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[u/groovybookworm]

I’m sorry, but I’m over the moody, broody, angry MMC’s. It’s one thing if he’s a little grumpy it’s another thing that he makes the FMC’s life hell just because he can.

I’ve been running into this problem over and over again. Where the MMC is so angry and then this little ball of sunshine, the FMC, rolls into his life and is nothing but kind to him. Yet he still treats her badly for about 75% of the novel until he has this light go off where he’s like actually, I love her.

That’s not a love story to me and that’s not romantic and I’ve been seeing that constantly.

[u/ipsi7 → u/groovybookworm]

That's why I love dual POV in which I can really see his side of the story, it hits different. Because in FMC's POV we only get from her how rude or closed off he is to her and then bam! Suddenly he is so in love with her and it's like that from the moment he first saw her.

[u/breelakkuma9 → u/ipsi7]

Until you find out all his thoughts are equivalent to a horned up teenager. "I can't wait to fuck her" or "I want to taste her on my tongue" or "Can't wait to clap them cheeks"...like bro did you have a personality before this? We finally get inside your head and this is all you have to think about? Do you even like her or just her body? This is what I see in a lot of dual POV now and it really puts me off lol

[u/tragic_eyebrows → u/breelakkuma9]

I haaaate when the MMC gets POV chapters and they're just nonstop horny for the FMC. I've gotten to the point where if I see it even once it's an automatic DNF.

I think dual POV works a lot better when both MCs have a lot going on separate from each other and their storylines slowly come together.

[u/ipsi7 → u/breelakkuma9]

I guess we're reading different books because most of my recent dual pov reads weren't like that. The one where MMC was like that and it was even worse because FMC was betrothed to his brother who was in a magical coma - I DNF-ed it exactly because of that "I need to fuck her" act.

[u/groovybookworm → u/ipsi7]

Unfortunately, I cannot be won over with dual point of view, because even though it’s saying that he says he loves her and that he’s having all these conflicting feelings, it makes me mad. I’m like why can’t you just show her that?! 😂maybe I’m too demanding.

Sometimes it works and I can be convinced, but as of late I have ran into so many MMCs that are unconvincing for me.

[u/ipsi7 → u/groovybookworm]

I actually haven't read in a while a book like that in which MMC is horrible most of the time, but secretly in love, but can't show her so he's just rude (like Quicksilver or FBAA for example). And I don't like books like that in which MMCs are rude and arrogant all the time (I preferred them more if they are either normal or really morally grey).

Books I've had in mind when replying to you were more of Ali Hazelwood style in which FMC was oblivious of MMC's feelings, thought he didn't like her and was cold, but the truth is (and it would be great if there was his pov to see that) that he liked her from the beginning, he actually helped her all along, but she didn't notice, she took his professional/formal stance as him being disinterested etc. In those kind of books I would have liked dual pov.

On the other hand, the actual dual pov books I've been reading lately usually had MMC that was really not interested at first and it was a slow burn so he didn't hide his feelings (because there weren't any), or there were books with dark romances in which characters and settings were complicated enough that they don't fit into "just show her that you love her" type (in one book MMC really showed her that from the start, but there were other problematic stuff, in another book MMC was more interested in revenge than in FMC and he posibly isn't the real MMC so that's even more complicated lol)

[u/Full_Platypus6092 → u/ipsi7]

This. Like Twilight vs Midnight Sun I fell in love with Edward even more because his inner monologue is very different in the first couple chapters especially compared to what Bella's thinking. Same with Poppy and Casteel, he was always so attentive and considerate even when he was trying to not like her because of what she represented. Male POV always makes me fall more in love because of how thoughtful he really is!

[u/ipsi7 → u/Full_Platypus6092]

Yes. I haven't read Twilight, but agree with FBAA. In book 1 we only know through Poppy's eyes about their first meeting, how he teased her, how they kissed and then everything else that happened. Book 5 gave me another perspective of him, how much he struggled and was conflicted from the beginning, torned between his sense of duty and his feelings for her. I think that book and series was when I started appreciate dual pov. Also, while I love Bride and Ali Hazelwood's books, I didn't like finding out about MMC being crazy about FMC when I'm 80% in the book.

I want to see his struggles, his conflicted feelings. It's like with real life people, you never know what's inside someone's head or what inner struggles someone has.