SAGA NOVELS:
CHARACTERISTICS:
- follow an heroine through two generations of women (heroes of book one return as parents of heroes in book two, who would come back in book three as the parents of the heroes in book three.)
- long, mainstream novel
- the heroine loses a husband or lover
- she has several love interests during her lifetime
- she establishes a business
- 100,000 and more
QUOTE:
It takes one generation to make it,
One generation to lose it,
One generation to talk about it,
And one to make it again
—Valerie Sherwood
EXAMPLES:
FICTION:
Born to Love by Valerie Sherwood. (three female reatives in the years 1666 to 1717)
Daughters of the Storm by Aola Vandergriff. (19th Century)
Highland Destiny by Hannah Howell (15th Century)
The Black Lyon by Jude Deveraux. (Medieval England and Scotland)
MOVIES:
"Twilight."
"The Forsyte Saga."
"The Viking Sagas."
RESOURCES:
Bowling, Anna. "All in the family: Family sagas in romance novels." Heroes and Heatrbreakers.com. March 21, 2013. <http://www.heroesandheartbreakers.com/blogs/2013/03/all-in-the-family-family-sagas-in-romance-novels>
CHARACTERISTICS:
- follow an heroine through two generations of women (heroes of book one return as parents of heroes in book two, who would come back in book three as the parents of the heroes in book three.)
- long, mainstream novel
- the heroine loses a husband or lover
- she has several love interests during her lifetime
- she establishes a business
- 100,000 and more
QUOTE:
It takes one generation to make it,
One generation to lose it,
One generation to talk about it,
And one to make it again
—Valerie Sherwood
EXAMPLES:
FICTION:
Born to Love by Valerie Sherwood. (three female reatives in the years 1666 to 1717)
Daughters of the Storm by Aola Vandergriff. (19th Century)
Highland Destiny by Hannah Howell (15th Century)
The Black Lyon by Jude Deveraux. (Medieval England and Scotland)
MOVIES:
"Twilight."
"The Forsyte Saga."
"The Viking Sagas."
RESOURCES:
Bowling, Anna. "All in the family: Family sagas in romance novels." Heroes and Heatrbreakers.com. March 21, 2013. <http://www.heroesandheartbreakers.com/blogs/2013/03/all-in-the-family-family-sagas-in-romance-novels>