But romance has been around long before Edward's sparkle made us all sigh. Those lovable hunks just happened to be older. Hello, Mr. Darcy! Which makes me wonder, does it just seem like there's more romance in YA? Or is there really? I'm not the best judge since I wasn't romance driven in high school.
So what do you think? Do you have to have romance for the book to be good? Is it a major plus? Or do you just wish YA could get back to the casual boyfriend/girlfriend mentioning of the past?
3 comments:
The YA genre has been stepped up a notch as far as romance goes. It's not just romance anymore, it's got to have tension and electricity.
Personally, I love romance in books (movies and tv, too). It keeps the story moving. And I'm talking about real romance, not just a sexual scene with some hot guy/gal that crossed the protagonists path at just the right time.
I love it when books have some aspect of romance, but I've never even read a "real" romance novel. My favorite is when they don't get together (or kiss) until the very end, but everything has been building up to that point.
My favorite book is Enders Game mostly because of the romance between Ender and that one girl. Well its not really in the book but I'm sure it happened.
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