[ SECRET POST #5397 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5397 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I don't read a ton of romance novels, but I feel like some of the people commenting know romance genre conventions and some don't.

To be a romance novel and not just a book that has romance in it, THERE HAS TO BR A HAPPY ENDING, either "ever after" or in some more modern ones "for now," which get abbreviated as HEA and HFN.

Other genres may have happy women having fulfilling sex and romantic lives or whatever, but they guarantee that you'll find out whodunnit, or that there will be speculation about future societies or novel technologies, or that there's magic, or humans dealing with their mundane lives with lots of navel gazing and angst and maybe some adultery, or that you're gonna be taken on a wild ride by an author playing with literary convention who's gonna try and turn your brain into a mobius pretzel with the power of prose.

... Not a HEA for the protagonist.

So people who love romance may read lots of other genres and kinds of book, incorporating romance or not, but only romances ALWAYS end well for the protagonist, and some people enjoy that certainty.

It doesn't make romance as a genre stupid or predictable, anymore than mystery novels are stupid and predictable because people always solve crimes in them.