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Post by ruthmadison on Jan 19, 2011 16:34:32 GMT -5
...and say that very upsettingly, he was faking. I still read it over and over, though, and just skipped the ending. Ugh. I remember being a mini-Shanzi dev in 5th grade, and reading that one. I got to the ending and was just... irate. It wasn't long after that I started jotting down my own little dev stories. That's pretty much how I got started writing too! I couldn't find stories I liked, so I started writing my own that turned out how I wanted! |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2011 12:55:01 GMT -5
I have just got myself Hell On Wheels don't know if anyone has mentioned it yet. Found it by accident when look for new wheelchair wheels for my husband, what a pleasant surprise. Won't be able to read it for a while as I have a few books I have to read to review. By Daniel Evan Weiss
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Post by ruthmadison on Mar 14, 2011 13:37:51 GMT -5
I have just got myself Hell On Wheels don't know if anyone has mentioned it yet. Found it by accident when look for new wheelchair wheels for my husband, what a pleasant surprise. Won't be able to read it for a while as I have a few books I have to read to review. By Daniel Evan Weiss I've seen that book before and I wasn't sure if it was any good, so please do let us know what you think! |
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Post by devogirl on Mar 14, 2011 14:07:10 GMT -5
I mentioned Hell on Wheels as a possible book club selection a while back but it lost out to some other books first. But let us know how it is, maybe we can take it up in the future.
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Post by persephone on Mar 21, 2011 17:02:01 GMT -5
Was just running my eyes down the dev only section and smiled that this thread is the most read of any. Just goes to show that publishers should take note and add more dev orientated books to their catalogue. Most of the "wounded hero" romance section on Amazon is from the eighties or nineties. Just treated myself to Paradox for my birthday, guess what I'll be doing this weekend....
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Post by ruthmadison on Mar 21, 2011 18:36:14 GMT -5
Totally agree! Publishers take note (and stop rejecting me  ) |
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Post by queenjane on Apr 12, 2011 20:39:13 GMT -5
On the topic of disabled/wounded hero romances, I found an email group a while back that has been compiling a list for a long time. And it is huge - I'm talking hundreds and hundreds of books. I binged on them. All I read for close to a year was trashy romances, and I inhaled them - for every really good book I found I probably read five mediocre ones and skimmed/gave up on five awful ones (and I could go on at length about "the all healing vagina" theme - gag me). I even took over updating and reorganizing the list for a spell, I was reading so many.
So, I could comment on any of the romances listed in this thread and more (I'm not joking), and I'd be happy to recommend away, based on your preferred disability.
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Post by ruthmadison on Apr 12, 2011 20:41:21 GMT -5
On the topic of disabled/wounded hero romances, I found an email group a while back that has been compiling a list for a long time. And it is huge - I'm talking hundreds and hundreds of books. I binged on them. All I read for close to a year was trashy romances, and I inhaled them - for every really good book I found I probably read five mediocre ones and skimmed/gave up on five awful ones (and I could go on at length about "the all healing vagina" theme - gag me). I even took over updating and reorganizing the list for a spell, I was reading so many. So, I could comment on any of the romances listed in this thread and more (I'm not joking), and I'd be happy to recommend away, based on your preferred disability. Oh, you should totally make a list for us of the best written ones you found! ;D |
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Post by queenjane on Apr 12, 2011 20:49:23 GMT -5
I'd be so happy to!
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Post by Emma on Apr 12, 2011 21:59:02 GMT -5
Its always good to hear from others about books. Maybe you and Devogirl could work on a super list together. I think I'd be interested in story quality as well as type of disability.
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Post by devogirl on Apr 12, 2011 22:44:51 GMT -5
Yes! I am in the midst of revamping the book and movie review section on the main board. Sorry it's taking me forever, but I hope to finish soon. Soon it will be easier for you all to post your own reviews. But in the meantime, feel free to start a new thread and list all those titles. We'd like to know!
Oh and welcome to the board! We look forward to hearing more from you. Check out the book club and join the chat too.
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Post by merry on Apr 29, 2011 2:57:48 GMT -5
I know there are some double-ups here, but here's a list of "penny-romance" novels that I've enjoyed (and I've waded through reams of RUBBISH to find these...)
I posted on Ruth's site and I've just copied and pasted to here, so apologies again for double-ups...
Just so you know what I look for in this kind of romance: Well-developed characters who grow throughout the book and who relate well with each other; well-researched and realistically described disability elements – I hate disability used merely as a “plot device” and I HATE soppiness and cheesiness); a good story – I like character-based books, but I also want something to happen in the book too!). Here we go – and I guarantee NO MIRACLE CURES !
Paraplegic hero:
“The Write Man for Her” – Christie Walker Bos
“A Man like Mac” – Fay Robinson
(In theory I should also have liked ” A marriage to fight for” by Raina Lynn. It wasn’t bad but somehow it didn’t “do it” for me quite like the above 2. Maybe I just need to dig it out and give it another shot…)
Amputee hero:
“The morning side of Dawn” – Justine Davis (as well as the other two books that go with it – “Stevie’s Chase” and “Left at the altar” – which tell the back-story to “Morning Side” and feature a single ATK amputee hero.
Blind Hero: (there are more of these around, but also more rubbish out there). I can HIGHLY recommend:
“Miss Ware’s Refusal” by Marjorie Farrell (as well as two books books that feature and develop the hero/heroine’s story further: “Autumn Rose” and “Lady Barbara’s Dilemma”. These are my ABSOLUTE favorites
“This is All I Ask” by Lynn Kurland.
(These are both historical, which isn’t my usual tipple, but they are beautifully written with a high Dev factor!)
I also enjoy “Blind Curve” by Annie Solomon and “Holiday Confessions” by Anne Marie Winston – (LOVE the hero in the latter, but the story doesn’t quite move enough for me – sort of fizzles out a bit at the end…)
Other disabilities: I recently read “Flowers from the Storm” by Laura Kinsale (Hero has a stroke early on in the book). Thought it was really good and it’ll definitely be going in my “re-read” box.
Any not on my list that you enjoyed?
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Post by devogirl on Apr 29, 2011 10:28:41 GMT -5
Welcome to the board! I'm so glad there's another member here who appreciates a sexy blind guy! Maybe we can finally tip the balance toward a bind guy hero selection for the book club, haha  I totally agree with your recommendations--Miss Ware's Refusal and This Is All I Ask are the BEST romances, hands down. Although I have to say, I read Flowers from the Storm a few years ago and it didn't move me in a dev way. It was pretty well written, but somehow it didn't push the right buttons, not sure why not. Oh and The Morning Side of Dawn was a big hit around here in the book club a few months back, I think it was selection #2 if you look back in the posts. |
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Post by merry on Apr 29, 2011 12:28:26 GMT -5
Welcome to the board! I'm so glad there's another member here who appreciates a sexy blind guy! Maybe we can finally tip the balance toward a bind guy hero selection for the book club, haha I totally agree with your recommendations--Miss Ware's Refusal and This Is All I Ask are the BEST romances, hands down. Although I have to say, I read Flowers from the Storm a few years ago and it didn't move me in a dev way. It was pretty well written, but somehow it didn't push the right buttons, not sure why not. ;D Thanks. I was SO looking forward to you getting back because I knew from lurking that I had something of a kindred spirit here in you! I'll admit Flowers from the Storm also didn't titillate my inner dev as much as I wanted it to as well. I thought that it might be because I read it during a dip in my cycle - but maybe there's more to it than that. I enjoyed it as a story, though. No "cringe" moments. I posted a link in the "what to watch" thread specifically with you in mind (a British TV mini-series that you haven't mentioned in any of your posts here as far as I can see. It's called "Second Sight". It blows me away - inner dev and all - every time I revisit it)... Have you seen it? |
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Post by devogirl on Apr 29, 2011 21:06:07 GMT -5
Gosh, thanks! I agree, we do seem to have some things in common  Thanks for mentioning Second Sight. I have heard of it but somehow never got around to watching it. The reason is, well, the guy isn't totally blind, right? That doesn't usually do it for me, it has to be total, and if it's an actor faking it, opaque contacts are even better. But maybe I have been too quick to judge. I will check it out on your recommendation. As for Flowers from the Storm, it is pretty well written for a romance, but to me that book epitomizes the subtle but real difference between the "wounded hero" subgenre of romance novels and devo erotica. There's something that we devs want to see that isn't quite part of the standard romance--maybe the way he's always a huge, towering, imposing alpha male, even after the stroke. And I expected the heroine to take care of him, or help him re-learn how to do things, but she really doesn't, she just sort of stands around while he gets better on his own. And he does (spoilers, I guess), it's not exactly a miracle cure, but he's mostly recovered by the end. Meh, it's not my fantasy. |
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