Romantic Novels are books in which romance and love play the dominant role and they end emotionally to please the readers. For authors love is the most beautiful feeling of life and hence they have not lagged behind in writing wonderful love stories.
Romantic Novels have always attracted the young generation. Passion, love and emotion are the spices of Romantic Novels. Most of the romantic novels have a happy ending and the negative characters are punished. In United States of America and Canada most of the readers like to read romantic novels. In the Year 2002 more than 2500 novels were published and more than 55.2 million were romantic novel lovers. Writing romantic novels is still in vogue because it suffices the thirst of romantic novel lovers.
Some of the variations of Romantic Novels are
• Contemporary Romance In these types of novels stories are written on women who are in between twenties and thirties. The story revolves around their love life and career. These novels are very bold because they have dialogues on sex lives.
• Erotic Romance These are mostly adult novels and are not for very young teenagers.
• Regency romance These are romantic novels written during the beginning of nineteenth century. These types of romances are mostly dialogue oriented and little emphasis is paid on the discussion of sex.
• Paranormal romance In these types of romances fiction is blended with love. Fiction is the main theme of these novels with love given the next importance. Wonderful stories are written on love stories between human beings and vampire or any other fantasized creature.
• Multicultural Romance The love story revolves between two people of different societies. An African hero may fall in love with an American heroine.
Some Romantic Novels
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin is a romantic novel who is only interested in finding suitable brides for her daughters. It is one of the most famous novels written by Jane Austin.
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë It is a wonderful love story of Heathclif and Catherine Earnshaw.Love if becomes an obsession can be harmful and this very aspect is shown in this story.
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë is a story of a simple girl Jane and her life .Jane leads a very unhappy life being disgraced by her wealthy aunt and daughters. At one point of life she finds love.
Since ages romantic novels have allured the readers of all generations.
