
March 20, 2013
Welcome to a new series in which we swoop into one
location’s dollar book bin and take out four paperback romance novels at random. These books run the gamut from innocent schoolgirl crushes to steamy romps behind the
horse stable, but they all share the same DNA. How do these books adhere to the genre’s clichés? How do they
buck them? We’ll run them through our romance novel survey to see how they measure up.