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Romance novels are romantic stories, the main characters of which are a man and a woman, living through various life situations, meet and certainly fall in love with each other. The further development of relationships usually takes place against the backdrop of life's difficulties or obstacles that fate creates, and often people from whom the characters least expect it. Usually lovers manage to overcome everything, which gives a lot of positive emotions to passionately empathetic readers.
All romance novels can be divided into several categories, or sub-genres, so that everyone can choose a book to their taste.
By and large, all books can be considered as two broad categories: historical and contemporary. Those, in turn, are divided into Russian or foreign, and in each of these categories it is already possible to sort romance novels by topic. Therefore, one book can have several labels at the same time.
To avoid confusion, we have arranged the subgenres in alphabetical order.
Subgenres of romance novels
Foreign romance novels. Everything is clear here - these are books written by foreign authors, regardless of what other subgenre they can be attributed to. .
Historical romance novels. All the action in the book takes place in the past. Sometimes the heroes themselves are direct participants in historical events, and sometimes the events of bygone days are just a backdrop for a romantic story. .
Short romance novels. Separate love stories are novels or stories that fit into a small book of up to 300 pages. .
Love-fiction novels. Books set in a fantasy setting: on other planets, in parallel worlds, in the distant future, etc. The most popular sub-genres in this category are books about wizards, about hitmen, or about vampires. .
Action-packed romance novels. These books are of three types: - the action develops against the backdrop of a criminal story (detective); - the plot is so famously twisted that poor lovers have to perform real feats; - passions go off scale and have little to do with a calm romantic melodrama. .
Contemporary romance novels. Everything that happens to the characters takes place in our time, or in a completely recognizable recent past.
Love that is written in novels
Love is the most incomprehensible essence in this world!
A person lives: studies, works, plans something, creates something, and looks at the world with a clear look. And everything in this world is clear and understandable to him. But love comes to him and everything changes. What seemed right yesterday is being questioned, what seemed impossible is itself in hand, what seemed illogical seems to be the only true one.
It's like you're in a parallel world. And it is not clear which of these two worlds is yours. Both are real and are opposites of each other. And you have to live in two worlds at the same time.
And people who live in only one of the worlds will never see, and therefore will not understand, those who love. And they will twist a finger at the temple, watching how lovers commit their follies.
Remember, in the film The Ordinary Miracle, the Magician said: "Glory to the brave men who dare to love, knowing that all this comes to an end!"
Is the madness of lovers so crazy? Isn't this cold and calculating world insane? Turn on the TV, open the newspaper! Who destroys everything he touches?
Hatred, intolerance, indifference, a thirst for power over other people, a thirst for easy money at any cost ... How has this world not yet exploded from pain?!
Perhaps he also keeps afloat only because there is Love in him ...
Who does not care about "common sense", the opinion of "normal" people, the power of money and the law of gravity. Love is absolutely free, it is not bound by any laws and therefore it is fearless. She is not afraid of indifference, betrayal, or death.
Those who once loved! Once... but not now. Do you think she is dead? Look into your soul, and there, at the very bottom, you can see a tiny, barely smoldering ember. This is the ember of future Love...
That's her. Asleep. And someday it will wake up again.
(Mackenzie Sally)
What is a young woman to do who has been disgraced and ruined herself? A single, unmarried mother with a child in her arms?
Penelope Barnes is not discouraged, she firmly decided to forget her seducer, the frivolous earl's son Harry Graham, to make a fortune in such an "unfeminine" occupation as brewing, and to accept the marriage proposal of an honest village priest, who is ready to become a father to her daughter.
But one day, a ghost of the past appears on her doorstep - Harry, who returned to England from the fields of the Napoleonic wars and, by his very appearance, threatens to destroy both her plans and hopes to forever throw him out of her memory and from her heart ...
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Virginie Grimaldi tells the story of three women with her characteristic sensitivity and warmth. The story that no matter how terrible the trouble may be, there is always a way out. And it is very important not to forget about it.
Anna is thirty-seven. Working from morning to night, she tries to make ends meet and raise her two daughters. On personal happiness, she has long put an end to it.
Chloe is seventeen. Once a diligent student with a big dream, she abandoned the lyceum, deciding to abandon her plans for the future and work to somehow help her mother.
Lily is twelve. She avoids people. She prefers the company of a tame rat, to which she gave her father's name, to the most cheerful company. After all, he, like these animals, "the first to escape from the ship."
Entangled in a tangle of life's adversities, Anna makes a desperate, but perhaps the most correct decision in her life - in a motorhome, she and the girls will make a trip to Scandinavia to strengthen family ties and see the northern lights.
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They say that a girl named Rosa Santos has a sea curse, and dating her is a bad omen, especially if you are a guy and you have a boat.
Maybe it is - given that everything always goes wrong for her. You constantly have to choose: between the grandmother, the support of the family, and the mother - an artist who appears in Rosa's life like a hurricane. Between a home in Port Coral, a quaint Florida town, and a university in Cuba, an island she can't talk about.
But what if Rosa Santos' curse could be broken? You just need to meet a guy with a boat who is not afraid of bad omens, and find your place over the horizon ...
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Who is a Doberman? Everyone knows him. Outrageous, arrogant guy with eternally broken knuckles, a grin and with luminous icy eyes. This is a Doberman. Cerberus, before which all Melbourne is in fear. He does what he wants and how he wants. At times, his actions are insane and cruel. He is a crime boss and master of the streets.
Nobody knows the world. But she is his target. She is his only desire. His illness. His drug.
They are not allowed to be together. But Adrian is too headstrong to submit to fate. And the nature of Mira will never allow her to give up quickly. They are too drawn to each other, even if the whole world is against them.
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Megan Harper knows firsthand what a broken heart is. Seven times she fell in love, and seven times she was abandoned for another girl. Megan is used to staying behind the scenes - both in life and on the stage of the school theater. So when she suddenly gets the lead role in a production of Romeo and Juliet, it threatens to turn into a disaster. And it doesn't help that Romeo is her ex-boyfriend, madly in love with Megan's best friend.
But she was tired of playing minor roles in her own love stories. When handsome Will appears at the theater, Megan is determined to win the guy's heart once and for all. To do this, she makes a deal with his best friend Owen: in exchange for help with a new play, Owen will help her fall in love with Will. Can Megan finally be "the one" for the guy - or will she be heartbroken for the eighth time?
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Fanfiction about the most successful K-pop group!
Alice has long wanted to work on a concert stage, and immediately after graduation, she decides to fulfill her dream. Fate or coincidence, behind the scenes, she becomes an unwitting witness to a quarrel between the leader of her favorite K-pop group and their manager, who vigorously discuss the hype surrounding the artist's personal life. The enraged manager notices the girl, and he immediately has an idea how to calm the fans and journalists: all you need to do is play the love between Alice and the idol of millions. But will she accept this provocative offer that can change her life? Will everyone around guess that the story of incredible love is a virtuoso game?
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Vic Salazar is the bad guy. He often breaks the rules. But Vic never flirts with his friends' girls. He doesn't even look in the direction of Monica Fox, his best friend's girlfriend. Vic hides that he has been in love with her for many years.
Monica Fox is in a group of cheerleaders and has been dating Trey Matthews for a long time. Monica hides that she has a lot of problems.
Vic is always there when Monica needs help. There are no secrets between them, only feelings that must be kept under control. How to keep a distance if they are constantly drawn to each other?
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1947th. Charlie St. Clair, expelled by her family from her native America for a misdemeanor that borders on a crime against decency, arrives in Europe, hoping to find her cousin, who disappeared in France during the German occupation.
1915th. Young Eva Gardiner is eager to fight the Germans, and suddenly she gets such a chance. The Intelligence Directorate invites Eva to become an agent in the French territory occupied by the Boches. She will be guarded by the famous Alice, the queen of spies, who manages the intelligence network right under the noses of the Germans.
Thirty years later, Eva, weighed down by guilt over the betrayal that destroyed the Alice Network, spends her days in a dilapidated London house, trying to drown out despair and pain with alcohol. But one day, an unfamiliar girl breaks her solitude and pronounces a name that Eva has not heard for many years. And from that moment on, the former spy and the former student begin a search that will lead them too far.
Love is one of the fundamental human feelings that makes us who we are. Someone, perhaps, puts money in the first place, someone requires personal space for creativity, but, as life shows, those who neglected love end their days in sadness. And so that the heart does not get stale, there is no better antidote than a good love story.
History of the development of the genre
Yes, the romance novel took shape as a separate genre relatively recently, but love was one of the driving plot moves in ancient times. Take, for example, ancient Greek tragedies and even comedies. In Aristophanes' comedy "Lysistratus", women go on a sex strike to bring the faithful back home and keep them out of the war. Or, on the contrary, in serious tragic works, the motive of shared love or love as a driving force is constantly manifested. In ancient Greek mythology, Orpheus descends for his beloved - Eurydice straight to Hades (an analogue of the Christian hell).
In the Renaissance, the love adventures of heroes are often presented in a frivolous manner (as in the Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio), however, they do not lose their intensity. At the same time, along with frivolous literature, Petrarch's great sonnets are created, addressed to his beloved Laura, and Petrarch's poem, dedicated to Beatrice immortalized by him.
Later, the creator of modern drama, Shakespeare creates several archetypal love stories (albeit often tragic, but how tangible, almost real), like Juliet with Romeo, Hamlet with Ophelia, Desdemona and Othello.
And, a century and a half later, Samuel Richardson writes a work that is considered the first love story and is called "Pamela" (the second title, or subtitle, "Virtue Rewarded"). And it is possible to finally state the emergence of a love story as a separate genre with the publication at the beginning of the 19th century of the novel "" by authorship.
The 20th and the beginning of the 21st century gave readers and female readers a huge abundance of romance novels on any subject (from to) and with any “depth” of relationships (from romance to).
Characteristic features of the genre
- In the center of the plot are necessarily the love relationships of the main characters, which move the entire story of the book.
- It is possible to split into subgenres according to directions (, fantasy, erotic, and so on)
- Often, the plot eventually comes to a positive resolution of the conflict or even to a happy ending.
Colin McCullough "The Thorn Birds"
"" is already a classic novel that has become a world bestseller. By construction, this is a family saga, but love runs through the whole story. The book begins with the family of the main characters moving from New Zealand to Australia, where the events of the book will unfold. It was there, while still a girl, that the main character Maggie met a young
a priest named Ralph de Bricassard. Time passes, but the mutual feeling of the grown-up heroes is not allowed to be resolved, because Ralph is dominated by a vow of celibacy. They often meet, feeling a kindred spirit in each other, but the impossibility of being together only inflames their passion...
Cecilia Ahern "P.S. I love you"
The book "" tells about the relationship between the American Holly and the Irishman Jerry Kennedy. Holly is in no hurry to have children, which Jerry so wants from her. But it cannot be postponed until later - Jerry dies of a brain tumor, leaving Holly alone with memories and remorse. Holly is trying to overcome the surging depression, to sort out her thoughts and feelings, in this she is helped by the letters left to her by Jerry. On her birthday, she receives her first message, where he asks her to cast aside her sadness and have fun to her heart's content. Through the letters, Holi can take a fresh look at her life and her love...
Ah, those love stories! They are read by millions of women around the world! Books about love, and love epics include many directions. Women have learned to read romance novels and other works in transport, on the way to work, at work and instead of service ... No wonder, because every reader wants to feel like the heroine of a passionate romance. Historical romance novels, short love books... eh novels about millionaires? This is a whole direction of love prose! Our e-book library includes women's fiction and contemporary romance, fantasy romance and fantasy romance. On Litnet romance novels you can read without registration, and you can buy e-books. And what is left to do in our boring routine? Read romance novels online or download love books!
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The life of most women is filled with routine worries and deeds. They lack exciting new experiences. Yes, and modern global culture inspires numerous not very realistic dreams and expectations.
In view of all this, a woman needs at least sometimes to escape from everyday life and plunge into the world of violent passions and unprecedented romance. And we can help with this, because you can read online romance novels on our website.
Love novel features
The genre of love literature has a number of specific features:
- idealization of the main characters, primarily men;
- exotic or simply colorful surroundings of the unfolding plot;
- great attention is paid to the emotions of the characters;
- the basis of the storyline is a love story;
- the presence of erotic scenes;
- the target audience is represented mainly by women;
- happy ending of the book and so on.
Varieties of romance
Although romance novels are in many ways very similar to each other, nevertheless, there is a certain division within the genre. The most common variety such literature is a rather primitive and standardized scheme in which one of the lovers is a kind of ugly duckling. But no matter what, passionate love flares up between a man and a woman. This story ends with a sweet happy ending.
Second variety love literature is when a certain mystery, intrigue, a detective element is mixed into a love story. Such books are often more intellectual and interesting.
And finally third kind of the described romantic genre are novels with a carefully written plot and detailed characters. These books are already higher literature, approaching the classical works. Such a novel can be interesting even for men.
In addition, a romance novel has varieties, depending on the external frame of the main storyline. According to this principle, one can single out, for example, historical romance novels, love mysticism, love fiction, and so on.
History of the genre
The birth of love literature takes place in the middle of the 18th century in England. The further development of the genre is associated with the beginning of the next century, when Jane Austen wrote a novel. This book takes pride of place among the best books about love, is a classic of this genre.
The genre has gained quite a lot of popularity since the 20s of the twentieth century. At this time, romance novels are being written by Barbara Cartland, Nora Lofts and many others.
Now the romance novel is the second most popular genre of literature, based on the number of sales of books on this subject. Contemporary romance novels are written by Daniela Steele, Bertrice Small, Sidney Sheldon, Meg Cabot and others.
Maya Banks
In order for Taron Anetakis to continue to do well in the future and not lose the millions he has earned, he must profitably marry the daughter of his business partner Isabella Kaplan.
Taron is so absorbed in business that he does not notice that the young beauty has long chosen him as her suitor. He will have to fight with a proud and unshakable girl, which will end happily for both heroes.
Carol Mortimer
This is one of those fascinating short romance novels that will be of great interest to modern readers. This is the story of Gabriella Benito, who fell in love with her half-brother Rufus. And this young man broke her heart.
Time passed, and fate played a cruel joke on the former lovers - they are forced to marry in fulfillment of the last will of Father Rufus. Otherwise, they risk losing everything they have.
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