What is it about romance?

Send us a textRomance novels generate over $1.44 billion (with a 'b!') in revenue and are highest-earning, biggest, and fastest growing genre of fiction in the book industry. And yet, if you're a romance reader, you've probably had to defend it to someone at some point or maybe you've even been embarrassed of your reading. Why are these books that so many read still so fraught?We talk about our personal experiences with reading romance, the history of the genre, and discuss questions like, wh...