books: His Dark Materials, and Harlequin stole World of Darkness

[juldea]

So while I was wandering Walmart earlier trying to waste some time, I browsed their book section. I must be masochistic, because when I found the omnibus His Dark Materials, I immediately flipped to the penultimate chapter of The Amber Spyglass and read the really sad part. :(

Then I amusedly browsed the bodice-rippers, which have more man-chest on them these days than woman - in fact, there was one where the woman was ripping off the man's shirt! Shocking. It turns out that Harlequin and Silhouette are breaking off into little mini-lines these days. There's the inspirational romance line, for those who want some religion in their smut, and the romance suspense line, and then... there's the we haven't stolen the World of Darkness and put romance novels in it, no, really line. I avoided buying any, even though they were only $3 and I was extremely curious. But I felt that you, dear reader, should know of this.

Comments

[brewergnome.livejournal.com]

Oh the vampire/werewolf romance lines of most of the major companies are HUGE. And, oddly, contain some of the better writing in the romance genre.

[juldea.livejournal.com]

How odd. Maybe I should pick one up sometime, then! ;)

[nightskyre.livejournal.com]

This is the first time I've been truly thankful of LJ's new preview pane on links. Had I clicked on that, everyone in the group that saw my screen would have had a *field day*

[juldea.livejournal.com]

*giggle* I would assume that in a paragraph about romance novels, the fact that it was a link to romance novels would be obvious!

[nightskyre.livejournal.com]

Well, it was, but I was a little curious. I don't know why.

[eustacia42.livejournal.com]

Haha, awesome.

Y'know, I nearly forgot about this, but after high school and all through college I had a severe aversion to reading for pleasure, because of all the forced reading I had to endure in school. The thing that eased me back into reading for pleasure: historical romances. LOL

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. ;)

[mdyesowitch.livejournal.com]

They also have a Manga line, an African-American line, a NASCAR line, and the previously mentioned Nocturne line, and a separate subseries of their extreme smut for supernatural.