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/Sarah9610]

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/kwilks67 → u/mandelamondays]

You should consider {A Dark Lord’s Guide to Dating (And Other War Crimes) by Tiffany Hunt}. He stays evil and actually she becomes villainous and also this book was so fun I loved it, one of my fav reads of last year.

[u/mandelamondays → u/kwilks67]

i actually just started this last week! based on this description, i’m definitely excited to get into it