On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Heather Madrone <[email protected]>wrote:
> > Add to that the fact that many romance novels are witty and knowingly self- > parodying, and it's easy to see how they become junk read addictions. > > At the edges of the genre, I can recommend Amanda Quick (her heroines > are all geeky dilettantes) and Kathleen E. Woodiwiss (it takes some > creativity > to work kidnappings by pirates, highway robbers, and London street thugs > into the same novel). Even further on the edge, I can recommend Barbara > Bickmore, whose heroines are all serious-minded pioneers in their fields > and whose books are as much about, say, the history of Flying Doctors in > Australia or missionaries in the Congo as they are about the heroines' > romantic lives. > > I recently read my first Amanda Quick book and thought it was hugely enjoyable. I only ever seem to read Regency romances (the influence of Heyer, I suspect) but favourite authors are Loretta Chase (hilarious and vastly underrated) and Julia Quinn (who fluctuates between 'quite good' and 'wonderful').
