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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I tried and hated the two I attempted. The rape and abuse themes she sells in romance books are disturbing. I hate that GenZ has blown her up on BookTok.[/quote]
Totally agree. I worry that books full of abuse and trauma are marketed as romance and are being gobbled up by young people. There are teens reading that stuff...at least we knew VC Andrews books were batsh!t crazy. Some of these kids think the abusive husband in It Ends with Us is romantic because he has sex scenes. [/quote]

This is where I draw the line.  Like in general you do you  but her books portray some horrible stuff as romantic and that's not okay.

Like November 9, the male lead scars the protagonist in a fire, stalks her, sexually assaults her and this is portrayed as romantic.  They end up together.  Girls posy on social media about how romantic it is.

It's one thing to not write well, it's another to romanticize abusive relationships[/quote]

+1 I read a wide variety of books.  My main criteria is that it have a good story.  I have no problem suspending belief and some plot holes. I don't even mind reporting all the typos/errors when I'm reading on a Kindle.  Yet, I will not read/support books that depict rape/abuse as romance.  It's not.  Maybe I would have felt differently before experiencing it in my own life - and having to work to recover from it.  I feel strongly it should not be normalized in any way.[/quote]

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