The figure of the reader had always been underestimated in the literary process, until at the end of the 60s and the beginning of the 70s. In the sense it was in the act of reading where the work gained meaning, as happens with romantic paranormal novels.

During the different stages of the history of literary criticism, studies focused on the author, as the main entity that produces or manages to combine a text, then in the message as the medium in itself where the greatest force of the literary activity.

Finally, the movement that gave validity to the reader, was called reception theory and valued the texts from the way the reader perceived them, emphasizing that if the work was not read by someone then it was completely meaningless.

- A DEVELOPMENTAL VISION OF READING

From this point of view the act of reading began to be seen in a different way and the fact that a person read as something positive (regardless of the type of texts) was considered. As is known, the benefits of reading are infinite, and it is estimated that a reading society would be a model to follow of the civilized ideal life.

Although unfortunately this has utopian features, it would not be wrong to imagine a country that has many inhabitants’ readers, regardless of the type of reading, because this suggests that they are taking advantage of the benefits of reading, from the increase of vocabulary to a remarkable expansion of the capacity to establish correspondence, analyze and criticize with good arguments.

In this sense, a vision of reading as an agent for development has emerged for a long time, because it entails for the human being a great advance in the scale of human civilization. Not in vain every person who reads is well seen in academic environments.

- THE IDEAL OPTION: THE PARANORMAL GENRE

Hence, with the modern changes of our current societies, the importance of reading has been much more outlined so as not to be wrapped up in the illusory projects of the new millennium without having a critical conscience.

Then, from the cultural industry arises a reading proposal that has been controversial since its inception, but could be used to bring those new readers to other types of texts that increase their possibilities in terms of language, this proposal is embodied in the paranormal romantic novels.

Although the paranormal genre has received a lot of criticism, it must be recognized that its thousands of followers worldwide make it worthy of a thorough study, which leads to consider how is the behavior of the reader before this type of texts, what leads them to read them and what possibilities are there to expand the range of action of the readers towards different readings, serving as a bridge between a person who did not have the habit of reading and has cultivated it thanks to this type of texts.

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