I never thought I'd like a book about a Sheikh but WOW

I never really thought I'd enjoy books about demons and vampires until I read the Dark Enchantment mini-series from Nocturne   ... I'm looking forward to reading more Nocturnes

to read JR Ward .... because once you've read one, I'll be the last!  LOL

I have so many books in my TBR, that branching into the paranormal has been on the back burner ... I'm also afraid once I start reading them, I'll become addicted and my TBRs will vanquish unread!  LOL

Lori and Katherine, Well, Actually, I've not gotten around to Harry Potter OR J.D. Ward yet over the past two years.... 234 OTHER books, but they are still TBR. So you are probably both safe from the embarrassment of being last, lol.

As for the topic under discussion.... I'm trying to remember the title and author.. But it was the book that made me decide that SOME Harlequin Presents titles I might like... I raved on it last year on my blog here... and then someone made the comment back to me that it was actually originally a M & B MEDICAL romance that had just been repackaged as an HP... so, the Joke was on me.

My advice has always been to try The Hobbit. If it doesn't seduce you, the Rings won't do it either

I think the opposite.  I had a LOT of trouble getting into The Hobbit, but no trouble at all getting into the Rings trilogy.  Later, I was given to understand that the Hobbit had originally been written for kids, and then the Rings for adults.  Which made sense to me.

Liz Fielding was probably the first author to break just aboiut every has broken just about every I don't like this kind of book and she was the first author's sheikh romance I read. With her, it's just a matter the fact that this author can write no matter what she writes.

Then I guess Jane Porter is another. Presernts is not the first line I would choose, but I love Jane Porter's writing style so much that, well, she is an autho-buy for me.

Next are Laura Iding and Amy Andrews. I NEVER thought I would like Medical Romances because I hate medical stuff. Now I love them! I would add that Amy Andrews wrote the fist kind of baby/pregnancy romance that just florred me with its beauty.

Olivia Gates on many fronts --- medical, sheikh romances, a kind of heroine/hero battle that usually turns me off was absolutely incredible the way she wrote it. I think her book The Sheikh Surgeon's Proposal is awesome. Between Liz Fielding and Olivia Gates, 2 very different kinds of writers but both exceptional, well, I guess those are the 2 who broke the sheikh romance line.

'Cause now, paranormals ~ and vampires ~ play a major part in my book-reading.  

You just made me realize that I can one-up that!  Before 2004, I'd never read a ROMANCE novel! LOL!

Though, it wasn't because I'd had a bias against them.  I just always gravitated to different types of stories.  If I'd had someone introduce me to them at a younger age, I would have been a fan much earlier.

But I think that goes to show you never say never....maybe I'll end up making my first million on a book about a sheikh who shapeshifts into Frodo at the most inopportune times, and is ultimately cured by a wizard.  *gg*

That was priceless...A sheikh who shapeshifts into Frodo... I have a friend who won't read anything that can't really happen meaning no shape-shifters, vampires, hobbits, or talking animals.  I don't understand.

OK, I just read The Lord of the Rings for the first time.  I've tried reading them, but couldn't. I found that listening to them on audiobook while knitting worked for me. I simply adored them, but I've been on a fantasy kick lately.  I wrote a children's story about a dragon. Its overdone, but boy was it fun.

In the Not For Me Department, I have to say chick-lit, mommy-lit, etc. I've tried to read it many times, but the endings just don't do it for me. Give me a well-written romance anyday.

My mother used to take great pride in never reading fiction. I called her a book snob I used to read a lot of non-fiction too, but for the past 18 years I read primarily fiction.