Things You Want MORE Of In Books

I try to avoid instalove because I know people hate it so I have:
Jon and Meg: Have a meetcute, but then leave without anything more happening. Jon tries to get her to join the rebellion but she refuses, seeing as her sister is part of what he's trying to overthrow. They still talk and such (and Jon is still very hung up on Oliver) and they kiss once, but that was because Meg needed to get him to stop talking so her sister didn't realize he was a traitor so she kissed him to make him stop talking. After Jon is captured in the war, Meg helps him escape after realizing that the rebels aren't wrong, and they fall in love then.

Nell and Therese: Pretty much instalove, they meet once and then meet up again, but fall in love over the course of the story.

Joan and Samuel: Fall in love (??? maybe??) while Joan gets Samuel safely to the rebellion (she doesn't know he's a spy) and bond during that.

Fern and Huxley: Slow burn, work through trauma together, screw up two different governments because taking down a corrupt ruler is a good first date.

Thanks!

OH MY GOSH
I JUST REALIZED
THE SAME 3 FAMILIES ARE INVOLVED IN 2 LOVE TRIANGLES
Because there's the one that was the backstory one where Amira was in love with Emily, who was in love with Oliver and Oliver was in love with Emily.
But then 6 years later there's the one with Meg, Jon, and Oliver.
And Jon is Emily's younger brother and Meg is Amira's younger sister.

I know.
Weird huh?

More intellectual mysteries, like The Westing Game

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS!

Nice!
My own story is a mashup of dystopian, romance, war, and has a historical-fiction vibe.

Nice!
My own story is a mashup of dystopian, romance, war, and has a historical-fiction vibe.

Mine is modern fantasy, dystopian, light cyberpunk, and horror

Lit!

Going off of what Connie said, stories that combine unusual settings/plots/characters, etc.
Like an actor as the detective in a mystery/friendship story that was shameless self praise I apologize

Well-written antiheroes, not knockoff Batman/Han Solos.

Love interests with depth.

Characters who do bad things (or bad things for good reasons) and aren't immidiately loved and/or forgiven by the other characters.

DYNAMIC CHARACTERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRS!!!!

Let's think about what genres would make a good mash.

Fairy tale x crime
fairy tale x horror
Adventure x horror
drama x fantasy
fable x cyberpunk
scifi x thriller
horror x humor
mystery x historical fiction
Mythology x scifi
legend x crime
anthology x horror

I would kill a man to get a cyberpunk fable.

Oof I have an old WIP that's sort of fantasy murder mystery. It's medieval, and there was an attempted murder (he almost died, but not quite, and he didn't see who did it, nor did anyone else), and that's one of the important plot things. I'm not so sure I'll continue it though. I kind of lost my writing voice on that one for some reason.

Yeah. So does writer's apathy (what I call it when I just can't get into a story/care about it)