Guest blog by Sandra Scholes
A male friend of mine once met me at a discreet corner of Waterstones book store. While I browsed the romance section, watching me reading the blurb on the back cover - he snatched it from me, read it and started to laugh while people passed us by, probably thinking we were odd, or worse, mad.
I asked him what was funny, and he said "Have all the heroes and heroines in these books got weird names?"
It was my turn to laugh then. I took the book back off him, putting it back on the shelf, and picked up a couple more, handing them to him while he read the back covers. Within minutes he almost fitted with laughter.
The thing is, I have been reading these books for years, and the thought of the names being even slightly hilarious had never crossed my mind. I thought they were well written, the characters had spirit, they leapt off the page - the last thing I thought of was how funny their names were, but Dominic made me sit up and listen, and when I looked a bit closely at the names, it wasn't long before I would understand what he meant - it doesn't stop me from reading them though!
Here area some of the funniest names I've seen so far:
- Dorothea Darent: A Season For Scandal
by Stephanie Laurens
- Lisa Foreshaw: Arranged Marriage
by Sara Hylton
- Cade Riker: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006VD4Y66/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=loveromapass-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B006VD4Y66">Spring Brides: Three Brides and a Wedding Dress
by Judith Stacey
- Tru Mc Cord: Spring Brides: Three Brides and a Wedding Dress
- Charlotte Dumont: The Price of Fame by Anne Oliver
- Cayo Vila: A Devil in Disguise by Caitlin Crews
- Luc Duvalier: Exposed: Misbehaving with the Magnate
by Kelly Hunter
- Nacho Acosta: A Taste of the Untamed
by Susan Stephens
- Miss Angelica Cynster: The Capture of the Earl of Glencrae
of Glencrae
- Luke Ripton: Bride by Mistake
by Anne Gracie
- Winter Makepeace: Thief of Shadows
by Elizabeth Hoyt
If there are any you want to add to the list you have seen recently - please do, I would love to read them.
This post was written by...
Sandra Scholes – who has written 172 posts on Love Romance Passion.
Sandra delights in immersing herself in anything period romance, says that supernatural romance novels have a tendency to grasp her in a way that some don't, and thinks GLBT romances have that extra something and show a different way of how people of the same sex find love and try to keep it. She likes a wide variety of novels and is interested in reading stories, and in some cases, the shorter the better. Romance of all genres can keep her interest, but she finds that the Regency period is one of her firm favourites. Learn more about Sandra in her Reader Highlight.
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