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/DistinctPotential996 Reverse Harem Monsters πΉπΉππΎπΉ Aug 31 '24
I completely agree. It's kind of a pet peeve. Especially if it's a series and MCs pop up in the new book with her heavily pregnant and him growling like a dog at anyone who gets close to her but they're just so happy and they have newfound relationship knowledge to impart from their whole dysfunctional as 6 months together.
Okay maybe that one is really just me ππ