#romance-novels

#romance-novels

Henry's summer romance books often approach love with a sense of honesty and fun that the genre needs to thrive. Her characters may be enemies who find themselves living next door to each other or best friends who are scared to risk it all for something more, as is the case in "People We Meet on Vacation," which has been turned into a film set to debut on Netflix on January 9.

The notion of honesty, or the lack thereof, is, when you stop to think about it, a uniquely human concept. Few animals are capable of true deception, making the human capacity for lying one of our most dangerous features. Science fiction loves exploring this concept, especially when it comes to concepts of telepathy. In Alfred Bester's 1953 classic novel, The Demolished Man (and the first novel to ever win a Hugo award), a world of telepathy makes premeditated crime impossible.

Sisters Bea and Leah Koch, owners of The Ripped Bodice, recognized a gap between romance novels and independent bookstores, creating a special community in Park Slope.