|
When I was about 15 I found The Wolf and The Dove by Kathleen Woodiwiess (sp?) at the house where I was babysitting. I don't read historicals anymore but that book opened up a whole new world to me.
|
|
|
Kathleen Woodiswiess is a really good author. I have read almost every single book of hers including The Wolf and The Dove and have loved them all.
|
|
|
Cali, that is so funny! My first one was a Woodiwiss too! Shanna, and it seemed very naughty to me at the time. Of course, I was about 12 or 13!
|
|
|
I was hooked in the late 70's on Harlequin romances. Back then, I think we only had the HP and the HR series. I, also, remember reading books by Valerie Sherwood that I loved. All I can remember is that they were historicals.
|
|
|
I found out about Harlequinn from an aunt of mine after she found out that I read romances. I buy about 10 Harlequinns a month. When I first started reading romances most of mine were historicals. There was and still is something about those 1800 or later rakes and european men, etc. that make your blood pound.
|
|
|
I love the western historicals. I love a good looking cowboy :)
|
|
|
So do I! If you are looking for some hot cowboys, try Leigh Greenwoods Cowboys series and Seven Brothers (Randolphs) series. They are to die for.
|
|
|
I have those in my TBR and someday I will get to them :) Strangely enough I like the historical version of cowboys better than the contemporary, although I will read those as well.
|
|
|
Leigh Greenwoods books are set in the 1800s so I think they would be considered Historicals. I really can't tell the difference between Western Historicals and Western Contemporarys.
|
|
|
Yes, the Greenwood books are historicals. I also enjoy the western Harlequin Historicals. Cherly St. John, Kate Bridges, and there are others but my mind is drawing a blank. Another western series I loved was Ana Leigh's Mackenzies. Very good books.
|
|
|
I read Jane Eyre when I was 12 and was good and truly hooked. Loved Harlequins in my late teens and must have owned over a thousand of them. I too love Kathleene E. Woodiwiss. Right now I'm reading one of hers published in 1998, "The Elusive Flame".
|
|
|
My mom handed me Honest Illusions by Nora Roberts back when I was 10 or so. At the time I was really into reading fantasy and she told me that she thought I would like it due to the magic, but warned that it got "a little detailed in places."
|
|
Jen
- Sunday, July 29 2007
|
When I was in high school, I read Danielle Steel... but left romance reading for about 10 years. Then about 5 years ago, I was house-sitting for someone and finished the book I had taken with me. So, I raided my friends shelves. All romance books. Seems to me, I picked up a Barbara Delinisky book (I want to say 'The Stud"). Wasn't bad, but was a quick read. So, I read more. Debbie Macomber, Nora Roberts, Catherine Coulter... well, let's say 2 weeks later, I was hooked. Had to hit the library to feed my new habit. And as they say, the rest is history.
|
|
|
I discovered traditional Regencies at seventeen, and then moved on to historicals. Catherine Coulter, Kathleen E. Woodiwiss, and Johanna Lindsey were my first auto-buys.
|
|
|
I read my first romance novel when I was about fifteen. It was an old Harlequin Romance novel...by Sondra Stanford I think. I think it was called "A Stranger's Kiss" but I could be wrong about that. But in any case, I was hooked with the first book and have never really stopped reading romance novels since.
|
|
|
this post has been removed
|
|
|
I read my first romance novel when i was around 16, it was a harlequin.... can't remember the title. i found it kinda corny, and that kinda steered me away from reading any other romance novels......
Then last year (i know, not that long ago) I was browsing through the book store and i picked up Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison (it was in the fiction section)... loved it, read the rest of the series. then the ladies at the bookstore recommended Kelley Armstrong, so i bought Bitten... loved it! Then they recommended LKH, so i bought guilty pleasures and was hooked. I've kinda just devoured author by author, series by series, book by book since then. Paranormal romance is my crack! LOL!
|
|
|
My first romance was The Secret Woman by Victoria Holt. It was as much mystery as romance but that is a combination I still look for. For me romance is the pricelyess jewel in a setting of mystery or surrounded by suspense. I was 15 when I read The Secret Woman and read it once a year for many years.
|
|
|
I was 11 and one of my friends was passing around a copy of The India Fan by Victoria Holt that her mom had forbidden her to read. We knew it had to be really good if Mom forbid it, lol.
|
|
|
I've haven't been a romance fan for that long. It all started for me with Christine Feehan's Dark Prince. I fell head over heels for Mikhail and that was it I started buying romance books online almost daily.
|
|
|
Kathleen Eagle's Fire and Rain. Fantastic book and still one of my very favorites. Before that, I read mystery, mainstream historical, fantasy, westerns, sf, bios . . . just about anything but romance. I had read a romance when I was in college and it disgusted me so much (forced sex) that I swore never to read another--which I didn't for well over 20 years. But I'm definitely hooked on romance now!
|
|
|
I kind of waded in gradually, but very young. I remember reading a lot of Phyllis Whitney, Victoria Holt and Georgette Heyer, then checking out a lot of paperback Regencies. I vividly remember sneaking Kathleen Woodiwiss's Ashes in the Wind out of my mom's "secret" stash of books. Yeah, I own my own copy now[g].
|
|
JMRyan
- Sunday, September 23 2007
|
In 1985, I was looking for a book to read in Caldor (Does anyone remember that store?) and I picked up Velvet Angel by Jude Deveraux. I have every one of her books now and expanded out. When I was younger, I read anything and everything romance. Now I'm a little more picky. I must admit it helped with the SAT scores.
|
|
|
I read my first one when I was in junior high, I think. My mom loved Victoria Holt, so she was the first one I read. There are too many authors I love now to list, but I have started getting more into the paranormals now. I loved the regencies for awhile, but kinda burned myself out on them!
|
|
|
I was in high school and started reading historical romances. One of my friends got me hooked after that I started going to the public library and checking out all kinds of romance novels. Now my bedroom looks like a public library.
|
|
|
My aunt gave me a couple of her romance paperbacks when I was in high school and I've been hooked ever since.
|
|
|
I read "The Celts" by Elona Malterre when I was fouteen. I was probably too young for the sex scenes involved but I certainly as hooked! After that the next novel i vividy remember was Nicole Jordan's "The Seduction."
|
|
Mary D
- Saturday, January 5 2008
|
Yep, Kathleen Woodiwiss did it for me when I was about 15, too. Wow, and that inspired me to write romance myself. Then, I discovered Rosemary Rogers. But, Kathleen Woodiwiss will always be remembered. Her books were hot for the time.
Mary
|