So with the recent popularity of fantasy (or romantasy) book series like A Court of Thorns and Roses (a.k.a. ACOTAR), Throne of Glass, and Fourth Wing, it seems like this genre is really getting its time in the spotlight. This seems to be the prime time — especially on social media platforms like TikTok — for these books as they’ve gained a huge audience, and they seem to be this generation’s versions of Harry Potter, Hunger Games, or Twilight. This genre is also starting to inadvertently flood my Instagram and after being exposed to many fantasy-romantasy books, I just have one question.
What is everything named the same thing? Or at least why do the titles all seemingly follow the same naming formula?
I don’t intend this to be a dig necessarily, I’ve just noticed that many of the books I come across online tend to follow the same general formula for the title — most notably some variation of “A [BLANK] of [BLANK] and [BLANK].” And at least one of those blanks inevitably uses words like shadow, bone, darkness, blood, flame, or wings. This may just be an author-specific thing — as in just a few authors use this naming convention and that is what is all over my Instagram, GoodReads, etc. — but I see it a lot. And I have to know if this is just what you have to name your fantasy book now because it’s the thing that’s popular.
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