*reads a handful of the blurbs* I dunno, they sound typical for romance novels? I generally just tick off boxes when reading romance blurbs, since so many of them sound alike:
1. Male/female or male/male or something else? (Strangely don't see a lot of F/F ones, but sometimes there's a triangle) 2. Power relationship (Y/N?) (i.e. is one of them royalty/in charge/etc and the other a pauper/poor/etc) 3. Age difference? (Y/N) (I'm not a huge fan of the 'ingenue helps exhausted, older lover revive' thing) 4. Expected plot? (stuff like 'prostitute is rescued, woman is saved from financial ruin, etc') 5. Era? 6. Unexpected stuff? (Cross-racial, for instance, or were-creatures that aren't common. I saw were-cockatrice the other day. o_O )
Once I tick off the boxes, I check to see if they add up to something I usually enjoy, and if they do, I go for it.
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Date: 2014-09-11 12:56 pm (UTC)1. Male/female or male/male or something else? (Strangely don't see a lot of F/F ones, but sometimes there's a triangle)
2. Power relationship (Y/N?) (i.e. is one of them royalty/in charge/etc and the other a pauper/poor/etc)
3. Age difference? (Y/N) (I'm not a huge fan of the 'ingenue helps exhausted, older lover revive' thing)
4. Expected plot? (stuff like 'prostitute is rescued, woman is saved from financial ruin, etc')
5. Era?
6. Unexpected stuff? (Cross-racial, for instance, or were-creatures that aren't common. I saw were-cockatrice the other day. o_O )
Once I tick off the boxes, I check to see if they add up to something I usually enjoy, and if they do, I go for it.