I just finished and I LOVED it. Full review coming but I definitely couldn't wait until book #2 in December (because this one ended rather openly in terms of romance, no HFN even!)
I think I explained before in the personal challenge post. I like something I can connect with. Reading contemporary is easy for me because well, it's my lifetime. I can stretch to supernatural or paranormal and urban fantasy because I have interest in that: magic, vampires, shape-shifters ... but high fantasy and sci-fi ... it's just way beyond my brain "to connect". I don't enjoy reading something in out of space, not like I will be there anyway. Or something to scienc-y. Does that make sense somehow?
LOL, not really to me at the moment. But that's my own problem I think.
I find contemporary romance usually very boring, because for one thing it's what I have before my nose every day and for another I can't connect to or abide the current contemporary romance tropes. The majority make me want to puke. Historical (or scifi) on the other hand are interesting precisely because I can learn something new and exciting, something I didn't think of and which is outside the daily grind. ;) So I have a hard time understanding why someone would seek it out ;)
Both as a reader, but also as a writer, I e.g. prefer historicals (and scifi) above contemporaries.
I find contemporary romance usually very boring, because for one thing it's what I have before my nose every day and for another I can't connect to or abide the current contemporary romance tropes. The majority make me want to puke. Historical (or scifi) on the other hand are interesting precisely because I can learn something new and exciting, something I didn't think of and which is outside the daily grind. ;) So I have a hard time understanding why someone would seek it out ;)