Is it just me or do Nicholas Sparks' stories come across as love stories and Nora Roberts' as lust stories?

Maybe it's just me? I feel like there's more smut than relationship development in her books, unlike Nicholas Sparks. They come across more as smutty lust stories than love stories. I dunno. I have yet to read a book of hers that comes across as a love story.|||To me both authors write a lot of books with someone dying in it. Except with Nora Roberts stories its always about someone that was murdered instead of dying from natural causes or a freak accident like in Nicholas Sparks books.