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⌈ Secret Post #5871 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I still love the Mercy Thompson series and I tolerate the Alpha and Omega. Trashy? Sure. Ridic over the top love story? Yes pls.

I am side-eyeing the use of 'extra special' when describing the MC. Like what, you want to read about a boring character doing boring stuff? I'm pretty sure the entire point of paranormal romance is escapist fantasy. It's called fun.

[(Anonymous)]

When everyone is a supernatural creature, you need to have some sort of descriptor for the magical child of a god who discovers new, amazing powers every 5 chapters. The one that every other woman in the series wants to be, and every man wants to bang (consensually or not). The one who is destined to broker peace between the magical and mundane races and to bear the wolf-born child of the most extra special alpha male ever made who's not also a Cornick.

Otherwise you're stuck just calling her the magical girl and then having to specify which one.

[(Anonymous)]

I'd agree more with you if they'd been marketed as paranormal fantasy. Yes, UF and PR can be fun and escapist fantasy and with so many women writers in both, there's definitely some female power fantasy at play.

However, Briggs' agent specifically told her "urban fantasy is getting big, you should write it." Briggs has said this several times in her blogs/social media. Then they were marketed as Urban Fantasy and put in the SFF section near Jim Butcher. UF is usually "X and Y solve crime!" The romance plot didn't start getting big until book 3 for Mercy Thompson and yeah, then 'that' happened.

While, Paranormal Romance has completely different plot structures (and is shelved in romance.) Romances go pretty hard on changing the two main characters every book in any series just have the new main characters hooking into the overall plot with the main question every book still being "Why can't they be together now?" (Plus more sex.)

Strangely, because each female MC usually only gets one book in Paranormal Romance, they tend not to be quite as overpowered and special as Urban Fantasy MCs. Since, they don't get the same amount of time.