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[Monika]

Which love scenes made you swoon,feel warm and happy,tender and poignant...and in the end made you sigh?

[stl_reader]

I have to give a nod to Chapter 23 of Jane Eyre. You know, the one that starts A splendid Midsummer shone over England...

The "declaration of love" scene in that chapter may not be exactly what you were thinking of--no sex involved--but I love how that whole Jane/Rochester revelation plays out.

Made me swoon? Check
Made me feel warm and happy? Check
Tender and poignant? Check
Made me sigh? Check Check

[kris]

The first time that Derek Craven and Sara Fielding make love in Dreaming of You is the best that I've ever read. He is experienced and jaded but he is so careful and sweetly passionate with Sara. Everytime I read that scene , I sit and sigh. Just lovely.
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[jaime]

The first love scene between St Vincent and Evie in Devil In Winter stands out to me - so much chemistry between them.

[Eggletina]

I quite liked the rain of rose petals in Jill Barnett's Bewitching. It was a wonderful metaphor for the magic that was happening between the hero and heroine and unique to them.

[KataO]

Then Came Heaven by LaVyrle Spencer

[veasleyd1]

I'm not even sure it was a romance novel. It was the final volume in a series of books about horses that was in our school library. I don't know the title or author, although I have looked. Not Flicka; not the Black Stallion; not anything that's still around in the stores.

I was in 7th or 8th grade, so it was about 1952 or 1953. Toward the end, there was a scene in which the young hero and heroine were lying on a picnic blanket, having declared their mutual love and moving for the first time beyond polite kisses. As they embraced, she reached over and traced the shape of his eyebrows with the tip of her finger.

Somehow it still seems more realistic to me than a lot of the "bastard child of Lady Chatterley's Lover" sex scenes we now read.

[Monika]

Wow,i love the responses that I am getting thank you

[Natalie]

[Elizabeth Rolls]

[veasleyd1]

Green Grass of Wyoming does sound awfully familiar as a title. I'll have to look at it again, if I can locate a copy.

I can definitely say that it made a lasting impression on me.

Virginia

[Elizabeth Rolls]

[mirole]

I find that in a lot of books I love it's not the lovemaking scenes but the anticipation of it, the buildup is what I remember the most (e.g. Robin Schone's The Lady's Tutor is a perfect example of the sexual tension).

Yet, if I have to name the books with my favourite lovemaking scenes, here they are:

1. Cry No More - the h and H agree they'll have sex when they are out of danger (which is in a few hours) and it's quite unusual for a romance to have that but it was so well done - all this buildup and the love scene itself!

These are from books on the tame/very subtle side but I thought the love scenes were very beautiful.

The Emerald Necklace by Diana Brown - in the middle of the book.

My One and Only by Kristan Higgins - their first. I had read The Catch of the Day before by e same author and while I loved that book too, my one complaint was a fade-to-black love scene between the h/H and no reference to it whatsoever afterwards which, for me in a contemporary novel is just wrong. In My One and Only it was very subtle but still very satisfying.

Also in one of my favourite romances - Private Arrangements by Sherry Thomas - I loved all love scenes (or sex scenes) but my favourite was the third one (if we don't count flashbacks).

[bijoux]

[mirole]

Bijoux: no, the one in the country where they are actually in a bed (helped a little by her mother

Maybe I misremember and it's not the third but when I was reading the book, I noted it as the third one.