I have been a a romance reader since almost 2 years ago. A thing that I’ve noticed is for the past six or seven months especially after crack my back drama most of the new sports romance books have been bad. It may just be me running into a problem or a slump a piece of my guess is over saturation. The tall hockey player ,the amazing F1 driver ,champion football player ,or extraordinary basketball player archetypes have become lackluster to me. I feel like authors have stopped actually caring about the complexity of the character and decided to focus on what a massively white woman erotica romance reader cares about which is mostly the body of the male lead and how petite the female lead is. Especially in the NFL or NBA romances almost every single popular romance book of this kind is white men or white woman when a good percent of these leagues are black or Hispanic. I don’t think it would be hard to incorporate maybe a Polynesian or Indian character into a book but time and time again authors fail . Even when going to office romances I run into the same problem does every female you have to be a five six white girl who wears red lipstick and heels but with nothing more to them I wouldn’t mind the whole thing if it had complexity but it doesn’t. For instance if the female lead wore red lipstick because her grandma always wore it and her grandma was her inspiration it would be awesome. I’m so tired of only white leads in these books where the girl has to be as pale as porcelain no taller than five six or five seven or were the male lead has nothing more to him than a somewhat nice body and a team backing him . How is it romance when there’s no love is in it most of these influencers promoting the book don’t even like the books. It’s all erotica what’s the point of it being a romance section of sports romance section an office romance section a medical romance section if its all just porn made for one audience? I have it related to a female lead and almost a year and that’s solely because she was over 5’7 as a 5’9 girl I enjoyed that they acknowledge that not every female lead was 5’6 or 5’2. This is mostly a rant but the book community has an awful white supremacy problem along with no character complexity become a norm . It’s horrendous
Do you only like sports related romances?
I personally cannot read romances like that. They fall flat for me extremely quick & feels like I’m just reading something about everyday life.
My romances have to have fantasy & great world building. Someone who is an absolute master at this is JR Ward. She is very diverse & writes about many different types of characters. When I read other series, I have to tell myself not to compare writing styles because her stuff is just that good.
I also just started other series as well, some of the authors are Katee Robert, Scarlett St. Clair, & Laura Thalassa.