I related very hard to this! I, too, found a CoHo book (Verity) in a little free library. I'd had a friend order me to read it "for the twists" but I'd long resisted out of sheer orneriness.
I decided to scan it while standing beside the LFL and got the entire gist of "Verity" in approx. 20 minutes.
It was definitely not a romance. It was a gothic, Rebecca-esque drama with heightened emotions, outrageous goings-on, suspense, and love/sex/danger. Not an HEA type at all. Clearly she's a page turner author for many! But NAWT romance.
I feel like this is so much more a “marketing” issue bc the market as it was in the 70s is so vastly different and currently collapsing faster than authors/readers/publishers can keep up.
My 21 yo and her friends consider her books trauma p@rn, definitely not romance
I related very hard to this! I, too, found a CoHo book (Verity) in a little free library. I'd had a friend order me to read it "for the twists" but I'd long resisted out of sheer orneriness.
I decided to scan it while standing beside the LFL and got the entire gist of "Verity" in approx. 20 minutes.
It was definitely not a romance. It was a gothic, Rebecca-esque drama with heightened emotions, outrageous goings-on, suspense, and love/sex/danger. Not an HEA type at all. Clearly she's a page turner author for many! But NAWT romance.
I feel like this is so much more a “marketing” issue bc the market as it was in the 70s is so vastly different and currently collapsing faster than authors/readers/publishers can keep up.