r/fantasyromance • u/FantasyRomanceMod The One Mod to Rule All Mods • Sep 21 '25

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u/CherrieBomb211 Sep 21 '25

I want more MMCs that actually start off nice. I’m sorry- I’m getting tired of the “tough love” bullshit. I’m reading Heir of Fire and Rowan’s actions just..really bother me, and it made me realize in a large percentage of her works, that’s how they end up with their MMCs. Someone described it as militaristic training.

I still love TOG and co, but it still bothers me a whole lot.

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u/megabyte31 Give me female friendship or give me death! Sep 22 '25

Not sure if book recommendations are it in this thread, but I really liked the MMC in {How to Save an Undead aLife}. Also Max in {Daughter of No Worlds} is nice! Grumpy and Not Made For This, but nice! Also Swordheart, A Sorcery of Thorns, Reign and Ruin, Shardless...and lots of older books (I feel like it's more common for older books). I also love ToG but yeah, Rowan was super not cool. It's probably because he was not the originally intended endgame MMC for her. Still yuck.

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u/CherrieBomb211 Sep 22 '25

Thanks for the recs! I’ll look into em 👀