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	« Busy summer has begun Am I the biggest geek in the world? » Are romance novels ever considered derivative? I read a fabulous post by SciFiChick today – A Small Rant about Fantasy Reviews. Her point is that when fantasy novels are reviews they are almost invariably compared to someone else’s book and generally unfavorably. She asks if this happens in other genres. I’ve never seen anything like this with romance novels. Has anyone else? This entry was posted on Thursday, June 11th, 2009 at 11:15 am and is filed under fantasy, romance. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. Leave a Reply Name (required) Mail (will not be published) (required) Website input code Please copy the string o1lUnk to the field below:
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