Teen Romance Novels: More Than A Love Story

The most commonly held perception in the minds of an average person when it concerns typical romance novels is that they deal with men and women in various stages of undress who cavort and play and find their way through many impediments and then find everlasting love in the final chapter of the romance novel. In fact, even covers of teen romance novels will display men and women tightly embracing them accompanied by choice quotes from the novel that help arouse the interest of buyers and which leads them to draw such conclusions.

Negative Impression

For someone who has never read a romance novel, let alone a teen romance novel, the impression gained from viewing the covers of romance novels would veer towards the negative and perhaps even lead to believing that such novels are all about sexual encounters rather than good and clean romance.

Another common perception about teen romance novels is that women play a subordinate role to that of the man and this notion stems from the fact that men are seen embracing women who seem to have a very vulnerable persona what with swooning in the arms of the hero and having part of their dresses falling off the shoulders.

Though teenagers do not form the majority of romance novel readers, they do form a majority of readers of teen romance novels and it is therefore necessary that the novels that they read help benefit them by making them feel more pleasant and also lead to an improvement in their vocabulary and even better communication skills.

If teen romance novels help the young readers improve themselves, such novels can be considered as valuable reading and will make for useful reading material. However, teen romance novels should not be considered as self-help teaching manuals because they simply are stories that help project the author’s emotion filled shadow.

The demand for teen romance novels continues to grow mainly because the content gives the young reader a new reason to hope for a better life and it also allows them to celebrate as well as appreciate a life filled with hope and romance. Essentially, good teen romance novels are also known for being light reading material and there is almost always a happy ending that leaves the teenaged reader feeling pleasant and perhaps even enriched by the experience.

Young teenagers also find more motivation to read a teen romance novel from their own personal lives and finding love at that tender age drives them into finding out about how true love is achieved by fictional characters. In fact, by reading a good teen romance novel, a young impressionable mind can also get to learn about how to romance.

The bottom line is that teen romance novels need to contain content that goes beyond allowing young impressionable minds to escape from everyday life and should provide new knowledge and also teach young teenagers the proper values in life.

Romance Novel Should Be More Than About Sex

The common perception about a romance novel is that it will have a very attractive cover and a real hero that will be chasing half naked women who are being troubled by a wicked person. It is of course, wrong to judge a book by its cover and if the author does not fall into the usual trap of succumbing to writing a stereotype novel, a romance novel should in fact contain a lot more than details about lurid sex.

Conflict And Challenges

The essence of a romance novel is a conflict or even a challenge that requires that either the hero or the heroine overcomes, and the journey through it all is laced with fun experiences and many thrilling moments.

It is only after having written a number of romance novels that an author will be able to craft a story that has everything in it such as action, great character, suspense and mystery and a little bit of sex thrown in as well. There are many romance novels that contain lurid details of sex and passion that are meant to elicit a certain kind of response from the reader. It is far better to get the reader to identify closely with the trials and tribulations of the hero and heroine as they go from one sub-plot to the other, rather than elicit base reactions from the reader.

Romance novels are not something new and they have been around ever since books were first published though fads in them have come and gone, and so, these types of novels too have changed and evolved with the times. Heroes can range from an average American to real macho men and there are sure to be pirates as well as other kinds of villains and the plot will often take you to different places and through different times and the reader does, for a short period of time, become totally immersed in the plots and forget their daily and humdrum lives.

The better romance novels go beyond innuendo and sex and they have good and interesting plots that make the reader closely identify with the main characters and such novels are a lot better than those that simply concentrate on narrating about hot romance between the protagonists.

It is a good idea to check out the synopsis of a romance novel before choosing it and you need to also look for a plot that excites the senses, a good challenge and great characters – all of which will provide you with hours of pleasurable reading.

There is a lot of interesting stuff contained in a romance book that can often make it hard to set it down till the final word has been read, and if you are lucky perhaps you will be able to lay your hands on one such book. The best part about reading a good romance novel is that the reader is always unsure about what is going to happen next, and so the reader cannot wait till he or she reaches the climax and finds out the ‘truth’.