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I started reading historical romance about 10 years ago when I had pneumonia. I had read every book in the house--mysteries, biographies, westerns, mainstream historicals. And believe me, we have a LOT of books. Anyway, my daughter wouldn't buy any more books for me and forced me to read one of her romances. Frankly, I didn't care for the first one I read, but the second one hooked me for life on the historical romance genre: FIRE AND RAIN by Kathleen Eagle. It's a wonderful, wonderful book and still one of my very favorites.
BTW, my daughter started reading romances when she was 11 years old. I had no idea that Bertrice Small's books had sex in them. I was just glad she loved to read. :) She loved Roberta Gellis, too. And now she's a history major, thanks to romance novels!
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I actually just started reading them about 2 years ago. I scoffed at the idea of picking up a book with a half naked woman, and some big muscle bound man on the cover....somehow, I ended up with "The Kiss of the Highlander" which is more of a time-travel romance....but that escalated to Scots romance novels, which progressed into regency, and now...I'll read them all :)
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Loooved Kiss of the Highlander :-).
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how funny! i too used to refuse to read anything that had "fabio" on the cover until i stumbled upon one of Teresa Medeiros' novels, "Shadows and Lace." I was fourteen at that time and i was searching for a book that was based on a fairy tale. i was told to read "Bride and the Beast" by Medeiros but instead I found "Shadows and Lace." I was stunned after turning the cover to find another cover only with a musclely dark knight holding onto a very voluptuous blonde woman. I'm glad i read it though because now i have become obessessed with historical romance and i try to read them as much as i can!
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CaLynn
- Tuesday, July 17 2007
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I started reading romances in high school. My mom was reading the Marion Chesney series and loved them, she passed them on to me. My local public library had an "on your honor" paper back cart, there were always zebra regencies on that. So I was hooked on Regency from that point.
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Marion Chesney is fabulous, and so funny & original , as well.
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Well, I was about 14 or 15 I think and my mom had one HR: The flame and the flower by Kathleen Woodiwiss. OMG, how I loved that book!
And that is the moment when I git seriously hooked. Every week I went to library. But one day I had already read all the HR's in there, so I started buying them myself.
And a year ago, I also started reading English books. And now I can't stop anymore!!! Not that I want to stop of course, lol. :D
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I too started with Kathleen Woodiwiss, who I am sad to say passed away on 7/10.
It was very early 80's under 15 and read Shanna, loved that book and I was hooked. I have read off and on for many years and my favorites are still anything that has History and Romance.
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SueB
- Sunday, August 12 2007
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Thanks for the info on KW. She was my all-time favorite for many years. My fav was Flame and Flower--many hours of sleep lost with Wolf & Dove, Shanna, and Ashes in the Wind. THese are books that will be classics some day.
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I started with Shanna, too, at age 13. Although my favorite books of hers was Ashes In the Wind and The Rose In Winter. didnt like shanna the heroine mch. Liked the hero, thogh.
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Tina
- Wednesday, July 18 2007
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I remember reading my first HR at 16, but then didn't start up again until the 80's when someone gave me Ashes in the Wind by Kathleen Woodiwiss. I loved that book and all her others as well. I love most HR books, have written a Western and am working on a Regency.
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I stole some romance novels about 10 years back. That was the beginning.
Want to know more? Read about it on my website:
http://www.romancenovels.nl/aboutme.html
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Wuthering Heights in 5th grade hooked me. I started reading paperback historicals in high school when I got my own job. My mom would buy Silhoettes and Harlequins, but never knew they were naughtier than the naked people on the cover historicals. I'd visit half price books on payday and pick up their $2 clearance packs of historicals. Still do, lol.
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I can't exactly pinpoint when I started reading HR's but its been about 20 years- my first introduction to reading was when I was about 12 years old- I found the Sweet Valley High Series by Francine Pascal- I whipped through every one in print and then as I got older and matured- so did the books I read.
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I read my first historical when I was 12. It was ON THE NIGHT OF THE SEVENTH MOON by Victoria Holt. I think I read every Gothic romance she wrote. LOVED them. :) Then I read my first Jude Deveraux at age 14 and was hooked on sexy historicals ever since. Johanna Lindsey's were some of my favorite beach read books. She wrote some fabulous alpha heroes.
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Let's see. I read read a lot of YA historicals and I can remember loving Mara, daughter of the Nile by Eloise McGraw. Then when I was about 12, I discovered Mary Stewart, Victoria Holt and so on. I can also remember the whole John Jakes Bicentential series which I read for the romance. And after that, I have always been hooked.
I quite simply adore history and historical romance.
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I have always read a lot. When I was younger I would read everything, but because I was so young the kind of books I was allowed to read were limited to childrens books. Finally when I was 12 I decided I wanted to read something different so I went to the library and looked in the adult paperback section and found Catherine Coulter's Sherbrooke Bride series. I read the back and it sounded interesting. After I read the first few pages I was hooked and have been a huge fan of HR ever since. I probably read about 3 HRs a week if not more.
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It started when i was about 12-13 in the library. With a busbee novel. Don't know the title. And now i am collecting every book i can get my hands on. Most are dutch but there are a few english to
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I was about 12 or 13 when I picked up "Tame the Rising Tide" by Virginia Morgan and I was hooked ever since...
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piats
- Thursday, July 26 2007
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I was about 12 when I read my first one. It was Menfreya in the Morning by Victoria Holt. After that I read every Victoria Holt and Phyllis A Whitney that I could get my hands on.
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I had a friend in 7th grade who read regencies and she got me hooked. I loved Marion Chesney. Later I discovered Patricia Veryan, who is still one of my all-time favorites.
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I probably started with Wuthering Heights too... in about tenth grade? That led to stuff like Henry James (Turn of the Screw was Romantic if not a romance) and Wilkie Collins' Woman in White... that sort of thing. By college, I started reading the romantic poets and their love of all things medieval nudged mine. I started picking up medieval looking romances and couldn't stop reading. That opened the whole romance genre for me.
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