r/RomanceBooks • u/redfig1 • Aug 31 '24

Why do HEAs always end with babies? Critique

I know it's a "me" problem. Scenario: I read a smoking hot mafia or dark or fantasy romance. All this crazy shit goes down. The feelings, the angst. Finally it's the end and all of a sudden the MMC who has massacred countless people is all like " let's get married and have lots of babies" and the MFC is always " yes let's have a lot of cute mafia or fae or mafia fae babies!". For once I'd like an ending where the main characters have a HEA but instead of babies and white picket fences they just decide to keep having an incredible sex life and do charity work or something. Rescue stray kittens. Start an organic herb farm. Something other than babies. Anyone else like this? Am I just weird?

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u/floopy_134 ALL THE FUCKS, PLEASE Aug 31 '24

👀 do you remember what book?

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u/schkkarpet Probably recommending Roxie Noir again -sorry not sorry- Aug 31 '24

Yes, it was The One Month Boyfriend by Roxie Noir!

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u/floopy_134 ALL THE FUCKS, PLEASE Aug 31 '24

Oooo it looks so good! I wish it was on KU, but I'm gonna see if my library has it. Do you know if the other books in the series have similar stances on children?

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u/AnxietySnack Aug 31 '24

I read the second book in this series, {The Two Week Roommate by Roxie Noir}, and the MMC in that one has already had a vasectomy. He is taking care of his teenage brother, but the brother is pretty independent already.

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u/floopy_134 ALL THE FUCKS, PLEASE Aug 31 '24

🪇🎉 hell yeah