Did anyone else notice this doesn’t have paranormal romance on the spine? Doesn’t have paranormal on it either.
It says NOVEL.
What’s up with that? I thought no matter what JR Ward was all about a HEA. I wonder if that has changed. I hope not cuz it is bad enough to go Hardcover in the middle of a series but to change genres? Well that would blow.
Don’t forget to read Gwen’s Lover Unbound review here. NOTE!! There are spoilers in the review and spoilers in the comments. (It’s an interesting discussion, though.)
Maybe if they put just “novel” on the spine, more people will read it that usually wouldn’t read a paranormal?
Duh it is a paranormal though! 🙂
Yeah, I wondered about that. Maybe it assumes that the reader knows that Eclipse is a romance imprint (it is, isn’t it?). I was chatting with a friend about this book and she told me that she didn’t really think LU was a romance anymore.
To be perfectly honest, I’ve never really read the BDB as romance novels. Sure there is romance in them but they seem more like paranormal action-y type books (if that’s a category). Which is perhaps why stuff like V’s questionable HEA didn’t bother me quite as much as some.
I honestly read them for the over the top men flesh! XXXL shirts??? LOL
So, it is true that the next book is hardcover?
Jerks.
Rehv’s book that comes out in 2009 is hardcover. Phury’s which now comes out in June 08 isn’t.
I hate hardcover also, but I feel it is a ploy not only for more money for the publisher but to be seen with more respect.
I wasn’t happy when the JD Robb series went hardcover either!
ACK! Not ANOTHER series going hardcover!! Damn, that just pisses me off.
As for what it does or doesn’t say on the spine? All that means is more trouble trying to find the damn book at my screwed up Borders. Hopefully, my Waldens will remain open, at least they know where they shelved books at!
It means Ward is not only going to HC, but mainstream as well. I have a few Nora Roberts’ from the mid-90s and they say “Novel” on the spine as well. It’s reverse psychology: readers that sneer at romance novels will read Nora Roberts without shame because it says “novel” on the spine and not “romance”. The way I see it, that “Novel” allows a romance author to stretch beyond the confines of the genre while still keeping the romantic relationship at the core.