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 Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 2:43 pm
What is it about romances that can really get under your skin?
I've discovered that mine is in regards to the sex scenes, but not the fact that they're often in there. It's how those scenes can sometimes be written. For example, I finished Lord of the Nile not too long ago. There was some sex in there as one would expect, especially with a title whose cover shows a man's abs in front of hieroglyphs. However, the sex was only described (if you can even call it "described") in one or two pages... WHAT? That's the kind of description you'd see in a short story, not a 300 page novel. If an author is going to break down and have sex in a romance novel at least put a decent amount of details in your prose! Sometimes I could get more action in a Stephen King novel!
My final thoughts on the matter? If there's going to be sex between characters please tell me what transpires within a reasonable length of like four to six pages at least. Otherwise don't even describe the sex at all and leave it to the reader's imagination what goes on behind locked doors.
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Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 8:33 pm
Hey I kno one sorta romance that talks all about sex. Its called beating heart! mrgreen Its pretty good!
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Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 5:42 pm
Also, Twilight by Stephenie Meyer is Romantic without sex. Its really good!! ~Minty
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 11:41 pm
well from a guys view it is the fact that
no guy can ever live up to the stories main male character and at times it can get a bit bad in writing
poor word choice for example
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Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 7:56 pm
Well sometimes that true, but there's one Male Author that poses as a Female writer and his sex scenes are good!
Plus, Mintchocochocochip is right, Stephenie Meyer's Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse book's rock!
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Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 5:37 am
The men seem to be rich, handsome and a bit of a caveman. The women are beautiful, poor and in desperate need of help of some kind
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Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 2:27 pm
Mehh.
Stephenie Meyer :S
Anywhoo, I hate it when books tend to be the same for as much as sex scene.
Come on, authors, atleast add some kind of spice into it. :O
Like Time Travelers Wife, they only mentioned the were going to have sex, and no details. Meh.
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Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 9:17 pm
My romance pet peeve is when the female protagonist, almost always during her first time too, automatically climaxes after a few thrusts from the male protagonist (can I even be talking about this on Gaia? xd ) Let's say it gives a really skewed version of female sexual pleasure. And I can't believe women authors actually write that stuff!
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Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 5:19 pm
I hate how the women are easily subdued by the men in the stories. It's just... come on! They could at least put up a better fight! It's aggravating and causes me to hate the book. I've actually stopped a book half way through because of that. It was horrible.
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Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 7:22 pm
Sometimes stories do have lengthy sex descriptions, but most are enough to win the Bad Sex Award.
D;
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Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 12:54 pm
I hate it when the scenes are too mushy or the men too feminine. It seems too unrealistic to me. On the other hand I don't like it when they use really foul language either.
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Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 2:23 pm
I hate it when there's betrayal. I know this is necessary in stories but I hate that feeling when somebody betrays. >.<
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