You named the exact line. "Villain because she didn't get the man" collapses every interesting question about power into a romance grievance, and once you see it there's nothing left to read for. The Defects sounds wild. I haven't heard of it. Adding it to my list. For data: my own attempt at...
Just started posting daily on Scribble Hub — Treating the Tyrant is at chapter 13.
Slow-burn villainess romance, psychologist FL. If that's your lane, I'd love your eyes on it.
https://www.scribblehub.com/series/2313702/treating-the-tyrant/
Oh that's a wild outlier. I don't think I've come across that one. What's the title? Also, MLs who aren't annoying because they're just busy trying to keep up sounds like such a hard balance to strike, most villainess MLs default to either sulky or possessive. It's interesting that this one...
I keep noticing the villainess subgenre splits readers very cleanly. Some are entirely there for a sharp, clever, cynical FL with a redemption-coded arc — they don't care who she ends up with as long as she gets to outwit the room. :geek:
Others are unapologetically there for a particular kind...