Your perfect book that hasn’t been written yet?
Posted by Shannon C. on January 19th, 2008 filed in book recs, musingsHere’s a question for the four of you currently reading this blog.
What would the ingredients be for your perfect book that hasn’t yet been written?
Mine? I would adore reading about a very alpha man–preferably an ex-S.E.A.L.–who realizes he is a complete and total submissive and likes being ordered around by a kick-ass heroine with no annoying neuroses and no desire to go shoe-shopping.
Also, I’d love to read some feminist fantasy where the female protagonist doesn’t have to be shrill about how she is an excellent warrior/mage/insert-male-profession-here despite being a woman. I want her to be kick-ass without having to point out the setbacks she faces in her patriarchal society for being a woman.
Oh, and I want lesbian romances I would actually read. The ones I keep seeing have plots that feel too BDSM-tastic for my tastes, so I’ve tended to avoid them. But I would settle for more F/F content in general, as long as I felt like it wasn’t exploitative, or simply a prelude to the real sex0rz, which, of course, happen between a man and a woman.
Oh, and I want to read a western paranormal romance. I know Sarah McCarty, one of my favorite authors, is writing something like that, but she can’t come out with her Western werewolves soon enough for me.
In all these, I want three-demensional characters who aren’t perfect. I want convincing villains that scare the crap out of me, or internal conflict that I identify with because I understand the motivations involved.
So what about you? What are your perfect books that haven’t been published yet? Also, feel free to point out books that fit any of my criteria in the comments.
January 19th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
The perfect Gay Prison Romance.
January 20th, 2008 at 8:51 am
Mine? I would adore reading about a very alpha man–preferably an ex-S.E.A.L.–who realizes he is a complete and total submissive and likes being ordered around by a kick-ass heroine with no annoying neuroses and no desire to go shoe-shopping.
Hey. Substitute Were-Pack leader for ex-seal and you have Treva Harte’s Stay….
January 21st, 2008 at 1:26 pm
Oh good grief! Pretty much everything you said YOU wanted would be books from Hell to me and I would avoid them at all costs! LMAO
What makes a romance book perfect to me is when an author shows me the intimate moments between the lead characters. I don’t mean just the sex, I mean when they act goofy and/or show me that they enjoy each other when they are alone.
Even if they are characters I don’t care for outside of those moments (i.e. alpha Seals/Rangers/Special Ops hardasses), if an author shows me WHY the heroine loves him, not just lusts after him, then I’m hooked and will love him, too.
I’ve said this other places, but that is one of the appealing aspects of Gay Romances for me– the leads are usually friends and enjoy hanging out together.
Having said all that, though— I LUVS me some Gay Cowboy stories! We need more of those! LOL
January 21st, 2008 at 3:30 pm
Teddypig: Hmmm, gay prison roimance? Could have moments of high drama which would be excellent.
Lisabea: Oooh, awesome! More book recs.
Bev: I would read about gay cowboys. I’m also not really all that certain I need the ex-Special Forces type guys, particularly. I guess that’s just one of my more shallow not so secret fantasies. And I do agree with you–the goofing off type moments where you see *why* these characters will enjoy spending more time together would be awesome if they were included more often.
January 22nd, 2008 at 2:44 pm
OK
Now that I’ve taken a peak at that firemen of houston calendar, I can emphatically state: Gay Firemen.
January 22nd, 2008 at 3:09 pm
I would love to have a romance where the hero is very very shy and thinks he is unworthy, that is until the larger than life heroine comes and shows him he is perfect in her eyes.
As for the gay firemen.. oh yes… yes yes…
January 22nd, 2008 at 3:19 pm
My god. What do we all have in common?
January 24th, 2008 at 7:18 am
So, I remembered my gay fireman:Remy in JL Langley’s With Caution.
yup.