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Colleen Coble writes romantic suspense with a strong atmospheric element. A lovable animal of some kind--usually a dog--always populates her novels. She can be bribed with DeBrand mocha truffles.
Denise Hunter writes women's fiction and love stories with a strong emotional element. Her husband says he provides her with all her romantic material, but Denise insists a good imagination helps too.
Diann Hunt writes romantic comedy and humorous women's fiction. She has been happily married forever, loves her family, chocolate, her friends, chocolate, her dog, and well, chocolate.
Cheryl Hodde writes romantic medical suspense under the pen name of Hannah Alexander, using all the input she can get from her husband, Mel, for the medical expertise. For fun she hikes and reads. Out of guilt, she rescues discarded cats. She and Mel are presently taking orders from four pampered strays.
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Little Women! I just cannot stand that Jo and Laurie did not end up together. Laurie and Amy? Seriously?? And Jo and the old stodgy professor? It just doesn't feel right.
I can't tell anyone which book I disliked for its ending, because I really like the writer, but I will say that I learned about how not to write a series novel based on my disappointment with this novel. I hate cliffhangers. And then I was accused of writing cliffhangers, myself.
Message in a bottle!
I read it a long time ago.
and can't say I remember all of the story, but do remember how it made me feel at the time.(very sad)
Oh I hear you Brittaney, so disappointing!! Hannah, understand completely from both sides. I haven't seen or read Message in a Bottle, but I don't read him because someone always has to die. LOL
This isn't a book but the movie "the breakup" was just??
I'm going through this thing where I keep contemplating can you have a happy, satisfying ending without it being romantic and the guy & the girl getting together. It's begun to bother me because life doesn't wrap up in perfect packages and although we read to escape sometimes ppl then expect life to work out that way creating unrealistic expectations and hurt. There's a pin on Pinterest (oh Denise just posted her love of Pinterest) that says :
" and maybe a happy ending doesn't include a guy, maybe it's you, on your own, picking up the pieces and starting over, freeing yourself up for something better in the future. Maybe the happy ending is just moving on."
And maybe that's why I question whether or not I should pursue writing bc I might not always have the girl end up with the guy.
Gone With the Wind! Although the ending was "right" I, and probably everyone who has read it, wanted Scarlett and Rhett to have an HEA. Who knew what Margaret Mitchell intended to happen after THE END.
BTW, did anyone read the so-called sequel SCRLETT? Do you agree it was an abysmal failure?
I read it. I had a hard time with picturing Rhett as from money in Charleston, though I know that was what the original book claimed. He didn't seem high society, more like a guy who made his money illegally (as we also heard.) I thought the book was a failure, but I also thought, M. Mitchell ENDED her book and no one had a right to mess with it. I thought Rhett was done with her.
I think you can have endings without the romance. I LOVE Tess of the D'Urbervilles, and obviously someone else does too, or it wouldn't be aound. It's always easier to end it romantically. My current book may not end romantically, but my heroine has been married before so Christian-wise that's "right" Realistically, I have to make sure it works.
Oh, I loved "Tess," too, Kristin. Yes, I agree the ending to GWTW was absolutely right. Scarlett had yanked Rhett around once too many times.
Fun discussion :)
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