![]() The Darkling is known for his manipulation, and you can tell early on that he is exactly that: the enemy. I mentioned the relationship between Alina Starkov and the Darkling above because when I think of enemies-to-lovers, they are who my mind links to said trope. Lee has to make a decision: Whose side is he really on? And will Annie follow him?įireborne was one of my favorite books of the Fall because of their ever-shifting dynamic. Growing up keeping a secret, only to find out that secret means something different than Lee originally thought makes his relationship with Annie tumultuous at best.Īnnie doesn’t realize that the boy she has feelings for is related to the family who killed her own, and doesn’t realize that he has been contacted by their side’s enemies to join them. That sounds complicated, but Fireborne is full of revolt, the changing of allegiances, and two characters unsure that what they’ve been told is true. ![]() ![]() Rosaria Munda’s debut Fireborne brings yet another type of enemies-to-lovers dynamic because her characters go from friends to enemies to lovers without the characters fully aware that they are, in fact, enemies. There is something about their dynamic that I adore, probably because of Reid’s insistence the entire time that he’s there to protect Etta, but because of her past traumas, she finds it difficult to not only trust Reid because he’s a Shadow, but trust herself enough to allow room within her closed off heart for her feelings for Reid. An ex-Shadow herself, she ends up falling for her should-be enemy, Reid, a member of the Shadows who has been chosen to go with her. The Memory Thief by Lauren Mansy follows Etta as she has to team up with her former crew, the Shadows, in order to save her mother. While they aren’t on opposing sides, the rift between them because of their past is what makes them fit well within the enemies-to-lovers trope. A lovers-to-enemies-to-lovers dynamic was refreshing and added a level of pining and a “will they, won’t they” that we don’t normally see in YA. In The Lady Rogue, Jenn Bennett put an interesting spin on the trope where she gave the two main characters, Theodora and Huck, a past where they used to be lovers.
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