![]() ![]() Panic buying, virus-deniers, conspiracy theorists, they all get a bit of page time. I generally enjoy her books and this was no exception she writes insightfully about the confusion experienced in the early part of the year when rumours about the virus were just surfacing and then about the growing sense of helplessness people began to feel as the it began to take hold in their communities. Witt had written a book featuring a couple who got together for the sake of expediency and ended up locked down together, I decided to pick it up. ![]() I tend towards the latter, but I can completely understand that there are those for whom a romance set during lockdown will have little or no appeal.Īnyway. ![]() Do authors ignore it and write as if it hadn’t happened – effectively setting their books in a contemporary AU? Or do they incorporate it somehow? It’s a tricky question – for many readers, reference to the pandemic is the last thing they want to read in a genre they read in order to escape others want more realism. I’ve read a number of discussions over the past few months about how to address COVID-19 in the romance genre. ![]()
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