Being part of the female population, by my very nature it is natural to have an affection for romance, love and everything that comes under it. A man’s exceptional courage and nobility, a woman’s undying and irrevocable love for the man, a set of difficulties and hardships that the two faces and a happy ending is something that anyone possessing oestrogens enjoy. And it is this ardor for romance novels that took me to the particular section of the bookstore Borders a few days back, giving me a surprise that I know I should have seen coming.
As I stepped in to the section, my vision was engulfed in shelves upon shelves of romance novels all with the exact same theme – VAPMIRES! While some screamed “THE TWILIGHT SAGA – get all 4 today!” the others equally showed books with titles written in creepy red writings, manned with front covers of lips dripping with blood.
While vampire romance novels give an edge to an otherwise candy coated or tear jerker book, I think it is fair to say that way too many books carry the same theme. Not only is it restricting reader’s choices, but it is also limiting creativity as writers all over the world publish more and more books with the same idea.
While some of them, such as the Twilight Saga, the Vampire Diaries and Vampire Academy have been great hits, the former even a best seller, I personally feel that the topic has been used and written about enough. Whatever happened to Jane Austen and Nicholas Sparks?
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