Life's Sneaky and Oh So Wrong Monkeys

Life's Sneaky and Oh So Wrong Monkeys

(if only we ever really stopped and thought)

For those who have no clue who Zoe Archer is.... bow down in awe! She is a romance writer with more creativity in her little typing finger than any of our mother's generation of romance writers. Because these are not the romance novels you used to sneak out of your mother's room and read when she wasn't looking! Her novels go far beyond, they are not romance, historical romance, thriller romance... she is part of a new generation of writers speaking to the inner geek in every woman. That romantic geek who until now didn't have an outlet except through elvish love written by men. Her genre: fantasy romance and steampunk romance. For those thinking to compare her to things like Twilight, Divergence, or the Mortal Instruments... all YA (Young Adult Fiction), slap that silly thought from your mind! Her work is fully adult with all the lovely naughty bits we love with a fantasy or steampunk twist. 

For fans of hers though that are connected up to her facebook for fans page, you also get to see she is a real woman, a real person. Who doesn't miss a beat as seen from the above clip and snip of a post from a few days ago on her face book page!

Because these are the real life things that sneak by us without a second thought. I love the fact Zoe (if only I could call her that... so I will!) is able to throw out such an indelicate subject to her readers to make a stance on something so important! How many novels of the romance persuasion have we read in our life time where the heroine is horrible raped, her virtue stolen by a rogue or family member by marriage and yet not 4-5 chapters later sometimes on a timeline of 2-3 weeks later she is willingly spreading her legs open for the hero of the book! The crushed and trampled flower brought back to life by the handsome, not always morally intact many times with his own damage hero. 

These are NOT realistic plot devices yet as we read them we have hardly questioned them in the past. I understand its fiction.... but even fiction has to have a few legs to stand on. Even authors who don't go through with the full act but use it as an almost occurrence so the heroine can get saved and then that night 'spread them'? BOOOOO! No woman recovers from trauma that fast emotionally!

So 3 tails swinging to Zoe Archer! Making her readers think and saying what should be obvious but has been a sneaky monkey getting by with so many woman readers without the reality to back it as a plot device!

For the author's facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/zoe.archer1?fref=nf