Love story is common theme in romance book. To give tragic element into the book and make readers love the main characters, just put one word in front of those words: FORBIDDEN.
Many writers like this theme. The differences between people in the world is enough to attract them. Two rivalry families, two people from different caste, two different creatures. Just these cases, they can write incidents to incidents and troubles to troubles to test their love, good guys can be the villains. And don’t forget betrayal to sweeten the story. Happy couples can be ex-husband/wife full of hatred, peace family/country can light fire of war. That’s what readers like. Intense and layered conflicts.
How scary the power of words!
But, those are for classic books. Now, romance books is more light with comedy and action as freshener. The situations are more acceptable. How they feel to each other, how their surrounding react. No cynical staring or isolation from people because the world has changed to modernity.
Number one classic forbidden love story the world know is William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, of course. Also Shakespeare’s Othello that told white master-black slave love story. But, nowadays, the human-vampire love story is written happy ending in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight saga.
In local book, there is Light-Darkness love story of Sitta Karina’s Aerial. Then, Ilana Tan’s Autumn in Paris which is between step brother and step sister (this is very tragic). Clara Ng’s Gerhana Kembar is told lesbian love story openly. Dee wrote funny forbidden love story; cockroach and little girl in one of Filosofi Kopi’s short story.
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