Romance Novel Covers

[lea_hazel]

Okay, so I'm browsing romance novels on B&N, because, well. And it occurs to me that a huge number of the covers depict a woman (the heroine?) with her back to the viewer. Is this A Thing in romance, or am I seeing a pattern where there isn't one? It's a bit weird.

Actually, browsing is futile, because I just made a big order from B&N for my birthday, including the last Kushiel book in the Imri series, the rest of the Lynn Flewelling series, and two other books. That amounts to almost 80$ with shipping and is quite enough for now, I think. In general though, I am interested in paranormal romance and have no idea where to start. Specifically, I'm bored with vampires and I want more werewolves/shapeshifters/changelings in my literary life.

I need to brush my hair.

I also need not to write a book about mermaids and vampires and spies, oh my. Because I already have one unfinished story that I'm making no progress on.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

The Changeling Prince and The Conjurer Princess, both by Vivian Vande Velde. They come hand in hand, but not necessarily one before the other. Except, I recommend reading Changeling Prince first because it explains the background of some of the main characters in The Conjurer Princess.

Shapeshifter romance. Some of my romance. Also, read anything else by Vivian Vande Velde for more teen supernatural romance. (Dragon's Bait is my favorite, which features not only shapeshifter romance, but DRAGON shapeshifter romance.)

Companions of the Night is, in fact, more vampires - but awesome vampire romance. And she has others which involve even ghost romance! She's one of my favorite teen authors. I'm not sure if I've ever recommended her before to you.... now I want to go read all of her books on my shelf.... you'll go through them in no time. They're all great.

[(Anonymous)]

- Sarah, who never remembers to sign her posts.

[(Anonymous)]

Corrections on typos in the first post:

*Some of my FAVORITE romance. Not just "some of my romance".

[(Anonymous)]

I failed at these comments.

[(Anonymous)]

Last comment where I'm talking to myself, I promise:

There isn't any actual romance in Changeling Prince, it doesn't occur until Conjurer Princess, but it's still a good book and as I said - it explains the background of two of the main three characters in Conjurer Princess, which will make you appreciate/like them more once you do get to the romance bit of the plot.