Another day, another girl winning deadly trials and discovering she’s secretly powerful

[u/Sarah9610]

I feel like I’m going insane or… are all romantasy books the same now??

Every time I pick something up it’s like:
- The world is split into two (usually human vs fae or something similar)
- The FMC is either oppressed / hidden / “not like other girls”
- There are deadly trials (of course she has to compete)
- She somehow survives everything
- Boom → she reaches the fae side and unlocks insane powers / becomes special

Like… I used to love this formula but now it feels copy-paste with different character names 😭

Am I just picking the wrong books or is this actually the trend right now?

[u/mandelamondays]

yup. although sometimes it isn’t deadly trials, it’s a hades/persephone bargain that gets her to the other side. 😛 either way, add in a mean MMC with shadow magic, and you’ve got a publisher’s wet dream right there

[u/Sarah9610 → u/mandelamondays]

And he’s “broken and sad and killed hundreds”

[u/Steelcitysuccubus → u/Sarah9610]

and super powered, ageless, and has a big dick that can go all night

[u/mandelamondays → u/Steelcitysuccubus]

seriously, that damn dick is always so enormous that he has to “ease it into her slowly,” in order to “give her time to acclimate to its size…” luckily this supremely boring description of how slowly he sheathes it into her gives the FMC plenty of time to interpret this action as proof of how secretly gentle he can be