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| | Paranormal Romance |
 | | Paranormal romances carry traits of all romance fiction: texts that appear to shift in relation to different audiences, an oddly collective authorship, and formulae that allow for safe exploration of gender “secrets.” Additionally, paranormal romances serve particular functions for readers, functions which critics, myself included, have found disturbing. |
 | | Paranormal romances usually start in that hesitating area called the fantastic, but evolve into the marvelous (where the supernatural event is accepted as supernatural rather than explained away). |
 | | Paranormal romances step over this plausibility barrier because what is unbelievable in our world might work in another world: in the future, the past, on a psychic plane, or in the spirit world. |
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