Romance Lovers for the Challenge-Impaired discussion

What theme do you most enjoy reading about, when it comes to historical romance novels?

Forced Marriage.

Do you mean as in "Shotgun Wedding", Debbie? LOL! Me too!

Yeah, but in some cases the hero forces the heroine to marry him for this or that reason.

I don't know that I've read any hr's with a forced marriage theme. Any rec's?

You know, just once I'd like to read a historical romance where the main couple is already happily married, and deal with some issue that married people sometimes have to deal with.

I haven't read any historicals where the couple is already married, happily or otherwise.

✿Michelle✿
This one qualifies:

These two, the couple is married for most of the book.

Thanks Debbie, and Lisa Kay! I plan on giving the Cynster series another try at some point.

I like
the different sides of the tracks
love/hate relationship as long as they get to the love before the end of the book lol
working together on a common goal (i.e. searching for missing person or something, foiling villain's plans)
kidnapped, captive/captor
rescued and nursing back to health
Alpha men and the spitfire gal that tames em
and more...

Pamela(AllHoney) wrote: "love/hate relationship as long as they get to the love before the end of the book lol..."

True! I don't like it if the whole book is just one big argument.

Pamela(AllHoney) wrote: "the different sides of the tracks..."

Ditto!

"working together on a common goal (i.e. searching for missing person or something, foiling villain's plans)"

Double Ditto!

"rescued and nursing back to health"

Ditto!

In this one, the H/h start out getting married and have to work to build their relationship as they had a shared past

Zee wrote: "In this one, the H/h start out getting married and have to work to build their relationship as they had a shared past"

Thanks Zee. I've heard good things about Nicola Cornick's writing.

She's one of my go-to authors for good books, Michelle. Nicola is also a really lovely woman

Zee wrote: "She's one of my go-to authors for good books, Michelle. Nicola is also a really lovely woman"

I went hunting through my books last night, and I have the second book in the Brides of Fortune series. I guess I'll be getting book one soon; I prefer to start at the very beginning of any series. Have you read that series yet?

No, I haven't. I've got her new Scandals series on my TBR

A great forced marriage book is A Rebellious Bride (one of my favorites)

I enjoy the theme of teaching a lesson. I really like the novels where the hero is a notorious womanizer who claims he'll never fall in love or be tied down, and the heroine decides she'll be the one to change his mind. I find the dialogue far more entertaining in those types of romances.