Heroine strike novel

All staff in the manga My Lady, Please Become My Heroine! (Novel).

Ultimately, all fiction is about this flooding: struggles, losses, challenges, triumphs (not necessarily in that order). And, simply, it is what people like to read because it is what they identify with and, as we know, this can go anywhere before it is resolved. But heroines like this seem to strike a chord with readers, myself included. Personally, I have never enjoyed stories about women who—usually via a promotion or marriage—overcome their problems and in doing so somehow shift into simpler, sun-shinier versions of themselves, a concept instigated by many a fairy tale. I don’t want that, I want what’s real, to see them grow more into themselves rather than mutate into some unrecognizable stab at perfection. Perfection is not only a fallacy but also incredibly unimaginative. Too much goodness in a book and my subconscious starts to raise a dubious eyebrow. Break the mould, for heaven’s sake, don’t be it.