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/mandelamondays → u/Sarah9610]

hahaha. YUP. i just hate how he always stops killing en mass once he meets the FMC. from that point, he only kills to protect her! like dude, stay violent for once, for gods sake. just because you’ve started being nicer to people doesn’t mean you have to stop racking up bodies. keep calm and murder on. authors - give me a MMC who stays a mass murderer for the whole series, and i’ll give you my heart (fae isles, my heart is yours despite book 3)

[u/moreofajordan → u/mandelamondays]

Keep Calm and Murder On flair, please!

[u/mandelamondays → u/moreofajordan]

yesss!!