Readers, in a novel – do you like love at first sight or the slow, detailed “falling in love”?

Red Star: Readers, in a novel – do you like love at first sight or the slow, detailed “falling in love”?
I just am interested in whether you like reading about how it was love at first sight or if maybe at first the two characters didn’t even like each other and then slowly began to fall in love?

What do you like to read about, in that respect?

Answers and Views:

Answer by ZZ
I like the slow, detailed “falling in love”.

It just seems more believable- and so much sweeter.

Bonus points if they don’t like each other at first.

Answer by Mimi♥
Slow. Love at first sight is just too fast and doesn’t give you a chance to get to know the characters very well before they love each other.

Answer by Samantha
I always love the slow (and possibly unexpected) falling love.
Love at first sight leaves nothing to the imagination, there’s no suspense in it.

Answer by Wake [Friend of the Searchbar]
Slow, detailed, falling in love. I have never met a person who immediately loved a person the moment they set eyes on them. I have also never met a person (over the age of 14) who has claimed that they are completely in love with someone after a few weeks. Relationships (or, at least, good ones) take months and years to build, not a fleeting glance.

Answer by twilightgrl
i like the kind of books where they meet, and they kinda dislike each other, and slowly they fall in love.

i like to read vampire love stories!!!!

Answer by EragonFan1992
i like reading about how there is an immediate recognition, but they dont like eachother at first. however over time, they fight their emotions, but eventually give in. sort of a combination. i dont like it to be all mushy though.

Answer by Fair Gloves
Slow falling in love. Love at first sight feels much more like lust to me. You have to know someone to love them, and you cant know someone just by looking at them. Love takes time and work, not a quick glance.

I like to watch love grow and take shape. I like all the hard work and time that gets put into. It makes me feel like the characters really love each other and they deserve to be together.

Answer by ☮Tamara☮
Neither, I am not into romance. But, if I had to choose I would “slowly falling in love”. That is more realistic and something that I can relate to.

Answer by texas kool kid:)
When the slowly fall In love.it gives more of a mistery and make a book a little more interesting.

Answer by Chloe C
Ok, i want to read something about friends falling in love, like the boy has always liked the girl but he is shy, and she goes out with all the wrong guys, and her friend is always there for her, and one day she finally realizes that she is falling in love with him, them she sees all the signs that he loves her too.

Answer by erm
slow detailed!
its much more believable.

love at first sight only happens in fairytales

Answer by Vr
Slow, it’s more realistic. I’m not too fond of them disliking each other, and then falling in love thing, though.

Answer by Alyna W
I really don’t like romance at all, so I’m definitely not the person to ask. However, I do like very mellow romance. I like romance where they like eachother and maybe touch hands at the end…..but I hate spiked up romance like Twilight where it’s really overdone. (such as describing Edward Cullen flippin 80 times in one book!)

Answer by k_thompson42
Definitely falling in love slowly, the whole ‘love at first sight’ thing is cheesy and unsatisfying to me. Attraction at first sight is okay, but I LOVE seeing the little moments of affection spark between two characters over the course of a story. Thats what will make me want to reread a story over and over

Answer by Mira
falling in love. If it’s love at first sight, you usually get what me and my friends call “The Twilight Effect.” Which is pretty much just skipping any elements that make the story believable and the entire plot. Even when I know two people will end up together by the end of the book, I still enjoy reading the twists and turns they take in the development of their relationship.

Answer by sarabeth120
I like the whole “slowly falling in love” especially when it’s between two characters who start off not liking each other.

Bonus points if they spend half the story trying to deny their feelings for each other.

Answer by Penelope G
Love at first sight is nice sometimes, but it’s better if neither of them wants to admit it or anything and none of their friends approve and it ends up being slow and detailed. I prefer the slow and detailed.

Answer by stargazer
I like it when they argue and act as if they hate each other, then slowly fall in love. I don’t like it much when they fall too quick.

Answer by Mini
I love the slow, detailed falling in love. However, love at first sight usually turns into a very dramatic tale about how the love collapses.

Anyway, I prefer the slow, detailed falling in love, for I find that the progression to the big moment where two characters fall in love is always much more special. If they meet, and immediately kiss after a page and a half, it’s uninteresting, and not believable.