"Love makes you do the wacky."
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
I'm an unabashed romance reader. Of all kinds: paranormal, historical, contemporary, LGBTQ, erotic, Mills & Boon, fanfic - you name it, and I'll read it at least once. Sure, sometimes I get brassed off by ultra-alpha heroes and appallingly ditzy heroines and dubcon-as-love or stalking-as-love. Really, let's not go there. (Even though in my head I've gone there already and am seething at the very thought of it). And absolutely I get ten kinds of mad about how sometimes, in romance novels, I'll almost-but-not-quite willingly accept behaviour from heroes that, in real life, would see me slapping a trespass order on someone. So, sure, I love romance as a genre, but I'm not blind to what I perceive as some of its faults/quirks/whatever you want to call it. Discounting the above, I'm a fool for picking by strange/funny seeming plots, covers and titles. Seriously. The odder the better, probably. I read the synopsis and go "Wait, what? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?" and then request it. Because I'm an idiot, obviously. Or I see the title and think "NO YOU JUST DID NOT!" and, yeah, I request it. Or look at the cover in all its 3D terrible-ness and say "COME TO MAMA!" and, omg, I request it. These five below are all examples of this. And you know what? I'm not even embarrassed. (That should be a romance hashtag, I swear to Hades. I can see it now: #notevenkidding #notevenembarrassed #notevenashamed).
PS: I miss working in the same office as Danielle and Natalie :( Every 'new books lists are posted' day we would amuse ourselves by reading aloud from the romance lists and rolling our eyes, shaking our heads and, in my case, hooting with ribald laughter before promptly ordering ALL OF THE THINGS. Because I'm mature like that.
