Unashamedly Romantic
It's no secret to anyone who knows me that my favorite genre is romance. It's something I talk about constantly, something I read constantly, and something I always come back to if I'm having a bad day. Last year alone I read 38 romance novels, but even more which had a romantic subplot in it somewhere. It's rare for me to read or enjoy a book that has absolutely no romance in it, and this has been true since a very young age. But before we get into that, lets look at the romance genre and how it's become what it is today. If you look back in history, the term romance novel was very different to what we think of today. You have your Greek romances, Arthurian romances, and the novels of Sir Walter Scott. Romance could mean a tale of adventure with a brave hero on a quest; there might not necessarily be any love story involved. Think of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight or the stories of Sir Lancelot. Sir Walter Scott was writing historical novels that were inspired b...