Book 2 Review 3 Genre

There are a lot of different aspects to the book Keeping Faith which makes it hard to categorize into one genre. If I were to pick a major genre, I would say it is a romance. I did this more by process if elimination than anything else. I know it’s not a mystery, thriller, science fiction or fantasy.  It is just difficult to say it is a romance because others may say it just has romance sprinkled into it. The story does not revolve around this romance. There are a lot of deeper issues in the book that do not have to do with love. One of those would be the relationship a mother and daughter have, and what a mother would do to keep her child. All that aside, I would then further categorize it into a contemporary romance. The characters that end up falling in love deal with modern problems like working with and against the media. The male character has his own TV show and acts as paparazzi to the female character. I could also go as far to say it is a romantic suspense. Mariah Wright and Ian Fletcher have a forbidden love. This type of love is very interesting and keeps readers on the edge of their seat. That aspect leads to a little bit of suspense. On the other hand, the story is not that suspenseful. The definition of suspense is a state of uncertainty or anxiety about what happens next. To an extent, the love part of the story fits that definition. But like I said before, the book does not revolve around the romantic relationship that Ian Fletcher and Mariah White have. This book is a good example of not being defined and constricted by a genre.