I guess this thread was really spawned by Destroyer 2000's thread "How many guys are out there than enjoy the love stories in different Anime/Games?" The discussion in this thread turned to discussion of what made a romance in a book/movie/game good. So, now that it seems most of those who posted in that thread had a pretty good idea of what made romance bad (twelve year olds falling in love, terribly predictable stories, overly tramatized relationships), I was just curious if anyone has read any good romances lately. And I don't mean (or just mean) pure romance. I mean any book, regardless of genre, that has a rather substantial element of romance.
I'm bored out of my head with all the stuff I've been reading lately.