Oh, I agree -- Alaric can't have a happy ending with anyone, and especially not Quinn. It doesn't have to be a *traumatic* ending, a violent ripping them apart, but they can't be together for long; it just wouldn't work and still be true to the character(s).

Everything Will Be Fine For My Woobie And His Heroine, So Please Don't Write Anything That Might Make Me Worry, Even If You Resolve It In The End, Because I Don't Like That Scary Feeling For Even A Few Chapters.

I admit, I do enjoy this sort of thing now and then, in certain moods. Usually when reality is Not Going Well, and I need to believe that someone, somewhere is actually happy.

Wouldn't want it on a regular basis, though. And would only get upset if something was marketed as a comfy literary blankie and turned out to be very otherwise. And even then, I'd beef at the marketing department, not the author.

and accept that some (many?) people want their fiction to be pure comfortfood - some kind of narrative equivalent of Twinkies.

Hence the popularity of the Twilight series.

Twinkies that twinkle?

I admit, I do enjoy this sort of thing now and then, in certain moods.

I also enjoy this in certain moods too, although what I usually end up doing in those moods in rereading. This is why there are some books I've read 10+ times. However, I would never think of asking the author to write a different type of book.

The way the new Eragon book was selling on Saturday, a bunch of us bookstore workers were agreeing that the biggest selling book in the world right now would be one that had teenaged vampires flying around on dragons. I added that the vampires had to sparkle, which confused the non-Twilight readers but got a laugh from those that did read them.

huh. i look the book to fit the promised tone. and the romance angst should fit . Personally, I hate lies in romance novels.misunderstandings -- and well you can't always tell some one you are a vampire right away - I get .But Lies where someone is pretending to be some thing they are not -- I get all anxious.

In paranormal romances I don't like a lot of romance angst -- there should enough real danger to push those kinds of things aside.

In light contemporary romances -- I like it when the problems are more things people just need to talk about ,but they aren't sure they can or should presume that the other person cares that much.

I know what I like. But I can't believe that I would presume to tell an authour -- I love everything, but can you change X( major part of the story). That might tell me I don't like it.

Kay Hooper is a good example -- I've loved some of her books and not so much with others. I don't like her physically fragile do to strong paranormal skills heroines . It is legitimate, well-done, just not to my taste.

Kay Hooper is a good example -- I've loved some of her books and not so much with others. I don't like her physically fragile do to strong paranormal skills heroines . It is legitimate, well-done, just not to my taste.

I loved her wizard book, where they went to Atlantis to change their society and its attitudes towards witches. That was a really good book, as were her "Hagen Wins Again" books for Loveswept.

I don't mind characters having dreadful things happen to them if it makes sense in the book and it achieves something. In a series, though, I get tired of the protagonist always being beaten up, dumped or full of angst. After a while, I begin to wonder why I'm spending so much time with such a loser.

a bunch of us bookstore workers were agreeing that the biggest selling book in the world right now would be one that had teenaged vampires flying around on dragons.

Maybe I should dig out and try to make publishable that novel I wrote as a teen where the vampires can go out in the daylight and turn into dolphins.