Forced to work together and realise their passionate hate is…not hate. And they also have the added bonus of Nina being super flirty and Matthias blushing if you suggested peeling an apple would make it naked. It’s hugely about letting go of prejudices and being indoctrinated with hate as a child. There are three romance threads in this but one is our fave Nina vs Matthais. Just THEM learning they need people on their side and you don’t have to fight the world alone.
They’re both rather slaves to her father, the king, so there’s no problematic power dynamic. In the first book we have Asha, who’s grown up forced to slay dragons to make up for a sin she committed as a child VS Torwin, a slave in her father’s household and is just going to charm her out of being an ornery thorn in his side.
BEST ENEMIES TO LOVERS BOOKS SERIES
This series fills me with such pure delight because both it and the sequel have different versions of Enemies-to-Lovers and both are utter gold.
Now that we have that cleared up… 🤗 onwards. I’d say you can take your toxic masculinity and pour it down the void, but even the void doesn’t deserve that mess. When I say I love enemies-to-lovers, I’m N O T talking about a boy systematically abusing a girl because “he likes her”. Now before I go further, I do want to pause and talk about how this trope can be problematic and how there’s a difference between “enemies” of circumstance, etc, versus actual abusive relationships that are inherently unhealthy. Give me a bejewelled sWORD, sir, and I shall ride into the wars for this trope. ➢ just here for that moment when it turns from “I would kill you” to “I would kill for you”. ➢ there’s usually BANTER then the bickering turns to flirting
➢ the rest of the time it’s just one person being super ornery and the other being a huge flirt 😘 ➢ often times it’s about overcoming a centuries old hate or prejudices, which can be powerful ➢ it generally equates two VERY opposite or VERY similar personalities, hence the clashes, and it’s fascinating watching two people learn to fit together, despite differences. ➢ we have the good old “will they/wont’ they” going on which causes a lot of plot tension I do think there’s a lot of lures to this trope that makes it addictive to read. Oh the chemistry, the sexual tension, the angst! That question we all ask ourselves as we read: “WILL THEY KISS OR STAB? WE DON’T KNOW!! EXCITING!!” It’s no secret that this is a very beloved trope. If you have a quiet craving for more enemies-to-lovers romances…oh, do I have a list for you.
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