He's the epitome of instant possessiveness, protectiveness and jealousy. A spark of personality, perhaps? The heroines' faces are blurring in my mind. If a plain, unremarkable Jane has a chance at finding her true love (again), surely anyone does too. I can see the general appeal of writing and reading them. Unhappy, pathetic, mousy heroines moping around after a guy they barely knew breaks up with them. Woke feminism can ruin a romance book, self-love? Never. I wonder when popular, unabashedly attractive and emotionally unavailable heroines that have no qualms about breaking hearts and won't let any limp dick loser make them think they don't deserve decent treatment, love and attention will come into fashion. 📍Also you can't even fathom how tired I am of reading about insecure, mousy heroines who are either very desperate to get dicked down (their only aspiration in life, it appears to be) or, in case they had already accomplished their one and only goal in life - attracted a hot guy, get cheated on by their boyfriends and/or heroes. It does pose some inconveniences for readers: I, for one, have less and less time to dedicate to searching little diamonds among a pile of trash. It's far too easy to become an author these days. If you're not creative enough to add even a few refreshing scenes to the genre's cuisine what are you doing in this profession? Sometimes I do wonder whether the writing community should be less inclusive. You can still have a surprise element when you add something original and authentic to popular tropes and classical romance scenes. I don't read romance for complex plots or thriller-type-of-crazy twists, yet it's extremely frustrating when the author says A and I can already see her B, C and D from a mile away. Guess it turned out to be a big surprise, alright. The moment the heroine only mentioned in passing she was going for a "surprise" visit I already knew she'd find her current boyfriend creampieing some other chick. 📍The kind of predicability this book demonstrates sucks.
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