Love in My eyes

I am grateful that I have grown up in the era that I have. I am open to new things an have a variety of different choices. So when I wanted to read my first romance novel I got to read one about people who were like me. This is very different from my mother's generation and generations before hers. Everyone had to ready the same set of novels with Fabio on the cover portraying the "ideal" man. The popular Romance author Beverly Jenkins sums this up in her quote "Not a one [of the romance novels] featured women who looked like us, but as we read them we longed for stories that did feature us, stories that reflected the love our parents shared or our grandparents shared; the love that we saw in that married couple at church who was always holding hands; or the love we see every time we look into our partner's eyes." As with film people want to relate to the novels that they are reading. Many people however still feel that early African American romances do not depict the life of the real life and struggles people go through to find love. This has opened up an new sub-category of the Romance the "Hip Hop novel". The novels are fast moving, filled with gore,violence, and explicit sex. Perhaps this new trend of writing displays our generations need for this type of content rather than the traditional romance novel.