Mills & Boon - just loaned my first one from the library

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I've only ever heard women I know read these who are 60+ so I'm not sure if it's a sign that I'm ageing prematurely (35) or just because I'm looking for quick reads and the walls of books at the library are overwhelming to sift through.

Any good? Are they still writing them? If I enjoy them is it feasible to read the back catalogue?

I've been through the Richard & Judy Book Club back catalogue and am fully up to date on the Reese Witherspoon Book Club back catalogue, so looking for another stack to work through.

Any particularly good stories I should look out for?

@highlandcoo you've hit nail on the head too! Re:
"Large grey eyes fringed with impossibly long lashes"
Plus you got in a 'padding'!
Someone needs to start a scoring system; I don't think we've had 'she had to blink away tears from her large grey eyes fringed with impossibly long lashes' she hadn't expected the sudden swell of emotion on being informed by the very handsome, tall vet with throbbing pulse plus a way with her Pussy who waived his fee that she was allergic to Tiger
Or 'trembling lower lip which she tries to control by biting down which only reveals her beautiful, pearly white teeth'

Recommend Pride & Prejudice, by Jane Austen. Fab book and as good as any M&B

I have really enjoyed this thread .

I'm killing myself laughing at this thread!!!
Confession : I used to read loads of them when kids were babies as there isn't much time / story investment as they are all the same!! I even got as far as thinking I could write one - came up with a storyline didnt get any further than that. . Imagine my surprise when I was scrolling through Amazon M&B a couple of years later and a book had been written with the storyline I had come up with!!! I did get the book as I was curious as to how it was written etc - it was so boring!! Lol!!

Well I reread it and I still really enjoyed it. It was written in 1979. Hero was a shit-hot lawyer, heroine ran a dress shop. He was older of course. A couple of minor misunderstandings, a glam but snotty ex. What I really liked was that heroine and her friend talked like real people and it was quite funny.

Now I need to try a modern one.

I read them in my early teens and thought they were so romantic and the characters generally had cool exotic sounding names. And, being brought up by prudish parents meant all the sex bits seemed like I was being a rebellious teenager.

I remember my 1st, a girl had ended up drunk and the man took her home and pretended to sexually assault her in the hope she would be more responsible in the future. She assumed she had been raped, turned into a recluse and never dated anyone again. Obvs then bumped into the guy in later life, fell in love, happy ever after blah blah.

When I think about it now, I'm horrified books like that ever made it to print.