Sometimes, all we can do is imagine...when we know that certain things we..would like to happen...will never happen, we take refuge in our imagination! And here is where the purpose of a romance novels kicks in! It is the elixir for us die hard romantics.
I have been reading one since I was 15...I remember my first mills and boon novel. It was something about a guy and a girl who meet on their trip to turkey. Oh my god! I remember the "feelings" coursing through me when I was reading...plus I was abroad at the time..so I could kind of relate to it. And thus began my tryst with love novels. Although right now I prefer a nice rich historical romance to a mills and boon...m&b is so.....dry compared to historical ones!
In the beginning I would feel slightly odd...it was like reading something explicit... something that was forbidden, but I got over my conscience somehow and started to enjoy what I read. I think it is total bullshit that reading romantic books makes your perspective towards love kinda...dumb! You start looking at love through rosy glasses. Please...I'm 21 and I'm yet to fall in love! It has not made me all mushy mushy in the least, rather I would say I have had some really good reads.
The best part about reading a romance novel is the fact that at one point you become a part of it. You become familiar with the characters...their emotions, and also that it is such a simple read you enjoy it more.When the heroine is all helpless and fighting the demons of her past, the hero comes to her rescue and teaches her how to live again. Or when the hero is trying to slay his dragons the heroine does it for him and wins his heart. But the best story for me is usually when both the leads are at logger heads with each other and that friction finally leads to sparks....ah! Ambrosia!!!!
It is the best company for one when they are traveling or have nothing to do one afternoon or simply want to unwind. So march up to a bookstore and get yourself one of these delights. They are perfect to either warm up or set the cockles of your heart on fire!! :)
some of my fav's!! I'm sure you'll love em :)
JULIA QUINN: EVERYTHING AND THE MOON
It was indisputably love at first sight. But Victoria Lyndon was merely the teenaged daughter of a vicar. . .while Robert Kemble was the dashing young earl of Macclesfield. Surely what their meddlesome fathers insisted must have been true-that he was a reckless seducer determined to destroy her innocence. . . and she was a shameless fortune hunter. So it most certainly was for the best when their plans to elope went hopelessly awry. Even after a seven-year separation, Victoria-now a governess-still leaves Robert breathless. But how could he ever again trust the raven-haired deceiver who had shattered his soul? And Victoria could never give her heart a second time to the cad who so callously trampled on it the first. But a passion fated will not be denied, and vows of love yearn to be kept. . . even when one promises the moon.
JUDE DEVERAUX: KNIGHT IN SHINING ARMOUR
This timeless love story greets a new generation. Abandoned by her lover, thoroughly modern Dougless Montgomery finds herself alone and brokenhearted in an old English church. She never dreamed that a love more powerful than time awaited her there...until Nicholas Stafford, Earl of Thornwyck, a sixteenth-century knight, appeared. Drawn to him by a bond so sudden and compelling that it defied reason, Dougless knew that Nicholas was nothing less than a miracle: a man who would not seek to change her, who found her perfect just as she was. But she could not know how strong were the chains that tied them to the past -- or the grand adventure that lay before them.
JULIA QUINN: MINX
It takes a minx to tempt a rogue...Beautiful and feisty Henrietta Barrett has never followed the dictates of society. She manages her elderly guardian′s estate, prefers to wear breeches rather than dresses, and answers to the unlikely name of Henry. But when her guardian passes away, her beloved home falls into the hands of a distant cousin.
And it takes a rogue to tame her...William Dunford, London′s most elusive bachelor, is stunned to learn that he′s inherited property, a title...and a ward bent on making his first visit his last. Henry is determined to continue running the Cornwall estate without help from the handsome new lord, but Dunford is just as sure he can change things...starting with his wild young ward. But turning Henry into a lady makes her not only the darling of the town, but an irresistible attraction to the man who thought he could never be tempted.
JULIA QUINN: ON THE WAY TO THE WEDDING
A funny thing happened...
Unlike most men of his acquaintance, Gregory Bridgerton believes in true love. And he is convinced that when he finds the woman of his dreams, he will know in an instant that she is the one. And that is exactly what happened. Except...
She wasn’t the one. In fact, the ravishing Miss Hermione Watson is in love with another. But her best friend, the ever-practical Lady Lucinda Abernathy, wants to save Hermione from a disastrous alliance, so she offers to help Gregory win her over. But in the process, Lucy falls in love. With Gregory! Except...
Lucy is engaged. And her uncle is not inclined to let her back out of the betrothal, even once Gregory comes to his senses and realizes that it is Lucy, with her sharp wit and sunny smile, who makes his heart sing. And now, on the way to the wedding, Gregory must risk everything to ensure that when it comes time to kiss the bride, he is the only man standing at the altar...
JUDITH MCNAUGHT: UNTIL YOU
A teacher in a school for wealthy young ladies, Sheridan, Bromleigh is hired to accompany one of her students, heiress Charise Lancaster, to England to meet her fiance. When her charge elopes with a stranger, Sheridan wonders how she will ever explain it to Charise’s intended, Lord Burleton. Standing on the pier, Stephen Westmoreland, the Earl of Langford, assumes the young woman coming toward him is Charise Lancaster — and informs her of his inadvertent role in a fatal accident involving Lord Burleton the night before. And just as Sheridan is about to speak, she steps into the path of a cargo net loaded with crates! Sheridan awakens in Westmoreland’s mansion with no memory of who she is; the only hint of her past is the puzzling fact that everyone calls her Miss Lancaster. All she truly knows is that she is falling in love with a handsome English earl, and that the life unfolding before her seems full of wondrous possibilities…” A little suspense, a lot of drama, this one is perfect for a long camping trip.
peace!! :)
And it takes a rogue to tame her...William Dunford, London′s most elusive bachelor, is stunned to learn that he′s inherited property, a title...and a ward bent on making his first visit his last. Henry is determined to continue running the Cornwall estate without help from the handsome new lord, but Dunford is just as sure he can change things...starting with his wild young ward. But turning Henry into a lady makes her not only the darling of the town, but an irresistible attraction to the man who thought he could never be tempted.
JULIA QUINN: ON THE WAY TO THE WEDDING
She wasn’t the one. In fact, the ravishing Miss Hermione Watson is in love with another. But her best friend, the ever-practical Lady Lucinda Abernathy, wants to save Hermione from a disastrous alliance, so she offers to help Gregory win her over. But in the process, Lucy falls in love. With Gregory! Except...
Lucy is engaged. And her uncle is not inclined to let her back out of the betrothal, even once Gregory comes to his senses and realizes that it is Lucy, with her sharp wit and sunny smile, who makes his heart sing. And now, on the way to the wedding, Gregory must risk everything to ensure that when it comes time to kiss the bride, he is the only man standing at the altar...
JUDITH MCNAUGHT: UNTIL YOU
peace!! :)
