by Taryn Moreau | Oct 10, 2025 | Genre
Put simply, “villain gets the girl” describes any book where the heroine ultimately ends up in a romantic (or romantic enough) relationship with the bad guy. Thereadinglifeblog.com describes it as “a trope where the villain is the love interest...
by Taryn Moreau | Oct 13, 2024 | Genre
We’re well into spooky season and this year, I’m really going all-in. I’ve watched several horror movies and books, and am especially having a grand time reading gothic novels. But as I was curled up with Wuthering Heights the other evening, it...
by Taryn Moreau | Jun 8, 2024 | Genre, Musings
If you’ve read a decent amount of my posts, you’ve probably noticed that I’ve spent a long time struggling with the fact that what I want to write is almost dark romance or, fairly often, technically is dark romance. But my novel ideas are,...
by Taryn Moreau | Nov 18, 2023 | Genre, Musings
I was thinking quite a bit about what I really want when I say I want villain heroes, and while sometimes I am looking for that morally black hero (Lord knows I’m obsessed with shows like Hannibal and Killing Eve), I realized that what I’m most often...
by Taryn Moreau | Oct 15, 2023 | Genre, Writing Journey
So quite a few things have happened since my last post on where I want to go with my writing, and while it hasn’t changed the direction I want to go in, it has inspired me to go even further in the non-commercial direction for my novels. Here are the things that...
by Taryn Moreau | Oct 1, 2023 | Genre, Musings
I came across an interesting conversation on social media the other day involving an erotic horror novel that a dark romance reader was raving about in a dark romance group. She said even though it wasn’t a romance, she loved it. Several other people chimed in...