Posts Tagged by the infernal devices
Should I read… Dark Romance?
| June 5, 2012 | Posted by Emma French under should I read...? |
If you’re like me, and frequently visit Waterstones (often unnecessarily), you may have, when it sprung up in the teenage section, despaired at the new addition of a “Dark Romance” genre shelf. But my weeping at the sight of it is not a mournful nostalgia for the time when that genre didn’t even exist – to some signifying the death of decent literature – but rather for the fact that the only reason for its existence is Stephenie Meyer – who is the death of decent literature. It seems a shame to me that this trend for supernatural stories, which made urban fantasy far more acceptable and accessible, only came to the fore to feed the dribbling hordes of Twilight fans… more
