Why I Read Romance...

I read Romance, because love is the most powerful emotion that a human can experience. When I immerse myself in a love story I drift away into one of the most beautiful life changing experiences.

The drama that revolves around any huge life changing events is entertaining, but it's more than that. Love is the most sought after resource in this life and yet too often people are afraid of being vulnerable enough to experience it to it's depth

The romances that I most enjoy reading are not grand heartbreaking romance, but love that is slow and grows as two people partner together to fight the obstacles in their path.

Me and the Hubs

Insta-love that is so prevalent in YA is not the love that often lasts against the obstacles of real life. Love isn't only about those first moments, it's also about those times in life when it's stable almost to the point of boredom. Psychologists call it the attachment phase and quite honestly I'd much rather read about that phase of love than any other.

It may be simply that it's the stage I'm in or it could be that I've outgrown the lustful drama of my younger years, but attachment love with external drama is the type of romance I most enjoy.

Bones and Cat of Jeaniene Frost's Night Huntress series have entered into this phase of love in the later books and it's such a refreshing change.

What is your favorite type of love to read about? Why do you read romance? Any other books that have attachment phase love?








Rie (@missiontoread)

I'm a wife, student, and a dog-lover who reads when I should be folding laundry (bane of my existance), I write (rarely as academic papers consume my life), and love getting wrapped up in fiction.