I've never been very big on romance books (although there was that summer when I read about 200 Harlequins... research, that's what it was, yeah, research). A lot of the historical fiction I've read and enjoyed over the years has had a romance in it, but I really need the history to be good because the romance alone isn't going to carry it for me.

Ditto with the new category of supernatural and fantasy romance - there's got to be an engaging story there, and solid characters that I'd enjoy even without the romance, for it to really be something I like reading.