BookTok Reading Tropes

Clues in this puzzle

Across

• Overly protective and possessive male lead (5)
• Type of burn that takes 400 pages to ignite (4)
• Extraterrestrial love interest with unusual anatomy (5)
• An ending that forces you to buy the sequel immediately (11)
• The ultimate goal for any romance couple, initially (3)
• Fated partners who cannot escape destiny (5)
• What some romantasy books rely on instead of a strict storyline (5)

Down

• Pointy-eared romantasy love interest (3)
• The agonizingly gradual pace of a 'slow' romance (4)
• Forced ___: trapped in a cabin during a snowstorm (9)
• A moody aesthetic involving old libraries and murders (8)
• They start out hating each other before falling hard (7)
• The explicit chapters readers might skip directly to (4)

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