Sentences with phrase «like romance novels»

If you like romance novels, you don't stop after you've read just one, you are a serial reader.

Also, all of your EE book covers (except the last book in the series) look like romance novels, not fantasy or steampunk, so that means even more females than males will be interested.

I don't like romance novels, but being caught up now with her thrillers and Rizzoli and Isles books I decided to give these two short stories a shot.

Church planting books are being cranked out like romance novels — lots of promises and passion, but little facts on what does and what doesn't help church plants succeed.

It's fair to say that the film plays out somewhat like a romance novel.

Frampton's real - life love story sounds like a romance novel (or an adorable indie rom - com)-- she fell for her former intern after an impulsive kiss.

Styled much like a romance novel from the Civil War era (which in timing it parallels), but told with a stoniness that separates it from more romantic, sweeping novels, Conquistadora is simple in its purpose: to tell the story of those who lived and died in Puerto Rico.

Another popular theme was a female in a romantic pose with a male like a romance novel.

Fast paced like a thriller and electrifying in intensity like a romance novel When You Can't Trust Love will keep you at the edge of the seat and shake you to the core when you finish reading it.

Not exact matches

This seems like a lot of work at a very low price point — until you take into consideration the popularity of romance novels.

Though there are few statistics to support Renaud's claims about the extent of the problem, Christian media outlets like Today's Christian Woman have recently run stories about women consuming porn, often theorizing that the habit starts with explicit romance novels.

It reads like the plot of a romance novel.

Does he have to be perfectly fit with six - pack abs like he just stepped out of a romance novel?

It sounds like a cheap romance novel, but this line is actually lifted from quite a different type of prose: a neuroscience study.

my name is tony nice to me you i live on the eastside of baltimore i'm 25 yrs old my favorite color is green i like chinese and home cooked meals i'm in to reading romance horror and anime novels i'm a day time tv person any movie would be good to watch i have a job i'm on the laid back tip drama...

I like to read books by John Grisham, James Petterson and romance novels

When one woman showed Haddish her collection of romance novels She had one that was like a slave thing or whatever.

Shady men disguising themselves as princes to win over the hearts of unsuspecting women, malicious schemes to get someone's money, and mean tricks aiming to fool kind people looking for love: these sound like if they were taken straight out of a romance novel.

t seems like every movie that's based on a young adult novel about a supernatural romance is destined to be lazily compared to the «Twilight» series (and there are plenty more to come this year), but in the case of «Beautiful Creatures,» the comparisons are totally valid.

Much like their previous collaboration, 1988's «Dangerous Liaisons» (and other Hampton works such as «Atonement» and «Total Eclipse»), this is a story of sexual awakening gone awry — which is not to say that the novel lacks for romance.

Actually, this romance novel adaptation about a country singer (Alex Roe) returning to the jilted ex (Jessica Rothe) who's raising the daughter (Abby Ryder Fortson) he never knew they had doesn't seem like it'll end with anyone dead or turned into a ghost.

In Misery, James Caan plays Paul Sheldon, a novelist who — like King — has made a career of writing about obsessive and emotional characters, but here within cheap romance novels.

This could feel like an airport romance novel about a girl whose life is transformed by love, but Ronan complicates Eilis's otherwise simple story arc as much as she can.

by Walter Chaw Walking a fine line between nostalgia and regret, irony and earnestness, Philip Noyce's The Quiet American, adapted from the novel by Graham Greene, is a lovely film that captures, like Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, the delicate balance between romance in the immediate foreground and the backdrop of war and politics.

Adore plays like a middle - aged woman's fantasy romance novel.

That is, till the roles become reversed, and the affairs become stale like left out bread, and the marriage regains that passion like the cover of a romance novel.

Reynolds winds up romancing Arterton's co-accountant Anna Kendrick, after he makes a grave error with Arterton, and while Michael R. Perry's script occasionally feels a little like a talking - animal comedy riff on some of the plot elements in Thomas Harris» novel «Red Dragon,» you might as well steal from the best.

Stuck in the middle of the film is a flight to a tropical island (typical of the Flynn pics, if not the pivotal denouement in MGM's Mutiny on the Bounty) and the hero's involvement with a local girl (a leftover from Polynesian epics such as Hurricane, Bird of Paradise, and prior Dorothy Lamour romances like Aloma of the South Seas)-- surgical additions that may have been present in the original novel, but feel tacked on in a film that runs at a fast globe - trotting pace in its 98 min.

The cover looks like any mainstream romance novel, with the image of a reclining and scantily - clad model bathed in green light.

THERE»S NO PLACE LIKE HOME A bigger switch comes from New York Times best - selling author Connie Brockway, who offers her first contemporary with Hot Dish, a novel that turns out to be that rarest of breeds, a contemporary romance that isn't chick lit or divorce lit or even (much) of a romantic suspense, but a hot main dish for the savvy reader who knows pure romance can be a hearty meal in itself.

The «downstairs» drama and romance are in no way a part of the novel but add the the mini-series in a way that makes it more like Downton Abby.

For a book whose title sounds like an affirmation of faith but whose story is about an atheist refuting the existence of God, reading it is a spiritual experience... Many of the positive reviews laud the wit and entertainment Goldstein provides, but honestly, the breadth and depth of ideas covered require close and thoughtful reading... This novel can be read on a few different levels: a romance, a mystery, an intellectual thriller or a philosophical / religious treatise.

As Trisha wrote once in an edition of BookPageXTRA: «The premise of Lionel Shriver's ninth novel sounds like a classic beach read: her heroine, children's book author Irina, must choose whether to stay with her longtime partner or embark on a new romance with a snooker star.

If you would like to publish a memoir, a collection of short stories, a science fiction novel, romance, and more, we would be excited to speak to you.

Also, if you'd like to support a fellow indie and check out her work, she's writes paranormal, romance, horror, and dark fantasy, and is the author of 10 novels and 9 short stories.

I have posted many a time about the awesomeness of the ladies at Smart Bitches Trashy Books, my one - stop - shopping place for where to find the romance novels I like to read.

As Kristen Lamb says, older authors are «writing books they'd like to read: romance novels with a sixty - year - old protagonist finding love, not a twenty - two - year - old....

A reader picks up and likes a romance under «Real Name Writer» and then sees another book from the same author name and buys it and it's a horror novel with ugly guts and blood.

There's humor and sweet romance in this novel set in small - town America, but what teens will probably like best is the story's quirky backdrop.

Though a novel like this could easily become didactic, Abdel - Fattah expertly sidesteps heavy - handed lessons, instead deeply rooting the story in the experiences of these two teenagers, rendering their story, encompassing romance, a testament to friendship, and a powerful call to action, in utterly real and sympathetic terms.

BLUD NOVELS (Pocket) An exciting trend in romance these days is the combination of sub-genres — like Delilah S. Dawson's new steampunk - meets - paranormal romance series that starts with Wicked As They Come.

Sometimes, it feels like I've seen every romance novel plot imaginable.

Dreck of this stupendous caliber has a particular advantage over literature in that one doesn't have to read all of it to surmise, accurately and eternally, that it is all uniformly awful and awfully uniform — romance novels, like racists, tend to be the same wherever you turn.

A friend once told me, if you are a single guy trying to figure out exactly how women work and you want to be able to find the right woman, pick up a romance novel and try to figure... start there, because we write what we like.

You see, Amazon has some new ways of distributing e-books, especially if you're a voracious reader (like many of you aficionados of romance novels), and we are now participating in these new methods of distribution.

romance novels, like racists, tend to be the same wherever you turn.

I know my readers are searching for «young adult mermaid romance novels» or something like that.

They'll make shifts and twists, like a good romance novel needs to do, but will they benefit the reader in the end?

What gives romance novels a bad name to people who haven't read them — that they're all the same — is exactly what I like.

If you like sexy contemporary romance novels with a sunny California setting, then these books are for you.