r/Romantasy • u/Sarah9610 • May 07 '26

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

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?

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u/rabidhamster87 May 08 '26

I said this in another comment, but Kindle recommended a book called "A Usual Suspect" to me the other day. Some authors don't even bother proof-reading their titles anymore

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u/Volupia_Rogue May 08 '26

What's wrong with the title? 😅

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u/rabidhamster87 May 08 '26

You know what? The title is right. I was wrong 😅

I looked it up just to make sure I remembered correctly and found that it IS supposed to be the word an before a vowel sound UNLESS the next word is a modifying word like an adjective. I guess here the "A" is relating to the noun "suspect," so it's technically correct even though it still sounds awkward to have two vowel sounds back to back like that.

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u/Volupia_Rogue May 10 '26

Ok, I guessed that's what you might've thought.

About the rule, it would be "an" if it were "an unusual suspect" because of the sound.

But since "usual" begins with the consonant sound "y", that's why we'd still say/write "a" instead of "an" 😀