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Christian Fiction without Romance - 8/31/2008 10:45:26 AM
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danielmount
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No matter the genre, writers of so many types of Christian fiction feel like they have to add a romance sub-plot to sell books. Sure, sometimes it turns out great, but sometimes I'll read a book—say a Biblical archaeology thriller—which otherwise is really solid, but the romantic sub-plot seems very contrived and doesn't mesh with the rest of the book well.
All of this gets me wondering...
Can you name well-written Christian fiction with no romantic storyline, no romantic sub-plots?
I'll start off with one. Francine Rivers' The Last Sin Eater has basically no romance. (Spoiler alert) I guess there is a postlogue (I'm forgetting the antonym for prologue right now) where it's revealed that two of the characters got married, but outside of that afterword, there's no romance in the main story.
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RE: Christian Fiction without Romance - 8/31/2008 1:46:50 PM
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You're right--almost all the books I've read have at least some romantic sub-plot. I went over the list I keep on Facebook of all the books I've read this past year (89 books) and I could only find three that had no romantic sub-plot.
Here is my (very short) list:
River Rising--by Athol Dickson
House--Frank Peretti and Ted Dekker
Safely Home--Randy Alcorn
All the rest I've read have some kind of romance in it, even if it's just estranged spouses reconciling or a bad relationship.
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RE: Christian Fiction without Romance - 8/31/2008 4:09:50 PM
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Fascinating. I haven't kept track precisely, but I suspect I'm at 1-3 max of 30 or 40 over the past 12 months.
(The Last Sin Eater is a bit of a stretch, since two characters do get married in the afterword, but it's far from being a main part of the story.)
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RE: Christian Fiction without Romance - 9/1/2008 7:22:26 AM
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Consecrated2God
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I don't think there are any books where there isn't at least a mention of a romantic relationship somewhere. Even in the three I listed there are a few things. In "River Rising", which is about a lost slave plantation in Lousiana, you find that the slave owner fathered a child with a slave many years ago, and there are a couple of characters that seem to have some attraction to others (unrequited love?) but that's it. In "House" there is a married couple on the verge of divorce, and again some of the characters feel attracted to others, but they are busy enough trying to stay alive that it doesn't come across as romantic in any way. In "Safely Home" one of the main characters is divorced and the other is happily married (a Chinese Christian) but he is arrested for his faith, so the wife is grieving for her husband. So although there isn't a romantic subplot, there are still relationships and attraction in them here and there.
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RE: Christian Fiction without Romance - 9/1/2008 7:26:49 AM
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danielmount
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I think (especially so we have anything to discuss in this thread!) that may as well count as a novel with "no romantic subplot."
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RE: Christian Fiction without Romance - 9/1/2008 10:55:45 AM
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I've written a Christian Fiction book with no romantic plot or sub-plot whatsoever.
See website below.
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