Comments on: Guest Blogger: Author Cyndia Depre on Combining Genres http://medievalbookworm.com/guest-blog/guest-blogger-author-cyndia-depre-on-combining-genres/ Tue, 14 Mar 2017 15:02:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.41 By: Literary Feline http://medievalbookworm.com/guest-blog/guest-blogger-author-cyndia-depre-on-combining-genres/#comment-983 Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:38:24 +0000 http://chikune.com/blog/?p=331#comment-983 Genre labels can be very misleading. The ones that stump me most are the books that crossover into multiple genres. I tend to think of thrillers as suspenseful novels where you know or have a good idea of who the villian(s) are upfront and a mystery is when the reader is left guessing until near the end. I’m not sure how accurate it is, but it works for my purposes. In both instances, plot tends to come first, I agree, but it seems like more authors in these genres are paying closer attention to character development, which I think is wonderful.

I’m one of those readers who tends to avoid books with heavy romance elements. I don’t mind it as a minor side story, just as long as it doesn’t overshadow the rest of the book. There are plenty of exceptions though, and so it’s not a hard and fast rule of mine. :-)

Great post!

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