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<blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 8972945" data-attributes="member: 5948"><p>A not-insignificant amount of these books - especially earlier in TSRs publishing history - suffer somewhat from only including one major female character in any given story, and she is basically the pre-ordained love interest. The romance angle is generally not as central as it was in Dragonlance, although it's usually there. [USER=16069]@Goonalan[/USER]'s point about Ed Greenwood books is <em>very </em>well made though. Ed .. knows what he likes, let's put it that way. </p><p></p><p>Some of the better ones from a romance point of view are Elaine Cunningham's - Elfsong, Elfshadow, Silver Shadows, Dream Spheres forming a series of mostly self-contained books that don't <em>quite </em>get neatly tied up because the author got crippling writers block and never finished the final one. There's also a genuinely surprising number - in a pattern I'm only just noticing - where the romance is well written but one or other of the couple dies (i won't list these off for fear of spoilers). And then there's a whole lot where the love interest is basically treated as a medal that the male main character gets for killing the bad guy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="humble minion, post: 8972945, member: 5948"] A not-insignificant amount of these books - especially earlier in TSRs publishing history - suffer somewhat from only including one major female character in any given story, and she is basically the pre-ordained love interest. The romance angle is generally not as central as it was in Dragonlance, although it's usually there. [USER=16069]@Goonalan[/USER]'s point about Ed Greenwood books is [I]very [/I]well made though. Ed .. knows what he likes, let's put it that way. Some of the better ones from a romance point of view are Elaine Cunningham's - Elfsong, Elfshadow, Silver Shadows, Dream Spheres forming a series of mostly self-contained books that don't [I]quite [/I]get neatly tied up because the author got crippling writers block and never finished the final one. There's also a genuinely surprising number - in a pattern I'm only just noticing - where the romance is well written but one or other of the couple dies (i won't list these off for fear of spoilers). And then there's a whole lot where the love interest is basically treated as a medal that the male main character gets for killing the bad guy. [/QUOTE]
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