First of all,
thanks for Amber for letting me blog with her today.
To ask me to pick
my all time favourite romance novel is pretty much an impossible task. Thankfully Amber is allowing her guests to
pick more than one. Hopefully I can
narrow it down to my favourite three romance novels and not write an epic post
for her blog detailing dozens or more.
Hey, it isn’t out of the question for me – I used to run a book review
site and have hundreds to choose from.
Despite being
published in the male/male romance genre, I am actually pretty flexible when it
comes to my reading habits and many of my favourites are male/female romances.
The first of my
favourites, and if I had to pick just
one this would be it, is Banishment
by Dinah Lampitt. I imagine most people
reading this blog post will never have heard of this author or this particular
book. She is far more famous under her
other name, Deryn Lake. However, this is
the first book of hers that I read and it probably the most re-read book I own.
There are many
reasons why I love this book so much, though the biggest one is that it is a
bloody good story. This book is the one
that convinced me that stories with romance in didn’t have to be predictable or
run to a set formula.
The book is also
responsible for getting me into the paranormal romance genre as well as
actually making me interested in history, something I had up until this point
thought impossible.
It is the story of
a modern day actress who is a hedonist without remorse (certainly not your
average romance heroine!) who undergoes and experiment in regression hypnosis
for a joke. The joke is on her though
when she finds herself trapped in a past life, that of a young woman in the 17th
Century at the outbreak of the English Civil War.
It is well worth a
read if you want something a little different from your average damsel in
distress romance novel.
For my second
choice, I would have to go with The Wild
Swans by Kate Holmes. This one is a
much more traditional romance novel than Banishment,
and is marketed at such. It also has one
of my favourite book covers ever.
It is re-told
fairy tale of a princess who is cursed to be silent in order to save her
brothers, who have been turned into swans by an ogre. Unable to go home, she is taken in by the king
of a neighbouring kingdom, who has mistaken her for a peasant and has vowed to
marry the first woman he meets who does not talk his ear off.
What I love most
about this book is the humour. It can
make me laugh out loud no matter how many times I read it.
For my third and
final choice I am going to move away from the male/female genre, despite having
many more favourite books from the likes of Sherrilyn Kenyon, Sandra Hill and
Lynn Kurland. Instead, I am going to pick my favourite male/male romance. The choice here is just as difficult. Even though I am relatively new to the genre,
only a few years in I have already got many favourite authors on my ‘must buy’
list, S J Frost, Ethan Day, and A.K.M Miles, to name only a few.
However, I am
going to restrain myself and stick to just one book. I have chosen one that has mystery as well as
romance and is one of the few books that has actually made me cry in recent
years. Breathe by Sloan Parker.
It not only has
two thoroughly engaging heroes, it has a mystery that kept me guessing, and
that is something which rarely happens with romance novels. I read far too many mysteries in my teenage
years and can usually figure out mystery plots with very little effort.
So, those are the
three romance novels I have managed to pick out of the hundreds I have read and
loved over the years. They are all well
worth a read and if you do choose to read any or all of them, I hope you enjoy
them as much as I did.
L.M. Brown
Can a wrong number
lead to Mr Right? Nick Davis’s life takes an unexpected turn when a stranger
starts leaving messages on his answer machine. Is there hope Nick can become
more to Connor Hayes than just a wrong number?
Thank you for sharing your
favorite romances with us today, L.M.! Readers, to purchase Gift of Love, visit
Silver Publishing! Find out more about L.M. and her books at her website, blog,
Facebook, and Goodreads….
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Just wanted to say another quick thank you for having me here.
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