Love's reckless rash (A Charlatan romance)

By Rosemary Cartwheel and Rosemary Cartwhell

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 031249971X
• ISBN13: 9780312499716
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.5" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

Good fun

I am a romance novel fan, and have many favorite authors whom I greatly respect. However, I freely admit that, as with almost any genre of popular fiction, there are many novels out there full of overblown and overused stock phrases, trite plots and unimaginative writing. This delightful little parody pokes fun at exactly this element of the romance novel genre. It's a scream.

Funny

This novel which calls itself "A Charlatan Romance" is a spoof of romance novels. Never having read a romance novel, I must resort to inference and deduction to gauge how well it parodies them. Romance novels deal heavily with feelings and emotions and presumably have developed their own language and style. "Love's Reckless Rash" has fun with this language, and it also parodies the plots of romance novels. Playboy says "'Love's Reckless Rash' does for the gothic romance what 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' did for science fiction." Though both are funny, it doesn't remind me of "Hitchhiker's Guide." It reminds me of the movie "Airplane." Like Airplane it plays with verbal expressions. Also like Airplane, every individual gag isn't a winner, but the bombardment is relentless. It will make you laugh.

a delightfully silly romantic novel parody

I don't read romance novels, but this spoof on the stereotypes within romance books is tremendously funny, silly, clever and straight-up enjoyable. I now re-read it periodically when I need a burst of goofiness in an all-too-serious world. It's simply fun.