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Of course, there's also the Hero with the hairy pecs, washboard abs, slim hips, and the way too tight jeans -- and it's ALL NATURAL -- he doesn't go to the gym, but yet he was a jock stud that all the girls loved in high school until that one rainy night with our heroine -- then he left ton unexpectedly.  But now he's back to carry on the family construction business because his father is terminally ill...  Will our heroine reveal the secret our Hero left her with seven years ago?  How long can she keep her secret from him?  Is our Hero -- Bryce McCallahan -- Daddy material?  Are the sparks that fly between Bryce and Tamara (our heroine) anger, or love mixed with a dose of lust?

As Tamara goes running down the beach, her long, waist-length, black hair flowing behind her, Bryce slips out of his dockers and is left wearing his BILLIONAIRE'S country club tennis outfit, for running in it is easier.  He has never taken a tennis lesson in his life, though he plays like a pro, and all the sports stars that are members of his country club wish to have him as a doubles partner.

Tamara contines to run down the beach in her knee-length gray skirt and peach-coloured silk blouse, though the 'lines' in back of her black silk stockings, covering her long, curvaceous legs on her petite five-foot-two-inch frame are beginning to lose themselves in her Calvin Klein Alligator skin sling-back stilettos.

All these "Millionaires"  never seem to be at work.

Very few people in romance novels never seem to be at work.  These people seem to have lots of free time.

Or, very few people have normal jobs.   How many teachers, secretaries, waitresses, busdrivers, etc, are there?

If there are just ordinary people with normal jobs,  it is usually the woman, and she is thought low class and then the Mllionaire man, who "rescues" her from that "horrible" life.

Then there is the fact that everyone in romance books are drop dead gorgeous.   Dont average jane and Joe need love too? Where are the dumpy middle aged folks who meet at the supermarket, and bond while picking out a watermelon?. Do Ken and Barbie get to have all the fun?

I dont mean they have to be the unemployed construction worker and the single mom on food stamps, but it  could work.

I just come along this blog and have to agree with alot that I have read on here. I have always scratched my head over white women with black hair with no kind of hispanic or asian, native american background with hair so black its blue. Or how about the red heads who have perfect tan skin? Don't most redheads burn easily because of their sensitive skin? Even blondes? The ones with the white or silvery blonde hair(with the exception of paranormals or fantasies) I'm talking about normal women with that color hair with ofcourse perfect tanned skin, big boobs..in this day in age that hair is bleached and the boobs are fake. The hair down to the waste has always bothered me too I know when my hair gets too long it becomes very hard to manage. And with all that hair how about the sex it would get all in the way when kissing or just moving around it should be in their mouths, tangled in his or her hands.

One pet peeve I have is when you are reading a adventure romance and the H and h are hot and sweaty and have been days without a shower due to being stuck in a jungle or something like that and they have sex? I'm sorry that is not sexy!  Or when they wake up after spending the night together and start making out...ummm morning breathe!!!

I one time read about a sex scene that took place in a race car after the H won a race and he was doing a victory lap with her in there with him. Has anyone ever seen the inside of a stock car??? How on EARTH did they manage to fit her on top of him?? lol I could go on and on!

I just can't resist...

Of course you can have sex on a beach and avoid the nasty bits -- just don't get down in the sand. ;)

And as to heat, I looove summer. Love heat, humidity, and the smell of suntan lotion... love the desert, and all of that good stuff, so you know, to each their own. ;> It's hard to say what's sexy to one person, could be different for someone else.

As for jobs, I think a lot of Blaze heroes/heroines (and most Supers) have very normal jobs.

My pet peeve is when people appear to have super powers -- for instance, there's a book I loved, but there was a scene where she saw his freakin' eyelashes and how thick they were, etc, from a balcony on her beach house. Either she had super human eyesight, or he had lashes like Daisy the cow. ;)

Sam

I tend to get lost in the story and don't pay much mind to the little details like hair color/length, jobs, etc. I take things like that at face value as I tend to build my own picture of the characters in my head regardless of how the author describes them.

I do, however, get annoyed at the "make-over" concept...she's fat or "plain" and he doesn't notice her. She loses weight/updates her wardrobe and hair and he's hot for her. I get annoyed at HIM for being shallow and HER for wanting someone so shallow.

I just sort of ignore the details thinking it is not supposed to be realism. I tend to notice more when a romance author does somerthing like make the heroine older or taking care of an elderly parent or not thin. I do appreciate that very much, because it is different and I think it is positive to see that.  I read fantasy and all sorts of fiction so I just don't read for realism one way or the other.

My boarding school roommate had very long hair, longer than her read end even with curls. It was real. I could never get mine that long. My cousin's was close to that long.

I think what bothers me the most is the ethnic and women and blonde ortrayals on television which I find inane and grossly playing into derogatory stereotypes.

Riding horseback on the beach is fun, but other than that, the beach is not a romantic place to me...heat, sand chafing the skin, tar getting on the feet and the sand on the East Coast (as compared to Bermuda where it is finer) hurts to ealk on with the crushed shells.