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Book meme: Day 26!
Aug. 23rd, 2010 08:11 amAh, a new week. If you missed it yesterday, I wrote a blog post at the Anna Katherine blog about the way impostor syndrome can manifest as writers block. That's here.
Today: book meme!
Day 26 - OMG WTF? OR most irritating/awful/annoying book ending
The most irritating book endings are the epilogues in romance novels that take place about a year after the book ends, in which the heroine is pregnant/about to give birth or has just given birth and she and the hero are deliriously happy and never fight and everything is perfect in their lives. Even books I otherwise love can have this problem (at least two Linda Howard books that I like do this). For a while, it was practically de rigueur in romance novels to have this "proof" of happily ever after in the form of an epilogue with a pregnant and married heroine.
Not every happily ever after has to or should look like that, and it is a huge relief to me that this is no longer standard practice for romance.
( Other days of the book meme )
Today: book meme!
Day 26 - OMG WTF? OR most irritating/awful/annoying book ending
The most irritating book endings are the epilogues in romance novels that take place about a year after the book ends, in which the heroine is pregnant/about to give birth or has just given birth and she and the hero are deliriously happy and never fight and everything is perfect in their lives. Even books I otherwise love can have this problem (at least two Linda Howard books that I like do this). For a while, it was practically de rigueur in romance novels to have this "proof" of happily ever after in the form of an epilogue with a pregnant and married heroine.
Not every happily ever after has to or should look like that, and it is a huge relief to me that this is no longer standard practice for romance.
( Other days of the book meme )