Chase, Laura Kinsale's comedies, Connie Brockway's comedies, and Jennifer Crusie.
I have kind of bounced off Eloisa James (is she considered funny?). I don't read as many contemporaries because a lot of the romance genre rules work better for me in historicals, but if it is screwball and feminist, I am all for it. I tend to bounce off of adult chick lit because I frequently don't actually find it funny or enjoyable.
... Maybe I should finally start reading Heyer?
I have just gone on a terrible binge through nearly all of Julia Quinn (
rilina, this is all your fault!), whom I have been enjoying because her heroes tend to be less alpha, her couples genuinely seem to like each other, and she's funny. Also, it helps that her later books have been overcoming her tendency to put 100 pages too much at the end.I am mostly looking for something rather like 1930s romantic comedies, with a lot of banter and extremely likable heroines. Non-alpha heroes are a HUGE plus. It doesn't have to be in the romance genre, although I only want recs for textual things; my brain just cannot concentrate on TV or movies lately. Sadly, this goes for manga too and basically anything visual.
I also enjoy Loretta Chase, Laura Kinsale's comedies, Connie Brockway's comedies, and Jennifer Crusie.
I have kind of bounced off Eloisa James (is she considered funny?). I don't read as many contemporaries because a lot of the romance genre rules work better for me in historicals, but if it is screwball and feminist, I am all for it. I tend to bounce off of adult chick lit because I frequently don't actually find it funny or enjoyable.
... Maybe I should finally start reading Heyer?
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Sat, May. 8th, 2010 09:28 pm (UTC)In which case buy the Gate of Ivory omnibus from DAW, as this is the same author writing as Doris Egan (she now is one of the writers for HOUSE, so not likely to return to literature). While the hero is definitely alpha, the heroine basically deals with his culture and family and his personal turmoil with utmost competence, coming from a scholarly viewpoint not connected to magic. It's fantasy sf you could say. Excellent and it's a finished trilogy... although I could have read loads more.
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Sat, May. 8th, 2010 09:32 pm (UTC)By the way Alis Rasmussen's sf trilogy ( A Passage of Stars (Highroad Trilogy, Vol 1))also has a heck of a heroine, saving the world and her hero with her competence and it's a finished one.
If you like her writing, you can buy more of her books written as Kate Elliot (Jaran, for example, another scholar from an advanced society falling in love with basically the equivalent of Genghis Khan and having to deal with that and her knowledge about how the world really works).
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Sat, May. 8th, 2010 09:35 pm (UTC)