I have no memory of the plot. None. Can remember the cover but not the story. Weird.
Well at least you can claim that it was years ago. I can't remember the plots of romance novels that I read five months ago. OR the titles for that matter. There's something about the romance and mystery genres...because I have the same problems with mysteries. Sci-Fi and Fantasy novels tend to stick in my head longer, mystery and romance novels, not so much. I wonder if its because their plots tend to be, for the most part, fairly interchangeable and paint by numbers? There are a few that stick out - either because they subvert the trope or do something bizarre, but not many.
There's two romance novels I remember, possibly three - Flowers from the Storm by Laura Kinsale, Pleasure for Pleasure by Eloisa James, and The Heiress Effect by Courtney Milan - but all three were rather different, which may be why?
I honestly can't remember the plots of any of the romances I read in my teens and twenties - unless they were written by Jane Austen, the Brontes, or Mary Stewart (Touch Not the Cat sticks in my memory but it was also really different...and like nothing else out there.)
Flame and the Flower? I remember enjoying it at the time, but I can't remember why or what it was about. I think I preferred The Wolf and the Dove, mainly because the heroine had more spirit and the hero was more likable. But I don't remember enough about it to know why. I did read all of them: Shanna, Ashes in the Wind, The Wolf and the Dove, the Flame and the Flower...but don't ask me what they were about or what happened in them. LOL!
I don't think I read any of Judith McNaught when I was a kid ...who is actually tamer than Woodliss and Rodgers were. (Less sex, less sexual violence, and more description.) My mother didn't keep hers - so no access.
My favorite of the boddice rippers were: Moonlight Madness - Laurie McBain (female highwayman), Devil's Desire by Laurie McBain, Wildest Heart by Rosemary Rodgers (it had a mystery), Bride of the McHugh by Jan Cox Spears (out of print) and this book about a female pirate by Fern Michaels, Captive Splendor? I actually remember the plot of Moonlight Madness and Captive Splendor because they were different. Almost all of these are either out of print or hard to find.
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Well at least you can claim that it was years ago. I can't remember the plots of romance novels that I read five months ago. OR the titles for that matter. There's something about the romance and mystery genres...because I have the same problems with mysteries. Sci-Fi and Fantasy novels tend to stick in my head longer, mystery and romance novels, not so much. I wonder if its because their plots tend to be, for the most part, fairly interchangeable and paint by numbers? There are a few that stick out - either because they subvert the trope or do something bizarre, but not many.
There's two romance novels I remember, possibly three - Flowers from the Storm by Laura Kinsale, Pleasure for Pleasure by Eloisa James, and The Heiress Effect by Courtney Milan - but all three were rather different, which may be why?
I honestly can't remember the plots of any of the romances I read in my teens and twenties - unless they were written by Jane Austen, the Brontes, or
Mary Stewart (Touch Not the Cat sticks in my memory but it was also really different...and like nothing else out there.)
Flame and the Flower? I remember enjoying it at the time, but I can't remember why or what it was about. I think I preferred The Wolf and the Dove, mainly because the heroine had more spirit and the hero was more likable. But I don't remember enough about it to know why. I did read all of them: Shanna, Ashes in the Wind, The Wolf and the Dove, the Flame and the Flower...but don't ask me what they were about or what happened in them. LOL!
I don't think I read any of Judith McNaught when I was a kid ...who is actually tamer than Woodliss and Rodgers were. (Less sex, less sexual violence, and more description.) My mother didn't keep hers - so no access.
My favorite of the boddice rippers were: Moonlight Madness - Laurie McBain (female highwayman), Devil's Desire by Laurie McBain, Wildest Heart by Rosemary Rodgers (it had a mystery), Bride of the McHugh by Jan Cox Spears (out of print) and this book about a female pirate by Fern Michaels, Captive Splendor? I actually remember the plot of Moonlight Madness and Captive Splendor because they were different. Almost all of these are either out of print or hard to find.