I'm reading a romance book by an author I've read a million times before and what bugs me is ALL of her characters in ALL of her series are basically the same. You have the small, fairy/child like, small waisted woman with eyes too large for her face that you can drown in, hair to her ass, and is so light you can pick her up! She'll either be super girly and be into things like baking (cookies anyone?) or she'll be running around wearing man pants and doing men's work. Her man will be emotionless, a trained killer, and will dominate and possess this woman. She'll drive him nuts because she doesn't do everything he says and will run off and do her own thing sometimes or GASP talk to another man. Each story ends the same way: the man becomes a little less dickish, gives the woman some space to breathe, and the two get married and have babies.
Why every book of hers has to have a violent, controlling, over bearing, possessive man in it I don't know. Is that a thing? to be with a man so strong he could snap your neck?
I would love for her to write a book about a man who is NOT an uncontrollable killing machine. Show me a man who is kind, caring, and smart. He doesn't always have to be rambo. And can the woman not be super thin with dreamy, fathomless eyes? Or long, wavy hair? Or a narrow waist he could easily wrap one hand around?
And why does every romance book have to end with the characters getting married, engaged, or having babies? Is that what a "happily ever after" is? How about some stories about couples who are happy not to marry but are still devoted to each other and love each other? Or a story about a woman who is happy and content not having children? Most of the time characters like that are usually in books where the plot is: "She didn't want to have children...until HE changed her mind" or "He vowed never to marry...until SHE touched his heart" or some nonsense.