But, I can sympathize a bit with the author and publishers wanting to market a book a romance when it reads like a romance for the majority of the book but simply doesn’t wrap up with the main characters together at the end. I can understand those readers who ARE more emotional readers or those who want to avoid triggers. However, I’m also not an overly emotional reader, so I’m probably not as easily affected when things aren’t tied up nicely at the end. I think I’m in the rare group of people who DON’T want to necessarily know they’re reading an HEA. Don’t be a spoiler!īut back to the main issue for me, it all boils down to spoilers. Personally, I think “literary fiction” is a much better term for those more serious books where romance is a sub-plot. Calling books “women’s fiction” can be misleading, suggesting a book is for women only, not necessarily written by or featuring women. But more importantly it seems sexist to me. It seems too broad, as well, especially when a book IS primarily a romance but just doesn’t have an HEA ending. Sometimes “women’s fiction” is used as an alternative to “romance” books, but it has its own set of problems. And I think “romance” may be too broad of a term, but I’m not sure what’s better. As well as films labeled as “romance” or “rom-coms”. I can easily think of several books labeled as “romance” that didn’t have neat and tidy HEAs. It’s clearly not something I’ve thought too seriously about before because I was surprised by the angry reviewers on Goodreads who felt mislead by the book, giving it only 1 or 2 stars. Divya is available via 47North.This is probably a topic that’s been around for ages, but as I’m somewhat newer to blogging, it’s a new topic for me. This is a second-chance story that follows the two as they find clues, track down suspects, and discover that they have both changed just enough to find their love again-all while possibly saving the future of humanity. The romance takes place between a detective, Mossa, and her academic ex-girlfriend, Pleiti. The primary plot here is a murder mystery set on artificial rings built around Jupiter, and the vibe has a strong steampunk overtone even though the setting is in our future. Malka Older, The Mimicking of Known SuccessesĪ novella by the author of Infomocracy, that takes place after Earth’s ecosphere has been rendered uninhabitable. Romance doesn’t take center stage in their interactions, but sparks definitely fly even as Martine goes deeper to explore cross-cultural relationships and the challenges associated with them. In this novel, the two women are thrown together once again, this time while dealing with an alien first-contact situation that teeters on the brink of catastrophe. The sequel gets deeper into the relationship between Mahit Dzmare, an interstellar diplomat, and Three Seagrass, an agent of the imperial Information Ministry, who first acknowledge their feelings for each other at the end of book one. It provides a fertile soil in which to explore romantic relationships, taking the subgenre beyond wormholes and laser battles.Īrkady Martine, A Desolation Called PeaceĪ follow-up to Martine’s breakout debut, A Memory Called Empire. Space travel creates worlds with varied societies and life forms. They range from older works to some that came out in the last few years.Ī common theme across all of these is that the two leads not only cross the vast distances between stars they also bridge the treacherous gaps between cultures. When most people hear “space opera,” they probably think of Dune or Star Wars rather than romance, but I’ve discovered that many books blend these two genres. The central question isn’t, “Will they or won’t they,” but rather, “How will they find their way back to each other?” When I sat down to write my latest novel, Meru, I knew I wanted to write an interstellar epic but I didn’t have a plot, so I drew upon one of my favorite Indian mythological stories, “Nala and Damayanti.” Unlike many love stories, this one is about a couple whose adventures begin mostly after they get married. When I became a writer, my focus was on the former, but my stories often include a romantic relationship, sometimes at its start but just as often in its later stages. I fell in love with romance after reading Jane Eyre, which my uncle gave me. I have loved reading science fiction since age ten, when my school librarian handed me a copy of Jill Patton Walsh’s The Green Book.
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