seeking refuge in the predestined patterns of Mills & Boon
- Categories
- Article/Artikel
- Magazine Title
- Raffia
- Magazine Year
- 2005
- Magazine Number
- 3
- Creator
- Breukelman, Renske
- Creator
- Kamphuis, Lisa
- Thesaurus
- boeketromans, Engels
- Description
- The storylines of Mills and Boon romans, the English equivalent of the American Harlequin, is basically the same. They consist of three stages: an initial situation with a tension between the hero and the heroine, the second state, the longest one, in this stage a process takes place that changes the head characters'opions of each other, stage three brings the final transformation of the relationship between hero and heroine.