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kippurbirdHow much lenience should you give to a novel because of conceits of genre?
I'm reading an ARC currently to review and it's a romance novel, but there are still things that are irking me. However some of the things that irk me are things that are sort of 'parts of the genre'. Things like the Love Interest finding the Girl stunningly beautiful the first time he lays eyes on her. Etc.
A lot of stuff is good about it, but the cliches of the genre are bothering the hell out of me. So, should this sort of thing effect my review or should I let it be?
I'm reading an ARC currently to review and it's a romance novel, but there are still things that are irking me. However some of the things that irk me are things that are sort of 'parts of the genre'. Things like the Love Interest finding the Girl stunningly beautiful the first time he lays eyes on her. Etc.
A lot of stuff is good about it, but the cliches of the genre are bothering the hell out of me. So, should this sort of thing effect my review or should I let it be?
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Date: 2011-05-21 12:16 am (UTC)And I refuse to put "I don't usually read romance novels" because that irks the hell out of me.
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Date: 2011-05-23 02:06 am (UTC)If your audience is not romance readers then they probably want to be warned of things they won't like, as well as advised of things that might attract them to this book.
There are a lot of cross genre novels now-a-days. I'm not a big romance reader, but I like the Sharon Shinn's Samaria series for the science fiction. If I were reviewing it for a sci-fi audience I would warn them about the romance novel element. If I were reviewing it for the romance community I would warn them about the sci-fi element.