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Books and Reading: ABOUT ROMANCE FICTION

DEFINING THE ROMANCE FICTION GENRE

The official romance formula

1. Woman/man meets woman/man

2. Woman/man realizes she/he likes woman/man and woman/man likes her/him.

3. Woman/man loses woman/man

4. Woman/man gets woman/man

5. They live happily ever after

The most important element of romance novels is about the relationship between the woman/man and the woman/man.