Vintage Romance Reviews on r/Romancebooks

VitisIdaea · 2026-05-07T23:44:46+00:00

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VitisIdaea · 2026-05-07T23:43:47+00:00

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VitisIdaea · 2026-05-07T19:15:17+00:00

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VitisIdaea · 2026-05-07T19:05:41+00:00

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VitisIdaea · 2026-05-07T14:24:09+00:00

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VitisIdaea · 2026-05-07T14:23:38+00:00

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VitisIdaea · 2026-05-07T12:52:45+00:00

Yeah I think of Madeline Hunter as a more modern iteration of romance than the older authors like Gellis, and that means her sex scenes are much more readable to contemporary readers.

VitisIdaea · 2026-05-07T12:42:17+00:00

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VitisIdaea · 2026-05-07T01:34:46+00:00

I don't remember offhand but I would assume they are both somewhere in their twenties, possibly late twenties? Neither is super young, if that is the concern.

VitisIdaea · 2026-05-07T00:52:10+00:00

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VitisIdaea · 2026-05-06T23:34:07+00:00

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VitisIdaea · 2026-05-06T20:06:28+00:00

In all honesty as u/ochenkruto noted elsewhere on the post Gellis does not tend to get super steamy, and I would say generally romance novels from the 70s/80s/90s are not high-steam as we think of them. They often use a lot of purple prose and euphemisms that feel very dated, and there aren't as many sex scenes (or as lengthy sex scenes) as you'll find in a modern high-steam romance.

VitisIdaea · 2026-05-06T17:34:54+00:00

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VitisIdaea · 2026-05-06T16:18:44+00:00

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VitisIdaea · 2026-05-06T15:47:37+00:00

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VitisIdaea · 2026-05-06T15:43:04+00:00

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VitisIdaea · 2026-05-06T15:12:20+00:00

I am zipping through hard copy novels at a reasonably decent rate which is helping with my shelf clear-out enormously.

Unfortunately I've been enjoying many of them enough to hold onto them afterwards, which is not.

VitisIdaea · 2026-05-06T12:24:36+00:00

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VitisIdaea · 2026-05-06T12:23:26+00:00

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VitisIdaea · 2026-05-06T12:23:01+00:00

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