It’s no exaggeration to say that the writer Nora Roberts has shaped how generations of people, especially women, think about relationships and sex — not to mention, what makes a great story.
Before Roberts, the romance genre was dominated by tepid and virginal women who were overpowered by brooding men.
As one romance critic told me, “Nora Roberts is the sun” around which the entire genre orbits.
I was a teenager when I started sneaking into my older sister’s room to steal her Nora Roberts books.
Love in a Nora Roberts book wasn’t about conquest and submission, as it was in most romance novels at the time, but rather about equality and partnership.
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