![]() ![]() ![]() Whether I wanted to admit to myself or not, I must have thought that romance is a frivolous genre, much in the same way that capital L literary fiction authors, secure in their ignorance, have condemned fantasy as frivolous as well. Why? I believe it was plain genre snobbishness on my part. I was labouring under the impression that it is a cottage industry in literature primarily concerned with quenching the thirst for intimate relations with every kind of exotic fantasy beings out there-beings such as sexy vampires, sexy werewolves, sexy fairies, sexy angels, sexy demons, sexy wizards and sexy centaurs-no matter how challenging it is anatomically. ![]() Standing at its shore, it seems to me to be a shallow sea teeming with Twilight novels and their closely related kins. “Certainly haven’t seen a fairy king yet,” said Tobias.Įven though I am a longtime fan of the fantasy genre, I have somehow managed to stay out of the waters of the romantic fantasy/paranormal romance sub-genre. There are no dryads, no wild men, no fairy kings, and no monsters. “There’s a lot of interesting stories about Greenhollow Wood, I know,” said Silver. ![]()
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