• HobbitFoot
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    10 months ago

    It being a romance in the beginning works well, especially with the reveal.

    Continuing the romance through to the end should have been handled a lot differently.

    • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe
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      10 months ago

      The best explanation I’ve heard for continuing the romance after the reveal is down to marketing.

      No one wants to take a date to a romance that turns into a horror, especially when the horror is the guy being a predator, so you either give the twist away in trailers and lose half your draw or try to pretend the creepiness was necessary somehow.