Fans of Interracial Romance discussion

If you do, what's an example? I have my favorite genres and themes, but sometimes I like to do a 180 and read something different. I like to read horror books. About as far away as you can get from romance. I still like happy endings, but I don't expect a HEA in a horror novel (although I always keep my fingers crossed). I like to mix up genres too, so I don't get bored.

What about you?

I write contemporary romance, but I love reading paranormal(PRN),M/M romance, and mystery thrillers. Although, I recently joined a horror group too. I used to love Horror movies. So, I want to see if the books can give me that shuddering feeling...LOL

I don't like Sci-Fi, but Sherrilyn Kenyon has a Sci-Fi romance series called The League, that I thought was really good. Also, I hate first-person, but Cheyanne McCray writes a first-person series(Lexi Steele)that I'm enjoying.

Debbie, I loved the two League books I read. I haven't read a lot of Sci-Fi, but these perked my interest. I like 1st person for coming of age and UF/paranormal detective novels. Not so much for romance.
Trenice, I love the shudder feeling from a good scary story.

There isn't a lot that I won't read, maybe just chick-lit and horror because I can't muster interest. Everything else is fair game. I branched out into SF recently, and I'm really enjoying it! :)

Chick-lit is not a favorite of mine but I will read it.

chick-lit???

TBH, romance was outside of my normal tastes until just a few years ago. I used to read Sci-fi, Fantasy and Suspense Thrillers growing up so Romance was interesting and eventually became one of my new fave genres. :-)

Like NU, there isn't a lot that I won't read. I do get on a paranormal romance roll, and need a break from that and will usually look for a good historical romance to read.

I can't believe I went from refusing to read paranormal romance, to being a serious PNR addict now. It's funny how your tastes can change.

I never knew what it was until I finally worked up the courage to ask. I just knew I loved reading about Lora Leigh's breeds...LOL

Ever so often I try to read a book out of my norm. Sometimes I am pleasantly surprised usually I can't get into the story like the way I like.

Nope. I'm very snobbish and loyal to my tastes. I only read what I like and I don't venture out no matter what. Some genres I just don't like and would never try.

Best Wishes!

Yeah, I wasn't really into PNR until I read the BDB. Then I looked for more. :D

I've always been an eclectic reader. So the answer is my normal taste is to vary my reading. Although once I became published my reading time has been considerably cut so I don't read the variety I used to.

I will say that I have tried to read certain genres and I've found that they don't appeal to me. So I pretty much write the things I like to read most these days- contemporary, fantasy, paranormal, sci/fi romance with m/f and HEA endings.

Funny this question should come up right when I read a book outside my normal comfort zone. I, like others on this thread, loev a wide variety of book types. I especially love genre fiction so I read romance (all subgenres) Sff, mysteries (all types), horror etc.

But I tend to steer clear of chick lit. There is a meanness -- for want of a better word -- that seems to underlie a lot of chick lit that rubs me wrong.

One thing I'd never, ever touch is something with vampires. I HATE vampires. I hate vampires in movies, books, anywhere. Can't stand a vampire story. LOL! I might compromise with something else but vampires is something I just can't budge on. Last year I started reading a book about vampires (that I hadn't realized was about vampires) and the minute the "immortal" crap started I stopped reading. LOL! Most vampire things are just too predictable. It's the same old stuff all the time.

I wouldn't read Sci-fi either (maybe if it had some IR action in it, LOL), but like vampires, I can't stand sci-fi stuff. I'm not into fantasy either but I can take fantasy before Sci-fi. I'm just not into it you know? Not even with movies.

Best Wishes!

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Oh Stacy that's like a dare. LOL! Never say never, cause you never know. LOL!

LOL! How do you get away from it, SD? They're everywhere, LOL.

I read a lot of romance--mostly contemporary, but I enjoy historicals too. I like horror, mysteries, thrillers, and the occasional biography.

I'm not a fan of sci-fi and paranormals, but I've read some here and there. I just don't enjoy them that much. Maybe it's because I can't relate. I do think, though, people who write in those genres are very creative to come up with the detail necessary to make an alternate world believable.

I prefer reading Christian fiction, interracial romance, AA romance, AA literary fiction or literary fiction in general. I also like contemporary romance.

However, I had to know what the buzz was about with the TWILIGHT series so I read them. Suprisingly, I thoroughly enjoyed them. Ms. Meyer is an exceptional writer. Now, I am open to fantasy/paranormal stuff in spite of my beliefs because they are entertaining, if done well.

I do try new authors regularly, anything to supplement my book buying addiction and I love to find new authors to love.

Oh man, I was on my musician band site and saw an advertisement for a book yesterday. Everyone was rude towards this person for spamming our site, but being an author and understanding the woes of promotion, I decided to check it out. I was floored. It's called "The Immortals of Meluha" and it tells the story of Shiva (yeah, the god) who is at the time a mortal tribal man. The story takes place 1900 BC in the Indus Valley where Shiva. It deals with two warring factions where Shiva is one of the chosen ones to aid in the war. Gee, sounded similar to my story. I read the first chapter and was hooked. Must have more. However, the person provided only a link to an Indian site that delivers the print book only in India. But good old Amazon had a used copy for sale which I picked up. It's shipped so I can't wait, but after I finish "Dracula, My Love." I know a good book when I see one. You can tell English isn't the author's first language, but I can deal with it, the story is that good you don't care. I hear an Indian man in a strong Indian accent telling me the story in my head which makes it even more pleasant. I watched the book trailer and the guy in it is hot, so is the music. I'm so there. I went so far as to befriend the author on Facebook and wrote him a nice note to which he responded to me. Gush.

Shiva is one of my spirit guides and I believe I was led to check out this book, at least I'd like to believe that so I will, it sounds interesting anyway. I feel an open channel to the High Ones again after feeling ignored for so long, or maybe I've just been too distracted to hear.

Here's the review with the trailer. You can google the first chapter: http://www.karthickgopal.com/2010/03/...

The comments are interesting also. This book should definitely become a movie.

Chaeya

I'm an avid bibliphile so there isn't much out there I don't read. I'm also terribly picky, LOL.

@Stacy-Deanne: It's really hard for an elder goth like me to disavow vampires, but the paranormal genre has pretty much defanged my favorite creature of the night. I really miss the days of Lestat and Sonja Blue. I'm like you; I can't read anything with vamps anymore unless it's got a new and unique hook.

I do tend to read anything and everything. I mostly like reading how other Authors tell a story. I find different genres approach stories in different ways and different authors have vastly different methods of building tension, characters, plots and what not. So I will read pretty much anything with a good review, lol. I am trying to focus more on romantic suspense at the moment, as I have been neglecticing that genre for a while.

I'm not a paranormal fan, but I've tried reading paranormal stories. I've read three books and they weren't to my liking. I was giving myself a new genre reading challenge. I might pick up another paranormal book later and give it another reading challenge shot.

Hi Arch, I am not a big paranormal fan either. I think most tend to go into the whole demon thing. If there were more books like medium (the t.v show) or ghost whispering. Then I might be able to get into them.

I like contemporary books.

I typically read romance (interracial, contemporary, historical, etc.).

Lately, I've been considering autobiographies, but I'm having a hard time deciding which one to start with.

I like romance books in every form. Nothing like a good love story, but I find that if the characters are likable I can read almost anything.

I have read a few good autobiographies. I borrowed one on chance, lol, "Dog the bounty hunter" that was really good, but read like a fiction novel.

I am old school...like the old school vamps like lestat but I have to say I love vampires in my stories right along with werewolves, werecats etc. Long as my vamps aren't glittering like in twilight I am all right.

In fact wrote one with a friend that we are now editing. I expect it isn't for everyone. Just like regency's aren't for me.

I love to write contemporary romance, but I like to read paranormals.
I usually avoid vampires too, since I'm tire of reading about really old men who have been waiting for "the one who will complete them", and she's usually some totally unremarkable woman with no self-confidence, until his love makes her whole too...snore. (and when did you last find a man old enough to be your grandfather or older, to be sexy? Sure the body might be hot, but he thinks like an old man!)
But really like shifter tales, since hot-blooded men who are animals is really sexy to me! I also still like to read sci-fi, but not as much as I used to when I was younger. I dislike historicals and regency, and hate romance novels with no sex...I feel like once I get interested and invested in the characters, it's a cop-out if I don't get any "action"! But that's just me. I also don't care for menage books, since I figure that relationships are complicated enough with 2 people...improbable with more!
I do like to read cultural anthropology books, and the occasional straight history with no romance.

I still love me an "old" man vampire. LOL It's the whole immortal thing for me. But that is why we are all different.

I love shifter tales as well. And hate romance without the payoff (sex) as well. Regency isn't my thing for the most part except there a re some great kink Victorian novels out there..Jess Michaels has some good ones. . It's nice to be amongst such difference...and be able to come together and share our love for romance in any form.

In The Vampire Lestat, Anne Rice posed the question of, "If you could be immortal, would you improve, get better as the years passed, or would you just become more of what you are as a mortal?" So if you were a selfish bastard, would you become less or more that way? If you were an empathetic people-helper, would you be more or less that way after a few hundred years? And keep in mind you would come to regard mortals as food, not equals. Interesting concepts to ponder.

Yes...those are definitely interesting concepts...and humans being as we are... would most likely choose the most selfish way to go.

I used to be mainly into horror books, like Stephen King and that type of stuff. But recently i've gotten into romance a lot, and also into thriller type novels-mostly by Dean Koontz. I like to try and broaden my horizons and read stuff I normally wouldn't. I have also gotten into books that feature shape shifters.

It's because I'm a huge Anne Rice fan that I coulen't get into the latest vampire craze. Her vampires couldn't have sex, but she has a great way of writing sensuousness between her characters, and it was to the point where you didn't mind their not having sex. I just started rereading "The Vampire Armand" because I just couldn't get enough of him and Marius, even if Marius is a pedophile. Somehow I could just forgive him for that, I know that's weird, but apparently, many people didn't care either. When you put Louis, Lestat and Marius together, they blow the whole Black Dagger Brotherhood out of the water.

Chaeya wrote: "When you put Louis, Lestat and Marius together, they blow the whole Black Dagger Brotherhood out of the water."

How true that is. :-)

(Although I would lean more toward Louis and Lestat only. :-))

I rarely read outside of my taste zone, but I have very wide tastes. Still, it takes a lot to get me to read a mystery or a horror novel. It has to come really highly recommended. And while I'll read IR romantica, an author has to really jump through hoops are garner hundreds of thousands of fans before I'll give a one-race romantica a chance. For example, I read my first Lora Leigh novel this year.

all the time. sometimes i get in a rut and find myself reading the same type of book over and over until i can no longer distinguish one books from another. thats when i'll go pick up a pnr or historical romance for something different. i always come back to contemporaries but it's a good break now and then.

sure do, but there isnt much that i dont read

Yes, I do. There's not much I don't read...m/m, menage. I'm slowly working my way onto reading menage. Heck even sci-fi. If it's written well, I won't turn it down.

Right now I'm reading Demon: A Memoir, which I've been told is speculative christian fiction. This is a totally new genre for me, and right now, I'm so glad that I decided to get outside of my box. I'll probably look into reading more books from this category.

Romances are my number one thing. Historical, contemporary, paranormal, interracial and sci-fi. If there are other sub-genres of romance, I'll read those to. They have to be well written or I'm bored to tears. Sometimes I read other things like biographies, but the subject has to be someone that really interests me.

I've found that expanding my reading into other genres has revealed a lot more authors and books to read, and it's been great. When I feel the need for romance, I always come back to it, especially historical and paranormal.

I've found that expanding my reading into other genres has revealed a lot more authors and books to read, and it's been great. When I feel the need for romance, I always come back to it, especially historical and paranormal.

Every once in a while I'll shove a true crime novel between all my HEAs. I get all my audiobooks from my library and sometimes the pickings are slim. I found this Joe Hill's on accident and I recommend to everyone who likes horror(not my normal genre).

I read so many things now that it's become kind of hard for me to decide what my normal taste. I use to only read Romance, and then became just IR Romance. Now, however, I'm reading a lot more. I read Urban Fantasy, Mystery/Thriller/Suspense, although I did read that before, I read it even more now, Chick-Lit, and a bit more. The only thing that I really still stay away from, as of right now, is maybe Horror and Nonfiction. And even that may change.

I like reading different genres because it keeps things interesting. I am reading more non-fiction lately, mainly Christian books. I will always go back to my romance books and urban fantasy though.