Which brought me to the stack of Balough’s books on my shelf. When I started to feel better, I tried picking up a book to read but started and stopped four different ones. Two weekends ago, I had a brush with hypothermia (I went out running early to beat the rain, and I didn’t) and couldn’t focus on anything more than Donald Duck cartoons. I’ve said this before, but I’ll sometimes buy three or four books in a romance series just to have on hand for when I need them. Which is how I once again selected a Mary Balogh book, this time Someone to Love, the first book in the Westcott series ( Book 39 of 52 of 2022 was also a Westcott book). The same is with romance novels: knowing there’s a happy ending is one of the reasons I sometimes pick one up. You don’t go into reading a crime novel thinking you won’t find out who did it in the end. What I wanted to say (but didn’t, because I am already too online) is that the predictability is the point. I saw a recent tweet complaining that romance novels are boring because they’re predictable.
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