#lol in gen tho the shelving is also weird for this book

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Twisted Knight by K. Bromberg is kinda going super hard, which surprises me as it is compared to It Ends with Us and Ana Huang's Twisted series, while having literally nothing in common with IEWU (at least 70% of the way through, and I don't see that changing) and being... if I am being honest, somewhat similar in setup to an Ana Huang book, but A LOT BETTER in terms of writing quality/character development.

(This is where I've gotta be honest and say that while I get why Ana Huang works for a lot of people and I want! To like her books! So bad! .... I've yet to Get It.)

But the IEWU is the more concerning comp because I feel it will absolutely turn people off when:

A) this is clearly a romance; the hero and heroine DO have a very aggressive push-pull dynamic and he IS very dominating in... fun ways... but it's not abusive and I don't foresee it becoming that way

B) it's not at all set in the same space as IEWU... 80% of this book takes place in boardrooms, the general corporate world, or high society functions... it really gives Succession but romance, and more... multimillionaire than billionaire... which was also refreshing tbh

C) the heroine is a DELIGHT and is very much a woman who has her shades of moral grayness, her own motivations, her issues and damage, and she very much teases this dude uses him for her own ends

D) this is a very equal dual POV and not even close to being women's fiction

Like... does a traumatic backstory now = IEWU...? Because that's really the only commonality I see

None of this is a shot at the book, I'm honestly loving it, very strong contemporary "lifestyles of the rich and famous" type book as of now

I just don't want people to write it off because of that IEWU comp