Romances are my weakness, but the current one just isn’t working.
The setup is that the heroine will lose the ranch if she doesn’t get a loan, but the bank won’t giver her one - but if she had a husband with business and ranching experience they would give hime one.
Right.
In the real world, in this day and age, she would have sued their asses for sexual discrimination, won a settlement way larger than the loan she needed and hired the business manager.
I think I might actually quit reading this one.
Any romances that you’ve read that wouldn’t happen in the current world?
Actually, in the real world, they wouldn’t have given the husband the loan either. They would have foreclosed on the property and sold it to developers who would put up a strip mall and condos with a golf course.
I have yet to see a compelling “Romantic Comedy”. I know for a fact, no wacky hijinks ensued when Juliana and I got together. [sub]We skipped that part and went straight to lust.[/sub]
When I was in college I signed up for a romance book service (you got four for free, and then you could cancel… I can’t resist free books!). I don’t remember the titles, but two or three of them treated the leading lady’s loss of virginity to an older, wiser, masterful man as a major plot point. And every one of the ladies was at least 25.
I personally have known several women who didn’t find anyone they cared to sleep with until they were in their 20s. But none of them were the shrinking, frightened virgin types that were in these books-- and these books were set in the modern era. Nothing wrong with building a plot around saving one’s self for the right person, but it was the entirely un-subtle “I shall take you now and make you a WOMAN” “Oh yes, please do, but don’t hurt me, I am so afraid” undertones that I think don’t play well these days.