As I said last time, I don't get it. The heroine many of you find utterly frustrating, I find utterly endearing and engaging. She, as I am, is quite fond of the screwball comedies of the '30s and '40s that were filled with heroines who found themselves in ridiculous predicaments. We also found, however, that we don't like heroines in dramatic romances who act stupidly, and it is those heroines we found too stupid to live . While we enjoy a comedic heroine who involves herself and her hero in a madcap dash into danger, we found heroines involved in similar actions in a dramatic romance dumb as a stump.
Comical heroines are another matter entirely.
Jill's heroines aren't stupid at all. Jill and Teresa Medeiros too, write lighthearted romps like all the Cary Grant movies I ever watched a hundred times. Anyhow, give me Joyous and a smile any day of the week. Marion found that the tstl heroine does not fit her reading experience, although she agree with Karen from the last column in that utter naivete often comes close to stupidity. She takes it on an author by author basis.