This announcement about the release of the first book from the "hero's" POV made me laugh out loud.
What a world we live in when stuff like this enjoys such popularity.
Books like these.... or a manga wherein the true hero loses out to a selfish, sadistic heel whose warped sense of importance is overshadowed only by his misogyny, while the nice guy ends up with a virtually useless, self-obsessed, full-figured toddler.
Good times.
P.S. The reader comment about Cassandra Claire was funny too, but in a sad way. So-called writers like Claire and EL James are celebrated and made filthy rich for blatantly regurgitated rip-offs of popular works. Like I said, what a world we live in.
It's a shame that this is what will be associated with the romance genre, because there are a lot of interesting works out there that make an effort to challenge common tropes and norms rather than simply parrot back misogynistic junk like this.