Setting Smackdown – Shipboard Romances!
Shipboard settings are a delightful mashup of forced-proximity and neighbor tropes, and the ships themselves can be anywhere – a river, an ocean, space, or the sky! So when it comes to ships, do you prefer yours to set sail or countdown for launch? Here’s a handy quiz to help you decide!
Would You Rather… A shipboard romance challenge!
Space’s finest female captains:
- Hunt the Stars by Jesse Mihalik
- Finders Keepers by Linnea Sinclair
- Lord of the Storm by Justine Davis
- Kinsman’s Oath by Susan Krinard
OR
- The Iron Rose by Marsha Canham
- Almost a Scandal by Elizabeth Essex
Would you rather discover your shipboard lover is
Secretly your fiancé?
- Beast by Judith Ivory
OR
Secretly the major deity of your religion?
- An Accidental Goddess by Linnea Sinclair
Would you rather watch a traumatized hero set sail with
A princess on the run?
- Seize the Fire by Laura Kinsale
OR
A failed psychic?
- Sweet Starfire by Jayne Ann Krentz
Would you rather see a YA romance on…
A quest for mysterious potentially-alien artifacts?
- Navigating the Stars by Maria V Snyder
OR
A cruise on the Mediterranean?
- One True Loves by Elise Bryant
Would you rather watch the hero rescue the heroine from
An alien race violating treaties of non-contact with humans?
- Class 5 (series) by Michelle Diener
OR
Himself, a pirate out for revenge?
- The Pirate Prince by Gaelen Foley
OR, Steampunk bonus!
Airship pirate kidnappers trying to extort a ransom from her wealthy brother?
- The Kraken King by Meljean Brook
Would you rather see the protagonists manage superior officers who are
Drunk and derelict in their duty?
- A Scandal To Remember by Elizabeth Essex
OR
Giving orders that are woefully immoral?
- Ocean’s Echo by Everina Maxwell
Would you rather see your lead embark with
An experienced sailor?
- Float Plan by Trish Doller
OR
- His Compass by Con Riley
(Neither of those is on a spaceship, you say? Well, you get what you pay for…)
So what’s your final choice for this Setting Smackdown? Would You Rather a spaceship or a ship on the water? Or do you ship all the ships, as long as they’re relation-ships? (Ugh, I made it to the last sentence before I did that.) Let us know in the comments!