Why Period Romances Work
Happy New Year besties! I've been dead for about a month now but I return! After having absolutely nothing of much regard to babble about I had, quite sadly retired to my sad corner and watched stuff and held my opinions o myself (and my family). I found that though some were interesting, there wasn't much to be said that hadn't already been...said. That is...until I saw Ang Lee's Sense and Sensibility (1995) and immediately fell in love with it. I mean, it's Jane Austen. What's shocking there. The more I thought about it though, the more I realized that I hadn't felt so occupied and invested in a romance story as much as I had been while watching the film. Period films and shows held my undivided attention like nothing else in the romance genre. And this is coming from a self-proclaimed romance connoisseur. There's just something within them that connects with people (and me) that the average romance can't do as well with certain exceptions of c...