Fans of Interracial Romance discussion

Not era, or urban vs rural, but what settings do you tend to like most? I like movies set in asylums and I can't think of ever reading a book set in one, I should rectify that. I like book settings in hospitals, if it’s a patients POV.

Ranches! Really, I love an outdoors setting. Probably because I enjoy being outdoors.

Really??? I DON'T like ranches...

I love them because I like the cowboy thing, cows, horses, etc.

You like mm slash?

Hmm. Not so much. I'd have to really be attracted to the story to read it.

J.L. Langley (a slash writer) does a lot of ranch/cowboy novels because she's into them; so I'll read them they're hers. I love her werewolf series though, I wish she would stick to that.

I am a bit of a contraditiction here....

On the one hand, I am a city girl. I like big city settings and characters than tend to be sophisticated and professional.

But on the other hand, I come from a big old family with roots in the south and I love hearing stories about the antics of my eleventy-billion aunts and uncles as they were growing up. So I also love big family settings. I am a stone sucker for books set in towns where everybody knows everybody and people get in each other's business and families have juicy scandals that come out in open after much drinking at the Thanksgiving table.

Is that erotic? I'm not really into erotica. I don't like anal sex scenes, regardless of sex of people, so if you know of some good m/m books that don't have descriptive sex with that, let me know. I plan to read Wicked Gentlemen, because the story sounds intriguing. I also want to read False Colors because it sounds like a good all around story that happens to have a m/m romance. Plus, I love sea-faring stories.

I like the small town books too.

Langley is erotica, but if you can get past the sex scenes (about 100 of them in 99 pages) Without Reservations is pretty good. Her Sci-Regency Series is also really great and a little lighter on the sex scenes, which isn't saying a lot for her, but it’s a great mannerpunk series.

M.J. Pearson does write sex scenes and her book covers are PORNOGRAPHIC but she really is a great writer, and her books are touching. I got them as a joke for a friend and lucked out with them.

Robin Wayne Bailey's Shadowdance is a good fantasy novel with a less-than-perfect lead, and NO sex scenes-- it's all a pan out to the fire place thing. The book is a little morose, so some it tends to be a hit or miss with people, but I liked it.

Ellen Kushner's Swordpoint features the BEST mm couple ever, no sex other than it being mentioned.

The very BEST mm slash book (and one of my favorites in general) is Jesse Hajicek's The God Eaters. No explisit sex, just a kind of pg-13 'And they're doin it, and it was good'. I suggest checking it out, it's impressive, especially given that it's a POD.

I have Wicked Gentlemen on my wish-list, I'll have to check out False Colors.

Oh, thanks, Christy. I'll check out Shadowdance and Swordspoint. I actually read a short story in the Swordspoint world and it was good. I am very eager to read The God Eaters.

I like sci-fi setting and western.

I'm not big on sci fi novels, but I'm starting to read more of it. I don't like when they get super-technical or philosophical. I start getting bored. I prefer the the action-oriented stuff.

Danielle "The Book Huntress" wrote: "I'm not big on sci fi novels, but I'm starting to read more of it. I don't like when they get super-technical or philosophical. I start getting bored. I prefer the the action-oriented stuff."

I will have to send you some goodie SF book recs that aren't too technical. :-)

I like settings in the future, whether cyberpunk or dystopia types (sometimes both) where it's man vs society. And I love open green land fantasy types of settings. Those are my faves.

I appreciate the recs, Rae. :)

Yeah, I think there can definitely be a TMI factor with science fiction, especially hard science fiction. I remember we had to read Nova by Samuel Delaney in Academic Decathalon. I'm sorry if anyone is a fan, but I about died of boredom trying to finish that book.

Thank you for the rec, too!

Yeah, sometimes they can get a bit techie. I think that and techno thrillers are joked to be romances for guys lol. I can understand how they'd be a bit snooze worthy like a tech manual. :-)

That's why I love Matt Reilly. He has some cool tech stuff, but always keeps the action level high. His books read like action movies. A bit bloody, but they're addictive.

Dont really care about the setting as long as it remains on the periphery. Being a NYer thru and thru I don't suppose I like too many small town settings, but really if the story is good I usually don't notice the setting all that much. That makes me pretty much good with everything.

The only time I dont like a setting is when it becomes its own character in the book. Eg Loretta Chase's Mr. Impossible. I'm usually for exotic settings, and having been to Egypt a number of times I thought it would have been fun reading about it. Wrong. There was so much talk about pyramids, mummies, grave robbers, hiergylphs(sp), cartouches and what not that I just wanted it all to STOP. lol

Funny thing is I ended up liking the book regardless. The leads were great and I just loved Chase's witty writing style. I'll definitely be seeking out more of her books.

Ugh, I hate that about books set in Egypt. You would think nothing had happened in Egypt after the pyramids. What the heck, LOL.

I usually don't care for small town setting, but the setting of the book isn't a dealbreaker for me-- except for ships. It's intensely boring sailing on a ship for an extended period of time, and it's more boring reading about it. I have no idea why authors do this, LOL.

What about island setting, NU? Do you dislike that as well? Most of the seafaring books I've enjoyed, they only spend part of the time on the ship, and usually disembark frequently.

Island is more acceptable, I suppose. It would require pretty compelling characters to stay interested since there's no external environment (probably PNR) and probably, they wouldn't stay on the island the whole book, LOL. I haven't read many island books though. What about you, Danielle?

Yeah, I've read my share of island reads. I seek out the theme, though. I'll cobble together a list when I get a little more time.

I only know that one Kresley Cole book, and it was only half on an island.

I liked that one.