Research assistance

[brainofck]

Despite what I read and write in cyberspace...

I know next to nothing about Harlequin type novels or the heavier-hitting romance writers like Danielle Steele (?) and people like that.

So. Where would you read a story with rape-fantasy in it - you know, non-consensual sex that turns out to be OK because it was unexpectedly, fantastically pleasurable or non-consensual sex that turns out to be OK because the person really secretly wanted it. The really hot, sexy guy who wouldn't take no for an answer, yay.

You know. The dreck I write. *rolls eyes at self*

Who would write that? Is that a Harlequin?

EDIT: Just to be clear, I was asking this question because one of my characters will be reading something, and I wanted to realistically express what that character would be reading. :)

Comments

[charmedstrange1.livejournal.com]

Yes, this sounds like what I would call the Bodice-Rippers- usually period romances where the times/expectations would have been (have an excuse to be) different, and a lot of the "first time meetings" would have been based on some kind of misunderstanding- she was a peasant girl down on her luck, he mistook her for a whore at the inn, etc.

Sorry I don't have a particular author to point to, but Sweet Savage Love sounds along that line. So, my suggestion is check for the fat, thick period romance novels. More likely than the thinner fluffy harlequins, altho the older ones (70's?) may have flirted with a little more aggression/danger in their men?

{I remember staying up ALL NIGHT LONG to finish one called "Logan's Island" when I was all of about 15. They were alone on an island and they had a long, drawn-out argument/fight/wrestling-match/love scene in which he *tackled her to the ground OMG*. It was a page-turner.}

Way more than you asked for? *g*

[brainofck.livejournal.com]

It was a page-turner

*snickers*

Thanks! Ah. The reading material of 15-year-olds. :D