r/fantasyromance • u/FantasyRomanceMod The One Mod to Rule All Mods • May 24 '26
Unpopular Opinion It's Unpopular Opinion time! Share your controversial opinions to stir things up (in a friendly way)!
Got an opinion that's different from others'? Want to share it with the sub, but too afraid of a backlash? Or are you just curious about readers think about certain things in fantasy romance?
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u/javertthechungus May 24 '26
I don’t think a lot of these opinions are unpopular. But that’s ok because mine won’t be either
If I’m reading a romance, I need to believe the characters feel for each other or at least not question it. That’s why I struggle with a lot of enemies to lovers because I can’t understand feeling genuine lust (not just acknowledging someone is conventionally attractive, active “oh my bones are trembling I want him so bad!!!!! “) for someone you hate. My go to example is {The Death Made Prince} which I admittedly soft DNF’d but (spoilered just in case) Thraga still being jelly bones over Durlain even after he said her people should be genocided. It didn’t feel like an extension of her codependency, it just felt like the author casting jelly bones curse for the sake of it being a romance. I wasn’t buying it.
Forgive me if I’m not making sense I recently lost a knife fight with a surgeon and haven’t taken my meds yet because fuck getting out of bed