u/read_dead_lumbago

I've given up trying to get my color season typed because my combo of complexion, hair and eyes just doesn't fit. I tan a very golden yellow, my eyes are a muted grey-green, and my hair a mix of yellowy blonde with a hint of light copper- in summer my skin and hair are almost the same color 🙃 in winter I'm very pale with a yellow-green-grey cast. Regardless I'm very muted.

I've been typed as soft autumn but find those colors too warm. I've been typed as soft summer but those are too cool.

So- for those of you that also tan golden and are muted overall, what do you find are your best colors to wear?

Has anyone read S. E. Wendel's Ironling, the sequel to Halfling? I spy a >!pregnancy!< trope on romance.io and I loathe loathe loathe that trope in my spicy romance books (it's fine if it's side characters, just not when it happens to the fmc). Can anyone reveal how this trope is included in the story?

Tia!!!

As the the title suggests I'm curious if this trope has a name so that I can do my darndest to avoid it in the future.

I like to think of this trope as "it all goes to sh*t". It shows up at the end of books that are going to have a sequel (either duologies, trilogies, sagas etc) as a way to create conflict- and what happens is basically everything that could go wrong, does go wrong.

- There's a big betrayal

- There's a huge miscommunication

- One of the mc's switches to the "evil" side

- One of the mc's are captured

- The fated mate bond is broken

- All of the above

And then that book ends with a breakup. Is this just a cliffhanger ending? 🥴

I can handle it in duologies because there's only one more book before I get my HEA but more than that I just start to get p*ssed. Like the author is thinking of how many ways they can keep the mc's apart instead of creating conflict they can face together.

One series that doesn't do this is Quicksilver (Fae & Alchemy), and don't get me wrong this series has issues but that particular bit I love: >! at the end of each book they're still together, there's a major cliffhanger reveal or something big happens but it's not to their relationship. !< On the contrary it feels like their relationship is even stronger.

So- does this trope have a name? Or do you have any recs that don't have this kind of "breakup-cliffhanger" ending between books in the series?